When youre using your laptop on the go, it has to be communicated without words that you use arch btw

This community actually is much more interesting than r/piracy which a lot of the time just felt like piracy for dummies, not to mention the pressures of hosting a piracy community on a corporate platform that wanted to completely disassociate with us

The problem is that everyone has consolidated on one gargantuan server. The whole point of the fediverse is to spread out so no one server is carrying the entire load. I'm currently using lemm.ee and have experienced none of the issues being discussed here.

But yes, I agree that it could be a potential turn off for newcomers.

You need to disable resist fingerprinting. It's annoying, but you can reenable it after you've logged in

In other news, the floor is made out of surface

Cars are fun, car dependency is not

Use k-9 mail (its a good email client and it supports gmail)

With xManager, the free tier comes quite close to premium. No ads, play whatever music you like. The only issues are lower sound quality & no downloads, which are really non-issues since you can just find other sources to download the music from, at flac quality

Firewall your pirated games

I was a lurker on Lemmy before the api scandal and tbh it was completely dead. What arose from the scandal was not Reddits downfall, as many of us mightve hoped for at the time, but rather an equally glorious revival of Lemmy.

• Ublock Origin: No brainer. You can block just about every intrusive component of the modern internet with just this.

• Stylus: Write CSS themes for websites

• User-Agent Manager: For compatibility purposes, switch your user-agent to chromium on some websites

• Libredirect

• ClearURLs: Copy links without tracking or affiliation

• Dark Reader: Dark mode everywhere

• Temporary Containers: Provides some nifty shortcuts and features for creating temporary containers

Personally, I feel the same way you do about DRM. If you've paid to own it, then it should be owned outright. With this in mind, I would say pirating them wouldn't lose you any moral ground.

Depends on what you want. For games, find a trustworthy repacker (fitgirl and dodi are good in my experience) and only download from them. For software, again, it depends. For adobe products, M0nkrus is pretty good, but I'm unsure about other software. Movies and music are typically quite safe as long as you practice due diligence (basically dont open a file called song.mp3.exe).

Most stuff has already been said, but I'll just add my 2 cents:

I/O is very important. I got a laptop with a pathetic amount of ports and I deeply regret it. Don't be like me

I would place my bets on unity. It has tougher competition imo

It's ironic that when a dev says its ok to pirate their game, I feel a greater urge to purchase it legitimately. Maybe it's because you have to be a certain level of cool to say that.

I really hope it is. We've cultivated a nice community on the fediverse and I don't want some shady corpo ruining it for all of us.

SearXNG is my go to. It's a search aggregator so you have to configure it to select your preferred search engines, but once everything is up and running, I've found it's results to be even higher quality than Google's

Yes it is. Why would it not be an improvement? Software packages that support every single distro makes stuff so much easier for both devs & users

It started as a privacy thing but as I dug deeper, I found that all of the foss alternatives I found were simply much better in terms of functionality & usability