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I think anything that masks your IP address is good for piracy AFAIK, but I’ve had no issues torrenting with it so far. Seems to be about the same as Mullvad, performance-wise.

Ah I hadn’t heard of Picard before, I’ll take a look!

Personally I just use Nicotine+ to grab whatever I want as a .flac, then use beets to organize them.

I switched over to IVPN, they seem pretty right-on and no scandals that I know of so far.

I switched away from Mullvad because of that. I waited a bit for their response before deciding, but I found their eventual response pretty wishy-washy. Their counter-argument was:

It was a private donation from Daniel the individual. Mullvad or its parent and sister companies did not endorse and were not involved in it.

But his personal money still comes from the company, so if I continued to send Mullvad money I’d know it was still indirectly going to the Örebro party, whose leader called immigrants “parasites”, which (as an immigrant myself, albeit not to Sweden) is not acceptable to me.

Canada is like that. IIRC the maximum fine you can get for piracy is $5,000, meaning it’s pretty much not worth it for any company to come after you. If you live in Canada and use a VPN you’re pretty much golden, but I also know people here who don’t even bother. They get a letter once in a while from their ISP and they just ignore it and nothing ever happens. One of my friends called their ISP to complain and told them to stop sending letters, and they said sorry they have to but if you seed a little bit less then they won’t have to send them lol.

I’m in camp “not diagnosed but something ain’t braining.”

I don’t know if 2010 is allowed, but Get Him To The Greek would probably have to be up there. Russell Brand and P. Diddy together on screen at last!

Yeah that would be me too. Where I live you can get a pretty nice place for $400k+, so let’s say $500k off the principal, so $4.5 million left over. If you can get, say, 5% interest on that then you’re getting $225k per year for doing absolutely nothing. Even if you can only get, say 2% interest, that’s still about $90k/year which is not extravagant but doable.

I had a sort-of similar thing that took me ages to figure out, but it turns out my thinking/concentrating face just looks angry. So people would ask me things, I’d be thinking of a response and they’d think they annoyed me. So I’m trying to work on that, but also I just tell people my thinking face looks angry now and that’s helped a lot lol.

I definitely am. If I’m left to my own devices I almost instantly default to going to bed at 5am-ish and getting up at 11-12. But mostly society won’t let me do that, so I feel like I’m on a night shift permanently.

Luckily I’m from the UK, where you can pretty much assume 100% of everything being said is sarcastic and get by just fine.

This is one of those things I’m on the opposite side of lol. I can drive a manual car (I grew up in the UK where most cars are manual) but I can’t explain how to do it. I just sort of know it. And I never look at the revs for changing gear, I just sort of feel it. Which I know is super unhelpful also.

I have a friend who’s a skater and when he doing a kickflip I asked how it worked, as in, how do you make sure the board doesn’t land upside-down or whatever and he was like, “You just launch off and then deal with it.” which was not at all helpful lol. There must be some sort of logic to it!

I’m sure this is what you’re referring to, but in case anyone doesn’t know, what IMB was up to during World War 2 is an interesting read.

That’s always been my position, IMO - it does have some genuinely useful applications, but we’ve blown it up into this huge thing and tried to shoehorn it into everything, and it’s polarized people into these “AI in everything” and “AI in nothing” camps.

TIL that the CEOs of AMD and Nvidia are first cousins once removed.

I don’t mind going-out plans shifting because I basically sort everything into “Staying in” and “Going out”, and the latter I know is just going to be random nonsense that I have to roll with, so it doesn’t really matter what it is. The one that gets me though is switching from staying in to going out with no notice. That makes me super irrationally mad lol, I need prep time!

AT the start of COVID, I bought shares in an airline because I figured that once lockdown was over, everyone would go crazy traveling everywhere and the airline stock would skyrocket (pun intended.)

It didn’t work lol

Man, Doom really does run on anything.