[–] 41 points 1 month ago (19 children)

Perhaps an unpopular opinion around here, but as far as I am concerned, this is a separate form of piracy that I believe in. This guy was actively making tons of money, selling to people who were not only willing to pay artists for their work, but were unaware they were purchasing a bootleg in the first place. This type of behaviour only gives weight large corporations’ arguments when they attack people who share replications of digital files/rips.

I think his sentencing is fair.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Hah! I’m just learning this now. I remember on the early 2000s I once started several dozen large downloads right before going on vacation with my parents. Came back 4 weeks later and they were finally done. I thought it was because of our slow internet but it must have been because of my lack of upload credits.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    I’m not a user or a fan of omarchy, but I think that description is a little reductive. Omarchy has its own fast cloudflare mirrors for packages and its own package management. Personally I think that’s not a good thing (just use pacman/aur/flatpak), but it’s worth pointing out that there’s more to this distro than the dotfiles, and while it was cosplaying as a distro before, with the release of quattro its getting closer to being an actual distro now.

    Crazy to think they just got 8 million dollars. Compared to half a million for flatpak!!! Totally backwards.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Unpopular opinion here, for sure, but I use it voluntarily for all work stuff when I’m at home. It’s not as bad as you might think. I never use it for personal stuff, for that I use librewolf and chromium when librewolf doesn’t work, like webusb. I don’t want any work/life cross contamination between cookies and history, and different browsers seems to work well enough for me.

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