Jeez. The valid answer to this “problem” took a while to find. Even here.

Totally. I was so pissed when they stopped it. And now it’s just a gargantuan prime-advertiser.

Oh sorry. It sounded like you were 😊

Easy. Every day you spend working, or working on working, or working on government-mandated stuff, you don’t spend reflecting on your life. You won’t start to question what you’re doing, you won’t organize, you won’t revolt. Especially you muricans with nearly no day-offs.

Do you feel good being so vastly intellectually superior to those dumb fucks serving you? Must be awesome 😊

They missed their chance, now it’s the Chinese 😁

Still more “art” to it than most of modern “art” 😁

Didn’t know Mexico was as backwards as the US :( I guess my view of Mexico was too romantic and to be scratched off my bucket-list. I’m sorry man :(

i’ve had the joy of experiencing my life partner deported

him?

oh okay. then i just mis-interpreted. Sorry.

Depends… We’re all interconnected on some level. But i don’t care anymore.

You make it sound bad. If a game doesn’t entertain me or does annoy me, i move on. Back then there was no “on”. Not many games around, might as well stick with what you have.

I’m truly sorry to hear that random Internet stranger. Why don’t you follow him if i might ask?

I don’t

I’d take MS 10x in the butt over Crapple taking over the desktop-market completely. You know what no-competition means for us, yes? And no, Linux is NOT an alternative for everything for everyone. And there probably never will be a linux-desktop-for-the-masses coming right into your supermarket/pc-store.

And i didn’t say they’re better than torrents, as they can do both. It’s just the easier overall wrapping than using the regular torrenting-way we did since torrents first came up. It makes me even able to actually use torrents (if i wanted to).

And yes, of course usenet is faster than torrent. Sure you might have a fresh torrent with tons of high-speed-seeders that downloads at fullspeed. But if that one is a year old you’re often outta luck. If it’s 10 years old you’re most likely outta luck. Never the case with usenet. Always, everything from the last 12yrs at absolute maximum speed your line (and the provider) allows.

“Free” is relative. If you’re using public trackers, then yes. Private trackers either require to share a lot (ugh, no thanks and also highly illegal here, hence i would need a vpn) or donate. I pay 5 bucks a month for usenet and 25 or so a year for indexers (plural). That’s one delivered (and shitty) pizza here.

Of course they aren’t. As netflix wouldn’t be enough too, you need internet, a device, an OS and an app. Wouldn’t mention those when talking about netflix too. So yes. Of course you’d need a downloader and probably an indexer too. And a firewall, vpn and whatever else you can think of, and a media-server, and an app, and a device and OS. Oh and a browser to input your search into. Probably a keyboard too :-)

But *narrs are those that take your input, query indexers, do the background-work, put results into your downloader(s) of choice and into your media-server of choice. They’re the crucial part here. Like the netflix-app for watching netflix-content. Everything else is your personal flavour.

Well my internet costs money too. Netflix would be 20 bucks and i have 30% of what muricans have. My usenet is 5 bucks a month, the indexers (2 atm) are like 25 a year. So i would still have money left for a nice tea 😁

And netflix wouldn’t be enough. If i had all providers i want, it’ll be >100 moneyz a month. That’s ridiculous. And probably still missing something

But yes. Take torrents and save even those mere bucks. I just want it comfy and fast. The principle would be the same.

Sure it needs to download. But i got 10 fibers á 1gbit bundled and a 10gb home network and a good and fast server. So after hitting “search” it’ll take around a minute til it’s leeched, unpacked, sorted and imported into emby. The last part actually take the longest.

But speed isn’t really the point, it’s hit-search-wait-watch. The wait part depends on you.

So… That was basically my point. They’re assholes. Tip or don’t. Be it a beggar or whomever. Just because the majority acts like that, doesn’t make it less asshole-y 😉