Biggest evidence of that is Epic will give away games for free, but there will be people who prefer to pay for the Steam version over the free version.

That's the biggest evidence that piracy is a problem of distribution and goes against the idea that those who pirates are against paying for a product.

One of my favorite past times is reading people freaking out about the rising costs, while I sit completely unaffected thanks to the high seas.

Don't need lemmy world anyways. This is the most based instance on the entire fediverse. Their loss.

The hunt is part of the fun. Like how people will opt to build a PC or a keyboard over a pre-built or pull out vinyl over digital. The steps taken to retrieve and enjoy the media is sometimes a relaxing process.

Decentralization has always been the way for piracy, since many places inevitably go down throughout the years but it being spread out is what keeps everything from being taken down by a single closure. So while not convenient it makes it more resilient.

Yeah, cost of an extra $120 a year to try and get more media out of a legit and already expensive monthly subscription is the point where I'd just scrap it all for a cheaper VPN for pirating. Point of paying for Netflix or Hulu for me would be to not have to do that stuff.

IPO goals made it seem piracy days on reddit were numbered, so those with foresight were itching for a new place off reddit and leapt at the opportunity to find a new place.

Never thought beehaw would end up being more based than lemmy world.

It's comedy how wishy washy they are on not federating with Meta despite bunch of their users saying they hate Facebook and Zuck but are convinced to defederate from us by a single post from such a suspicious account.

Piracy is timeless.

Some people just don't want to admit they pirate, but we know they do 😉

This is from /r/roms

https://r-roms.github.io/megathread/nintendo/

Has links to Nintendo games there and also shows archive.org source for them too.

It has sponsorblock too. This is the simplest solution.

Start revolution and overthrow dictator and put myself in as dictator. Build up military and gather nukes under guise of protecting country, but it's really to protect me from copyright trolls.

I pirate on Linux and don't use that device for anything else. And I don't pirate software or games where you are installing stuff.

Turns out beehaw is more based than world.

It's their lemmy instance that's been having issues since they made the new one after losing the ml domain.

They don't make threads often on reddit so maybe a bot that crossposts here would be good to have, since if they do it's probably something important.

If items in the physical world could be stolen like it is for digital materials then it would mean the world has created a duplicator. Which would be absolutely awesome and that society has really advanced in technology. So good news all around.

But, sadly we cannot steal stuff in the real world like we can for digital because there is no duplication machine. There's no copier so real world theft is going to result in one person losing possession of the item they had.

Also, complaining about not having time but wasting their time talking to strangers online. I could understand the perspective from someone who doesn't pirate, but to a pirate it is pretty hilarious seeing them making it out as this incredibly difficult time consuming thing like infomercials do.

Just didn't seem like a good idea to run pirated software of games on your primary system even if the stuff is from a "trusted" source.

Which was why I was wondering what steps people take to play games for those that try to lower the risks.

How is the quality of the music downloads from spotiflyer? Is it as good as 320 kbps mp3? Does sound more convenient than other options.

Jail breaking is an option too for the Switch and I've been happy with the experience. Even paying more for a physically modded oled version ends up paying for itself quick considering the price of games.

Yeah, I did try out plex and kodi long time ago. I watched a setup video with jellyfin it seemed simple enough. Saw it has an iOS app too.

What does infuse offer over IINA? Infuse seems pricey and never understood what it offers over alternatives aside from some streaming functions?

Emulation is king when it doesn't have bugs for sure. I've been running more games through emulation over the switch as it's gotten better for that beautiful fps and resolution jump.

Threat model is just trying to lower the chances of infecting the main drive even if stuff like games or software are from a "trusted source".

Aside from getting an enitely separate system dedicated to just running pirated games which is expensive to do.

Unmounted drives in case of dual booting still leading to infections is what made me wonder about installing an OS entirely on the external SSD and physically unplugging other drives. Of course, as you said bios is still a risk. But, more just trying to lessen chances from trusted game sources by not installing right away from release to see if anything happens to other people the first couple of weeks. And just wishing to not intermingle the two environments.

You forgot the most important part. They are pro DRM.... Wtf

Only roms and syncthing to sync saves. I love syncthing.

What are you pirating that makes it so hard? I don't bother with software or programs so it's just pretty much looking at what's newly released and torrenting it.

Why even pirate if it's that much of a pain? Pretty much same logic to me a someone who complains about how confusing pc gaming is. I'd point to the consoles.

I did that the first few times I downloaded Dolby vision after I found it wasn't being outputted correctly, but copying over the gigs of content to a usb stick to play on stick felt tedious so just went with regular hdr uploads after that.

Star Trek.

I will try kodi. Did use it a lot time ago until I moved to just playing videos manually with mpc due to hdr support with madvr.

I love qbittorent. I love that it's in the Linux repo too.

Is Plex Pass worth it if I'm just streaming locally?

Yeah it's an open source option for MacOS that is based on mpv.

How is the performance impact these days for games compared to running natively?

Really? I could understand that point from someone not in the piracy community, but doesn't seem any more time consuming than posting on lemmy. Not really starved for time if someone is spending their time on social media.

Mind you I don't pirate software or games, so maybe that's why. Pretty much hardest has been waiting for download to finish.

I checked the bitrate and the songs wer like 128 kbps or something like that.

I used to use it, but I think it development got discontinued. Might still work but that is probably why it isn't suggested as an option anymore on fmhy.