Dyskolos

Indeed. I was unfair of me to pick only one favourite, as there are more candidates :)

Aaah i get it now, thanks mate :)

not exactly like lemmy. It’s more like ONE base of content they all share. But it’s not like instance A only gives you interracial gay midget-porn, and instance B only farming-simulators and C only linux-apps :) But yes, you pay one of the providers and usually have it all. There’s a chart somewhere to which one is backed by whom, and hence the best retention you could get. AFAIK Eweka is one of the root-providers (I use them and they have regularly cheap deals). For automated easy downloads you’d also need an indexer. There are free ones but they aren’t offering API-acccess. You can get those very cheap to moderatly cheap. I pay like 20 bucks a year for two indexers (where one would really totally suffice). Kinda like the same you’d need for torrent too. A site to get your torrent from.

Exactly!

Oh yes, this one too of course!

Errr…I don’t get it, someone cares to explain?

I really really dig the fuckaround/findout. It paints the try/catch with a more dreadful undertone and reeks of mystery.

It’s just as old as the internet itself. Primary reason was communication. A gargantuan federated forum. The binary-part was just there but not that extensively used. Now it’s the other way round (sadly). Communication is down, binaries are up. As to the legality: It’s federated, worldwide. Some providers do take DMCAs, but (as with the rest of the net) it doesn’t do much. Because first most pir8-content is obfuscated and pwd-protected. And second, the moment something was taken down, someone else re-ups it again :-) Benefits to torrent and debrid and all: Retention. So a thing from 10yrs back you can still get with absolute maximum speed your line can do (and your provider gives you ofc). Fuck seeders and upload-ratio and co. Just get it as fast as anything could be. I usually download with ca. 250mb/s. 100 parallel connections. Only some group’s FTP can beat this. But they’re not for the public.

As to legally paying: It’s just a service that gives you access to something. like debrid. You can have usenet access just to communicate with people or download linux-distros or anything else legal. Also, even in my very restricted country, downloading is legal. Uploading is not.

I don’t get your point. When they went into existence, it was a search-engine. It just did that and it did it very well. Nothing else compared slightly. No javascript, no tracking, no portal, no ads, no shit. just results.

“If not them, then someone else”. Yes sure. If there’s something to exploit, it will be exploited. People are shit. But we’re talking about google :)

Why exactly do you even care?

I own women clothes (as a male), my wife owns many men clothes. We dress however we like, we don’t care for labels or what gender is put on there. If I’d feel like wearing a pink hello-kitty-dress, I’d do so. And we’re genX and gender-boring. I would even care less if I’d identify as something else than my pants contents tell me.

Why do you give a crap about how some store genders something? Pick what you prefer from wherever? Seriously asking, not mocking or anything.

Nah, they were great when they came into existence. 'No ads, no portal, no nothing, just a search-engine". That was their sub-motto (freely quoted from memory). When the results had a time-spent on it to awe at their incredible speed AND accuracy. Before them, searching the web was annoyingly annoying.

But the moment the “don’t be evil” fell, shit continuously went downhill. Maybe even before, more unnoticed, surely went gradually.

Nowadays it’s even a bad search-engine, except you’re looking to buy something.

Why I slightly care? Because life is more beautiful than devoting it to some deity that gives a rat’s ass about you. And I sometimes am delusional enough to think that cultists can escape. They rarely do because it’s so hard, but the chance is never zero.

And lol, no. I grew up I an environment grounded in reality. There never was any religion. And suicide? Hell no, my life is fantastic. I don’t work, I travel, I live every hobby that fills me with joy, I have a wonderful wife and no kids nor pets. I wouldn’t change a thing and most definitely not suicide lol.

I just despise religion/cults as it’s just a great thing to control the sheep and/or make money. and the concept itself is totally outdated. “God is dead” like Nietzsche said.

As you already went to ad hominem (as expected) And also seem to ignore what I said and rather see what you want to see, because your religious delusion only allows you to do that, I retreat from this “discussion”.

If I learned one thing in life, it’s to never discuss anything with cult-followers. They’re all too far gone to even dare to look beyond their horizon. They prefer the comfy “truth” over the uncomfy reality.

Oh and I never claimed it “just is”. I don’t have enough data to even form a theory. i just asked “what if”. But you already have all answers to everything, so why bother.

So go back now to being a wage-slave to those who own you. Fulfill your cosmic destiny. This is what your master demands of you.

Depends. I never have had anything that’s not available. Except one older series that wasn’t available anywhere, not even streaming legally. And for dubbed shit it can be more complicated. But i rarely consume that. I use usenet btw with only two indexers. Could add more and even torrents too, that might even make it better. But i would already be fine with just one indexer at all.

Just for the sake of the thought you’d actually be willing to talk about this (which i highly doubt, as your nick already hints at): YOU assume life has no meaning because it’s an accident. Why does it even HAVE to have a meaning? Why can’t it just be? So your brain can make “sense” of it all? Also no one’s life holds any intrinsic value at all. And only because you joined some cult and follow some abitrary rules (that the next cult of the same flavour does totally different, so who’s “right” to begin with?) doesn’t give your life value. To this planet you’re as valuable as a leaf or said excrement. Which is, in fact, way more useful for nature than YOU are or ever will be.

Weak? Yeah of course. How else would you call it when someone needs someone else to tell them what to think, do or believe? If that’s not the weakest form someone could assume, then I have no idea what “weak” even is.

Also, I’m no atheist, but thanks for assuming :-)

PS: I find it really funny, that you use the word “reality” while you also believe in tons of unproovable fairy-tales from times long gone. Even with a mythical creator of all and everything that actually cares about wether you (and millions of others) pray or abuse your wife correctly. Exactly what every omnipotent being would totally love to.

Anyhow, more than likely i’m wasting my time here. Luckily I have so much of it :-)

Exactly. Movie? Enter name, wait a minute, watch. Series? Enter name, wait a while longer, watch.

It’s about control of the peasants. Like every other cult. “Study” harder 😁

Afraid? No, I’m male.

Disgusted by so much backwards dullness? Totally.

Baffled by the amount of people believing in imaginary sky-daddies because they’re too weak to handle reality on their own? All the time.

How dare you! It’s a super-awesome cult for weak men! Gives them a purpose and control over something at least. Also every cult needs docile and obedient masses that “study” and spread their shit. Like cancer, just with more steps.

I just don’t care for your opinion, you don’t have your own anyway.