My bad (seriously). What’s the slang now to “spend hours years fiddling with a zillion parameters so my desktop is exactly like I want it for the next 5 minutes”?

Oops, probably shows (again) my age. Is because “ricing” was ethnic something ?

Tuning / ricing is overrated. I used to spend hours years ricing my desktop (enlightenment DR16 anyone?). Screw that, Gnome it is: simple, elegant, functional.

I do add 2 very useful plugins tho: Wobbly Windows and the Spinning Cube. Shows my age I guess.

I switched to kobo only because kindle - I don’t want to be an amazon billboard. I’m 100% calibre too, tho kobo do sell some drm-free ebooks.

My PW 3g was the absolute best ereader ever. Snappy page turns, perfect soft lighting, infinite batteries… funny unlimited worldwide wikipedia. Fuck amazon.

What’s wrong with Obtainium?

So cool, thanks for sharing! I believe it was sufficiently long ago that you shouldn’t risk this or that body part over it: what did you bring? Nagra? Condenser mikes? i tried this once (it was otherwise my everyday carry) and it was shit. Top of the line at the time. Still shit recording.

One thing in “my” time was bootleg concert tapes ; I guess that hasn’t changed, concerts are unique and fanatics would just buy it.

Quality was horrible.

My (58yo) VHS cinéphile collection was freaking extensive. Back then, as today, we didn’t watch TV but I bought, and scrutinised to no end, the program & set the VCR to record. I always had blanks, 3h for long movies and 4h for 2 “normal” ones. When we moved countries, at a time when DVDs where a thing, a friend of mine asked to keep the tapes because it was so good. Every Hitchcock, every Bogart, every Kubrick, every… You name it. Series even.

Yeah quality was shit, but “tomb of the fireflies” and “princess bride” totally made to the deepest of my heart, until today and forever. At work I had “Singing in the rain” as a testing tape - each time I used it, you had everyone passing in front of the beamer stop, and watch.

Emotion trumps quality.

If it’s too good to be true, it’s malware

If it isn’t released yet, it is malware

If it is an .iso file but not a Linux distribution, it is malware

What infuriates me with malware, which idgaf because “arch btw”, is that I reseed that shit unknowingly. Sometimes a lot.

Always check file before you let it seed forever as you should.

You can must do that in qBittorrent. Also, that has nothing to do with downloading malware, while being a good recommendation if your ISP reports torrenting to the copyright owner (like orange in France)

I don’t use them, I don’t know. Aren’t they supposed to buy content themselves and just be a kind of reseller?

Stremio, for the “illegal” part of it, is just torrenting without sharing. It’s awfully convenient, but you’re ditching the very point of torrents with it.

AFAIK, the only limitations by using it as a guest is the inability to save movies… Which is extra stupid since you are torrenting them, but hey, it’s free so you are the product.

If what you are looking for is a nice interface to all your content, Kodi is the OG here.

Heliboard has halmak too

While mint is neat, Ubuntu or any distro with gnome would work in the “very graphical, large icons” sense.

I dont know about mint, but debian does security updates automatically and just politely asks for a reboot now and then, perfect for an “unattended” device.

The ethical pirate would rip them and make them available as torrents. Out of 500, there’s probably a lot that is unfindable.

Start with your favorites, go as far as you (and your bandwidth) can.

There’s a French speaking /r/ over there that bans an @jlai.lu user and remove their post when they link to Lemmy.

Hm. I use it for anything, looping stuff, streams, entire album play, playlists, even audio books before I found maBooks

My only current bug is that I used to have my music on an SD card, which failed & I removed, but VLC still thinks it’s right there and fills my library with it

VLC is the goat here, no?

As available in France, tho only for €60 less.
And you pay €30 for fedora (?)