Hey all. I’m the original creator of this graphic. Just wanted to note that the skull and bones I used is from an actual pirate flag from the 19th century. Just a fun fact.
Don’t stop there! Replace all Big Tech apps:
I like to point people to privacyguides.org and fmhy.net instead. Best to prioritize open source to avoid inevitable enshittification wherever possible.
Underrated. Found a lot of great apps there! Especially Metrolist for music streaming and moon+ reader for ebooks.
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Be careful with what you are watching in the next few years. Hollywood gave itself a diverse face in the last few years. Put in black actors, had some strong women in lead roles, had some gay characters and so on. I’m afraid that we will see some movies pushing hart right MAGA topics in the next time. Movies that are pushing for traditional gender roles, have gay people as evil masterminds, immigrants as criminals and so on. We already saw that with all those movies with evil arab guys in the bush era. Hollywood was taken over by Trump’s tech billionaires, you will see this turn it in the media you are watching. That will influence you and maybe you shouldn’t watch such stuff
have gay people as evil masterminds
<Looks at current tech billionaires>
Being gay doesn’t stop you from being evil.
Coming soon to a movie theatre near you. And every streaming service. And as an unskipable 3hr 30min ad on Youtube. And as part of the start-up routine of Windows 12.
INT. FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE - DAY
JOHN RAMBO
“Cap, these woke, gay immigrants want to stop generative AI. We have to stop them.”BATMAN
“Rambo’s right, and these disabled lesbian Democrat voters will stop at nothing. They must be detained, processed and, where necessary - which is always - terminated.”INDIANA JONES
“Agreed, Batman. We absolutely have to protect our billionaires’ wealth and their way of life. We’ve got might on our side. I know Hunt, McClane, and Reacher are in and, all the way from across the pond, so is Bond. And Harry Potter. But do we have Bourne and Skywalker?”CYBERDYNE SYSTEMS MODEL 101 [AKA THE TERMINATOR]
“Affirmative. Both have answered the call! And we have Toretto and Blade.”HANNIBAL LECTER
“Wait. Toretto and Blade are both… un-white.”This is true, but the bigger threat I see is the mainstream news media and social media, as the Ellison media empire expands it continues to encompass more and more news channels, it already contains CBS and TikTok, with the upcoming merger it’ll also include CNN. Other Trump supporters include Jeff Bezos who owns the Washington Post and Elon Musk who owns Twitter.
We’ll get a J6 biopic with the finalized version the self-myth the regime wants to cement.
Birth of a Nation 2: Electric Boogaloo
When I was young I pirated because I didn’t have an income and couldn’t pay. Now I pirate because I don’t want to give any money to terrible companies.
There was a period in the middle where I didn’t pirate anything, but that’s beside the point.
I never did stop I’ve been pirating things for damn near 30 years
Never have. Never will.
I remember that day of the “general strike” where the simple idea was to not spend any money on big corps. I got confused, because to me, that’s a 365-day-a-year lifestyle thing for me.
Maybe I’m lucky that I don’t have lifestyle needs like pet food, baby supplies, etc, and markets have been cornered there. But there’s plenty of forms of entertainment and leisure without giving it to Disney or Amazon and the like.
I would go to the high seas but I don’t know where to start. I used to visit the high seas often about 10 years ago. But now. Shrugs shoulders.
Quick start guide:
- VPN, my recommendation: mullvadVPN. (You need this, because copyright trolls look for easy targets, such as people having their real IP exposed. You don’t want to be that, they won’t fight with the VPNs hosting partner, then with the VPN company, then with your ISP, just to get to you, they only extort people they can reach directly.)
- Download qBittorrent (FOSS) and install ALL search plugins
- Activate your VPN and search with the integrated search function, it will look through all sites you installed plugins for and present them to you directly in the programme.
- Enjoy a collection of TV and movies you actually own.
There is a setting to bind qbittorrent to your vpn. PLEASE use this as using it without accidentally could get you in trouble. The binding is a last resort safety mechanism to prevent it from even working if the vpn is off.
I keep hearing conflicting info on mullvard and sailing, do they block port forwarding? Which may affect seeding to some places? Like private… sailing seas? I am a bit unsure how this works, but if I am sailing for linux distros, I want to be able to seed them.
Mullvad does in fact block port forwarding. If it is absolutely required (it is if you want to be able to connect to the most people) then you should look into possibly a seed box or another reputable vpn.
Mind you, it will work without port forwarding but not as well with it.
For mullvad, I can tell you from experience, it works perfectly well.
Main thing is to know if your ISP cares or not. Mine does, so I use a vpn. You can set qbittorrent to only use the vpn so if it gets turned off then just nothing will download.
You can do that on windows just downloading something like qbittorrent and mullvad vpn. You can also set them up in docker containers if you are familiar with that. It allows you to have the vpn only affect qbittorrent rather than your whole PC.
I do all of this on linux as well but had originally set it up on windows.
But where from?
10 years ago it was just pirate bay
Visit fmhy it will give you a comphrehensive guide
That still exists. I like 1337x.to as well.
I’d also recommend the Megathread from the !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com community: https://wiki.dbzer0.com/piracy/megathread/
qbittorrent, use the search tab
Additionally to the other answers, take a look at stremio with Torrentio. A few of my friends use it (I’m using a private tracker), it’s basically as convenient as using Netflix AFAICS.
Note that a VPN might be required to avoid getting fined in some countries as stremio is basically simply torrenting videos sequentially and simultaneously playing them, and torrent is often monitored by authorities
Yeah obviously, that’s why I said additionally to the other answers.
No problem, I just wanted to clarify to avoid any issues, as I know a few non tech literate people who thought they would be safe since it’s not the kind of torrent app they were used to
The best way to start is to visit fmhy just search it on the web. Learn and be a pirate sail the seas and keep information to yourself and not spread out your gold to the public like a true pirate
keep information to yourself
Do you mean “don’t share information about pirating”, or “don’t share the content itself”? Torrenting seems opposed to both stances…
Or you could ignore those services and watch indie stuff instead and pay for those directly
There’s art out there that’s worth buying. You don’t have to pirate anything
Also, who cares if you don’t see the latest prequel or sequel or reboot or preboot or requel by Disney? Be proudly out of the loop
If you don’t watch big streamers’ releases at all, you give them even less power. And if you buy indie, you give their competition power. You break the monopoly.
This is the ideal and one of the reasons I watched Youtube in the first place. I’ve found amazing stuff over time, like Veritasium, but I miss oldschool scripted media. Especially calmer stuff with fewer cuts. So much modern cinema is too fast.
If anyone has any recommendations for indies, I’d love to hear them.
watch indie stuff instead
Indie ≠ comparable. Indie ≠ good. I’m not going to watch something BECAUSE it’s indie. Am I misunderstanding?
I can’t pirate no harder, a terabyte a week I’m downloading! Ive been downloaded from dawn to dusk!
Stop making goddamned excuses and just get it done. All of it.
Maybe you could pirate From Dusk Till Dawn next? :p
We got pirated pussy!
Once in a while maybe you will feel the urge To break international copyright law By downloading MP3’s from file sharing sites Like Morpheus or Grokster or LimeWire or KaZaA But deep in your heart you know the guilt would drive you mad And the shame would leave a permanent scar 'Cause you start out stealing songs, and then you’re robbing liquor stores And selling crack and running over school kids with your car
So don’t download this song The record store’s where you belong Go and buy the CD like you know that you should Oh don’t download this song
Oh you don’t want to mess with the RIAA They’ll sue you if you burn that CDR It doesn’t matter if you’re a grandma or a seven year old girl They’ll treat you like the evil, hard bitten criminal scum you are
So don’t download this song Don’t go pirating music all day long Go and buy the CD like you know that you should Oh, don’t download this song Don’t take away money from artists just like me How else can I afford another solid gold Humvee? And diamond studded swimming pools, these things don’t grow on trees So all I ask is everybody, please
Don’t download this song (don’t do it, no, no) Even Lars Ulrich knows it’s wrong (you can just ask him) Go and buy the CD like you know that you should (you really should) Oh, don’t download this song
Don’t download this song (Oh please don’t you do it) Or you might wind up in jail like Tommy Chong (remember Tommy) Go and buy the CD (right now) like you know that you should (go out and buy it) Oh don’t download this song
Don’t download this song (no no no no no no) Or you’ll burn in hell before too long (and you’d deserve it) Go and buy the CD (just buy it) like you know that you should (ya cheap bastard) Oh, don’t download this song
Is there any type of post that doesn’t belong in a shitposting community? Because I know some people have very strong opinions about what shitposting is around here. And personally, I don’t think this fits. But maybe shitposting is meant to just be a pure miscellaneous grab bag of anything? Yes, I read the community rules which say “everything goes”, but the reality of what is posted seems to suggest a different spirit of the law.
Nah let the votes decide. Block people who consistently post what you don’t want to see. You can make your own experience and everyone gets the one they want
Its tricky because I don’t dislike this post, but I do feel like posts should be in the appropriate comms. And I’m just legitimately unclear on what belongs here. I guess the idea is just whatever people post?
Pretty much. C/lemmyshitpost kind of goes through moods to so if you’re not liking something give it a month. There was a no-politics meta for a while, right now we’re kind of horny, maybe we’ll get a crime wave 🏴☠️ here going forward. We also see sporadic aneurism posting and that’s always exciting.
Check out TheShitPostOffice and shitpost@piefed for some more traditional material
This is way too wholesome to be a shitpost.
Being a pirate is what makes you free. All hail communism.
Speaking of which, if anyone has an invite to spare for a good private tracker, please DM me. Private tracker I used since highschool has finally lost the plot.
How much do private trackers improve the experience? My friend that pirates says he hasn’t had any problems with public ones yet.
I’m mainly using it to fill a small niche gap in my existing pirate fleet.
I mean downloads basically limited by your bandwidth, usually the highest quality (like blu-ray rip 4k, almost no compression) etc.
But if you don’t have issues, well probably don’t bother.
Another thing if you aren’t using a VPN (which you probably should), they’re safer, as well… they’re private.
Real debrid + jdownloader + hdencode
I will look into those, thanks!
If you’re willing to spend a bit of money to pirate, just go with usenet. I was a private tracker guy for years, but I got sick of keeping up ratio when I mainly wanted shit that wasn’t super in demand. Have been so much happier since I made the move, and my downloads finish much faster than they ever did before.
Got a link to a “pirate on Usenet for dummies”?
Request for media <> Servarr Stack + Usenet Indexer <> Download Client + Usenet Provider <> Media Server
Dummy here, thanks, but what does this mean? Do you know any Ressources on how to get started with this?
This seems pretty comprehensive: https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/1b2m5gd/a_detailed_guide_of_plex_for_beginners_and/
However, while LLM usage is not in vogue around here, this is one situation where I think an LLM would be very handy.
You can use something like ChatGPT to read that post and then come up with a sensible step by step procedure where you can install and configure each program once at a time.
Let’s say you have a few movies and shows already downloaded.
You can get your feet wet by installing Plex Media Server, or another solution (Emby and Jellyfin are the top contenders). Then when you want to automate downloading if torrents, you get into the next step, and so on so forth.
Rarely does someone build an end game device at the beginning. Usually it’s a learn as you go and upgrade as the need arises.
The most important thing in the very idea behind any of this? Get started. One step at a time. Make mistakes and learn from them.
Prowlarr and nzbget are the two containers I run that handle actually downloading things, and sonarr/radarr for automatic media management.
For usenet, you need to get a provider and an indexer, and those can be gotten for just a couple bucks a month. Honestly, well worth the expense.
Right on brother, I’m already on Usenet, mainly looking for a private tracker as a next to last resort.
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