I’ve minimized my short form video consumption and reliance on Youtube for entertainment for this very reason. Podcasts are great to listen to when I’m doing chores

Hear, hear. If you leech without seeding you are essentially killing the torrent.

Media literacy is at an all time low, especially among terminally online “activists”.

Self-Hosting? What happened to saving things onto a hard drive?

At this point no corpo site is worth the hassle.

any practice that restricts my personal freedom in any way is bad

Yes? I don’t want to live in a world where giant companies decide what I can and cannot see. And big companies are bad, they act as pseudo governments that aren’t accountable to anyone, we used to break them apart before they started buying up politicians and political power.

Watching people realize this toejam eating weirdo was right about everything makes my day everytime.

What the actual fuck.

Just make them Wario ware style microgames at this point.

See kids, this is what happens when you stop pirating.

“Thanks for calling me bitch, asshole. Do your own shopping from now on.”

At this point i’m pretty sure most windows users have a degradation fetish they’re too ashamed to admit.

The fedora tells you everything.

Mumla? Is it even still being updated?

Call it what it is - copyright infringement. Piracy is the act of robbery on the high seas, but we’ve allowed media companies to take a shit in our vocabularies so we can’t call things by their proper names.

Looks at UTorrent happily leeching away

Looks at camera

It was on literally every third video, regardless of context.

When I watched youtube on my phone, logged into my google profile, I got generic TV ads for women’s hair care products.

I am a bald man.

Enterprise level hardware costs a lot, is noisy and needs a dedicated server room, old laptops cost nothing.

Meh, T&T is a bit too simplistic for my tastes. Was a good option for solo gaming back in the day, though.