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Private equity. Yeah, that does sound awful. I fully expect enshittification to follow promptly. Thanks for the heads up

Your assessment is correct for particular private trackers. I belong to several and they all operate in different ways with different rules. What you are describing is my experience with trackers like TorrentLeech, my least preferred tracker. But on the other end of the spectrum is a tracker like Seedpool, where it is very easy to maintain a ratio just by keeping your client online with some data available.

Private trackers can be very accommodating and useful without a seedbox. Just find one that suits you. They are not all the same.

I prefer private trackers that permit cross seeding and decent rewards for making data available over time (in lieu of focusing just on how much data you transmitted).

Several trackers also freely give data buffer just for interacting with the site on a regular basis. Some have simple daily tasks like commenting or thanking an uploader. Others just want you to click a button and voila, you have 20 gigs free to use everyday.

That’s also terrible news. What’s going on with bitwarden now?

Hard to believe, yes. But very real. University of Utah published some research on this last year, I am fairly certain. Check it out. Really amazing

I wanted to add, since I haven’t seen anyone else mention it, I also hate AI and refuse to use it because it is the focal point of the biggest stock market bubble, pump-and-dump scam, that we have ever seen. When it pops, it will dwarf the housing market crash of 2007ish. It is so blatantly obvious to so many of us and we are powerless to stop it beyond boycotting and repeatedly voicing the flaws, failures and misinformation rampantly circulating the LLM technology. I hate “AI” for all the reasons everyone else has stated, but I also hate it for what the AI bubble will inevitably do to the worldwide economy and anyone who doesn’t have a million dollar safety net.

I also hate “AI” because a LLM is not AI at all. Not in the sense of a general artificial intelligence. AI was a label applied to LLMs by marketing douchebags to hype their bullshit machine. But this is false. LLMs are not AI, they are not intelligent. But LLMs present the illusion of intelligence and that is enough to keep the game of musical chairs going, for now.

I switched to Boost awhile back. Not as good, but good enough. Meanwhile I keep an ear out for an Eternity update. Maybe someday…

Recently I discovered recordings of the Alive 2007 tour. Some are on YT. It was great fun to relive it!

As far as I can tell, it is just habit, laziness and convenience. My wife literally prefers to scroll Hulu for 30 mins and settle on some 10 yr old trashy reality TV show. All in order to avoid browsing Jellyfin. Some people want to be passively fed junk TV, instead of actively seeking out quality shows they intentionally want to watch. She chooses to pay for this kind of interaction. Boggles my mind too.

Second this. Android app called Sleep Cycle changed my life.

Or Roger Ailes

Robot Chicken?

I was also at that Daft Punk show! Definitely in my top 3 ever!!

War on Terror BS War on Drugs BS

It is a rather long list of BS

2 economic recessions?? If you don’t count anything in the 80s or 90s then you at least have:

Dot com bubble

Subprime mortgage crisis

Covid

Whatever you wanna call what’s been happening the past 2 to 4 years. I don’t care what the stock market says. Working people are experiencing an economic downturn.

2??? WTF

Not OC but I agree with him. Where I live, the toll roads are owned by private corporations, some of them entirely foreign owned corporations, and the rates are obscenely high. It isn’t about maintaining the road; instead it is about rent seeking behavior and maximizing shareholder profits. That is abhorrent to me. Public goods should be owned by the public.

I come from a family of carpenters, building all kinds of stairs for most of my life, and I’ve never heard of this. This is why I love construction; learn something new all the time. Thanks!

I concur. Bought one about 6 years ago and it is still like new. It was a little pricey IMO but the only option they had at the time. I like it a lot

MotoGP. I’ve never met or interacted with anyone else who enjoys it. I freaking love it

You had me really concerned until that last sentence. That is so freaking sad.

Amen! An upvote wasn’t enough. I have not seen this important point discussed anywhere. Not on podcasts, YouTube et al, protest organizations, blogs, social media, editorials, etc etc. Seems obvious to me, but notably absent from social discourse. Thank you for putting it out there!