Slimy lobbyist: Sure I'll hold your robe and... whoops how did that big wad of cash get in there?

I reckon there are two factors at work here, the profit imperative and enshitification. The profit imperative relates to how corporations have to make exponential profits every single year (and as we all should know you can't have exponential growth in a finite system.)

And enshitification is a result of the profit imperative, with all the corporations trying vainly to keep the profits rolling in they have to cut quality, be it through replacing ingrediants with inferior ones or pumping in the sugar so it's harder to taste the wood chips, killing third party alternatives for viewing your site to keep all the ad revenue to yourself, putting out unfinished products and charging top dollar while treating your users as unpaid testers.

Or any other of the million shitty practices corporations can think up to keep the economic perpetual motion going, it's all going the same way in the end though because you can't get blood from a stone and as a great man once said “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”

And they would have gotten away with it too if Smedley Butler hadn't blown the whistle after they approached him to lead the coup's forces.

It should be, I fully agree, unfortunately we live in a digital panopticon.

You would think that, but the big banks made out like absolutely crazy from the derivatives and then got to seize a whole swathe of land they then sold on for even more money or kept for themselves and used to artificially inflate the rental markets while at the same time curb stomping their competition thus giving them a much larger piece of the pie after everything shook out.

The real own goal here is the poor saps who thought they were getting a cheap mortgage until the interest rates started going up and up.

I couldn't agree more, I have no problem with charging for API use they paid to develop it so charging for it is more than fair enough, but setting the price at literally millions of dollars (for the likes of Apollo) is absolutely absurd and then giving the affected parties 30 days to figure out what the hell they were going to do is so dishonest and underhanded. And then spez's completely out of touch comments basically calling us all idiots that are just going to fall into line because the lord says so was the smega sprinkles on the whole shit sundae.

I just installed Jackett (a tracker aggregator effectivley) yesterday, it was a super easy set up and now my qbittorrent can check all the torrent sites at the same time and find the highest seeded file from practically every public tracker on the internet.

So I'd highly recommend this route. I also set up Jellyfin on my WebOS TV yesterday too, which was a bit more of a challenge but it works flawlessly so I'd also highly recommend Jellyfin as well.

Just seems like companies are making short sighted choices for cost reduction over thinking about the potential long-term repercussions for putting their intellectual property and untimely their fates, in the hands of third party.

Welcome to late stage capitalism baby! It'll only be a short stay though because these assholes are going to implode the planet looking for their next quick buck.

Maybe take out a new domain name? New-pipe.net perhaps.

Eeeeh, I could but Techland has long been one of my favorite little studios so pirating one of their games just doesn't feel right to me.

Also piratebay hasn't been relevant in years and is most likely chock full of all kinds of nasty malware now, try 1337x instead. They're probably the best of the lot now rarbg is no longer with us.

Dying Light, absolutely fantastic pakour zombie smasher with one of the best cities in gaming. Bought it originally (on a disc) many years ago and played it so much the disc died and I was inconsolable until Epic gave away the ultimate edition and I was finally able to play The Following DLC.

Now I go and look at Dying Light 2 on Steam and wish my stupid country wasn't so damn expensive, even on sale at 50% off it still costs almost as much as a brand new AAA game in the states. Regional pricing my ass, we always get stung so hard for tech down here.

It's a rabbit hole indeed, I've already started looking around the *arr-verse and I can definitely say several of them are looking mighty fine already. And they really aren't particulary challenging setups either, unless you get into the whole self-hosted side with NAS's and reverse proxies and what not.

Truly a golden age for FOSS at the moment.

No, no, it's 198.162.0.1!

If it's speed you're after try Titanfall 2, my son is really good and watching him play is enough to give you seizures it's so fast paced.

Quite often only 27.

I was thinking the same thing, then i remembered I'm just useless...

Try Vivaldi browser, it's old school Opera with a Chrome dress on. So you get the benefits of Chrome with the focus on privacy and innovation of old school Opera.

(Replied to the wrong comment but you get the gist.)

Boost just recently pushed out an update too, maybe there's something behind the scenes we aren't aware of yet.

So sad EA axed Titanfall 3, Respawn started making it but EA bought them out and demanded they make it a battle royale which they didn't want to do so EA just axed it instead. Iirc of course, don't quote me on it but I'm pretty sure this is how it went down.

Bear in mind that Gib is quite expensive nowdays (with fletcher's monopoly over pretty much our entire building industry) with speciality products, like noisline, being doubly so.

So maybe give it a bit and see what it's like before pulling the trigger, a decent block wall with a good air gap packed with batts will cancel out the vast majority of regular household noise I feel.