Sneakernet is getting worse and worse these days, I’m learning the ancient art of astroprojecting into random people’s rooms to consume media.

You must want something if you want to stop being unhappy. What would you change in your life if given the option?

Seems like it, I switched to my current instance explicitly to avoid dealing with this stuff

That’s so skibbity dude, you have like level 100 Rizz, your slang is so Aura fr fr. At least I’m so fanom taxxed my looksmaxxing is so much more Ohio. (Help me I am held in a basement against my will)

If you want an excuse to visit random coordinates around you geohashing.site is a interesting option. Each day everyone is given the same set of spots to go to, with optional challenges and badges one can do. Its quite surprising how strong the community has been going despite it’s age.

Yep, since I mostly pirate obscure games I don’t need to worry about the VPN. Lutris works great for fitgirl-repacks

Thanks, for our meme, I’m going to steal distribute it

All, but I block porn

Tools for backing up servers already exist: https://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter But unfortunately discord can’t be easily scraped in one coordinated attempt unlike reddit due to the massive number of private servers and existing verification/anti-bot mechanisms. As a result, only the communities that have data hoarders will be actually archived.

No, but !lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/piracy recommends audioaz.com as a good source of pirated Audiobooks

seirdy.one has this great index of google alternatives that can be used.

Anna’s Archive and z-library are the best way I’ve found to pirate books

Looks like its down for the moment

From what I see, there are 4 5 options on annas-archive.org

1. Use fast(but fee charging) direct download

2. Use ipfs

3. use torrents

4. Go to source pages (libgen and/or zlibrary)

5. Slow direct download [Edited]

It sounds like you clicked the link to the source as opposed to the mirrors

No, more like a mirror in that it hosts all of zlib and libgen’s content as well as providing torrent and ipfs links for the files (which they seed)

Anna’s archive acts as a drop in replacement for libgen and z-library, also doesn’t cost anything