Yes, this. Torrenting music is not necessary. Slsk is a better option 99% of the time. Most of the tags are the automatic ones applied by the streaming service it was ripped from or MusicBrainz. But everyone seems to expect different things from tagging, so if you want every performer tagged and like every genre you’re never gonna find that.

I think she’s the one that’s supposed to be taking the nose.

Toys aren’t “a race to the climax” they’re literally just another way you can have sex with someone. It’s crazy to me watching all these straight people freak out about toys because I find it to be deeply intimate. Even in the case of vibrators. It doesn’t feel like just the toy, it feels like the other person is granting you that pleasure. It’s a much deeper and still emotionally enriching experience to use toys with other people vs. using them alone to masturbate.

If I’m using a toy on someone else, I feel good about making them feel good. I’m not offended that they find it pleasurable because that’s fucking ridiculous.

And using a toy also doesn’t necessitate that you’re using it solely to get to the climax faster, that’s also kind of a bizarre claim to make. There’s a reason why they have settings. Overall, it’s ridiculous to see toys as anything other than a tool you can use to enhance sex and feel (and help your partner feel) sensations you couldn’t possibly be able to replicate without them. I basically agree that sex is much more about the process than the goal, it’s just weird to say that toys go against that rather than help enhance it, which has been my experience with them.

Honestly I just use PiVPN on my clients and Jellyfin over HTTP. (The VPN encrypts traffic, don’t worry). It’s more secure than exposing it to the public internet in any way, really. After I had a goddamn Minecraft server get joined by a bot I stepped up security - in 2025, any hole will be exploited for data and botnets. If you’re hosting for family, I think there’s still value in the security Plex is offering by being the middleman between your computers in your home and the outside world.

Rule of law is dead because a central tenet of fascism is that “there are those that the laws bind and but do not protect, and those that the law protects but does not bind”

I would love for us to not be America’s bitch one day.

Yessongs if you like that kind of thing.

I run a pivpn setup so that nothing is exposed to the internet at all. It’s just too dangerous now. It was bad back in the day, but now I literally have bots trying to join any public facing Minecraft server. It’s so many times worse now than it was a decade ago.

Most TLDs basically mean nothing because there’s nobody who enforces what they mean. .tv domains, for example, is the TLD for the country Tuvalu, but I dare you to find me a website for the Tuvalu people ending in it.

Holy shit, this is actually a pretty bad list. A lot of classics and actually good modern manga here. Unfortunate - mangadex was great while it lasted. Pirate sites are hydra, if course, but mangadex was actually usable unlike a lit of other sites.

Yep. You have to at least vaguely be engaged in the politics of the internet (not to be confused with politics on the internet) to use these smaller platforms at all.

The average social media user just doesn’t care. They want things to work from their perspective, and it doesn’t matter how much data they give up, or privacy they lose, or any other thing that might be a negative to us that engage in the internet outside of “apps”.

IMO, this is a pro and not a con of federated social media, and means that your discussions will be smarter on average. Sometimes, I feel sad that the days of free (as in freedom) internet is seemingly gone, before I remember that you just have to look a little deeper, and it’s definitely still there.

…Then stop posting on Reddit? I thought the whole point of us moving here was to get out of the control of Reddit and their shareholders/corporate overlords

Everything’s computer.

Hahaha, we’re doing this one again? Alrighty. Nintendo is really banking on a charitability for US DMCA law that hosting services in other countries may no longer have. This is going to get harder for them very quickly I think.

Nobody elected Elon little bro

Maybe you’re missing some context. This comic is about DRM. Back in the day there was a big fight between the companies and consumer advocate groups like the EFF over DRM because it’s awful for the people paying for DRM’d content.

It’s pretty easy to buy DRM-free content now for certain forms of media, esp. books and music, not so much for others. But my whole point here is that if you’re on the side of the EFF and FSF, you’re anti-DRM, which means that you’ll probably support piracy as long as DRM continues to fuck over consumers.

Then they shouldn’t be called lifetime subscriptions. This seems like a really smarmy justification of a shitty business practice.

I actually prefer the Jellyfin client to the Kodi client by a lot. Using Kodi on top just adds more unneeded complexity and reloading libraries in my experience.

Don’t do this. You will lose quality every time you re-transcode an audio file. AAC is supported by basically everything now.

Also MP3 is a pretty bad format all things considered. The most efficient format is Opus, it’s open source and transparent at 160kbps.

Bandcamp only works if the band originated there. Most labels don’t sell anything through bandcamp. If a label doesn’t release digital lossless for me to buy it’s getting downloaded on Soulseek.