Hopefully we can see more efforts at generalizing phone OSs so they work on most devices, similar to how we have laptops.

The people coming up with these ideas should be lynched.

The difference is how much money they’re making and how they’re spending it.

For pretty much all creators bitching about not getting paid enough, it’s so they can live lavish lifestyles without having to think about what they spend their money on.

Everything.

Piracy is a tool to help reduce the disparity in wealth.

The only time you should buy something that you could pirate is if you can’t find it and you plan on sharing it with everyone else. I call this “taking one for the team.”

Thanks. This is new to me and I’m going to be looking into it.

Thanks.

It’s my understanding that https provides encryption for the data sent between you and the server. If you’re not sending any sensitive data, then the encryption shouldn’t be necessary.

Don’t get me wrong, encryption is great even when it isn’t necessary. For my demonstration purposes though, I chose not to include it.

I also believe it’s possible to set up HTTPS encryption without a domain name, but it might result in that “we can’t verify the authenticity of this website” warning in web browsers due to using a self-signed certificate.

It’s not dumb at all! Don’t be afraid to ask. I’m not an expert and still learning myself.

The VPN is running on the same machine that I am hosting the website on. There may be some configuration you can do to perhaps have the connection routed through your raspberry pi with a VPN running on it to the machine that’s hosting the website, but I’m not sure how.

Otherwise, you should be able to at the very least run the entire setup on a raspberry pi.

pretty much all

What about the ones that weren’t ticketmaster-only?

I find it hard to believe they couldn’t find a place to have their shows. Maybe in a major city, but if they were willing to go outside of one then there’s no way ticketmaster is going to have control over everything.

It could’ve been good business for the towns they played in and ticketmaster would be left out to dry.

I guess that’s asking too much of them, though. Even though it’s really not.

I’m going to have to say nay on their attempt. They could have and should have tried harder.

When the service gets its data leaked in a breach, your phone number is now visible to the public.

But then they won’t have something to talk about to make them seem interesting!

in which case it simply doesn’t have the infrastructure to host a huge band.

What infrastructure? Amps? That’s a non-issue.

I completely agree with you.

The whole atmosphere surrounding live shows is toxic as fuck. There are literally millions of useful idiots eager to get ripped off so they can fit in with each other.

It’s a force that logic can’t fight back against. We live in a world of morons, and seeing them get taken advantage of in this way is something we should just get used to.

I’m not holding my breath expecting things to change. My generation certainly wasn’t the one to fix these problems.

Did they really try?

Seems like a popular group such as pearl jam could get away with selling tickets without this company.

Stop giving them money?

Seriously. Selling tickets doesn’t have to be a million-dollar affair.

Odds are the venues that you’re going to suck and exist to take advantage of people’s low standards and excess wealth.

Piracy

Doing what’s right doesn’t always mean doing what’s easy.

Yeah, the soccer industry is full of some of the scummiest people on earth.

There’s a lot of money to be made off of idiots who don’t know any better for doing pretty much nothing.

You can play multiplayer games with LAN support together for free using a program like Hamachi.

Use a free VPN (https://riseup.net/en/vpn) to download the game for free. I usually go for fitgirl repacks if they’re available. Then you and your buddies can connect to the same ‘server’ using Hamachi and play together.

I recommend doing this with the new Halo collection and Baldur’s Gate 3 so you can see it’s possible, even with new and advanced games.

Brains > wallets, don’t be a corporate simp.

All the more reason to host anonymously.