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Its time to share the wiki and get your friends on board the ship as we set sail. We all have to rally together to stop the neverending subscription model.

Give them this map; its all the booty they need: https://rentry.co/megathread

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[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is this a screenshot from a porn video?

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Weird isn't it? I don't recognise either of them, I'm pretty sure I've never seen that one, everyone appears clothed, yet it just has porn vibes.

[–] ThiefUserPermissions@lemmy.myserv.one 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It came from an advert advertising a porn video. I liked the scroll he was holding.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 11 points 1 year ago

Probably why I've never seen it. I live ad free as much as possible.

[–] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago

Upvote this man immediately.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 year ago

Unknown actors, some weird bunk bed on the side, some power dynamic going on with the guy, low-quality set design, looks like they spent more on the girl's makeup than anything else in the shot.

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 year ago

Oh fuck put it back

[–] GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was already pirating but this will help me do it better. Thank you!

[–] hunt4peas@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Same. I have already taught some of my friends and they are enjoying it.

[–] Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

The first line in the megathread is silly

Instead of installing firefox and setting up.. Just install Librewolf. A firefox fork with UO built in, and all the privacy settings activated by default. Even the hidden ones.

And yes is still supports FF sync etc.

By default it clears cache etc when you close it. It can be annoying for some users.

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago

Firefox > Any fork. You can set up Firefox exactly like any fork you like but still get same day updates and security patches.

Information on wikis can get out of date if nobody updates it. Probably just needs someone to refresh it a bit.

[–] AtmaJnana@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I just use Firefox Nightly and whatever add-ons I need.

[–] STUPIDVIPGUY@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry boys I'm keeping my geoguessr subscription

[–] aivoton@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had no idea this alternative existed.

Thank you for sharing! I've got to try this.

[–] lorty@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

I'm glad this community exists. I'm a very lazy pirate so having all this info in a easy to find list is great. Thanks everyone!

[–] Morgikan@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mullvad no longer supports port forwarding and isn't really used by anyone in the torrenting community any longer. Most of those users have moved over to IVPN or AirVPN.

[–] Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been using it for torrenting for ages. What's this about port forwarding?

[–] Morgikan@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Port forwarding allows you to connect to DHT/PeX swarms and helps saturate your client with connections. In practice, it allows for faster speeds as more connections are established.

[–] Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

I literally did not know this. I haven't had any kind of issues so I'm not going to worry about it, but it's something that I would have considered during initial setup.

[–] sebinspace@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really wish CGPeers had open registration. I feel like you all would love the shit out of that.

[–] Leilys@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Been hoping for that for a long time, lol.

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

How do I decouple my overleaf account from my google account?

[–] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

is PIA still a decent VPN? What about torrent clients? I used to use an older version of uTorrent but now I'm on Kubuntu and it has a built in torrent client.

[–] gazby@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Short answer by making a few assumptions: Don't patronize PIA unless you can't or don't want to pay for better, and the built in torrent client is fine if you're happy with it, but qBittorrent would be a good match with your desktop environment if you want to try something else.

Happy to answer questions in like 10h when i'm awake again lol

[–] OberonSwanson@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I don’t use PIA, but for anyone also wondering, what VPN for you suggest investing a subscription for? Any why?

[–] Platform27@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

PIA is owned by Kape Technologies., a dodgy company, founded by a member is Israel’s Intelligence Devision. They’re known to spread malware, steal users data, and redirect traffic to advertisers. That being said, PIA claims that despite being owned by Kape, they remain in control of their day-to-day operations. I haven’t heard of any major issues, since the acquisition. Kape also seems to like the profitability of their (several) VPNs.

Up to you if you trust them with your data. Personally, I do not.

[–] Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Go with mullvad

They dont even have hard drives. They use ram only now. Which is quite funny

[–] autokludge@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

If only there were a handy resource that covers this....

[–] Whom@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

PIA is pretty shady. I'm only still using them because I paid for multiple years of service and while they're a bad choice for privacy, it does the job of not making my ISP angy.

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I signed up for a lifetime price of PIA because it was very cheap and have been using it ever since, but recently I noticed they doubled the charge out of the blue on me with no notice.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I honestly can't understand people bitching about getting screwed by subscriptions, or the number of them they have.

I got Amazon Prime because I started buying most of my shit that way during the pandemic. (Guess who's never caught COVID!) But all I care about is the discounted shipping. I still steal their videos and put them on my NAS.

[–] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

same here. I think I have 2 more years of service

[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seems to be missing macbb.org :)

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Why not? Open registration, provides similar content to others listed.