Grumpy

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[–] Grumpy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

I'm with the other person who said it doesn't really matter. Because it usually doesn't. Main thing you're likely concerned with is speed. And most of paid ones have okay speed. So just grab one that's on sale.

Even if you get one that logs and do all sorts of stuff that someone says is signs of poor VPN, you've already become such a hassle to go after that ISP won't bother.

If you're doing something super illegal and FBI is gonna hound you for years, that's a different story. But for torrenting, they're only gonna go bother the lowest hanging fruits, and you aren't one of them.

Though, imo, it's more convenient these days to not get a VPN or torrent client yourself but just get a debrid service to download for you. And then you download directly off of them. Like torbox, alldebrid. Etc. just start the torrent there and you can turn off your computer. Also they cache ton of stuff. So often it's already downloaded before you even start. I've had bunch of cases where I downloaded torrents with zero seeds because of their caching. They also come with whole bunch of convenience outside of torrents. But this is bit outside of your question.

[–] Grumpy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This isn't passive aggressive. Very much active insult.

[–] Grumpy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

There's genp community (which includes monkrus) in dbzer0. You should check it out.

[–] Grumpy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

This is a bit complex because of the way people define own.

Technically no one but the company who developed the games own the game.

Publishers effectively own it as they usually monopolize the entire licensing control of the game.

Gamers never own but merely have the license to play. This is true even with games from long time ago. While you do own the physical disk, you only license the data inside the disk.

Some people may define ownership of a game by the fact that no one is going to take it away from you. In that way, gog does do that. Since you can download a DRM free version you can install as many times as you want for as along as you want.

[–] Grumpy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 months ago

Yeah. If there's a Saudi that is rich enough to buy EA on a whim, he'd definitely think $1000 for a game is very cheap and don't understand what pricing issue exists.

[–] Grumpy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I would say give onlyoffice a try. It's not FOSS but does have free tier for home use and it's what I go to for non-main work computer. Beats libre imo.

[–] Grumpy@sh.itjust.works -3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

My best answer at this point would be that you need to make your own program to find and remove by content. Because no other manual pdf editor would reasonably have such a feature since it's so niche.

Also vibe coding with AI tends to be very good for singular tasks like this.

I wouldn't recommend converting the pdf to anything else since that would remove the layer info unless it's to more complicated formats like EPS, illustrator, etc.

[–] Grumpy@sh.itjust.works 60 points 6 months ago (8 children)

I would have no issue with vibrator usage, since that's a tool, not a person. But I don't think I want anyone else dunking on my gf while I make the alley-oop.

From the emasculated male perspective, LeBron is the competitor, not your teammate.

[–] Grumpy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

To properly do this the phone has to support it at hardware level. Pixel and iPhone have this feature but don't know about yours. There are apps like battery guru which will alert you, but you have to manually unplug at that point.

[–] Grumpy@sh.itjust.works 112 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (8 children)

Could've been just a greasy hand when it was off and not hot. The patina can then build differently there because of the residue.

[–] Grumpy@sh.itjust.works 11 points 8 months ago

This is why reading and writing is one of my lucid dreaming triggers. Don't need tops or other tokens like in Inception. Just try to read the same thing multiple times and it's different everytime in a dream, because you aren't actually reading, just hallucinating that you are.

[–] Grumpy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

My guess: It's a link. This news website likely will show other South Africa news if you click it.

 
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