People need to understand that not everyone has the disposable budget to buy tons of SSDs/HDDs for storage, the internet speed to download episodes and the time for said downloads.

It has not been a good year for anime streaming sites.

Technically, yes. If you paid for and downloaded an MP3 file. You own that copy so long as you maintain it like making sure hard drives, flashdrives, whatever don’t die on you. You can’t fully bank on the longevity of some services to maintain libraries sometimes and whether or not they’ll still honor some things if we’re 10 - 20 years from now.

As far as buying things off things like Steam? Technically, no.

Do not give up. Do not surrender.

Metropolis (1927)

…That’s the point. I’m only saying one bill is dropped than the other.

Aw, you’re just mad.

Religion.

Americans need to budget better and get used to some sacrifices. If you can’t ride the waves, you’re bound to fall off.

But the cost here is that, whatever Mozilla cuts, is going to hurt Firefox at some capacity. Mozilla recently had made cuts to where, they don’t have a voice to advocate for open internet, for example. Which waters down what stand that they have to be an influence.

I think it’s some closeted admittance of guilt. The more the anime girl looks like they’re underaged, I’m automatically thinking “yup, that’s a pedo”.

Your downvotes are just as admittable.

I think my lease agreement has a buy in built in. But I don’t want the vehicle. It’s a Kia Sportage, it was not my choice in the beginning to have this vehicle. I wanted a Seltos but my shitty dealership at the time didn’t have it in inventory and I was caught in a rock and a hard place to be forced into this lease agreement.

So I want to turn it in but my worry is, what if the dealership in my current location, doesn’t have what I want? It’s bigger, yeah. They retired the Rio model back in 2023 and have a K3 model for affordability that might come to America next year, but who knows when.

Obviously my options is to find a new dealership if everything with Kia falls through, but I also don’t want to extend this lease. I need a vehicle to get to places which is why I asked this question. Because I doubt they’ll let me drive it further to explore more options if they aren’t getting more payments from it.

Got until August for all of this shit to come together. Hopefully they’ll have a Seltos or a K3 I can finance. Kia’s SUV models don’t attract me a bit and their new Sportage model is even less impressive.

It is. I don’t ever want to be in a situation of handling a car with liable baggage. 10-30 old cars will have a lot of issues going regardless if the body of the vehicle is maintained. If you live in states where they’re strict on inspections, you can expect to fail one or another at somepoint. The money piling up to maintain a vehicle that’s very old and has a chance of breaking down, is about as feasible as maintaining a boat.

It’s smarter to have a vehicle for 2 - 6 years at most if you’re leasing it. Financing it, do whatever but people need to understand that if that vehicle being financed is not maintained well, good luck trying to sell it.

In terms of seeing more credible people take office that has an honest mind in what’s best for the country and not for themselves or their party. I say we certainly are likely past the point of no return. That wall was cracked when Reagan took presidency and then the wall was just demolished just by one Trump term.

So now we’re going to be expected to see all sorts of crazy people, just jumping at the bit, for their shot to take some sort of office, despite having had no credibly solid background of politics or understanding in managing the big office. Arnold Schwarzenegger became governor of California, Kane (wrestler) became mayor of a county, Dr.Oz is now in a political position after scarily coming close to a senate position. It’s just maddening all around.

We’ve been experiencing numerous government shutdowns or coming close to another government shutdown because all politicians collectively could not get their shit together. If we’re past the point of no return, about whether America has any credible influence and sincere posture on the rest of the world. Yes, it is the point of no return and it’ll take many generations to fix. It won’t be this one though.

Everyone should pirate my little pony porn. Wait, there’s Rule-34, I digress.

Also, please stop carting around old and unfunny memes. Learn to know when memes stop being funny.

Who torrents linux isos? Linux OSes aren’t illegal to pirate.

Corporate Businesses treat streaming services like it’s Cable all over again. Content available here, content available there, no content available anywhere for some shows and movies.

Gaming industry pushing hard to default everything to $70 as the norm, while certain editions are in triple digits and even having the gall to ask for another $30 or $40 for battle passes.

Spotify CEO and Joe Rogan both are paid far more than any music artist on the platform.

Once Gabe is done, I just hope he has someone in mind to sell Valve to. With all of the shit soon to fall around us, should Gabe Newell ever pass away or retire, may he find someone competent enough to carry on Steam as it is.

Because all it takes is for one bad deal to torpedo Steam. It could be in EA’s hands. It could be in Microsoft’s hands. Nobody is worthy to handle Steam as is but Valve and Gabe Newell.

I’ve not once ever contracted a virus or anything malicious whenever I’ve had an EOL OS online.

I’m not that fucking stupid. You just need to know your shit and know where not to go, if there is anywhere to go.

Nah, not for me. I’ve known to use Windows OSes beyond their EOL support. I remember having still been on Windows XP while everyone else went to Vista and then to Win7. When I got to Win8, it was only because I bought another computer from a friend that had it, that was how I got upgraded.

I don’t abide by when Microsoft wants me to upgrade by, if they can pull their heads out of their asses (unlikely) for Windows 12, then I might consider.