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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • I envy you. I lived in 3 commie block apartments that the soviets built. Even though build from concrete, you could always hear neighbours from all sides except below.

    Neighbours above had two children that would chase one another. Sounded like elephants from above.

    Surprisingly moving away from the city into a brick apartment actually solved most of the sound problems. The building is even older, was built in between occupations around 1920.

    Although there are still problems due to moded cars and bikes driving around. Need to move out again, further…



  • It’s easy to call it out like that, but I that apartments have design flaw, that it dehumanizes your neighbours.

    Something along road rage. You are stuck in a container and interaction with others are limited to annoyance.

    Maybe coop apartments would have a way to solve it, but it will break down if multiple suites are built next to each other. You can know/befriend a very limited amount of people.


  • It’s impossible to not hear your neighbours in an apartment. There are ways to reduce that, but almost no apartment is built like that. Not to mention that often you want to open windows for fresh air and get to breathe in smoke from cigarettes. It’s a different kind of hell to live in one. I agree that it looks nicer from outside. There can even be parks nearby. But never venture there after dark, because you’ll get your vallet stolen. Due to that every street must be light up during the night, and now you can’t see the stars…

    Anyhow. People fucking suck


  • Great build for a gaming PC. For a server it looks odd. Usually when building a server, your main concern is reliability. Everything goes in pairs. Two CPUs, Two PSUs… It gets tedious fast. Often weaker but much more energy efficient parts are prefered, since unused CPU and RAM is considered wasted.

    It would be much more helpful if you have a usecase you’re building it for (since now I really can’t comment too much on the build). If your primary concern is to try to have a home server, I’d say go for it. You can always upgrade/downgrade down the line.










  • So far, “fitting in” has been the worst excuse for stealing. So, can people go into an IShop and steal Iphones because they want to fit in?

    No, stealing an object is not copying my dude. I don’t encourage stealing unless it’s a basic human right ( water/food stealing for survival is another subject for example ).

    How is stealing anyone’s effort and hard work fine? Just because the work can be duplicated easily doesn’t mean that it didn’t take a lot of effort to produce and should be sold individually.

    Again copying is not stealing. I’m not disregarding he should not be compensated for his work. I’m against pay walling for people who can’t afford the information. It’s needlessly cruel.

    Imagine telling a book author that they only sold a copy because everyone agrees copying and sharing his book was fine. It took him 5 years to write it. He’d probably kill himself. Again just because something can be duplicated doesn’t mean it doesn’t take work!!!

    Imagine me writing a new book which basically is the same book, then going full on on ads and selling way more then the first guy. Then suing the first guy for stealing my ideas (disregarding the fact it was I who stole) and getting a monopoly on it. Then imagine it becoming a staple book on which everyone in an industry must have. Is it ethical to steal from me or not?


  • I doubt they do not admit they want and enjoy shit for free.

    Before arguing for the ethicality maybe come up with a solution or at least disapprove the new media piracy.

    There is no solution I can think of, unless something radical like UBI. Also I can’t disapprove the new media privacy, because I find it more positive than negative. Some people losing money (negative), me not getting beaten up on the street for fun by teenagers because they are bored (positive).

    One of the arguments for pirating new media is the demo effect. If you want to play a game, you don’t want to spend money then realize you don’t really enjoy it. Used to be a standard, now demo versions are non existing. Bought a few games after finishing them and enjoying. Same with movies.


  • Capitalism is important, never said it wasn’t. It actually gamifies our choices as producers, also helps by providing a metric of desires. The fact is people need food and it works well (we will ignore the subsidies on food production) to produce it and distribute it. The taxes works as a great tool to force you into the game. The problem pirates see, is that you can monopolize on a production of a product and ruin the game for all. For example when during a crisis someone starts selling water for 25 dollars a bottle due to being the only available provider at which point that is seen as unethical and stealing as ethical. So with this view people see it ethical, because there are tribalisism reasons why you more or less must have consumed a piece of media in order to fit in.


  • But stealing from people who actually want to monetize on the content they created? (…appeal to emotion…)

    It’s not stealing, it’s copying data my dude. If they want to monetize on software, they can completely. SaaS exists and it’s everywhere. Me downloading a piece of software and running on my machine doesn’t actually cost them anything either. And they are not losing sales, because I would not have bought it otherwise. I dislike being forced to pirate, and would love my fellow friends not being forced to use Photoshop for example just because it’s an industry standard. It’s closed, it’s very limiting, but they can’t use Gimp due to limited collaboration possibility after, so using a pirated piece of software to convert to and from correctly just to work with it seems more than reasonable.

    I came here expecting to get tips on piracy and instead I saw a bunch of people claiming they were doing God’s work. Insane.

    I know it seems insane, but there are other schools of thought than the dominant capitalism model we live under. Religious communities also seem insane. For bloody sake Kopimism also exists. The problem everyone sees is that your only argument is lost sales (which is valid and correct under capitalism) and there are other points that must be acknowledged. Some may argue, they are more important than what money can measure.