You can kinda trust them if you use an archived version of it from before.

Have you ever thought of just buying

owning

Um… no, I just pirate and put everything in harddrives/ssds

Harddrives takes up less physical storage than a bookshelf full of DVD/Blurays.

(Also: I’m broke lol)

Every time I pirate something x265, it looks like somebody took the pixels and threw it in the blender. Like I could notice the degredation in quality and it irritates me since it’s supposed to be 1080p.

I download the normal x264 and everything looks fine.

And I doing piracy incorrectly?

The EU needs to take up the mantle of being the protector of the democratic free world.

TV show discussions

It’s non-existent on Lemmy

Tor still works

You just have to change the circuit like 10 times.

sh.itjust.works

you can use a throwaway email

Then: “Who would be insane enough to take on the Donnager?”

Now: “I didn’t think we’d lose”

(The Expanse Reference, sorry I love making references)

Kinda fitting tho, since the Donnager was

“A Riot is the Language of the Unheard”

-Martin Luther King Jr.

But that feels like saying “America”

Feels un-serious and insincere for a history / social studies class.

And technically, there is still another state with the similar name (Republic of China/中华民国), so you need the full name to clarify.

I noticed that every Samsung phone is now OLED (branded as “AMOLED”), even the lowest of the budget A series.

Unless Artificial General Intelligence is developed, then perhaps some pattern could be found and the future humans can decode some of what you’re saying.

Maybe even some brain-neuron scanner type of thing to measure your exact thoughts.

You mean civilize and liberate the aliens from their barbarism? /s

How did you get the Official Portrait of Agent Krasnov?

“Inspire Women”

Yea… so you mean like… checks notes

Electing the criminal con-artist that failed casinos multiple times, simply because he is male, over the qualified* women that ran against him? On TWO SEPARATE OCCASIONS, BY TWO DIFFERENT CANDIDATES? One of the times the woman is even a prosecutor, and the con-artist have been convicted of 34 felonies, but apparenly being a morally-bankrupt criminal doesn’t matter since he’s male. So this is the “Inspiring Women”? 🤨

(*yes I know they are shitty in their own ways, but like at least they wouldn’t fuck up the economy and cause people to be unemployed and fuck up the climate)

Damn, so basically you can’t use any high-end smartphones due to a biological reason outside your control? 😥 (because all high-end smartphones use OLED)

AT&T has a whitelist system, they check IMEIs often and if your device is not approved, cell service stops working.

For Verizon, you have to call customer service to do a manual override.

Only T-Mobile allows any phone to work without explicit approval.

Probably some reason like they don’t want people complaining the service is bad because they use a “no-name brand” phone, so they just cut you off and blame your phpne because it’s easier for corporate. (Yay, capitalism! 🫠 /s)

I heard that Australia now has a Nationwide whitelist system that even block unapproved phones from calling the emergency number.

Technology is really getting enshittified. 😓

Low karma or account too new.

So cringe tbh. I was depressed and wanted to vent, they fucking automod-deleted my post because “karma too low”, like bitch, why did you think I’m making a throwaway?

Brb, digging a hole in the ground.

Just dig 3 blocks down and replace the block on top, best minecraft safehouse ever 🫠

As a 华裔-American, I agree, we should just use all the true names of places.

I mean, what kind of a name is “China”?

Its 中国, officially 中华人民共和国.

So… lets use the real names, shall we?

This is what class would sound like:

"Alright kids, it’s time to learn about countries. As you know, Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó¹ is one of the largest guó jiā² in the world…

Xiāng Gǎng³ is a tè bié xíng zhèng qū⁴ that has de jure autonomy. Just like guǎng zhōu⁵, and the rest of guǎng dōng shěng⁶, people generally speak guǎng dōng huà⁷ (aka: yuè yǔ⁸), as a fāng yán⁹…"

You get the idea. (The “I agree” part at the beginning is sarcastic)

I bet like 90% of the Western world has trouble even hearing the words with the tones. Tonal languages is very difficult to learn, I only know how to speak a bit because I was born into it, even I have trouble with words, since I grew up in the US, I haven’t spoken Mandarin in over a decade, and only still use the basics words of Cantonese at home (since political conversations is just a one-sided conversation, with parents spewing propaganda, not even worth talking about).

If I hear people attemping to use the native (non-Anglicanized) pronounciation and absolutely butcher it, I’m gonna feel so much 尴尬/cringe. (Sorry, I just feel like people are mocking me when they try to say 你好 (Hello) since the Tones feel so “off”)

Edit:

Translations in case you were confused:

• ¹ People’s Republic of China
• ² Country
• ³ Hong Kong
• ⁴ Special Administrative Region
• ⁵ Guang Zhou (City)
• ⁶ Guang Dong Province
• ⁷ “Guang Dong” Language (commonly known as “Cantonese”)
• ⁸ “Yue” Language (another name for "Cantonese)
• ⁹ Dialect (technically, Cantonese is a Language, but they didn’t have a flag and an army… so… 🤷‍♂️)