Honestly he is talking out of his ass, torrents are neither dead nor slow nor used by nobody. They’re very much alive.

Performing open heart surgery on yourself

I mean, usually when I need something immediately I just walk 5 minutes to the physical store and buy it.

I don’t even remember a time where I needed to get something I needed immediately from Amazon. In fact, if I am getting anything from amazon it’s probably because it wasn’t possible to find it elsewhere and that’s usually not something so important it needs same/next-day delivery.

Good on them.

I had a similiar experience with Mount and Blade warband, I pirated to try it, bought it after and when it didn’t work the folks at TaleWorlds helped me out fix the issue. Absolute lads.

been using adblocks without VPN for years, never had legal consequences from my country and I highly doubt it would care (doesn’t even care too much if I pirate shit). So why the fuck would I give my data to the Ruzzian government?

It was my phone shitting itself ok? You silly little mean bug

Bingo

True but you can still disable it and I think they’re required to let you disable it

Is that even legal according to the GDPR?

It is very relevant actually.

For starters tunneling there will mean having sites blocked, and secondly a foreogn government having my data, particularly an enemy authoritarian state, is no better than a corporation or my own state (where at least I have some say to what happens to my data)

must be why the Ruzzians are axing all non-state approved VPNs. I wonder why they want to have control over VPNs, almost like they want to ensure only certain content gets through or the ability to monitor traffic. Oh but that would be so silly.

I mean I think that could be a fair price, clothes can be pretty expensive to make and you also have to live off of selling them. Of course I am in no position to buy them at that price but I’m a broke student.

Oh no I’ll gladly buy merch from the artists themselves if I could afford to

If this gets annoying it looks like I will be switching to piped

I’d rather deal with the ads until they make me go insane than do that.

Physically set yourself on fire so you don’t have to lose 50% of everything

Rip out its flesh, destroy it in vengeance and replace it with some raspberry pi running pi-hole or turn it into a retro-gaming console

Please no. First of all Arch-based distros (or rolling releases in general) shouldn’t be recommended to newbies at all, secondly if you really have to use Arch (you almost certainly don’t but suit yourself) go for a good distro like Endeavour OS or Garuda Linux, or just install arch itself (there’s archinstall if you are afraid of using Arch the way it’s supposed to be used).

I say this as someone who uses Arch (btw) or rather Endeavour OS. It is a nice and mostly smooth experience granted but you will eventually run into issues or packages that are not in the official repos and you will need to put up with it. Arch distros should be viewed as tinkerer distros not newbie distros (unless the newbie wants to tinker and put up with it, of course).

Or easier even: Linux.

Strap Linux Mint, Pop_OS!, or your favourite Linux distro on your PC (I personally tend to recommend Linux Mint, it automatically installs the nuveau open source Nvidia drivers but will prompt you to choose which Nvidia drivers you want in the post-installation menu). For media piracy you’re good to go, for gaming, honestly I’d rather recommend just using steam whenever you can but if you have to pirate a game see if you can find it for linux first, otherwise go for Lutris/Wine or a virtual machine, worst case scenario you can do a dual boot with a windows copy but honestly if you don’t want any hassle just stick with Linux and games running on it.

Just not for the right reasons