This is the only idea aggressive enough to work which is why they will never let it happen

This. When YouTube finally succeeds in making it impossible for anyone to use their website without watching ads, they probably still won’t succeed in preventing people from downloading for offline viewing. When this happens I’m going to invest in making scripts that autodownload stuff ahead of time and I’ll only watch whatever videos are in my home network.

Im not watching their brainwash bullshit ass propaganda. I’ll find other stuff to do for entertainment before I give in to ads.

I’m poor and I hate stupid bullshit. The only way to personalize ads for me is to make them go away.

I hope you’re right. There’s a lot of backwards people out there that vote.

One one hand, if Trump goes to prison it won’t be Trump vs Biden 2024 but on the other hand, this would mean DeSantis vs Biden in 2024. At least Trump is an idiot. DeSantis is more calculated and strategic about all the bad stuff he does.

You can do everything except 3d rendering in SDL alone relatively easily. You can still do 3d rendering in SDL but you have to be a graphics rendering expert to get anywhere near efficient acceptable performance.

If there’s a free software alternative to what I want to pirate, I always use that instead. Software is like sex. It’s better when it’s free.

I’ve tried jeroba, liftoff and thunder. My experience with jeroba is mostly negative. It’s not good enough to be a full replacement for using a web browser and with the new update it crashes on my older, not bleeding edge phone. It can’t even open lemmy links people post half the time.

Thundar is ok. I’m not a fan of its interface but at least you can actually browse communities you aren’t subscribed to.

The third one I’ve tried is Liftoff and it’s the best one I’ve seen so far. It’s about the same in terms of quality as Boost for reddit. You can explore new communities in other instances, have more than one active account logged in to be able to simultaneously use different instances and best of all there’s a search.

Because “freedom” can mean 1 of 2 different things depending on how big of an asshat you are. Should freedom mean being free to do what you want or should freedom mean being free to take away other people’s freedom? This is the issue.

Half the population in idiotic US states that ban everything think they live in one of the most free states in the US.

I’ve used ChatGPT for things like generating c linker scripts or writing a bochs configuration file. It would have taken me 30 minutes to research how to make a bochs config file but since I got ChatGPT to shit out something wrong but close to correct, I only had to fill in the incorrect stuff based on common sense and google a few things.