IME, rentals had shit quality, unless you were one of the first few people to rent that movie. Still watchable, mind you, but the software for ripping back then would hang on the mildest errors.

My guess was that most of the high quality torrents back then were ripped by people who bought or stole New-in-box discs, or employees at stores that rented or sold them, an don’t forget Screeners.

I always knew I would get uploaded in the singularity. “Mostly because the normies decided its un-ethical to let me die” was not on my Bingo card though. Oh lookie, a shortcut to the Torment Nexus!!

If it had 5G, I might bother, aftter toying with it as-is to see if I could just live with it.

Otoh, the way their description reads, it wouldn’t surprise me if it also filters client traffic in hot-spot mode, which would be a bridge too far to me.

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Was the author maybe posting from another instance, or are there moderators in that community from other instances? I once had to go digging in the modlog of the instance a comment was deleted from; my own instance had zero record of it, beyond the “removed by moderator” tag on the comment in my profile.

It’s actually not that hard to figure-out which file in the torrent they give you is the one book you want, by which I mean, I don’t recall exactly how, but my dumb-ass figured it out and did it a few times.

If you didn’t know, you don’t have to download and seed every file in a given torrent. In fact, a lot of torrents seem “broken” because .nfo’s, .txt’s, Extras and/or Samples aren’t being seeded.

I mean, if you’re that-into 78-year-olds, good luck with her … but yes, I was around and active on the internet back then too.

I wasn’t speaking of the experiences of others. I have fonder memories of Compuserve, early Metasearch.com, askjeeves and even Yahoo or AoL, than google. Gmail’s “free” 15gb is what suckered me. Somewhere in the middle of it all Microsoft “partnered” with Bigfix and other scammers(which degraded first the scammers, as they no longer had to pretend or retain even a hint of some of the genuine products they had bought-out), and then Google “bought”(became) Doubleclick … and you already knew all that and the rest.

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How old are you? The older web was a crap-shoot, and every little action could nickel-and-dime you if you let it, to the point that Google at-first felt like a breath of fresh-air, and before that Yahoo, Compuserve, AOL and more were often treated as freemium refuges from the possibility of stumbling-upon something truly scammy. Long-distance calls and SMS cost money, beyond the regular phone-bill.

If anything, I regularly delve into shadier, or at least less familiar, corners of the internet today than I ever did before the advertisers blacklisted anything fun, and the porn-adverts I ignore instead are downright respectful compared to the pop-up ads that were everywhere back in the day.

… but yes, it seems every Tom, Dick and Jane with a blog has a side-hustle now, often selling the service of ordering via scary foriegn websites so you can recieve the same products drop-shipped from China as any retailer, only with a slightly-smaller markup. At least you usually have to visit their blogs to find that out, rather than them knocking your door or cold-calling to sell you the latest and greatest from Amway.

When Asahi started, the M1 chips were so good they might as well have been the only ARM-based-that-can-run-x86/x64-code-CPUs in-town. Last I checked, the M-series were still consistetly near the top of the stack of such chips, and look even better when you account for price.

Your argument works even better versus the Snapdragon X, but that’s Microsoft’s current fav, so … ?

Thanks for spelling-out the stupid for me. My brain was hung-up on the correct way to un-fuck logic I would rather not understand, for a moment. “Too stupid for words” came to mind, and the phrase just sorta … hung out, wasting time.

Preaching to the choir much? I already told you I’m not the one to convince, but no-one’s gonna want to sub a community modded/admin’ed by someone who glosses reading comprehension and gets defensive for no real reason like-so.

Congratulations, you were asked for your new community’s “Pro’s” and put yourself squarely in the “Con” column instead, but at least you can squat the community name until you upset your instance admins…

Were you trying to make a more-specalized community? Make a post to one? Somehow thought the thing to do was create the community to post to when it doesn’t already exist on your instance?

I’m genuinely asking and I joined your new one because I’m not here to dictate other’s usage-patterns, but others are going to want the same answers and more.

TF did I just read? Is that for real?

You had me until “out of office” … “from a great height” was right there!!

I’m happy with days when reality lets me pretend I’m gonna get to start, let alone complete, the thing. Perfection? What’s that?

I mean, the effort-level here is at least as gross as the normiest-of-normies finds the concept. AI?