Yes, but also cynically.

Only part of it. Everyone that forces you into a corner with nowhere else to go. Endure unfair rent, endure shitty jobs with shitty pay. Boomers and part of my generation were the last (here at least, can't judge other countries) where appartments searched for tenants and jobs searched for people. We managed to turn it around. If you now place an ad for a job or an apt, you're drowning in applications in mere minutes. Literally. No matter how shitty either of which is. Housing-market especially. It's like dating for ugly and poor men. Probably even worse.

That's the dream of landlords and employers. And mass-immigration made it possible. e.G. my home-city went from 350.000 people to >600.000 in just a generation. Nearly same amount of apts and jobs. It shows :-)

Also, guess what. I can be part of the problem and still dislike it, even though i highly profit from it. I didn't make the rules.

Still more "art" to it than most of modern "art" 😁

He's right. You're righter

I'm not a mad genx. I skipped mp3 and directly ripped my cds to flacs. Still have all my flac from 20-something-years ago. I also skipped silly streaming. I grew a massive library and use MediaMonkey. No need for stupid spotify.

Tape was superior in theory, but i hated the noise, no matter how great your equipment was.

In short: i welcomed every change, despite the last one. Instead of better quality we got lousy streaming (except tidal).

Didn't know Mexico was as backwards as the US :( I guess my view of Mexico was too romantic and to be scratched off my bucket-list. I'm sorry man :(

i’ve had the joy of experiencing my life partner deported

him?

oh okay. then i just mis-interpreted. Sorry.

Depends... We're all interconnected on some level. But i don't care anymore.

Dude, for that sum you could pay people pirating and servicing it for you 😁

Silly argument, as i pay for internet too. Also 5 bucks are not even a fucking coffee. For that i get what i dreamt of when i was selling pirate-cds for hundreds of bucks.

Dude, there is the golden age I've waited 20yrs for.

Check sonarr/radarr/prowlarr/lidarr etc. A lil work, some mere bucks a month for extra comfyness and you're set. Never worry again.

Not in for the discussion, but to add info:

You could use e.g. KeepassXC or "steam desktop authenticator" to avoid their aweful app.

You make it sound bad. If a game doesn't entertain me or does annoy me, i move on. Back then there was no "on". Not many games around, might as well stick with what you have.

I'm truly sorry to hear that random Internet stranger. Why don't you follow him if i might ask?

I don't

I'd take MS 10x in the butt over Crapple taking over the desktop-market completely. You know what no-competition means for us, yes? And no, Linux is NOT an alternative for everything for everyone. And there probably never will be a linux-desktop-for-the-masses coming right into your supermarket/pc-store.

And i didn't say they're better than torrents, as they can do both. It's just the easier overall wrapping than using the regular torrenting-way we did since torrents first came up. It makes me even able to actually use torrents (if i wanted to).

And yes, of course usenet is faster than torrent. Sure you might have a fresh torrent with tons of high-speed-seeders that downloads at fullspeed. But if that one is a year old you're often outta luck. If it's 10 years old you're most likely outta luck. Never the case with usenet. Always, everything from the last 12yrs at absolute maximum speed your line (and the provider) allows.

"Free" is relative. If you're using public trackers, then yes. Private trackers either require to share a lot (ugh, no thanks and also highly illegal here, hence i would need a vpn) or donate. I pay 5 bucks a month for usenet and 25 or so a year for indexers (plural). That's one delivered (and shitty) pizza here.

Of course they aren't. As netflix wouldn't be enough too, you need internet, a device, an OS and an app. Wouldn't mention those when talking about netflix too. So yes. Of course you'd need a downloader and probably an indexer too. And a firewall, vpn and whatever else you can think of, and a media-server, and an app, and a device and OS. Oh and a browser to input your search into. Probably a keyboard too :-)

But *narrs are those that take your input, query indexers, do the background-work, put results into your downloader(s) of choice and into your media-server of choice. They're the crucial part here. Like the netflix-app for watching netflix-content. Everything else is your personal flavour.