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I found out the hard way that they're very aggressive when it comes to unlicensed use. If your machine has a wireless card they'll even use that to triangulate your location.

To be honest, I don't know how much I trust younger people either with all the plastic in our brains.

Fiat currency like the US dollar is just as intrinsically worthless. It has value only because people accept that it does, they trade with it, and it has legal status as tender "for all debts, public and private".

People trade bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies for goods all the time, without converting it to USD or anything first. I mean, yeah, usually the thing they're buying is drugs or something but it's the same as handing your local dealer a $20 bill.

Torrenting can be faster than normal downloads. A file server with a fast connection that's not overloaded can easily be faster than a P2P download that doesn't have very many peers, or the peers all have slow connections. There's no fixed percentage speed boost that you get, because sometimes you don't.

That said, for things like Linux ISOs or archives of stuff that people just keep seeding forever but aren't hosted on fast file servers (if at all), it's great and typically the bottleneck is your own connection.

I recently went to Sonic, didn't use the app, and ended up with norovirus for free.

There's a place my town that also accepts DoorDash orders and only takes cash inside, but it's a taqueria. I haven't asked why, but the food is pretty good.

They say welding fumes can cause neurological damage...

While I don't have much experience with Plex, I can say that it's really not hard to set up Jellyfin for streaming across the internet.

I'm running a docker container using the linuxserver.io image and all I had to do was forward the HTTP/S ports. I will grant that when a third party has to make an easy-to-use container for a service, there's a problem to address... but if I remember correctly, Jellyfin is easier to set up on bare metal where it can use uPnP.

Jellyfin Is completely open source, fully self-hosted, and free. With Plex the software still has to phone home to a central server for authentication and some features are locked behind a paywall.

No streaming software is going to find movies for you (without paying for content they've licensed) because that would be a sure fire way to get the project taken down for copyright violation.

Well it already got cold, hence the sticking together in the first place. All they need to do is get it hot again.

I saw a couple of later episodes at a friend's house while ago, but otherwise yeah. It's been fun so far! My partner is watching it with me and can point out references and other things while we watch together because they've seen a lot of the older shows.

Does watching episodes 5-7 (S1) of Lower Decks count?