I 100% agree. However, this statement is a very large blanket statement. I see it repeated all over the place. It's great to pirate from greedy megacorps. I do it. It's great. But it's not a great statement to repeat ad nauseam because it doesn't apply to
small creators
literally anything that's not a "pay once license" (including leasing, renting, etc)
If this sentiment gets too popular it will also discourage people from paying for unrevokable copies of content like from GOG or directly from a creator (patreon, etc). It's more like "if buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't theft (sometimes)"
The people who argue against piracy of megacorporations' content will bring up these points every time because this phrase makes no sense from their perspective. It prevents actual discussion from taking place. It's not productive to our cause to use something so ambiguous and inflammatory as a catch phrase.
Yeah, I am just confused on the logic. Like what is the relation between us not owning it (which is bad) and piracy not being theft? I wholeheartedly agree that pirating things is okay if a license gets revoked, and it is 100% okay to pirate something you bought even if you still have the license and it hasn't been revoked. It's yours. You paid money for it. But from my understanding, this statement doesn't just cover people who bought it, but everyone, regardless of if they bought it.
I agree with the sentiment, but what exactly is the explanation for this? If you're allowed to lease or rent or purchase a license, isn't stealing that thing for free still theft?
Chill with the downvotes - I'm not disagreeing. I'm just trying to understand where the line is.
There's nothing perfect. I use Kagi which uses many other indexes including Google, but with a focus on "small web" results and no ads or mandatory AI nonsense.
...but it costs money.
Well worth it in my opinion. My results have been better than Google for me, and I've been using it for like a year now. Highly recommend.
I've used both of those mods and they're great. These days I use a pre-built modpack like "fabulously optimized" to update and include all the mods for me. (there are tons of similar packs like this). Those can still play on vanilla servers.
Avoid the "steam deck" modpacks, as many of them are abandoned or straight up don't run at all. Stick to the very popular, well-tested packs if you do use a modpack at all. Even if they aren't branded with some sort of "works on steam deck" note. They will probably still work.
And of course, +1 for prism. It's the only recommendable option for steam deck or standard PC play these days.
He got mad at me and much of his community over concerns about decisions he was making for "block game". We stated our concerns kindly and politely, and he got mad and deleted an entire discord channel because we didn't agree with him and made good points that he couldn't refute. I lost all respect for him after that.
I was rocking an S22 for a while too and almost bought one of these. I have up on the S22 because of a few restrictions related to android versions.
Now I'm using the razr 2024 and LET ME TELL YOU. It's so good. It's a vertical flip phone but it has a square screen on the exterior. Now let me tell you my secret. I never open the phone. I never need to. Almost. But it makes the phone a mega-compact. It's not perfect but it's the closest thing to a "small smartphone" that I've been able to achieve and better for me than something like the S22. I highly recommend trying it out. It's also very cheap.
Don't get the fancy version, just the standard razr 2024.
The people concerned this much with privacy are certainly less than 2%. They're already in a niche market for the purpose of privacy. Not that much of a leap to support Linux (which by the way is likely higher than 2% of their user base.)
Because it's all built in. Proton password manager can create a new login for a site. In the same process it also generates a password, creates a new email with a domain that can't be linked back to me, with no setup on my end. Technically I can set up bitwarden to do that but it's a lot of configuration and it will end up using my domain for every email which, even if it can't be linked back to me, all of my email addresses can be linked to each other by merit of using the same domain.
Until there is a major competitor to Proton that solves all of that, there is no alternative.
Nobody was hurt (including the penguin) and the pilot was advised to take further training. Sounds like the best possible ending.