Moghul @ Moghul @lemmy.world

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Uh... Just buy an off the shelf model. Keychron and Leopold make good keyboards for example. I'm sure others will post other recommendations, but what's your budget, which continent do you need it shipped to? Maybe you have local tech shops that sell computer peripherals.

I might be old but I'd just take the 2 on the right, and save the third slot for socks

Like I said, it's an unpopular opinion. There's a massive amount of copium around piracy. If you read the other reply to my comment you'll also see that people are totally ok with adversely affecting people they don't like:

I won’t shed a tear for the entertainment industry

And then they justify it with accessibility. But if this media is not accessible to you, then the morally right thing to do is not to access it.

if they make it harder to watch content than it is to pirate there just isn’t any point paying

And then they justify the high price, or the poor value proposition. Then don't buy it if you can't or don't want to, but don't pretend pirating it is good

I don’t really consume enough content to justify having even one streaming service though

Then sometimes people give examples of when they don't pirate. Because the truth is that they know it's not right, and they want you to see that they're not all bad, right?

I pay for spotify because its convenient and I pay to go the movies because it offers an unique experience.

As an aside to this, education is something else in my mind. Information, science, education, etc. should be tax funded and freely available to everyone. Access to a specific piece of media isn't crucial to the average Joe, but a specific piece of information can be crucial to literally everyone.

Edit: Academic books is something that I pirate even if it’s time consuming and inconvenient, because fuck them for swapping two chapters every 2 years to sell more books.

Most expensive thing I bought was wagyu that I seared and ate with a side of parmesan steak fries with rosemary and a glass of red wine. It was well worth it, but if you're expecting a steak, that's not what it is. It's somewhere between butter and meat, and almost like a separate type of food all by itself. The fat isn't greasy or stringy, the flavor is strong, sear it medium rare with just salt, no oil.

Most expensive food I've had was a fancy company dinner at a french style restaurant. Half the food I wasn't really sure what it was exactly but even simple things like the eggs were cooked perfectly. The final dish was tenderloin and it was cooked perfectly medium rare. 10/10 dinner and well worth it, but I'm glad I didn't have to foot the bill

Like I said, you can have your reasons, but that doesn't justify it. Just because the entertainment industry has bad people doesn't mean it's right to pirate. Just do it, but be honest that you're doing something bad, and be fine with doing something bad

If you're gonna do it, do it, but don't pretend like you're morally right in doing it. For the vast majority of us, we're pirating something we don't need but something we want. Is it hard to acquire? Does it come tied to annoying subscriptions? Does it come from a company you don't like? Is it too expensive? None of these are valid reasons to pirate something because you could just as well enjoy other media that are available to you. Or if you are out of accessible media to you, you could just not enjoy media. Be bored. You're not entitled to access to the things you're pirating.

Don't get me wrong, I understand you, and I empathize. I pirate too, when something I want falls under the conditions I listed above, but I'm under no illusion that it's ethical in some way. There's no ethical consumption under capitalism? Well there's no ethical piracy either. People put work into something and if you use it, you should pay what they ask for it.

I know this is an unpopular opinion, because no one wants to be the bad guy. Pirate if you want to pirate, your reasons are yours, but be honest about it. You pirated something because you wanted it, and you didn't want to not get it, and you didn't want to pay the entry price either. It is what it is.

How about the diners becoming food themselves? What if they suddenly find they've been chewing on the wrong haunch?

Curses like eternal hunger and eternal thirst would ruin people's lives, same for everything tasting like one thing (disgusting or otherwise). Undead food would be quite gruesome if it were to wake up after being eaten. Even right before, or during.

WHAT?

Jokes aside, just over 50% system volume in general with apps and headphones maxed out. My hearing is so/so. I wish it were below 50 but it's just too quiet like that

I'm a web developer, so... Not me, but there are people who manage important web portals, for healthcare and security stuff.

Easily the best use of this meme I've seen

Sometimes when I update my nvidia drivers on kubuntu, my monitors go fully black, and I have to reboot. Sometimes, after that, it refuses to load at all, and I have to enter safe mode, enable networking, open a root terminal, run the holy arcane incantations, sacrifice a few years of lifespan to the gods, reboot once more, and if my arcane incantations were correct, the gods bless me with a few more months of working PC

Mirabella plums. Like little miniature plums, they can be quite sweet

No, this spambot knows what it's doing

I love painting miniatures. I like to find or create a vibe in the sculpt and follow that to the best of my abilities. I'm a software developer so I already expend a lot of creativity in at work but there's a degree of freedom in it that I miss otherwise. I just like making stuff.

a swollen battery on one

That is a ticking bomb. Fix it or get rid of it, because it can burn your house down and take you with it.

Hey, do you happen to know any scale modeling communities on lemmy? I joined a few already, but maybe you have some more

May be, idk

If you buy an electric car, his money and influence can affect where and how fast you can charge your car. Technology Connections has a video on electric car chargers that touches on this.

If you study the stars, or even if you're outside looking at the sky, you might see Starlink satellites above you.

If you're in a country that relied on twitter for public reach, you might not be able to read your government's message because you have to log in to read it. I think the Dutch had an issue with that recently.

If you have friends and family, coworkers, local leaders, government employees who use twitter (or you use it yourself), the way the site promotes information will influence their decision making, values, opinions, etc.

For some of these, you might argue that you don't live in this country or another, but countries influence each other. Weed is illegal in India because they needed to make friends with USA for example. Don't get me wrong, I don't follow everything everyone rich does in case they might do something I don't like, I'm just answering your question. I don't have a good opinion of him, and for the most part I'm indifferent to what he does, but he can and does influence our lives.

A double-patty cheeseburger from Gasoline grill. Their fries were bad tho.