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pudcollar [he/him] @ pudcollar @hexbear.net
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What is a freeway/expressway/motorway/highway in your local area that you consider more pleasant to drive on compared to other roads in the area?

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  • Interstate 97 in Maryland, from Annapolis to Baltimore. It's almost always running smoothly with a 65mph speed limit. It's just a no-bullshit fast straight run every day. Scenery is ass but that's Maryland.

    • Question to the ones that fully left Reddit

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  • In many ways I was addicted to Reddit. I spent a lot of time on there. I needed an excuse to go cold turkey. I will go occasionally for specific information, but I've completely moved my idle doomscrolling to lemmy instances. There's less content so it takes less time, which is good in a way.

    • For those who pirate songs, how do you discover new music?

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  • I pay a little to pirate. Basically I've figured out how to download a large percentage of lossless songs from playlists I find anywhere. I scrape playlists of radio stations i like. I import those CSVs into Soundiiz, which costs $4/mo. Youtube mixes I like, in they go the same way, imoporting tracklists. Using Soundiiz, I import those lists into qobuz and deezer, which I use to pull down lossless FLACs using deemix and qobuz-dl in linux. Qobuz and Deezer and other streaming services have curated playlists by staff and subscribers, I just download the whole lists. I replaced lists of my mp3s like youtube rips, with FLACs, the same way. Qobuz and Deezer have free trial memberships but TBH after the sheer amount I've pulled down from them, it's worth it to me. I've had to buy new hard drives because of this.

    • I stand with Israel only if you give me 1 billion dollars.

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    • What is the most secure linux os for torrenting and such?

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  • You don't need Linux to torrent. The VPN is so your ISP doesn't send you love letters. That's the useful thing. Once you have a VPN, there's no reason to be paranoid about conventional piracy behavior.

    If you're paranoid anyway, it's more than just your choice of distro. OpenBSD is kinda made for paranoia, but you still have to think about who you're hiding from, how much is at risk if you get caught, how much time and money it's worth investing to protect yourself, what threats you're up against etc. Like, are you more afraid of downloading malware or being caught breaking the law?

    If you just want some movies and music, get a vpn and go nuts. If you have no vpn, you can avoid being noticed by not sharing stuff that's popular when it's popular, like blockbuster movies.

    Tails is a USB bootable linux distro folks use to buy drugs, FYI. Tor is helpful for staying anonymous from some companies and governments. I2P may be more private than Tor. Like, if you're afraid your government will put you in jail for political beliefs, then you start looking at in-depth OPSEC.

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  • The one-button interface for devices. I feel like I'm keying in an old-timey marconi telegraph, sending across the Morse code for "power off".