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I think the profit motive isn't the best at producing good quality artistic content; and I think people would still produce it without such a motive.

Mind you on paper I wouldn't even be against paying for a good movie, for example. But I want a .mp4 in x265, with subs, that I can store on my NAS and read with whatever open source software I want to use. None of the legal platforms offer that - piracy literally offers a better service, universally

Same goes for video games: I want a native binary that I can install, that does not phone home at all, and does not have DRM or require a launcher. Only a minute minority of games, even on gog, match those

this would result in shit movies being produced that no one likes

I think that has already happened to be honest

Same. Up to and including putting himself prominently between the keyboard and the screen if I ignore him, and lying down on the keyboard

Well, my friend, he's kinda poor he can't afford some books and some streaming services, so he pirates.

Good on your friend. Poor or not, you should too.

Do you pirate?

Yes

And do you justify pirating? i.e., what is your piracy philosophy?

Justify it ? you seem to suggest it's wrong or something

They're everywhere when you work in tech

I don't think it's actually the biggest, Hellfest probably has it beat but yeah, not by much

This especially sucks because, credit where credit is due, the existence of unity and their efforts to maintain a linux port did help gaming on linux quite a bit (less so than Valve's dxvk / proton efforts of course; and both far less so than the thousands of volunteers - I submitted a few patches myself - that contributed to wine for three decades, finally bringing us there)

Looking at the upside at least this should ultimately make Godot / Ogre / other free software projects more prevalent

It's that time of the year again, heading for the Fete de l'Huma in tonight

Great beer, awesome food including many vegan options, information and music stands from almost every union and leftist org in France and abroad (including the CPC lmao), and great music. Never fails to give me hope

Tonight I'm especially happy to go try a band that I missed in another festival previously; they're comrades, feminists, and have an awesome name: Les Vulves Assassines (The Murderous Vulvas)

🎵 Meatwad makes the money see

Meatwad defends his trans homies

Drivin' in my car, livin' like a star

Ice on my fingers and I'm shooting all the TERFs 🎵

OK but if you search for "food", for example, non-local comms are clearly shown as such (for example as "lemm.ee/foodforthought"). Should be the case even in the initial dropdown before searching

Down, down, down, by the river

You're right, it's weird. There's also three occurrences of the "memes" comm in that dropdown