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The_Grinch , to asklemmy in What is a hobby you enjoy, but seems too quirky or obscure to bring up in most conversations?

If this is what exercising your intellect looks like I guess you need it.

The_Grinch , to asklemmy in What is a hobby you enjoy, but seems too quirky or obscure to bring up in most conversations?

Similar to another reply about shorthand, I practice with my own steno-typing keyboard I 3D printed as a hobby. I’m steno-typing this very message! (Very slowly)

The_Grinch , to asklemmy in What is a hobby you enjoy, but seems too quirky or obscure to bring up in most conversations?

Yes, good, we’re all very impressed that you know that word. They literally are pigeonholing you… and what’s your point?

The_Grinch , to technology in The era of cheap streaming is officially over

And what precisely is the moral issue with stealing? Depriving someone of their personal property, which piracy is not.

The_Grinch , to technology in The era of cheap streaming is officially over

It certainly feels like we’re on the precipice of something breaking what with computers rapidly getting more locked down, these secure enclaves and/or TPM chips verifying that you’re watching on an approved OS and web browser before allowing you to stream, and then the video is encrypted until it gets to your actual TV. Crazy what they’re getting away with.

In the near future I foresee pirates pointing cameras at TV screens then using AI to clean up the video, then media companies responding by creating randomized slightly different versions of videos so they can trace them back to the account holder who shared it (move some tree branches around, slightly different colored hat on background actors, etc) and perhaps getting legislation passed to stop cameras from being allowed to record IP protected material, and so on.

The_Grinch , to technology in The era of cheap streaming is officially over

They want >$100 a month to come out with maybe one movie and maybe two TV shows worth watching each year? No thanks, piracy for me has become more of a means to assuage my fear of missing out and keeping in touch with the cultural moment than actual enjoyment of the media they’re putting out right now.

I do not believe the quality would go down if their budgets were cut significantly.

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