Just speed. Share an article to pocket and its saved…

I used to enjoy Lostprophets

Yeah that’s the best for me. I use about 600GB.

500GB plans aren’t enough and 1TB plans are too much. Paying what you use is so good.

Depends what you want to do but Backblaze B2 is reasonably cheap. $6 per TB

If you’re in the UK Cinema Paridiso is a good service, similar to how lovefilm was back in the day.

I built it up over months.

The simplest setup though I copied from Spaceinvador One on YouTube.

Yeah I run Plex with the Arr dockers.

I use an app on my phone and it’s all just done for you.

Someone recommends a show or movie? Open app, search for show and add it.

In the background the setup will automatically search the download providers you’ve setup (Usenet or torrents), filter them for the quality profile, download the files and place them in the correct folder ready to stream on Plex.

It’s so seamless once working.

I don’t disagree but it was hard enough getting my dad and grandma to work plex. I’m not changing now.

Plex is working really well for me at the moment.

Cancelled all subscriptions apart from Usenet and VPN.

Now I just pirate it all and bang it on Plex. All in one place on all devices, easy peasy

Gas ain’t cheap here. I bath once or twice a week, but i’ll have a quick shower once a day (unless I bathe)

What are you subbed to on matrix? Seen it mentioned but never had a need to sign up.

Same here. I just don’t give a fuck. I do whatever is the least friction to me, a lot of times pirating is the best option.

• Music, can’t easily play it everywhere I want with spotify or youtube music? Pirate
• Movies, scattered allover with different pricing models? Pirate
• Film comes out and want to watch with friends? Go to the movie theatre.
• TV on the BBC I can easily watch, just watch there (pay TV licence).
• TV that comes to the UK later than the US? Pirate
• Game is a good price on steam, buy.
• Game is time locked to the premium edition buyers (Starfield), Pirate.
• Obscure premium podcast, buy because it’s not elsewhere and has an RSS feed. (Plus I don’t mind supporting some creators)

Basically, I have plenty of spare cash and will pirate or buy depending on whatever works for me, not what works for them.

Most common lies I tell are usually just to stop people focussing on a certain part of a story or anecdote. They’re technically lies but aren’t relevant.

Lets say i’m talking about my weekend to a friend or colleauge. I mention that on friday night in a certain bar or location something happened. Well if I know that person is going to pick up on the location eg: “Why were you there”.

I don’t really care they know I just cba with my story being picked apart for something that’s not really that relevant, I was just setting the scene.

Same deal here.

Can keep my WiFi up and running for hours in a power outage, even when cell signal has dropped out. Server on a separate UPS shuts down at about 40%.

Yeah I have a single £4 a month Usenet subscription.

With the radarr and sonarr setup. Pirating is easier

Subscriptions. Why is everything a sub now?

I understand the need for some subscriptions and their benefits when there is ongoing content added to a platform.

However i’m not paying a subscription for software I could just buy and own forever, i’m not paying a £6.99 subscription to get some shitty cloud features in an app that is costing several cents a month to host. I get hundreds of gigabytes a month for less than that with Backblaze.

I’m not paying a subscription to read every second news website. I’m not paying a sub to access remote features of my car. I’m not paying a subscription to remove ads in an app, just let me pay once.

Yeah it’s great apart from you can’t use 2 factor hardware backed keys like yubi on it. That library is stripped out. That’s why I had to move back to FF Beta on android.

Yes. As someone from the UK where near enough everyone I know knows how to drive a manual. If you learnt auto only you’d get absolutely hammered by your mates. However this will probably start to change now hybrid/electrics are mostly auto or single gear

I was recommended Oregano Concentrate (a natural anti-viral / bacterial) which really helped reduce the respiratory side of the sickness completely.

What’s that? I.e a juice based on the herb? Not heard of it before.

Paxlovid

In the UK I bet it’s hard to get this unless you’re in a high risk group with severe symptoms. I am up to date on all my jabs though.