That was so funny I forgot to laugh.

Seriously, I do not have faith in USD anymore. What’s left of my paycheck after bills all goes to BTC, and I sell what I need on demand to cover day to day costs. Been doing this since 2019 and it has paid off handsomely.

My portfolio disagrees.

Y’all should have bought BTC when the price was hovering around $19K about 3 years ago. I told you the price was going to go up, but no one listened. Now it’s at $105K, I’m $60k richer, and y’all are still whining and complaining that it’s a “scam”.

Hate to break it to you, but bitcoin isn’t to crash and burn anytime soon. It’s still early; buy in now or regret it for the rest of your life.

Yes except simpler because you don’t have to build a library of content. The plug-ins do it for you.

A Debrid service downloads torrents and uploads them to various file hosting websites, allowing you to directly download any active torrent at speeds up to 1Gbps. If the torrent you want isn’t in their database (because it’s less popular), then it behaves like a torrent client, except since it’s running on a server you can shut down your PC and go about your day as it downloads in the background. Most torrents with at least a half dozen seeds are usually immediately available for direct download.

It doesn’t really protect your privacy, per se, but it gets your ISP off your back because in most jurisdictions they don’t care how much you download illegally, so long as you’re not distributing the files, like you would with a torrent client. (Sharing pirated files is how they get you.)

The bad news is that these services also hit and run, so by using one you’re not helping the health of the torrent. I wish they didn’t do that, but I’m so used to having any file I want delivered quickly that I’m willing to sell part of my soul to have the convenience.

Stremio is basically Netflix for torrents. Its interface is similar to the popular steaming apps.

Upon initial install it just looks like another paid steaming app with prices on all the content; the secret is to install plug-ins that allow you to steam torrents (Torrentio). Pair it with a Debrid service (like Real-Debrid) and you don’t even have to wait for seeds. The show/movie starts playing instantly, just like the paid streaming apps. Like a Library of Babel for media, except it’s real.

And the nice part about having a Debrid service is that it works any torrent, not just TV/movies. I have gigabit internet, so I can download literally any game I want in under an hour, even 100+ GB AAA titles.

That’s why I’m here! :D

The developer of my favorite reddit app (dBrady, Relay for Reddit) decided to play along with Spez’s game and start charging for usage.

So I fucked off, and after testing every Lemmy app I could find, I settled on Voyager. It’s not optimized for foldables like Relay—and it’s swipe gestures aren’t as intuitive—but it’s close and still better than paying to use reddit.

Fuck reddit, and fuck Spez

Wouldn’t it be easier to just buy a TV or stick running stock Android? (Or GoogleTV, which is literally just stock Android with a launcher designed for TVs.)

That’s what I did, and I have no issues side-loading any app I want. If it’s got an APK, it can be installed.

Fuck yeah, Stremio is the best. Everything is there. No smart TV owner should go without.

Protip: Install the Trakt.tv plugin to get viewing recommendations based on your viewing habits, and then you can cancel Prime Video. (And all other streaming platforms too.)

I was really getting into that article, and then it just just suddenly ends. How anticlimactic. I was hoping the article writer was a bit more dedicated towards finding out why Google posted his personal number in the first place…

You can say that about literally any consumer product, however.

Kevin Rose is in charge again? I thought he sold Digg after the massive failure that was v4 back in 2010.

Either way, I’m glad to see that digg is coming back. Reddit needs more competition. I’m hopeful that they will succeed this time around and steal back the user base that migrated to reddit and helped make them become the evil giant they are today (I am one such migrant).

This is why I disabled notifications for all of my work-related apps.

LMAO

Aww that’s disappointing, but I’m not surprised. Otherwise we’d be using this tech to help colorblind people tell the difference between red and green.

Maybe it’s just my ADHD, but the article doesn’t seem to be clear on something: do these contacts actually allow you to see into near-infrared as it exists, or do they merely shift the light into a spectrum we can see, the way cameras do? I’m hoping for the former, but I doubt we have the tech to allow us to see new colors simply by putting on a pair of contacts.

(Also, the mental image of scientists putting tiny little contact lenses on mice is hilarious to me.)

So don’t stare directly at them, then?

Infrared lights don’t need a lot of wattage to do their job. They wouldn’t be any more obnoxious than a light bulb.

Yes CamelCamelCamel is still useful. I check it every time before a major purchase.

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