shits wild, they really fucked it up every step of the way

its really funny to me how they unironically did that during the apology video today with the screwdriver

it’s pretty widely known that its a toxic hellscape there, i’ve typically had great interactions with users in dm’s but the chatrooms have become overrun with toxicity and fascists over the past decade, it’s absolutely not representative of the online music community which is largely left leaning, even on p2p and piracy platforms

for me the biggest hurdle was getting used to the ui, adobe is definitely the best with ease of use and layout, but so far ive found the feature set to be solid for photo editing and quick gfx work, i definitely miss camera raw and some of the non destructive editing features but gimp has gotten a lot better over the last couple years, especially on the current beta as theyre getting close to the 3.0 launch. definitely not the best choice for everyone but i think it has its niche

im skeptical with the amount of people on the original forum and github saying the cracker had bundled malware with it at some point

i used to run an older version of cc (i think it was cc2018 where u just had to swap a dll to make it think u had an infinite trial) and then recently i’ve switched to gimp and inkscape and haven’t looked back.

i’d honestly recommend foss alternatives for anyone who does gfx and photo stuff as a hobby over the adobe cc just for how much quicker and relatively stable they are

so far i’ve had good experiences with it, definitely not the most privacy focused option out there but they have a decent track record and its cheap. i think the usual advice of not putting anything super sensitive on a cloud storage service still holds, but for most things it should be fine

decided to check out of curiosity and couldn’t see the pref from the article listed in my config (im on 116.0), ~i’d imagine theres a chance it would work if manually adding that pref and setting to true but i have no idea where i could test it since i don’t use any sites that would need that pref to work.~

wonder if user agent spoofing would work, probably wouldn’t hurt to try that as well

your best bet is probably just seeing if u have any friends with an account that can rip them for you or share the login with you

hey they dont pirate shit but they sure do have a lot to say in the comments lmao

pdf drm is already really easy to defeat (there’s online file converters that can do it in seconds), i agree on the rest tho i probably wouldn’t use it personally, libgen is great for anything academic and then for the rest, slsk has a surprising amount of books floating around

been using nicotine+ and it’s been pretty light on resources for me, on windows with ~2.8tb of shared files i’ve never seen it use more than 1% cpu or 200-300mb ram on my system. I feel you on the 1st point tho, I’m running mine off a laptop that I use for school work etc. and my shares are stored on a external hdd, so it’s impossible to have it running 24/7 even though I’d love to be able to do that. I think a nas is probably the best solution for big collections and thats what most of the slsk users with several tb of files use, but it can definitely be a decent investment of time and money

After reading up on this some more it seems like he has plans in place to have his brother maintain the service if he can’t anymore, and even if he didn’t, the service should run until his aws subscription ends. Seems like not too big of an issue even for those who don’t use a client.