I don’t think that’s how most pirates, myself included, see it. It’s not about “needing” to see the mandalorian, it’s simply about wanting to see it, but if the only way to see it “legally” is to make a monthly subscription for a service that offers me no other value, offered by a company I don’t want to support, I’m not doing that. And the thing is that it doesn’t have to be this way - I happily paid for Netflix for years, before content started being fragmented. As a wise man once put it, piracy is a service problem, not a price problem.

Same with Youtube - it’s not the ads, it’s the endless amount, the annoying implementations, and non-creator-friendly practices. They’re not doing ads in order to keep the servers running - they simply need to find new ways to squeeze every cent of profit quarter after quarter, and I’m not playing that game.

This only applies to big corps though - if you pirate indie content and don’t even make a donation to the artist, you’re an ass.

Also no ROCm support afaik, so it’s running completely on CPU

You know how Americans think Chinese and Russian services are bad because of their government’s use of user data?

It’s the same for us non-americans with American platforms. All the “anti-terror” laws have made them a privacy nightmare

Efficient propaganda is not democracy

Is HWID not the go-to activation method? I’m a bit out of the loop

Does the UK “claim” Canada because of their relationship to the crown?

Lots of good answers already in this thread, so just pitching a couple of “not what you asked for but maybe interesting” thoughts: Have you tried CFL lightbulbs? Those don’t flicker and should be available in a wide range of temperatures. Regarding the headaches, imho it’s more likely to do with blue light/color temperature than flickering, unless it’s severe enough you can notice it even if just barely. In that case, maybe look into glasses with blue light filters, helped me a lot with screens and indoor lighting

Can’t you hide bot accounts from your settings?

Uhh… what? Not saying that those things aren’t real today, but are you sure they were the cause of the fall of Rome? lmao

You might be interested in CyclOSM to plan your routes

I would say a rock is a better approximation than an aircraft lmao

A computer that is used by a user, aka “not a server”