It’s/its is also common mistake with non-native speakers.

The really obvious one is using of instead of instead of have. Would of. Should of. Could of. From would’ve, should’ve, could’ve. Non-native speakers will rarely if ever make that mistake.

Will do.

Very annoying.

And they take up almost no space, so that makes it even more annoying. I make sure to keep seeding as much as possible.

I think I have that among my torrents. 33 seeders.

Maybe you’re still seeding a torrent that’s no longer as popular.

Disc rot is also a thing.

I find it’s best to accept entropy, that you’re going to die, that everything ends, that you will lose data, that there will be a last time you watch a movie or show, and keep running those ssd/hdds even when they’re in the yellow/red warning zone.

Years back I was sorting through ten years of emails. I got so sick of it, I simply deleted everything. You know what? No drawbacks even ten years later. Such a huge relief.

Reminds me of the artist Michael Landy who chucked everything he owned - pictures, clothes, artwork, his passport - into a shredder. Performance art, reaction against consumerism. He was understandably miserable doing it, but what a relief that must have been. To be free of all the crap. It is true that the things you own often end up owning you.

My grandparents hoarded all their lives, and after they died much of what they owned ended up in a skip, because there wasn’t enough time or interest to sell it. The supposedly priceless porcelain? Chucked. All the records? Sold. Furniture? Goodwill. The huge supply of sunlight soap? Really useful actually.

Curate, is my advice.

I occasionally go through and cull the worst shows and movies. No point keeping mainstream crap that’s readily available on all the streaming sites.

How often do you see your mother?

Poorly designed button. Wrong colour and too much information. Green and “Download Here” would have been better.

Sure, but that doesn’t mean I don’t want GTA6 to be fun if I can pirate it.

I wonder if GTA 6 will be any good.

Previous entries still had an edge, but I worry that GTA online has ruined them. I assume most of the people who created the previous games are all gone too.

Keep seeding the rare shit please.

I know people go on about ratios and yadayada, but the popular stuff will always have seeders, seeding popular stuff is just helping people download quicker.

Seeding the rare shit means that torrent continues to exist.

So much stuff has been lost forever and a large part of that is torrents no longer having seeders.

What do you think all those dual cassette decks were for?

So you could make friends a copy or copy friends’ music.

Perfectly acceptable at the time. Only an issue if you were selling them, but even then not a huge issue.

IRC the Netherlands and Belgium it’s also not a crime, you won’t be pursued by the authorities.

However, that doesn’t stop rights-holders from suing you for damages.

In any case, if you’re using a VPN and privacy conscious you should be fine.

This being said, I really should switch to linux.

rutracker dot org

So you’re saying I should steal content by downloading it illegally from rutracker.org?Thanks for the tip. I’ll be sure to download loads of content illegally, then seed it in perpetuity, so that others can also steal it and infringe copyright on a mass scale.

Just kidding, I will be sure to only download public domain content and open source software.

In all seriousness, is rutracker something I should visit with my browser in a sandbox, or is ublock and privacy badger enough?

Punishments for drivers are almost universally lenient, unfortunately.

Bit of a tangent, don’t know what happened here, but risk taking behaviour is often associated with suicidality.

I’m not alone in thinking that a lot of suicidal behaviour, conscious or unconscious, flies under the radar because it happens in traffic.

It’s weird how if someone’s suffering mental health issues, we wouldn’t leave them alone with a knife or enough medication to overdose on, but will leave them a set of car keys.

Really hope fully self-driving cars will come on the market soon.

Winter tyre maximum is often lower. 100mph/160kmh is common.

I regularly reach speeds of 240kmh/150mph on the Autobahn. Bog standard VW. TBH it’s boring.

For those wondering, yes it can save time.

For example, if you maintain a high average speed driving from Brussels to Berlin, roughly 750km, you can make it under 6 hours. Add a short lunch break and that means you’re able to leave Brussels in the morning and arrive in Berlin before the rush hour begins. Perhaps still do something in Berlin after you’ve arrived.

If you maintain 80mph/130kmh, in theory it’d take 6-7 hours, but you’re far more likely to get stuck in rush hour traffic. That means you potentially end up DOUBLING journey time. At which point you arrive in the dark and too tired to go to an interview or whatever. Day after sucks too.

So driving fast makes the car a viable alternative to a plane or the ever unreliable Deutsche Bahn. And if you’re not alone in the car, it’s far more environmentally friendly than the plane, even if you’re driving fast.

This is all theoretical. IME nowadays Germany’s Autobahn is 50% road works.

Actually why can any car go that fast?

German car, Autobahn. But most modern cars can go similarly fast. Petrol/gas usually faster than comparable diesel.

The high top speed is a by-product of the amount of power cars now have, power they need to accelerate from 0-60 fast enough for modern traffic, get up a hill, tow a caravan or whatever, and to comfortably and safely maintain motorway speeds.

Cars which can’t reach higher speeds are really slow to accelerate and aren’t comfortable, reliable, or safe at motorway speeds.

Eg. depending on the model a Lada Niva will have a top speed of only 120kph/75mph, but you really wouldn’t want to drive over 100kmh/60mph for extended periods. It’s not reliable, comfortable, safe, and I suspect it isn’t efficient either.

Now obviously, you could limit the top speed but that’s a matter of regulation, and relatively easy to bypass.

Luckily this will soon largely be a thing of the past, electric cars are different. AFAIK you can achieve acceptable levels of acceleration with lower top speeds.

Are you me? LOL.

Yeah, you become a complete snob. On the other hand, once you’ve watched enough, perhaps read a few books or watched a few documentaries, you recognise references and techniques much more, and that becomes enjoyable in its own way.

It’s a bit like kids watching classic The Simpsons and enjoying it without getting the references, compared to old people watching classic Simpsons because they get or vaguely recognise most of if not all of the references.

And I find you start to enjoy movies which are different, even if they are a bit shit, because they manage to do certain things in different ways and still surprise you.