• 👁️👄👁️@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I swear shit like this is why Lemmy is so incredibly out of touch with the real world. I can’t take the community seriously anymore.

    • itsraining@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      So my home media center is not real world enough? I only expressed an opinion; you are free to ignore it. Also, there is nothing that keeps you here. Please kindly keep in mind that most Lemmy users right now are interested in technology, you can’t take that away from them and there is nothing wrong with it. If you want to stay away from “shit like this”, then, with all respect, you probably should not be in a technology sub in the first place.

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        1 year ago

        I think the difference is folks confuse the general public with the general lemmy user. And I can’t tell if the fediverse and lemmy are supposed to be attempting to be a front page for general folks or lemmy early adopter folks.

    • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      Because something is not popular and not available in typical electronic store doesn’t mean it’s not real.

      I know having a private life may seem unreal in recent ~10 years, but it surely can be done without giving up modern life. All it takes is a little time for research and saying “no” sometimes. The hardest part are always areas where more people like that are needed to say “no”.

    • CeeBee@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      People have been using old computers as media centres for decades at this point. Not sure what you’re on about.

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          1 year ago

          Legally would be DVDs, Blurays, and DRM-free sources.

          I’ve torrented movies I have physical copies of before. It’s faster than ripping and encoding it myself. And notice I didn’t say “pirated”?

          You can’t pirate something you legally own a copy of. That fast was a major factor in some of the high profile lawsuits against individuals. If the person being sued owned a copy of the movie/song then they dropped it from the list.

    • Copernican@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I agree. Too many comments and threads are hijacked or over represented by the pro piracy crowd. I wish more communities would just ban the shit post of “yar, time to sail the high seas” that seem to be the top comment on any media related post.