I feel like you’re just not subbed to enough stuff. That said I don’t spend more than an hour on here/my phone per day.

Unsure, never heard of those.

Try out Jerboa as well! Did it on day 1 of the exodus and had zero problems.

Nah it’s been pretty busy. I don’t browse all and only sort by scaled and if I ever ran out of content I think I would be the problem haha

I didn’t really consider that. Having no computer other than a phone is pretty crazy

YIFY also uses “HD”. So does YT. Doesn’t make it good though, unless you’re watching on your phone or something.

Huh? I use ublock origin, sponsorblock, privacy badger, etc etc. but that’s for browsing the web and YT. Not watching movies and TV shows which is what torrenting is for. I’m from a piracy instance and that’s precisely why I know to do that rather than watch some dodgy “illegal online streams” site?

WiFi is local and still connects to your ISPs

Talk about it being hard to decipher comments, what do you even mean by this?

If you use someone else’s WiFi then it will connect to their ISP with their account details and should any trouble occur it will go back to them, not back to you.

when the authorities request your personal data based on your IP.

Obviously don’t hack the planet that way unless you’re being 7 proxies as the cool kids used to say but for piracy or small dnm buys it’s nothing.

you’re just condescending and not saying anything actually useful.

Odd, I literally explained how to overcome all the issues thus far. Maybe you don’t want to hear it idk why even keep replying then.

Just because you see no reason to use it, others do. If they found a reason then it doesn’t matter whether you see a reason or not. As long as they do.

No that’s not really how it works? There is either a reason or there isn’t, I’m trying to find out what it is, idk why you’re being so nasty bro but I don’t need this shit

Thanks! Yeah I’m in the UK, not great, not terrible, and I hope whoever comes after is better but I honestly can’t even begin to speculate how you could actually permanently fix Russia’s jingoism.

Huh? Where did I attack anyone, nevermind spread misinfo?

Okay that makes sense actually, I forgot US has limited data on their main internet connections.

Huh? No I am not agitated or offended.

Yeah, I’m just saying there’s always a reason one might use a site instead of torrenting.

And I haven’t seen one yet is the thing.

I only mentioned a VPN because that’s usually the case (at least in Europe like Germany and The Netherlands) and I assume also US?

Idk tbf, not needed in the UK.

Nah I saw people in my uni back like 2017 streaming to their iPads with ads taking up half the screen. It’s the “listen to music on YouTube on school computer when your phone or MP3 player or PSP is right there” of millennial shit.

Yeah fair but we are on Lemmy. I hope no one is streaming or downloading YIFY or some shit thinking it’s peak. I mean they can if they choose to but shouldn’t need to with such a cool community at their disposal.

always a reason

Yeah, but I’ve never had one so ig I’m trying to learn and maybe help some who are having trouble.

VPN? I don’t think I mentioned a VPN. If your WiFi has ISP busting your balls then use a different WiFi :)

In like 144p with ads. Obviously I kid with that above setup that zoomers (and I) love, you can just torrent with qbittorrent and watch in VLC like long before video streaming. Ez pz.

Who tf uses “pirate streaming sites”??? Why is this even a thing. Just download your BDRemuxes via the *arr stack or paste the rarbg into you qbittorrent-nox on your nas/homelab and Jellyfin works fine.

Not in Russia. Definitely not OK. Left 10 years ago, don’t want to look back. I wish there was an easy way for people to expatriate but even with no travel shutdowns most people are too poor to really migrate somewhere. Unfortunately same is often true for Ukrainians.

Not really. Mostly online there’s some bloodthirst that can be disappointing, but I know how this works so I get it, it’s not the worst thing happening right now.

I think casual counterproductive xenophobia with e.g. Linux kernel banning russian maintainers supposedly as opposed to people explicitly involved with the war or gov’t is also disappointing.

Back before the war, a lot of my western friends in the UK were either Putin apologists, whenever I’d bring up my persecution as a trans person in Russia, they’d laught if off or say something like “I just like Putin, he’s so funny”. It’s been enjoyable watching them be silent now. It’s been less enjoyable to see them follow Farage and Trump and similar paternalistic populist “charismatic” leaders though. Please don’t make me have to immigrate again.

No quantity of “I told you so” will ever get through to them, a lot of westerners are too close minded and westcentric and they don’t always have the capacity to have discussions about geopolitics that don’t necessarily relate directly to them.

At the outset of the war, literally on day 1 iirc, I was dating somebody from Ukraine, and we had a lot more common ground and ability to discuss geopolitics, probably helps both of us were really engaged leftists at the time.