Back in 2014 you just bought a spare and replaced it, nowadays they all want to play the same bullshit games Apple innovated on. It was was about time an authority that ruled over a market with significant purchasing power made a decision against it.

You paid $100 for a battery replacement!?!? My Galaxy S7’s second battery cost us $12!

Wasn’t it hosted in Finland? Or have things changed?

I enjoyed helping this place grow and doing my part to discuss here but I disagree with this decision and I’m going to evaluate looking for a different home instance.

30 years old or older
I’m 23

Enshittification is fueled by normies NEVER LEARNING.

Boo hoo, I am so stressed! I can only fly in a gold plated private jet instead of a rhodium plated one. The west has fallen, trillions must fly

Nutjobs should just be ignored, as much as I dislike leftists Meta is an actual massive threat to Fedi.

Sadly people will still jump there. It will eventually overtake Mastodon in numbers because people are dependent on the convenience of walled gardens.

‘Hey trader, please open up to non-buddies temporarily, even at a crippled speed. I’d like two items from you. You know Soulseek is a sharing platform, right?’

Will try it, thanks. Seems more civilized.

Don’t stoop to their level by blacklisting, either. They will take that as endorsement of their behaviour. (Set 20kb/s down if it makes you feel better.)

Thanks for the tip. That seems like a better punishment.

Back when I was a teenager I had the blind optimism the future would be bright and we would keep all the positive trends we had in the early 2010s.

Somewhere in countries that don’t respect American copyright like Iran

The next closest one is the only one open in Atlanta and it’s exploding heads.

yeah pass 💀💀💀

What are you talking about i have tens of gigabytes worth of flacs from slsk

It’s happened a couple of times by now, last time was the developer of node-ipc being roasted for shipping malware in production that thrashed hard drives if it detected a Russian IP address

Discussion at the end degrades into name calling

I feel you, I have one of two known sources of obscure Russian albums in FLAC and I’m more than happy to secure its future by sharing.

Fuck traders, if you’re on Soulseek do the right thing and blacklist them.

Soulseek is very much alive, try there. But please try to share your stuff too.

I didn’t know anything about the drama. Thanks for the heads up, will investigate.

I spent a sizable chunk of my childhood playing SNES games on emulators, it is thanks to both piracy and preservation I got to have the experience. I actually respected Nintendo back then and had a Wii with a small stash of retail games. Well, I still have the Wii but it’s softmodded and has a 16 GB SD card full of games and homebrew but since Iwata died so did my respect for Nintendo. Imagine paying for P2P multiplayer and near absence of cloud services.

Nowadays I only get devices I can mod and customize by any means official or otherwise. If I wasn’t a full time student and I had enough money and time to spend I’d get an OLED Switch to mod and play all sorts of stuff, it could be a nifty tablet to both work and play with.

None of these things above are possible without piracy.