Say a friend is looking for a new system, and said person is not particularly savvy with technology, what system would you point them toward?

  • I wanna mention this: If there are niche movies/shows you wanna watch but you can’t find a torrent for it… the the only way to really watch it is the mainstream sites and those require DRM and if you run Linux, Netflix, for example, would run on L3 Widewine instead of L1 Widewine and that means SD content only…

    so yeah… depends on how this “average user” really want to watch niche content… or is even comfortable with the idea of torrents

    (I’ve personally found a bunch of stuff that I literally cannot find torrents for… so yeah… there’s that…)

    • Pommes_für_dein_Balg@feddit.org
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      26 days ago

      I don’t think I’ve ever come across niche content that was available on a mainstream streaming site but not as torrent or on a direct streaming site.

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        26 days ago

        Schitt’s Creek got removed from debrid for copyright violation so I’ve been watching it on Amazon 🤮

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          25 days ago

          Oh dear god.

          Welp, I tried.

          But at this point I’m convinced that the Windows implementation of secureboot just basically is a direct to FBI/NSA/CIA backdoor/wiretap so uh…

          Like, come on.

          What other software just regularly directly rewrites the BIOS/UEFI when you try to fight it? Or just, when a Windows update happens?

          Its a bootkit, as far as I’m concerned.

          Yeah that’s a bit of a tough problem to crack, lol.