You’re missing the point.

Pornography addiction is a real thing.

I don’t think citronella actually does anything.

If she is gone … What will the community do then?

I think Empress disappearing would be a net-positive for the cracking scene.

If there is nobody cracking the latest releases, the pressure will mount for new crackers to enter the scene. And perhaps we’ll get a new generation of crackers that bring some competition back into the space.

There’s also a lot of money involved in pirated games, with shops in poorer countries selling cracked games for pennies on the dollar to people who would otherwise be unable to afford, or even download the latest games.

So it’s my opinion that denuvo cracking will never go away, it’ll just evolve over time, like it has since the beginning.

I have thought that way before.

But nowadays I have a different perspective. I’ve got everything I need to be happy, and that’s enough for me.

You’re not going to be obsessing over all your career achievements on your deathbed, you’re just going to wish you had spent more time with loved ones.

Could you even tell?

After all, we are in the era of advanced LLMs.

It would be nice to interact with my own family and friends

That’s a straight no from me.

We can already interact with our friends and family anywhere we choose, but Lemmy is one of the only general discussion areas left on the internet that isn’t full of the stupidest people on the planet.

Bringing our family here will just result in real identities taking over and limiting discussion to what’s acceptable in all our little social bubbles.

I pay a few bucks a month for access to a giant plex share.

It’s worth it to just, watch stuff, basically anything, instead of fiddling around with different apps and subscriptions and all that.

I’d happily pay a lot more for the same legal service, but it doesn’t exist.

Studios, if you want my money, make everything available in one spot for a reasonable price. Or, continue your bastardization of everything, and I’ll just keep watching your stuff anyway.

I was gonna say the same thing but then I saw the 2200-something upvotes.

This community is doomed to be exactly like the low effort meme sub r/piracy if people keep upvoting this lazy content.

I don’t think anyone would even notice next to the garbage that’s already served by default on Reddit.

Diablo 4 looks interesting, but $70 and microtransactions just rubs me the wrong way.

Motherland if I’m not mistaken.

So in that case, Bambulabs P1P is probably the printer you want, despite it’s proprietary nature.

I probably should have asked what you were looking for in a printer before starting to recommend stuff, but at least we figured it out in the end.

does that change your recommendation at all?

Not Really.

I’d get maybe $300 worth of printer, and then save the other couple hundred bucks for filaments and modifications that you’ll want after spending a while with the machine. That’s where the Ender 3 S1 fits right in.

I don’t really recommend spending more as a beginner, because you wont know what you actually need until you start printing stuff.

Though, if you don’t like to fiddle with stuff at all, the Bambulabs P1P ($599) is a thing that makes good parts. I still don’t recommend it, especially for a beginner. But for someone who just wants stuff to work in an Apple sort of way, (expensive, locked down, a bit contrived, but mostly seamless) that might be the best choice.

If I were starting printing today, I’d probably get an Ender 3 S1. You also can’t go wrong with Prusa printers, but you’ll pay a bit (a lot) more for them.

Really anything from those “best beginner printer” lists will work, as long as it has ABL (auto bed leveling).

Regardless of what anyone else says, you’ll want ABL at some point, so just get it right off the bat. Because adding an ABL sensor afterwards can sometimes be super annoying.

But I wouldn’t recommend anything from Bambulabs. Lots of gear on those printers is proprietary, and you will need to buy parts at some point.

With other printers you can get cheap parts everywhere. With Bambulabs printers though, enjoy waiting months for a $180 part that’s $20 on every other printer.

Every billionaire uses charities.

They’re a way to exert control over the money that would normally go to taxes, and be up to the government to spend.

It’s not inherently bad, but charity is not quite the saving grace of billionaires that many make it out to be.