Dyskolos

I wish you the best 😊

I’m just a lucky fucker that doesn’t need overly much to exist. Beside an expensive hobby (smarthome and gaming and servers) I don’t need fancy houses, cars or clothes. We don’t travel much and have no kids nor pets. The latter save a lot 😁

OK congrats to you! And yeah, can imagine that being extra hard, “just” for the money. But despite you doing it, I’d still bet my left nut on you being a rare exception. People won’t even stop to not die, what difference would money make.

But glad you did. I did like 20yrs ago (it’s cool if you don’t even remember anymore). And it was weeks of hell…

Phhht amateur numbers. I have worked maybe a year in the last 25yrs and only because it was a cool job and I had some fun times. But it left me not much time for my hobbies.

Also smokers would pay any price for their fix, no matter the income. Anything else has to be adjusted around that. I have never heard of someone quitting smoking because they can’t afford it anymore.

He he, yup. And all the others around that. REAL artists will never be replaced. The replaceable “artists” probably will. Those that do what the LLM does, just inferior.

You still pay people, not AI. It’s people who do it, people who maintain it. People who maintain the AI itself etc. It just shifted from one tech-field to another tech-field. If you’d compare the soulless calculated success pop-shit with the ai-shit that is.

But I get your point.

I love it. I want it. Gimme the sign!

As a German…every year since forever, I ask myself what is so great about this boom boom. Didn’t even wanna do it as a boy. My dad wanted me to want, so HE could do boom boom.

Now that I’m older I still don’t get it. Except now it even hurts to watch money literally explode while there are people that are hungry or have no shelter or no help at all.

Then…why do you still work for such a company?

See my other comment, this “drawback” is just based on missing knowledge. It’s absolutely the same as with torrents. If you are on public trackers/search-engines you’re fucked with the absolute mainstream-stuff. On private trackers you find what you need. Same with usenet. Lots of private trackers (at least in my native tongue, but most likely in many other tongues too) that deal with local stuff. I never not found anything except some very rare cases (in which torrent, debrid or even group-FPTs didn’t help either, it was just not available at all)

As you said: if you know what you’re doing…applies to everything :)

As said, if one does not understand a medium, it’s not the medium’s fault. Same as with torrent, if you need niche-stuff like localized dubs, you’d need local forums/sites for that. Same as with private torrent-trackers. I’m not a native-tongue either, but if i want localized or foreign stuff, there are at least 3 sites where i always find the stuff. It’s just not a simple “enter name, wait, watch” anymore, just the same speed when actually downloading. I even have torrent as a low-priority fallback enabled. Didn’t trigger for years :) Also torrent’s full-speed vastly depends on age of torrents and how mainstream their content is. As if every torrent of the last decade on that tracker is shared with full-speed.

Anyhow, if you think torrent is superior, you’re surely entitled to your own opinion of course. As said, the less people that use the usenet, the better for its future.

Proof? Why would I need proof? I was just helpful. Personally couldn’t care less where you get your shit.

I download at 100% of my line’s speed (3gbit) 99% of the time. I don’t need to rely on seeders and don’t care for u/d-ratio. If you don’t understand how things work, just stick with Torrents. The fewer that use usenet, the better 😉

Torrent sucks. Go for usenet. As long as it doesn’t really hit mainstream it’s far superior. Plus all the *arrs (sonarr etc) and you’re comfortably set. (Though they work fine with torrents too, if you prefer those for whichever reason)

I have a minimal maintenance-setup running for years now. Wanna see a show? Enter name, select quality, wait a few seconds, start first episode. Movie? Enter name, click download, wait a minute or more and watch. Same with music and subtitles and even fucking porn (who collects porn???).

Price? Not even 10 bucks a month (provider plus indexer). And I even could save, coz I use 3 indexers while one would suffice most of the time and I also pay monthly for emby (I like it and want to give back, beats the lifetime-payment)

Most has already been said, but i just want to add that it’s just a mixture of

A) the problem itself is way more “ok” to talk about today than it was 20-50 years ago. More people have acknowledged that it actually IS a problem. Even though we (as a society) still have ways to go. E.g. In germany there is a statutory limit of 10 year on it. So someone who got abused at 1, has his/her last chance to get legal justice with 11.

B) media has transformed from an informational source of events to a click-hungry sensationalism source. It sells better than good or other stories.

C) we have way more media and sources of knowledge and information than back then. 30yrs ago if it didn’t make it into “the big news” you never heard of it.

On a side-note: Hey random Internet-stranger and survivor. I’m proud of you that you managed to get here (place and time). And i wish you, that you manage to find some peace.

The downvotes are unfair. There are no stupid questions, only stupid answers.

No, such things never go away. People can learn to to better deal with it, they can learn to cope better with the pain, they can learn skills to better handle anxiety/panic, they even can go through lenghty programs to learn to overall feel better.

But these traumas never go away, people can’t escape them. In the best case it is no around-the-clock hindrance anymore. The triggers stay, the nightmares stay. The memories stay.

Reading the mentioned article about ©PTSD might expand your view. Everyone should know, so we wouldn’t throw questions like this at survivors. As they all have, at least, PTSD. And often many illnesses more. Not only psychological.