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kniescherz, do piracy w Where might I get German (mostly tv) content?

Everything which is aired on the public channels lands in the mediathek and you can legally download it for a while. Here is a handy search tool:

mediathekviewweb.de

prenatal_confusion,

While that is a nice service and a great resource it’s not what I meant. I was looking for shows produced by Amazon or the like explicitly for the German market.

Janis, do piracy w Live sports for Chromecast with Google TV

it is called a browser and strikeout.cc

hunt4peas,

Thank you for the link!

bernieecclestoned,
@bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works avatar

😘

jeanofthedead, do piracy w Where's the go-to place for UK TV, that I could reasonably get into?

I mean, just use Stremio and get everything from around the world?

tun,

Q: Where do I fish?

A: In the ocean … Okay here is the better answer. In the Indian ocean.

utopianrevolt, do games w Sea of Stars Review Thread | (90/100 OpenCritic)

This year will easily go down as one of gaming’s best, if not THE best.

peto, do games w Why do modern strategy games hate the grid?

Grids certainly don’t slow me down, though they do reduce the spectacle and I suppose lower immersion. They certainly make me more aware that I am playing a game rather than taking actions in a world that actually exists. I’d say this is a feature rather than a bug though as they are often used in games that I want to be handling in that analytic piece moving fashion.

anakin78z,
@anakin78z@lemmy.world avatar

Yea, the games I mentioned are all turn based, so I’m not sure that immersion is really what I’m looking for. I will say that the opening combats in BG3 felt very chaotic, and I guess more immersive, but I also felt like I made a lot of dumb mistakes because I was treating it more like a shooter/hack & slash, rather than thinking my moves through.

vildis, (edited ) do piracy w What's the best way to rip music off Spotify so that I can store it on my HDD?

i find most music i search for in higher quality (doesn’t have everything) on slavart.gamesdrive.net

it’d be a pain to download full playlists tho

maxprime,

Lidarr can do this, but it downloads the full album of each song which may or may not be a feature in your use case.

Valmond,

Gotta read upp on all these arr! softs, looks like there is a whole eco system around them too.

mayo, do piracy w I got some malware yesterday, here are the sites I visited as a warning

This was a popup in browser only? Closing browser closed popup?

BrandoCalrissian9229,

so the way it worked was that it would only open the popup when the browser was opened and it would open it in a separate window. I could close it out but upon restarting the browser the popup would come back up.

After this I performed a scan with windows defender, which found and quarantined two things it labeled as trojans, and then with malware bytes, which found a couple of other bits of malware that I can’t remember how it was labeled. Seems like it’s all cleaned up now

jordanlund, do gaming w Switch 2 - launch games?
!deleted7836 avatar

If you look at the Switch titles:

1-2-Switch - Some game to show off new features.
Just Dance 2017
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Cross gen game.
Skylanders: Imaginators - Merch game.
Super Bomberman R
I Am Setsuna
Tokyo RPG Factory
Snipperclips - Another new feature game.
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove - Shovelware
Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment - Shovelware
Fast RMX

I could see either a new Mario game launching on the Switch and Switch 2, maybe a Metroid game instead. Zelda will be too old and played out by then, but then Zelda fans love buying the same game over and over.

niisyth,

Hold the GODDAMN heck up, did you just call Shovel Knight Shovelware??? b r u h

jordanlund,
!deleted7836 avatar

Ported from another platform with little to no effort?

It’s the literal definition of shovelware.

The Switch was literally the last of 11 platforms it launched on.

niisyth,

That’s called a port my dude.

jordanlund,
!deleted7836 avatar

With no new features or nothing added to take advantage of unique Switch capabilities = shovelware.

ryven, (edited )
@ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

It’s worth noting, I think, that the definition of shovelware has slipped somewhat since it was coined like thirty years ago, and I think this is leading to you and niisyth talking past each other. Shovel Knight for Switch was maybe shovelware by the original definition, which was “shovel a bunch of old software onto a CD and resell it,” but by the Wii era people were using it to refer to software that is just bad, but exists to trick people into buying it by promising to be more full-featured than it actually is. The Wii had so many titles like this that it seemed like they were “shoveling” shit directly onto store shelves and calling it games. In this new definition, it refers to titles like My Horse and Me or Imagine Party Babyz. So if they are thinking of the newer usage, it sounds like you’re insulting Shovel Knight’s quality as a game.

jordanlund,
!deleted7836 avatar

Yeah, never once heard that definition ever.

niisyth,

Also, by your definition, Skyrim and Witcher 3 are also Shovelware.

Which, I want you to think hard about for maybe 1 min.

jordanlund,
!deleted7836 avatar

On the Switch? They absolutely were. An afterthought at best.

lingh0e, do gaming w Need some local coop recommendations

How has this thread been up for half a damn day and no one has mentioned the Borderlands series (Smoogy@kbin.social at least mentioned Tiny Tina’s Assault on Dragon Keep, but that was just a Borderlands 2 DLC which got re-released as a standalone.)

My wife and I put tons of hours into most of the the Borderlands series. I recommend playing them in release order.

  1. Borderlands is a fun shoot n’loot that’s got a loose plot, but it’s not terribly deep. It’s like a sci-fi road warrior feel. It’s a fun co-op game with plenty of DLC and replay value. My personal favorite.
  2. Borderlands 2 is all the fun of the first but they went all in on the writing and voice acting as well. It’s tons of fun. Arguably the best of the series in every aspect. It’s also tons of fun in couch co-op.
  3. Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel is the third game but canonically it’s the second. It’s the same concept but with new anti-gravity mechanics and lasers. It’s like Mad Max on the moon. I believe this started life as a DLC for BL2 before Gearbox decided to turn it into a fully fledged standalone game.
  4. Borderlands 3: It was a fun game with some really great level design, but the writing seemed forced. Worth a playthrough to see where they take the storyline.
  5. Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands - Borderlands meets DnD. A spin-off of the aforementioned Assault on Dragon Keep DLC. The game itself is a lot of fun, but it’s a miserable split screen co-op experience thanks to the terrible menu and inventory management system.
Rentlar,

I had no idea Borderlands series had a splitscreen co-op mode! I have done online co-op before and it was fun.

davi, do piracy w Are Google's Team Drives (Shared Drives) still active? Can you recommend some good ones?

This one should have working drives: fmhy.pages.dev/base64/

Justly0250,
@Justly0250@lemdro.id avatar

Thanks I’ll check it out. I forgot about FMHY.

davi, do piracy w What's the best way to get German content?

Ahoy freund, you might find something useful here: fmhy.pages.dev/non-english/

Floete,

I’ve looked at it, but there ain’t much for public trackers. So for it to work with the arrs it’s still private tracker or usenet i guess.

ono, do gaming w Need some local coop recommendations

I hear Baldur’s Gate 3 has local co-op.

elscallr,
@elscallr@kbin.social avatar

I think they had to drop split screen from the Series S, at least for now.

CrateDane,

It’s not out on Xbox yet anyway. But it might be an idea for OP to say what platform(s) they play on.

bbbhltz, do gaming w Need some local coop recommendations
@bbbhltz@beehaw.org avatar

The Trine games are fine for couch co-op.

And Overcooked.

DudePluto, do piracy w Having a hard time settling on a VPN

I’d recommend deciding what you’re looking for in a VPN, then using r/VPN’s comparison guide to find which one suits your wants.

Is this the best method? Idk, but it’s what I did and I’m pretty satisfied. I decided that the most important factors to me were port-forwarding, price, speed, leak protection, and encryption - basically in that order. Using that criteria I settled on AirVPN, and I have no complaints so far (one month in).

Some people care more about ethics, or ownership, or what have you. So what you think is the best VPN will depend on your needs. There’s no perfect VPN anymore, imo

Edit: As others have pointed out, some VPNs also come in optional packages. Ones such as Proton. That’s something else to consider if you’re in the market for stuff like antivirus or secure email

DonnieDarkmode,

I’ll check it out! I’ve used trustworthy compilation lists to pick my PSU and PDF software so I don’t see the problem hahaha

exu, do piracy w Trying to download/export, and convert 1000ish kindle books to get out of amzns ecosystem

Have a look at DeDRM Tools.

A guide can be found on the old repo

Make sure to use an older Kindle for PC version. I think I have 1.26. With that version you also need the KFX input plugin.

With the plugins installed, you should be able to drag the files you downloaded with Kindle into Calibre and have it detect them.
The next step is conversion. Be very careful here, Calibre likes to fuck with images. You’ll probably want EPUB as the target format.
Set the target device to Tablet, or your images get resized.
Also disable the title image resizing in the last register.
I’d recommend you set these setting as default, so you don’t forget changing them.

CrabAndBroom,

If it’s for a Kobo, there’s also the KEPUB format which adds extra tweaks and features, that Calibre also has a plugin for.

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