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Recommended something to a co-worker yesterday (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 months ago by akilou@sh.itjust.works to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[+] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 158 points 4 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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[-] retro@infosec.pub 57 points 4 months ago

Best of luck with your endless tech support anytime something doesn't work.

[-] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 17 points 4 months ago

This right here is what keeps me from charging for Jellyfin access.

[-] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 4 months ago

This ties into the comment I was going to make separately. For context, my dad recently passed. First father's day without him. My mom asked to watch a movie that meant something to the both of them because they saw it together in a drive in on release and it was very memorable because the technology and techniques used were fascinating at the time. She complained that it wasn't on Disney+ or anywhere.

You may have guessed it, but she requested Song of the South. One serious moral quandary later, I got it ready for her to watch.

Tomorrow is gonna be rough, but at least my sailing might bring some good memories for her.

[-] matey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 4 months ago

Sending lots of love to you and your family.

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[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 93 points 4 months ago

Just give them a usb of the show for Christ's sake! Sneaker net that shit. Which show btw?

[-] Xyre@lemmus.org 84 points 4 months ago

I tried that once. They never watched the show and didn't give back the USB. 🙁

[-] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 42 points 4 months ago

USBs nowadays are a dime a dozen basically for 16GB sticks

They can literally be bought in 10 packs for less than $30.

If they don't give one back nowadays so be it.

Back in the day it was a terrible loss though

[-] Xyre@lemmus.org 93 points 4 months ago

[-] key@lemmy.keychat.org 12 points 4 months ago

I wonder if you applied inflation from the time that idiom was first popularized what the modern price would be.

[-] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 4 months ago

I had to look into it because once you mentioned that I was curious.

So the saying originated sometime before 1930 when it first appeared in print and likely in the 1800s. (Source)

And when I went to an inflation calculator the earliest date I could select was January of 1913. Which I couldn't help but share the results of.

About $3.20.

Source

So yeah, about a dime a dozen... 111 years ago lol.

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[-] akilou@sh.itjust.works 16 points 4 months ago

Welcome to Wrexham.

Not the kind of guy who'd watch something from a USB. Technically not a co-worker but a former co-worker, because he retired a couple of years ago.

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 14 points 4 months ago

I did this for a coworker not too long ago.

I think it was for Firefly....

They gave the USB drive back too. Win-win

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 months ago

nah teach a man how to fish!

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[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 56 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

On the open meadows of the freeinternet,
where the gentle breeze touches all equally,
where the people are friends,
and the money is spent on FOSS devs & smol gaming studios.

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[-] queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone 51 points 4 months ago

If someone is unaware of piracy: Tell them.

If someone is aware of piracy and doesn't care: "I don't really know, I just got it off of a torrent site."

If someone is aware of piracy and cares too much for a company they don't work for: You can ignore them.

[-] abracaDavid@lemmy.today 10 points 4 months ago

Do you know of any easily shareable beginner's guides?

I love turning friends onto free media, but I don't always want to walk them through it.

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[-] crazyminner@lemmy.ml 50 points 4 months ago

Jellyfin!

[-] moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 48 points 4 months ago

it's on ploob

[-] Lyre@lemmy.ca 84 points 4 months ago

[-] moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 4 months ago

yes that is what I was referencing

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[-] Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net 11 points 4 months ago

Great, now I'll never not notice how many brand names are baby sounds

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[-] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 41 points 4 months ago

I just honestly answer that I don't know.

[-] therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 39 points 4 months ago

If you can't proudly say your pirating sure you need to find a new friend group

[-] dimjim@sh.itjust.works 55 points 4 months ago

Well they said "co-worker", I can understand not divulging that in a workplace.

[-] retrieval4558@mander.xyz 16 points 4 months ago

Eh fuck it, what are they going to do, call the FBI on me? Employer certainly doesn't care.

[-] BingBong@sh.itjust.works 15 points 4 months ago

Highly dependent on workplace. Many with govt contracts could feel an obligation to punish this.

[-] akilou@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 months ago

My employer is the government

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[-] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 4 months ago

I've never worked an office job that wasn't pirating software openly and somewhat proudly when pointed out

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[-] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 4 months ago

I just respond with a hearty "yeeearghhhh!" and continue the conversation. The coworkers that know get it, the rest think I'm a lunatic.

[-] vin@lemmynsfw.com 23 points 4 months ago

I borrowed it from an acquaintance on Internet :D

[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 14 points 4 months ago

Fell off this passing truck that was carrying shows and movies!

[-] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 22 points 4 months ago

"Oh, I download it from well known and respected torrent sites. All the services I might use are crap."

[-] Muscar@discuss.online 19 points 4 months ago

I get this almost daily, my whole family and several friends know I'm good at recommending things to them so they always go to me to ask what to watch. I've had to start looking up and writing down where each movie and show is available "normally". I have no issue saying I get everything via other means but whem it became a thing where people started asking "can you also look up where it's available" just because it's not always easy to figure that out and they knew I didn't know and generally find it quicker than them.

[-] simon574@feddit.de 12 points 4 months ago

It's more difficult in Europe. For example, when South Park: Post Covid released on Paramount+ in the US, there was no legal way to steam it in Germany or Austria AFAIR. And these are not exactly third-world countries.

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[-] beefsquatch@programming.dev 18 points 4 months ago

Depends on how cool they are

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[-] veeesix@lemmy.ca 18 points 4 months ago

Me: The internet ;) ;)