wine-ge is patched wine which includes many patches proton has that make games work (well).

Also, the developer of wine-ge no longer has their focus on it, because UMU [1] makes it possible to use proton(-ge) directly. UMU is already included in Lutris, Bottles & Co., or you can use it standalone [1].

[1] https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-launcher

First of all thank you for hosting this instance.

PS: Irrelevant rambling without a point below.

I don’t know how French/EU equivalents to DMCA take down requests work and how trigger-happy OVH is. Given services like real-debrid still operate, it won’t be as bad. From what I’ve heard Hetzner is quite strict when it comes to complaints, so I assume OVH is better.

It’s good that you don’t allow direct linking to pirate content. It seems to me that on most platforms communities are closed prematurely to avoid further annoyances/complaints, even if they follow the law (like here).

I do wonder how Lemmy would be impacted by an influx of DMCA complaints. Instances would have to delete the content but I don’t think they have the manpower to do so.

Instances like dbzer0 could also get taken down by complaining to the VPS provider if the instance operators wouldn’t comply.

The group tiers you’re talking about exist and are called trash guides. If you’re only on public trackers the groups might not be as prevalent, but e.g. TorrentLeech is more likely to have them.

The letterboxing with ultra wide monitors might be possible to solve locally with your video player. For MPV there’s the dynamic-crop.lua script, which is not perfect but works quite well.

I’m using mpv with Jellyfin on my PC through jellyfin-mpv-shim.

Edit: For Windows you might want to check out MPC-BE. I’ve found some mentions of “View -> Video Frame -> Touch Window From Outside” but I never tried it.

[1] is a great usenet guide. For automation look at TRaSH guides (Sonarr/Radarr/Prowlarr) and their german section.

If you have questions the discord server in the linked [1] guide is quite helpful. They created the german trash guide.

[1] https://github.com/PCJones/usenet-guide

You could just as easily in the spirit of this community do it with the same name and code, same way they do it for cracked games.

You could, and unless you’re trying to profit off it the original devs likely won’t care.

And also [bank on] pirates to not outright rip them off, which seems to be working for some reason…

They already publish it under GPLv3, they want it to be free (as in freedom) software.

I don’t care about any security concerns. If someone does not want to build it themselves or download from a third party they can buy it for their convenience. Or they can take the risk or find another way to install it.

For example I looked up whether Strawberry is on Winget, the Microsoft package manager for Windows. And look at that, it’s completely free to download by the original developer [1]. @upstroke4448@lemmy.dbzer0.com

They only ask users who are too lazy and want to download through the Microsoft store for payment. I get why you don’t like there being no binaries on their site by them, but they do provide free ways to install it. They just don’t tell you about it.

[1] https://winget.run/pkg/StrawberryMusicPlayer/Strawberry

Edit: For anyone who does not want to click the link: winget install -e --id StrawberryMusicPlayer.Strawberry installs Strawberry on any Windows computer. Officially.

They create the world, but the player is the one controlling the action.

Yes, the streamer adds to the experience (i.e. how he plays, commentary, …), but a narrator put their own spin on a story. Intonation, the timing of pauses, etc. all requires skill and changes the end result.

Good point about fan fictions. I think fan fics are more like mods in the way that they expand on the world/media without distributing the original media itself.

But yeah I also think it’s dumb that playing a video game could be considered copyright infringement. The same goes for small clips from movies, which are the exact opposite of detrimental to the popularity of a movie.

GPLv3 is a copy left license. If you legally acquire the source code (it’s public already, so anyone does), GPLv3 does not put any restrictions on you when it comes to building, selling, distributing, modifying the code.

I pointed out the name because trademark law is seperate.

And yes, GPLv3 has some requirements like attribution (mention the original developer somewhere), and you have to point out where to get the source code (already public in this case). Also, if you make any changes to the source code you must provide those changes to anyone you distribute too under the same license.

These restrictions apply to eg. UNIT3D too. Some (most) torrent trackers seem to violate the requirement to provide their changes to their users and want to keep them private. But I never asked them whether they’d provide me their source.

Otherwise GPLv3 does not pose much restrictions on it’s users, especially not on distribution.

Really scummy on their part.

Anyone is free to build it themselves. Someone could even distribute their own build from the same source under a different name completely legally.

They bank on users being lazy and then pay for the convenience.

So what’s the crime here? Publishing something Ninty didn’t want to get out yet?

Theoretically any streamer could get sued for copyright infringement by the copyright holders. This is because they own the gameplay, irrespective of whether someone plays it themselves or watches someone else play it. That’s why Nintendo sues for copyright infringement. Usually game companies understand streamers correctly as free advertisement (sometimes even paid) and don’t sue.

Edit: I can imagine they look at broadcasting playing their game in a similar way to someone reading a book out loud publicly. Which is also copyright infringement.

I agree with you on most of your points. And just wanted to clarify this.

I really hate how circumventing protection measures on their own device is considered illegal. It’s my device, I should be allowed to do what I want.

Even the term “protection measures” annoys me, as it tries to protect their interests on my device.

Also, linking to an emulator should not be considered “trafficking circumvention devices”. Making circumvention devices illegal is bad enough.

But the streamer is an idiot too as he was publicly streaming cracked games pre release. Streaming any game can be considered copyright infringement, although it’s usually not enforced (it’s free advertisement).

NixOS in LXC works great, although I switched to bare metal NixOS a few months ago. I didn’t see the need for proxmox as it hindered my ability of declaring the whole system.

Creating NixOS LXC’s is a bit of a pita. Some links that helped me two years ago:

• https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Proxmox_Virtual_Environment#LXC
• https://web.archive.org/web/20230818134729/https://blog.xirion.net/posts/nixos-proxmox-lxc/

There’s “Die Biene Maja 1975” as a 10bit x265 BluRay encode from the well respected p2p group ABJ on the usenet indexer SceneNZBs and the german anime torrent tracker AnimeWorld.

ABJ makes large releases (74 GB per season), but they are basically indistinguishable from a BluRay remux.

Buying your way into TL via seedbox promo is a solid way to get started. This won’t help for other sites but TL is miles better than all other public sites still available.

I fail to see the problem with not being able to seed to 1:1. Most sites provide points for seeding over time which can either be used to increase upload or buy free leech tokens (which allow you to download anyway). It should be more than enough to download what you want once you have a large enough seeding size.

The BitTorrent protocol prioritizes fast seeds to achieve the best possible transfer speed. It’s goal is not for everyone to be seeding to the same ratio.

Also the best way to help the network is to keep content available. For this purpose the speed of it’s seeds is not as important.

Jellyfin isn’t available for Samsung TVs or Hisense TVs. Yes, this can be solved by any Android TV box but they likely don’t want to.

I’ve given someone a FireTV stick and they still used the built in OS until I gave it to someone else. (And then they wonder why I can’t do anything about ads for them, but that’s besides the point.)

[…] what happens when everyone starts using it and torrents are no longer downloaded and properly seeded?

It’s already happening. More and more people stream torrents and don’t seed back which kills public torrents. Imo Debrid is not as big of an issue as they don’t necessarily tax the P2P network as much as someone only streaming torrents and automatically dumping them directly.

Additionally downloading torrents after you watched them does not make much sense as you’d tax the network without benefit (unless you seed to say a ratio of 2+).

If you currently have torrents there’s nothing stopping you from continuing to seed them if you don’t need the storage. Long term seeders are especially important for keeping torrents alive and you won’t need to redownload content you’ve watched just to seed it.

As long as you seed to 1.0 ratio (e.g. 1GB up, 1GB down) per torrent you don’t hurt the network. More means you compensate for someone not seeding.

It’s great to see another open source OIDC provider (with more features). I’ve set up Pocket ID which is awesome because of it’s simplicity and it’s great.

Hate the players not the game. Players being the rights holders.

Yeah. Piracy being legal or Piracy not being sanctioned are two entirely different things. Idk about the former, but the latter is the case in many countries.

E.g. downloading and streaming is legal in Switzerland, while it’s illegal in the EU. But it’s not sanctioned, so nobody cares.

Uploading/seeding is illegal in both regions, thus torrenting copyrighted material is illegal. But Switzerland doesn’t really prosecute torrenting, so nobody cares.