I don’t know why you’re getting pushback on this, what you’re saying is 100% correct. I spent around a decade just using Usenet and not bothering with torrents. Then I got into one highly sought after private tracker. I spent several months not downloading a thing except freeleech to create a buffer, which was going absolutely nowhere. Then recently I decided to test out this seedbox thing I’d heard so much about. I set it up to automatically download freeleech torrents the second they’re posted. Even with that setup I discovered that I still can’t get a 1:1 ratio. A bot that downloads the freeleech torrent the instant it’s posted still only achieves a 0.5 ratio. It’s madness. Within 20 minutes of being posted, the torrent will have 150 seedbox users seeding it and no one else will be able to upload a single byte.

Before this I was manually downloading freeleech torrents that I found interesting, and was literally getting a 0 ratio by doing that. Now I know why. This system encourages everyone to buy seedboxes, which then makes it impossible for regular Joe shmoes to use private trackers, unless they signed up back in 2013 or something

So I discovered and bought the DVD for Restoration of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Heurtley House and also Frank Lloyd Wright’s Home and Studio. And because I’m a nerd and it popped up as a ‘you might be interested in this’, I got a CD titled Frank Lloyd Wright Companion, which is a catalog of plans and sections of varying quality. I also managed to find torrents for An American Home - Frank Lloyd Wright’s B. Harley Bradley House. Didn’t love that one honestly as there was very little content about the house itself and more about the history of the area and the people who owned it.

What about you? Curious to hear if I’ve missed any good ones

Because everyone these days is used to the USraeli style of warfare where you just target schools and hospitals and bridges.

I did exactly this. Generally find everything on Usenet, but I’ve bought several DVDs of things I couldn’t find. Most recently some really niche Frank Lloyd Wright documentaries 😆

What is eyedex? Never heard of this before

Wow what a flashback. I was using that about 15 years ago at university

Infomaniak Ksuite. Migrated a year ago and been happy so far.

Other options I looked at:

Murena

Internxt

PeerGOS

Pcloud

I migrated from Gmail and Google Drive to Infomaniak about a year ago and have no complaints at all. I really liked Tuta as well, but they don’t have a Drive replacement yet

I’m so glad I went with Infomaniak instead of proton. And when Tuta comes out with a drive replacement I’ll try that too

There are many subs that are downright unusable now. Some are so insanely rightwing I don’t know if this is actually what society is like or whether these are all bots stirring shit up and masturbating each other

The Phoenician alphabet descends from the Proto-Sinaitic script though. So a bunch of nomads developed Egyptian hieroglyphs into a script to write proto-Canaanite inscriptions, which was the common ancestor of the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, the Ancient South Arabian script, and the Phoenician alphabet

I spent 13 hours at work yesterday. So no fun whatsoever

I remember in high school 20 years ago having to write an essay about how the League of Nations failed because it couldn’t stop the Italian invasion of Abyssinia. Well if that’s the case the wtf is the UN still doing here? Why are we all pretending that the Security Council and veto power benefit the world in any way?

If any leaders had guts they would create a new UN without the veto and exclude the US, UK, France, Russia, China, and Israel from it

This is a very important point. I actually have a leftwing Israeli friend, and he has sent me videos that he’s taken from his own balcony where hordes of Israelis are marching through the street chanting “death to Arabs”. The quantity of these marches is totally ignored in mainstream media of course.

2012: Israeli poll finds majority would be in favour of ‘apartheid’ policies

2008: Nearly half of Jewish Israelis want to expel Arabs, survey shows

2007: ‘Marriage to an Arab is national treason’. Recent poll reveals steep rise in racist views against Arabs in Israel;

It’s been generation right forever

Not confused and I wasn’t born yesterday. Yes DNC voters now are moderately anti Israel. But for the last 7 decades they were not. I’m old enough to remember their consistent full-chested support for Israeli apartheid decade after decade after decade through intifadas and land seizures and expulsions and multiple bloody invasions of Gaza.

Came to say the same. Wouldn’t marry an American Republican or an American Democrat. Both are nutjobs and evil and bought by AIPAC

Aurangzeb Tamerlane Bunduqdari

Has a nice ring to it

I was shocked by that as well. What an illustration into how rotten the world has become. A mainstream news site just casually posting here guys watch the cool way this dude dies live on camera.

Unnecessary, disrespectful, voyeuristic. Like death porn for the masses

But you don’t need to rely on testing. Deepseek is open source so they could just go through the code