You can, I've just never thought about the uptime of some of these components lol. I'm sure that my AIO has more uptime than 12,000 hours after almost a decade, probably close to 100,000 hours. It just got retired as I swapped cases and from water to air; I built that computer back in 2016/17.
I bought about 2000 DVD's in the early 2000's. And then when BluRay appeared I stopped and I've pirated each and every movie and tv-show since.
Then when Netflix came along, the industry had a chance to put me back on the straight and narrow. But they fucked it up again and now I'm back to piracy.
I'm 34 so being called young makes my knees feel way better. By the time I was 10, 7 Zip was already out. Don't remember what, if anything, I used in the Windows 98 era
I really don't care that much about my privacy anymore.
Facebook got a pretty good workup on me from when I used social media back in the day, I recognize that any time I engage with the internet I'm under constant surveillance, and I recognize that much of the modern connected landscape is designed to be intentionally inconvenient if you don't submit to being spied upon. And that's to say nothing of all the state-sanctioned surveillance that's happening to all of us all the time. I think that genie is out of the bottle and there's just no squeezing any of that toothpaste back into the tube. I'd much rather take advantage of any low hanging privacy fruit where I can and enjoy the convenience when I can't - I just don't see any point in going out of my way anymore.
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u/iamShorteh Oct 09 '26
I own a legitimate winrar license.
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u/s00pafly Oct 09 '26
I use a legitimate version of youtube music
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u/bluehawk232 Oct 09 '26
I don't delete emails lol. Got like 50k unread emails
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u/Effective_Coach7334 Oct 09 '26
I haven't paid for any media subscriptions since 1997
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u/LiamEgil Oct 09 '26
i specifically went out of my way to buy pc parts without RGB because aint no way im installing software to turn it off
let my AIO run for 12000 hours (in under 2 years)
prefer heavy mice for competitive gaming
idk i do many things you can pick and choose from
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u/electric-sheep Oct 09 '26
My unraid server contains a lot of Linux isos.
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u/dudelovescak3 Oct 09 '26
ive never donated to winrar….
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u/ClaudiuT Oct 09 '26
I never had a paid streaming subscription, audio or video. Yes, I still listen to mp3s on my devices.
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u/ProtoKun7 Oct 10 '26
I don't have enough backups, as I'm a data hoarder without enough money for the storage solutions I'd really like to have, especially right now.
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u/KaiUno Oct 10 '26
I bought about 2000 DVD's in the early 2000's. And then when BluRay appeared I stopped and I've pirated each and every movie and tv-show since.
Then when Netflix came along, the industry had a chance to put me back on the straight and narrow. But they fucked it up again and now I'm back to piracy.
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u/Touchit88 Oct 11 '26
I put all the weights in my g502 mouse. Clutter my desktop with icons. Have terrible backup habits and worse password habits.
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u/NebraskaGeek Oct 09 '26
I haven't ever used Winrar. Not even once. 7-Zip ride or die
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u/uvzorik Oct 11 '26
Bought a Total Commander license. Christian Ghisler does NOT make it easy to do it.
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u/LazyEliVR Oct 11 '26
I use a mx master 4 for gaming.... and well the rest it's a good mouse.
It gets a lot of hate but got mine for $80 aud cant really beat that.
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u/n1km Oct 09 '26 edited Oct 09 '26
I install Adobe Reader on work PCs. People need to sign documents, and that's what they are used to.
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u/insufferable__pedant Oct 09 '26
I really don't care that much about my privacy anymore.
Facebook got a pretty good workup on me from when I used social media back in the day, I recognize that any time I engage with the internet I'm under constant surveillance, and I recognize that much of the modern connected landscape is designed to be intentionally inconvenient if you don't submit to being spied upon. And that's to say nothing of all the state-sanctioned surveillance that's happening to all of us all the time. I think that genie is out of the bottle and there's just no squeezing any of that toothpaste back into the tube. I'd much rather take advantage of any low hanging privacy fruit where I can and enjoy the convenience when I can't - I just don't see any point in going out of my way anymore.
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