Love ISO 8601, data hoarding and gaming. May randomly dump info. =D
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Plus, in the possibility you don’t want to stick around and just came here to ask for help, I would insist otherwise: the protocol’s proposal makes for the environment as a whole to be hard to be taken down or to be taken over. And even if a given community, user base or instance is not of your liking, alternatives are already starting to pop up while still in the overall environment.
If the platform doesn’t want you, I wouldn’t think it’s healthy to still chase after it. If it’s something you want to post in other platforms, maybe see if there’s a section of your liking in other forums or microblogs? I remember coming across a few those past few years, like AtariAge, Retropie, Fuwanovel, Twitter if you must, Bluesky or any of its forks, etc.
Depending on what you work on, maybe there’s an alternative FOSS or at least paid DRM free software?
Or, if you work for a company and it demands this tool, maybe you could ask them to provide the software for you?
On a 3rd point, I’ve seen official softwares detect when they’re being run in VMs or similar, so maybe that’s what happened.
On a 4th point, if you must use a crack, maybe do so on a less usual Linux system, so if it’s a functional one but packaged with virus, the virus breaks either because it runs under Wine or similar, or because the less usual system lacks some needed dependency for the virus if it can run on Linux as well?
Found a few candidate tools though can test neither now, mutool (part of the mupdf tools), PDFtk, qpdf, pdf2txt (name sounds familiar though it might be memory playing tricks).
If any of those could be found as a single portable exe around 2020, chances are it is the tool I used for it.
Iirc, tested it out quite a few years ago, and I had to use a software that would both decompile and recompile the PDF, and while it was decompiled, I had to remove the repeating pattern I didn’t want with something like Notepad++. File got recompiled a bit over 50% bigger iirc, maybe different compression methods, but the pages themselves didn’t seem affected.
Sadly can’t remember the name of the program I used for compiling and recompiling, only that it’d do both and that I looked for how to remove watermarks from PDFs. Also the program was certainly offline.
Mind sharing a link to the tool? Checked the post on the original url and it doesn’t seem to be there either so guessing it was forgotten.
The ones I tested on Linux that I remember:
The number of people to whom this is relevant must be extraorinarily small, but at some point, someone is going to want to do this, only to find this repository of existing work. We’ve all been there.
Some times it’s not about the destination, but the journey.
…or the silliness of it
A bit late to the party, @lowguest96@hilariouschaos.com, but about implementing federation protocols, Minds and Bridgy Fed both apparently include dual protocol integration (ActivityPub / Nostr and ActivityPub / AT Protocol respectively), so maybe worth having them in mind as examples if integration does happen?
Or at least some form of RSS feeds? Dunno how it is with others, but talking for me, something that bothers me is how slow opening a bunch of sites to check a few stuff can be, which gradually leads to smaller/less relevant sites be ignored even if they are useful, and RSS allows to have all in one place (also allows me to see how much stuff I actually follow).
From what I can observe, usually older companies don’t have direct means of monetization, the option instead seemingly being preferred for smaller/independent groups. I’d expect the team behind South Park to be no different given how long the show’s been around.
And if no means of direct support can be found, best I can think of is to purchase merchandise from the series from official retailers, like DVDs, toys, etc. Some cut will go to other parties, but at least the SP team will be financed, and you’ll have a tangible item too.
For Android, Librera from F-Droid. From the non-Google Play readers, it was the best I found.
For the PS Vita, Noboru. Though laggy (lack of RAM in the Vita at fault) and only supporting image-based ebooks, being able to control ebooks by the physical controllers is fantastic, something I greatly miss in any other readers I remember.
Don’t know tbh
What if you install DOSBox separately, then point Heroic to open it along with the game’s bundled config file? (Iirc dosbox -conf /path/to/conf-file.conf, though can’t test now to be sure)
Yt-dlp doesn’t deal with cracking, but by fetching the files from DRM-free endpoints of a given service. And from what I’ve seen in issues from both yt-dlp and Grayjay, such endpoints were all removed in recent months for Crunchyroll (and by extensions, neither support downloading from Crunchyroll anymore).
Don’t have experience with setting up servers, but one idea I have for when I go set up one of my own is a Linux-based server through Termux. Only problem is if you need to change permissions for Android files, as then you’d need root to run sudo-based commands.
Unsure what had happened in another post and poked in my instance’s main(?)/meta(?) community (!askthebrainbin@thebrainbin.org), but after a short back and forth, and seeing the behavior repeat here as well, I think the owner’s assumption is correct, the first of each pair of community links here is actually a hyperlink manually created. And so I assume also that the seconds from those pairs above are proper sharable communities.
Have yet to test the Deck or any other portable console-like PCs, but about Linux it is pretty straightforward nowadays for running Windows games, mostly requiring some occasional tweaks and troubleshooting, but nothing major. _
Also in the topic of facilitating usage, maybe you’d be interested in checking Heroic Launcher if you have games on Amazon Prime, EGS and/or GOG? Makes running the respective platforms’ games pretty easy too.
If still using Reddit 1~2 months later, maybe follow them through RSS? I remember coming across RSS bridge tools compatible with Reddit as I looked for other services.
I don’t listen to audiobooks to know any good titles, but sites that sell book bundles also usually have audiobook bundles, so maybe they’re a good starting point for finding titles?
Also, if you use Spotify, I can presume you’re at least not overly against DRM, so maybe you’d be interested in Storytel? Came across it a while back and people seemed to talk well of it, apparently being a subscription-based streaming, but didn’t look for further info on it as I saw it is “DRM’d”.
Cynical as I have become in recent years, I can’t help but to think it’d be due to a VM seldom carrying interesting data for data brokers - your real machine is usually where the “good stuff” is.