SaltySalamander

It isn’t shitty behavior to expect people doing work getting paid for the work.

Because you have a shit dentist. I’ve had them recommended to me by my dentist for at least 25 years.

the speed of even the healthiest torrents pales in comparison

Again, private trackers. =) I can easily saturate the 2.5Gbps ethernet port on my work PC. Haven’t tried pushing the full 10gig link yet, don’t want to draw attention to myself since it’s only supposed to be 2. It would have no problem though. Private torrents are seeded by seedboxes typically. And torrent longevity on private trackers beats usenet longevity, because some people never stop seeding.

I download a copyrighted work and get a strongly worded letter from my ISP

So stop downloading from public trackers. Get into private trackers.

You either do it, or someone else will do it and start impersonating you. People with any kind of public/online presence sorta have to unfortunately.

Good.

That makes me MORE annoyed, tbh.

Where should people like me go to if I need help?

Here. Just don’t delete the question after you get your answer.

and is entirely un-reliant on anyone else’s

I’m guessing you coded your own OS that isn’t dependent on updates from repositories you don’t control?

Naturally, I told them to go fuck themselves and installed Jellyfin. And donated 10x what a ‘Plex Pass’ would have cost to the guy that made the Samsung-Tizen-Jellyfin-Installer thingummy. Because, well, fuck Plex.

And then they all clapped.

No, Plex is not self-hosting

Just because you have a poor understanding of what “self-hosting” is, doesn’t make a Plex server running on your own hardware NOT self-hosting.

You don’t control the Netflix server, AT ALL. How is this hard to comprehend?

Blocked.

It’d be the first thing I bypassed in a car.

It would seem to me that npm simply cannot be trusted anymore.

You’re using public trackers, so you’re probably not in the habit of being a seeder. With private trackers, you HAVE to seed. Deleting a torrent from your client once it’s finished is most certainly a habit you will have to break once you finally do get into some private trackers.

sustenance*

Translation: you feel that authors should go back to working a regular job.

Such as?

Don’t do it, mate. Ya’ll split for a reason. It never ends better the 2nd time than the 1st.