Well, YouTube’s music quality is basically trash but if you are happy with it don’t look for alternatives because you won’t find them.

Yeah, and there’s also no contest in terms of library

I don’t use Spotify because it has an abysmal catalog compared to something like YouTube

similar amount of content

Like, a similarly low amount of content?

and wouldn’t be surprised if it requires even physical media to authenticate

Owner of multiple switches, from my experience, you can crack open the box, not connect it to shit, and pop in a game cartridge. Hell, you can even update the system and games without an internet connection so long as you have a switch that’s gotten those updates already.

I don’t remember the buttons to hold, but when you boot a ds game on 3ds, and hold the right buttons, it boots pixel-perfect on a smaller segment of the 3ds screen such that it’s the same exact resolution as a ds screen

The big issue is that the console companies are generally more active in targeting people on more active consoles, and are incredibly strict if you’re caught cheating. Just being connected to psn on a hacked ps3 runs you a very real risk of getting an account ban. I can only imagine they’re far more active in banning ps4/ps5 users who are running hacked firmware. And Idk if there’s been any major hacks on the Xbox side of things.

As a side note, if you want to see a cluster fuck of every hack and cheat imaginable, hit up the original splatoon servers on Wii u. It’s honestly completely insane how much people have broken it

From my experience, it largely depends on how online multi-player is handled. Things that require game-specific accounts or have drm tied to an account like steam, it won’t work. But a lot of stuff on console works fine since it’s presumed that the anti-piracy has already happened. I play plenty of pirated games online on 3ds, Wii u, and psvita

Theoretically (assuming it’s an android) you could use an old phone. I know both mullvad and Proton have vpn clients for Android, and libretorrent works well. And you could plug in an external USB drive for more storage. And then use something like a Chromecast to send things to your tv

without having to connect a cable from my computer to my TV

Honestly, just buy a Chromecast or something. Way less effort

Download a user-friendly torrent client (e.g., qBittorrent, uTorrent).

Isn’t uTorrent, like, malware or something?

Fair point, but unless you’re just interested in seeing something do poorly, leaks can absolutely fuck over somethings chances of success, often with no particular benefit.

Kemono seems to be the best general option. But, like all the options, it relies on a user who pays for the patreon uploading content. It’s also limited in that it just scrapes patreon posts, and doesn’t get things sent out via dm, which is becoming more popular. Your next best option would be the usual suite of image boorus. But those tend to have their own issues, since they aren’t built around scraping bots.

Is there something specific you were looking for? There’s always the chance someone here just already found it and could help out

If it works on your end, no reason to stop using it. The reason they suggested to move elsewhere is because, at the time, there was no indication that j2k had any plans for continued development. Might’ve changed since they put that out, but that’s what they sajd

So entirely irrelevant in the US?

I’m mainly annoyed they didn’t even try the absolute bare minimum of “just say no”, and treated everything kakao did as 100% honest and legitimate. Like, it fucking obviously isn’t. At least don’t publicly call this shit a good faith claim.

They didn’t even fucking try the bare minimum of just refusing to comply. Besides, it’s such a comically baseless case by some fucking worthless gook company. It doesn’t cost tens of thousands of dollars to tell them to shove it up their ass, at the bare minimum.

I mean the eff can only do so much to defend people who didn’t even fucking bother in the slightest to defend themselves and just rolled over at every turn

While many will be understandably angry or disappointed in our lack of backbone or perceived selfishness

At least they’re aware of their deficiencies

For the purposes of practicality, you’re probably safe so long as you don’t have to log in using credentials tied to you. They simply aren’t going to care enough, and will likely just put up some network restrictions if they get a letter from the isp.

But for the purposes of security, yes, you can absolutely be identified. For one, if your device Mac address isn’t spoofed, they can just see what device you used, and skim security footage for someone using it in the right time frame. Even without that, they can just see who was there for the amount of time you were connected, and find you that way. Especially if you do anything that would identify yourself while there (like use a library card).

Let’s be real, that’s the last place anyone would look for a torrent client