• retro@infosec.pubEnglish
      603·
      6 个月前

      Best of luck with your endless tech support anytime something doesn’t work.

    • jawa21@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      241·
      6 个月前

      This ties into the comment I was going to make separately. For context, my dad recently passed. First father’s day without him. My mom asked to watch a movie that meant something to the both of them because they saw it together in a drive in on release and it was very memorable because the technology and techniques used were fascinating at the time. She complained that it wasn’t on Disney+ or anywhere.

      You may have guessed it, but she requested Song of the South. One serious moral quandary later, I got it ready for her to watch.

      Tomorrow is gonna be rough, but at least my sailing might bring some good memories for her.

    • Xyre@lemmus.orgEnglish
      873·
      6 个月前

      I tried that once. They never watched the show and didn’t give back the USB. 🙁

      • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        486·
        6 个月前

        USBs nowadays are a dime a dozen basically for 16GB sticks

        They can literally be bought in 10 packs for less than $30.

        If they don’t give one back nowadays so be it.

        Back in the day it was a terrible loss though

        • key@lemmy.keychat.orgEnglish
          12·
          6 个月前

          I wonder if you applied inflation from the time that idiom was first popularized what the modern price would be.

          • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            9·
            6 个月前

            I had to look into it because once you mentioned that I was curious.

            So the saying originated sometime before 1930 when it first appeared in print and likely in the 1800s. (Source)

            And when I went to an inflation calculator the earliest date I could select was January of 1913. Which I couldn’t help but share the results of.

            About $3.20.

            Source

            So yeah, about a dime a dozen… 111 years ago lol.

            • Vespair@lemm.eeEnglish
              3·
              6 个月前

              Which is interesting, because the point of the phrase is to imply something is so commonplace that it practically has no value. It’s so commonplace you can get a dozen of them for a dime!

              So technically while the relative value of the dime in this phrase decreases, the relative value of the phrase itself increases as the dime’s value ever further approaches negligible, ever better emphasizing the point!

              Words are fun.

        • viking@infosec.pubEnglish
          7·
          6 个月前

          I stopped bothering with sticks the moment you could get 1TB SSDs for less than 100 bucks. They are hardly larger than a stick at this point, and with USB-C 3.2 also pretty damn fast.

    • akilou@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      16·
      6 个月前

      Welcome to Wrexham.

      Not the kind of guy who’d watch something from a USB. Technically not a co-worker but a former co-worker, because he retired a couple of years ago.

    • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
      14·
      6 个月前

      I did this for a coworker not too long ago.

      I think it was for Firefly…

      They gave the USB drive back too. Win-win

    • fin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      69·
      6 个月前

      Isn’t that too risky though? That can be an evidence when argued in the court

      • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        31·
        6 个月前

        If your coworkers are the level of douche bag that they might take you to court, then probably don’t even talk about your favorite show with them

        • fin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          87·
          6 个月前

          It’s not necessarily deliberate. Your coworkers could be distributing the copy to someone else and police’s gonna find out where it comes from

            • fin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              31·
              6 个月前

              I don’t know where you’re from but in my country, police are cyber-patrolling (lol) to hunt down illegal contents.

              Edit: I remember it’s a piracy community

              • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
                4·
                6 个月前

                I would think that cyber ops would be more concerned with fraud, underage sexual content, sexual predators… That kind of stuff.

                Usually the MPAA sues people for distributing video content, and in many places, they’re not super aggressive about it.

                • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                  4·
                  6 个月前

                  If they are going after sneaker net distribution, this is the most inefficient use of resources ever! As a taxpayer I would be outraged to hear about something like this. I can’t imagine this being an issue outside of N. Korea

      • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
        2·
        6 个月前

        Or from the other side, taking a random ass USB stick from someone you barely know? Nah. Who the hell knows what it could be infested with.

  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.eeEnglish
    571·
    6 个月前

    On the open meadows of the freeinternet,
    where the gentle breeze touches all equally,
    where the people are friends,
    and the money is spent on FOSS devs & smol gaming studios.

  • Queue@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    51·
    6 个月前

    If someone is unaware of piracy: Tell them.

    If someone is aware of piracy and doesn’t care: “I don’t really know, I just got it off of a torrent site.”

    If someone is aware of piracy and cares too much for a company they don’t work for: You can ignore them.

  • SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    34·
    6 个月前

    I just respond with a hearty “yeeearghhhh!” and continue the conversation. The coworkers that know get it, the rest think I’m a lunatic.

    • BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      102·
      6 个月前

      That’s what shocked me at work. I’ve been pirating since limewire and then comes this 40-something Y/O mom, not even nerdy or computer savvy or something, and gives a performance like she’s already found the OnePirce and wanted to be the next Anne Bonny.

  • jabathekek@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    231·
    6 个月前

    “Oh, I download it from well known and respected torrent sites. All the services I might use are crap.”

  • Muscar@discuss.onlineEnglish
    19·
    6 个月前

    I get this almost daily, my whole family and several friends know I’m good at recommending things to them so they always go to me to ask what to watch. I’ve had to start looking up and writing down where each movie and show is available “normally”. I have no issue saying I get everything via other means but whem it became a thing where people started asking “can you also look up where it’s available” just because it’s not always easy to figure that out and they knew I didn’t know and generally find it quicker than them.

    • simon574@feddit.deEnglish
      12·
      6 个月前

      It’s more difficult in Europe. For example, when South Park: Post Covid released on Paramount+ in the US, there was no legal way to steam it in Germany or Austria AFAIR. And these are not exactly third-world countries.