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And cryptocurrency mining. That drove a lot of GPU prices through the roof before the pandemic.

Also, most young kids play games on phones and tablets, because parents don’t need to buy an expensive console or PC.

Check this out this short by a game developer if you want to feel old…

https://youtube.com/shorts/h8ElOpITBjQ

Forum.Rojadirecta.es has nodes dedicated to pretty much any major sporting events: Soccer, NFL, MLB, F1, NBA, Rugby Union, et al.

Mostly they’re direct downloads from sites with way too much advertising, too many popups and misleading links, so they’re best handled with JDownloader2

Actual torrent links are available sometimes.

I disagree somewhat.

A lot of high tech development comes with a greed motive, e.g. IPO, or getting bought out by a large company seeking to enter the space, e.g. Google buying Android, or Facebook buying Instagram and Oculus.

And conversely, a lot of open source software are copies of commercially successful products, albeit they only become widely adopted after the originals have entered the enshittified phase of their life.

Is there a Lemmy without Reddit? Is there a Mastodon without Twitter? Is there LibreOffice without Microsoft Office and decades of commercial word processors and spreadsheets before that? Or OpenOffice becoming enshittified for that matter? Is there qBittorrent without uTorrent enshittified? Is there postgreSQL without IBM’s DB2?

The exception that I can see is social media and networked services that require active network and server resources, like Facebook YouTube, or even Dropbox and Evernote.

Okay, The WELL is still around and is arguably the granddaddy of all online services, and has avoided enshittification, but it isn’t really open source.

Avistaz has the a great selection for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, Thai, Hong Kong content.

If you read the article, evidently the IWW’s customer service was better.

An international union actually makes sense if you think about today’s corporate landscape.

Modern large corps are very international, with facilities for production, distribution, and retail all over the globe, so just striking in one country doesn’t make sense because funds and production can be shifted so quickly to a different city, state, or country.

The pandemic demonstrated how tightly connected the supply chains are, so striking just one or a few parts can have ripple effects on the bottom line.

The Internet version of QVC or Home Shopping Network that previous generations used to watch.

I’m neutral impoverished.

Yep, signed up for it next week at Walgreens.

Will the building rent the space to a reasonable, down-to-earth restaurant or cafe?

Or will they let it sit empty, hoping for someone to pay ridiculous rent for it?

There are 3 Round1’s already in the Bay Area: Concord, Hayward, San Jose

And where there isn’t one, there’s a Dave & Busters

Capitalist: Kids, now you too can come and experience the Craft of Mining! Here’s your personized helmet lamp and pickaxe! Anything useful that you dig up belongs to me. Notresponsibleforsideeffectssuckasdeathandinjury.

Related: Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao demands Athletics name stays in Oakland for Coliseum lease extension https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/ostler/article/mayor-demand-a-s-name-stays-oakland-fisher-18331367.php Archived version: https://archive.ph/ii5TC

p.s. Get Bent Fisher!

Get thee to eD2K.
They have a smattering of magazines back to the 70s. It’s far from a complete archive, and the scan quality varies tremendously but it’s there.

Otherwise, try to get an empornium account. Nearly everything porn ever is there.

To continue my travails:

Httrack didn’t do a great job: It was slow, even copying from the same machine, and it flattened the directory structure of the website it was writing, making it almost un-navigable.

Here’s where Cyotek WebCopy shines: It’s copying the website from SurfOffline’s database webserver quickly, so I should have the entire website re-extracted very soon!

Then ye need plenty of wenches! And he-wenches and nonbinary wenches, if ye be that way!

And grog! Plenty of grog!

The problem with older media is that you have to actively create torrents, the tracker might fold, etc.

With eD2K, it’s very old school P2P filesharing, just give it a directory and the files on it are shared on the network.

Of course, the “push” part to torrent tracker sites isn’t as active.

I use both torrents and eD2K, depending on what I’m looking for.

Cries in Street Fighter…

I installed and played around with ArchiveBox after your suggestion.

The login/cookie copying function seems to be oriented to how Chromium is installed on Linux, which I don’t have up and running in any meaningful way, and there doesn’t seem to be any support place where I can ask questions.

Okay, I found SurfOffline that does the trick without too much hassle, but…

It’s verrrrrrrry slooooooooow.

It uses Internet Explorer as a module, and calls each individual resource separately, instead of file copying from IE’s cache, which is weird and slow, especially when hundreds of images are involved.

And SurfOffline doesn’t appear to be supported anymore, i.e. the support email’s inbox is full.

edit: Aaaaand SurfOffline doesn’t save to .html files with a directory structure!!! It stores everything in some kind of sql database, and it only saves to .mht and .chm files, which are deprecated Microsoft help file formats!!!

What it does have is a built in web server that only works while the program is running.

So what I plan to do is have the program up but doing nothing, while I sick Httrack on the 127.0.0.1 web address for my ripped website.

Httrrack will hopefully “extract” the website to .html format.

Whew, what a hassle!