I'm talking about on your own machine. Obviously it's different if you're using a work-controlled machine that you don't control.
Defender, on your own machine that you control, never completely stops you from installing things. Seems you just don't know how to ignore the defender warnings lol.
It’s also a fscking mess to set up a Usenet downloader, especially since it’d be a bunch of buggy weird stuff ending with -arr in the names and web UIs.
It's really not. You pretty much need to just put in some api keys for your indexer, downloader, and provider, and away you go.
In Usenet messages are replicated over all services offering that newsgroup. I hope the downsides are clear.
What downsides are you talking about in regards to downloading content from usenet?
It's not like it's just some server in some persons house. They're hosted by companies on server farms that have guaranteed uptime figures and most have 2000+ day retention of data. I've been using it for 10+ years and have never had any server failure type issues.
Just an FYI - your phone is physically bigger than most current 6.3” screen phones like the iPhone 16 Pro and Pixel 10 Pro. The S25 is significantly smaller too.
I’d assume most people bothering to moderate, even on Reddit, intend to do a good job with every report, but being overworked forces people’s hand.
Nah, most people who become mods do it because they love the power that it gives them to be important and to silence anyone they disagree with.
You thinking you got banned from Reddit for criticizing trump or anything "GOP" is hilarious.
You can call BS, sure, but nothing happens other than the mods/admins just banning you as well and/or covering their tracks better. It's no better than reddit in actually preventing bullshit mod actions.
It's not - it's always up to the mod/admin's discretion to tell you the reason why you were banned, and just like on reddit it's usually bullshit that they won't elaborate on.
I have been banned from multiple communities that I've never even so much as visited, let alone commented in or posted a topic on, with zero reason given. I've messaged the mod who did it (after they tried to hide it by having the log just say "mod" instead of their username, but there is a way to find out the actual mods name), and they just ignore the messages.
You’re the one who confused the issue though lol.
We want immigration paused until we can fix the housing crisis, as increasing the population by 400-500k+ per year while we have nowhere to even house a lot of the people already here is just making it worse. This is indisputable. More demand with same supply = higher prices and worse availability.
You think we’re saying immigration caused the housing crisis. We’re not. I’ve specifically told you that many times…….yet you still say that’s what we’re saying. You’re arguing in “bad faith” because you know you made a mistake but refuse to correct it.
Did you even read it? The ABS statement doesn’t go against what I said.
OAD is not net overseas migration (NOM), correct. NOM figures for 2 years ago, however, were 1500 new immigrants per day. Last year it was 1220 per day. Since we don’t have the total NOM for this year we don’t know the latest per day figures, but outside of exceptional circumstances like Covid, the OAD and NOM are closely related since the NOM is a subset of the OAD.
Also did you notice that the ABS didn’t tell us what the current estimate of NOM is, or how many are coming in per day who are on visas that mean they will be staying? Did you stop to wonder why that is?
“It’s not 1500!” but refusing to give an actual number is pretty telling. It could be 1400 which is the same as 1500 for all that matters, and the ABS aren’t lying.
And after all of that, the main point is that even if it’s only 200 per day, that’s 200 more people every day who need to find a house to live in at a time when we’re in a severe housing available crisis! Do you not see how that keeps compounding the problem?
It’s better because it basically has everything that torrent sites have, since the same groups upload everything to both, but it’s all done over SSL encrypted connections so your ISP can’t see what you’re downloading, so you don’t need a VPN and you are downloading directly from servers so it’s much faster and you don’t have to worry about the number of seeders, nor do you have to seed yourself. You have many different providers you can sign up to, and many different indexers to help find what you are looking for. It also can download parts of the same content from different sources and combine them to make a whole.
Once you’ve tried it, torrenting feels so amateur and insecure and outdated. Ideally you just set up both, which is what I have done with transmission running in a docker container with a built in VPN, but the torrents are the “last resort” when the content I want can’t be found on Usenet - which is very rarely.
One of the biggest issues here is, like reddit, most of the ban actions are shown as just being done by "mod", not giving the specific mod account that did it.