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The reasoning is that they are feature rich while not being able to connect to the internet. The frustrating thing is the price. I direct my students to search the used market.

Math teacher here. Yes. It drives me nuts.

Same. As soon as I saw copilot being implemented I made the switch on desktop.

In the early 00s I pirated a lot of music, but now I buy records and pay for streaming because it’s affordable and good.

I used to pirate software but now I just use FOSS because it’s free and good.

I used to pirate games but now I just wait for steam sales, which is cheap and good.

I used to pirate lots of movies and tv shows but then got a Netflix account and it was reasonably priced and good… until it wasn’t. Then I set up a full stack of usenet/ sonarr/ radarr/ overseer/ Jellyfin and boy oh boy is that good.

But now I have a baby and don’t watch tv anymore so I pirate pretty much nothing.

I remember once I pirated a pack of something like 100 000 fonts and I stupidly installed all of them and then Photoshop couldn’t change fonts because it would take like 10 minutes to load them in the drop down menu.

Steam!

I would buy (and play) the heck out of Stray.

Why collaborate with humans when you can collaborate with AI?

Anyone who wants to. I think a lot of LLM trainers access them.

There are plenty of small torrents. Use the torrent generator and tell the script how much space you have and it will give you the “best” (least seeded) torrents whose sum is the size you give it. It doesn’t have to be big, even a few GB is suitable for some smaller torrents.

For anyone wanting to contribute but on a smaller and more feasible scale, you can help distribute their database using torrents.

https://annas-archive.org/torrents