Pika

I remember that. They actually had quite a bit of trouble when they first tried to establish as an officially licensed company because of the fact that their initial user base was sailing the seas.

I don’t doubt it with some of the translations I’ve seen. I think it would be better for them to just release the main content and then release subtitles further on down the road, But I assume there’s probably some sort of accessibility law that forbids them from doing that.

It just gets super annoying watching a show and either having poor quality subtitles or subtitles that blatantly spoil parts of the series.

For example, in one piece

I use subtitles because I have ADHD, And as part of that, it makes it so I struggle to keep up with audio versus comprehending it and subtitles give me a short delay of being able to catch up and still be able to read the text to understand what happened. when the subtitles are broken, I end up hard focusing on that. or get lost requiring me to rewind. Super annoying.

I should clarify it depends on your definition of fan. When you’re making a derivative work, there’s two versions. There’s fan which is The person is enthusiastic about the content and then there is the intellectual property variation of it, which is someone who is doing it for non-commercial reasons under fair use(or said countries equivalent). However, once you start requiring money for said process, it removes the protections the creator has shielding it and generally changes the definition to that version.

Additionally, I agree a donation jar would be much better, but even then it’s been shown that that doesn’t resolve all liability because fan projects have been taken down for having a donation button even though the project itself is free, heck projects have been taken down for having advertisements on the projects website despite having nothing to do with said project

Sadly, this can be said about actual streaming services as well. There’s some episodes on Crunchyroll on even big name titles like One Piece is very clear that they took the episode and threw it through some sort of subtitle auto generator because it won’t line up with what they’re saying. And I don’t mean like they don’t align or they’re out of sync. That does happen as well. What I mean is like it will say Fred on the show, but it will say the word bread on the screen.

I don’t get it, because a service that is licensing the shows shouldn’t need to use a service like that, because shouldn’t the original source have that information? It makes me wonder if those big streaming services are still pirating the smaller things, like subtitles.

Not really a fan translation service if they’re requiring payment.

I can’t say I blame them tbh I think I would do the same

Real time ip blocking while keeping the judge requirement? Idk how real time that process is going to be unless they just keep a judge on standby for all events.

Least I assume this system will need judicial review prior to actually sending the block out, otherwise this system is so prime for abuse it isn’t even funny. They don’t state penalties for abuse, they don’t state how they get the data, they don’t state a specific method of how to block.

There’s so much info(or lack of) that is just concerning if there isn’t actually a judicial review and it’s just the IP holders sounding the alarm.

It’s a cat and mouse game. They’re constantly doing this. Just wait a little while and ublock should find a way around the block.

If you have no driveway, where are you currently parking? Level 1 or 2 chargers just connect to an exterior outlet on the house, so you could just plug it in via cable, so you don’t have to have it in a garage. You may risk having someone steal your electrical cables, though, if you don’t have some way of locking the cable to your house.

Personally speaking, intentionally not using or collecting credit in this world is dumb. It’s shooting yourself in the foot for basically everything longterm wise. This can be from rental agreements to buying a house to buying a car. Anything that needs to show trustworthiness. It’s stupid, but it’s how this world operates.

I would highly recommend reconsidering your mentality that you’ve given up on credit.

Also regarding the fraud. Hopefully you are currently mid battle on that because it’s not fair for you to have bad credit due to identity fraud and generally when proven that someone stole your identity they reverse all charges(for you) and reverse the credit score that went with it., After all, you never actually spent the money. But that’s a long and lengthy battle

I want to clarify, by prepaid I expect that you mean a secured credit card right because prepaid cards you can find at stores are meant to rip you off and charge large fees for usage and charging.

Personally I recommend discover, they offer stupid simple secured cards and after a year or so usually they give your deposit back and upgrade it to a standard credit card

ok that makes more sense, thank you

firmly agree. It’s all about the presentation. For example, using what was provided above the act of just saying no was a neutral sentence. Adding afterward that that’s just sus changed it from being a neutral to a negative because now you’re accusing the other person of being sketchy/sus,without providing the ability to prove otherwise. That I find rude.

I think I agree with most of the replies here saying that the way it was handled was rude. If the opening response to me talking to someone was like that, I would feel like, okay, who pissed in your cheerios and I would have walked off.

Like others have said, there’s more to the solution than a yes or no. I personally think “depends on the favor” , is a very appropriate response, or a “maybe what do you want” Or if you’re planning on saying no regardless, do it how you did, without calling the other person creepy, its just extremly rude to assume someone is a creep while also shutting them down before they can actually talk.

I’ve read this four times now and I can’t comprehend what they’re talking about.

So is this going to lower or raise the price? Because it sounds like they’re advocating torwards being against low prices? I don’t understand

Now that I’ve read it a second time, it sounds like they’re trying to keep the price low and it backfired because now it sounds like they’ve lost market share which is causing the price to recoil downward again?

ah, there is it. My reader isn’t supported by fprintd so I guess I wouldn’t benefit from this change. I’m glad I saw this before I decided to give mint another go

This right here is what really grinds my gears. When companies own an IP, refuse to do anything on it, and then engage in litigation when someone makes a fan-based project against that IP, or someone redistributes their IP that they’re no longer selling.

Either ride the horse or leave the stable.

chiming in, even excluding self host, I wouldn’t recommend wix, their sites are so bloated and take forever for me to load, and I’ve had Firefox just straight refuse to load pages before that are wix run.

it’s the only way to run the platform in my mind. It removes a lot of the hive mind aspect of it letting you just enjoy the platform how you want and give /your/ opinion of things instead of others opinions of things. I’ve had my scores disabled since a month or two after I started and it’s been so much more enjoyable.

Ontario had the right idea imo, embargo US goods and then push through the struggles. Sadly it seems they were the only one willing to play hard ball. Everyone else folded like a deck of cards.