It’s hard looking for giveaways, and usually the games given away on Steam aren’t that good. So, I’m back to pirating after a bit of a hiatus.

  • @hfkldjbuq@beehaw.org
    -6•2 years ago

    Pirating software is risky. Never doing that unless in a VM. I also do not find it justified to pirate entertainment like videogames. And pirating software in general I also do not find justified because there are great and better free software alternatives, unless you really need it.

    I find it mostly justified to pirate knowledge, science, …

    • @inmorteveritas
      3•2 years ago

      I agree and disagree in the same time. I agree with the point that free and open source software should be the way and make pirating obsolete. But some software, especially games, have no counterpart in FOSS software. On software side in example never find a good one source alternative to Adobe Acrobat.

      • @hfkldjbuq@beehaw.org
        2•2 years ago

        LibreOffice Draw, Okular, Xournal++, LaTeX, … i also use a 4.9 version of Master PDF Editor. https://itsfoss.com/pdf-editors-linux/

        Look I did not see this was a game piracy community. And I was hypocritical about games because I used to piracy old plastation 2, Wii, … games. I also did that with music, movies, shows, … but I still feel like I can live without most of the content I pirated; only some of these media I have taken for life but they became valuable enough for me to purchase.

        • @inmorteveritas
          1•1 year ago

          Thanks for your suggestions. Unfortunately, I tested them all. For example, I write documentation in LaTeX or Markdown. For adding text or marking something most software you named are great but acrobat is more powerful and can change the PDF on original places with something remarkable like font recognition. Not that I like the Adobe environment, absolutely not, but I have to admit no one beats acrobat. So I used pandoc most of the time to convert PDF to Markdown and back. So long as the PDF has OCR text is great. If not, I decided to make a new PDF instead of changing the old one. This is to much hassle with FOSS software.