I got engaged and travelled across the Atlantic to be with someone I met on irc

Interesting. Any idea why this is happening to SmokeAPI but not cream?

I used to use aptoide for piracy many years ago. I guess that’s not a thing anymore?

A DNS blocker like pihole, nextdns, adguard etc might help with that.

Also even reccomended torrent search engine websites suck and only crawls through some websites is there any you would rec

Stop using these sources and learn how to use qBittorrent with Jackett. You can search hundreds of trackers all ata once in seconds. You won’t miss anything unless it’s literally just not available anywhere.

https://github.com/qbittorrent/search-plugins/wiki/How-to-configure-Jackett-plugin

creamapi and related tools will not get you banned.

Unless you use them on multiplayer games, wouldn’t try that.

Just block the ads with a DNS blocker, like NextDNS.

I feel like it has more to do with the technological advances than being more prone to conflict

I still remember the ordeal of getting through the Fade portion of Origins… it was awful.

The rest of the game was top notch though

I’m cautious about this game. It’s been redeveloped like 3 times into completely different genres, pretty much nothing has been shown about it, and Bioware is nothing like it was years back.

American internet prices are wild.

The more on Lemmy the better, across the board. But convincing them to actually do so seems unlikely unfortunately.

Exist? yes.

Do they work? I have no idea. I’ve never seen anyone use them in like 15+ years.

Could simply be a case of protecting their largest assets incase someone big really did try to replace reddit.

My most upvoted post of all time is about this very issue https://sh.itjust.works/post/2882678

I migrated away from lemmy.world as a result

I did just yesterday, through Prolific. Got paid for it too.

Fair enough. Respect the lack of corporate speak

You’re going to need to give more information than this zero context screenshot. Is this a virus scanner? If so, which? Why are you scanning? What caused this series of events? What’s the full content of this popup?

Absolute worse case scenario: whatever you’re doing will not irreparably damage your PC. If you break windows or whatever you can just wipe your pc and reinstall windows via a usb stick. However, it’s not clear what’s going on here.

How does the process of requesting a street charger work, wouldn’t that require council approval or some such?

Because it doesn’t have millions of users in the EU and near a billion in revenue