#Website Load Time

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

i'm begging you guys to start pirating shit from streaming platforms. there are so many websites where you can stream that shit for free, here's a quick HOW TO:

1) Search for: watch TITLE OF WORK free online

2) Scroll to the bottom of results. Click any of the "Complaint" links

3) You will be taken to a long list of links that were removed for copyright infringement. Use the 'find' function to search for the name of the show/movie you were originally searching for. You will get something like this (specifics removed because if you love an illegal streaming site you don't post its url on social media)

4) each of these links is to a website where you can stream shit for free. go to the individual websites and search for your show/movie. you might have to copy-paste a few before you find exactly what you're looking, but the whole process only takes a minute. the speed/quality is usually the same as on netflix/whatever, and they even have subtitles! (make sure to use an adblocker though, these sites are funded by annoying popups)

In conclusion, if you do this often enough you will start recognizing the most dependable websites, and you can just bookmark those instead. (note: this is completely separate from torrenting, which is also a beautiful thing but requires different software and a vpn)

you can also download the media in question (look for a "download" button built into the video window, or use a browser extension such as Video DownloadHelper.)

[grimark]

i love how in the first two seasons of doctor who, Mickey Smith, regular human guy who i am led to believe works as a car mechanic, has absolutely unparalleled hacking skills just whenever the plot requires it. first time it happened it was bc the doctor gave him the top secret UNIT password that lets any random dickhead with a laptop fire a missile out of a submarine directly at london. but all on his own he's casually clicked his way into high security military databases at least twice since then. if you were a character on a tv show in the 2000s, just knowing how to turn a computer on was enough to give you hacker superpowers.

[telesilla]

Not gonna go out on this limb on a 25k post, but maybe it’s okay that kids today don’t know as much about using an actual computer as we do/did? Is it useful knowledge? Of course it is. So is using a sewing machine or being able to rebuild your VW with a copy of that one book every VW driver used to have. That’s not the right question—most practical knowledge is useful after all. The question should be “is it relevant to the way people live right now.” “How to Keep Your VW Alive” is a timeless fucking classic; my ex and I kept our copy long after he sold his VW. But I’m not buying a copy now because it won’t exactly help me keep my VW ID4 on the road.

And it’s funny, because I tend to read along with those posts and nod my head, because back in my day we HAD to know all that computer stuff. And then for some reason today, I remembered a conversation my mom and I had with my grandma in the mid 70s when I was a teenager. Grandma made my mom’s wedding dress. She worked at a department store doing alterations on foundation wear, which if you look at 1950s foundation wear, you’ll realize was both necessary and difficult. So she was shocked when I said most of my friends didn’t know their way around a sewing machine. “But how do you make sure your clothes fit?!” Well, Grandma, people don’t wear heavy foundation wear any more and clothes don’t need to be as tailored as they did back in the day—it’s 1975 and the only alterations I need to do is hemming my flares so they just touch the floor when I’m wearing platforms.

Now you can back up and look at the broader picture, the one that says, but your car should be repairable by you as long as you have clear instructions, and you should be able to alter your clothes or make your own, and yes, you should know how to organize the files on the desktop of your laptop. But the fact that for the most part it’s become easier and easier to just not do those things (if they can be done at all) isn’t exactly the fault of Kids Today. And it’s certainly not meeting them where they are or even trying to understand why they feel they don’t need that knowledge if, instead of looking at why they don’t have it and maybe even don’t need it, you just decry their lack of the Deep Wisdom.

[pocketgalaxies]

have tumblr loading times turned into a miserable crotchety shadow of their former selves for everyone? please say yes

[danielnelsen]

update: peach is doing very well!! she's eating and sleeping normally (sleeping more than normal, really, but that's to be expected)!! after 3 days of not sleeping and a few changes in painkillers, she finally just napped for an hr then, after another day, slept through the whole night (and most of the next day). she's started following all her usual routines again and is very keen to eat! still on some painkillers, but they're not having any horrific side effects anymore

now that im not staying up to keep an eye on her all night (while also dealing with upgrading my computer and my phone and also my sister preparing to go overseas and the dogs barking and howling constantly due to all of the above), i finally got some decent sleep too and slept for about 14 hrs. so today ive got that weird shakiness that i get from sleeping too much, but hey it's better than the whole of the last week

[solcarow]

stop saying people's art are better than yours !!! if you wanna make a comment about it just tell them you want to incorporate some aspects of their style into your own or smth like that bc talking shit about your art at someone is weird !! especially if you point out that theyre younger than you !!! you gotta know your art isnt terrible you just havent practiced certain techniques you want to see in your own work !!!!!! be proud of the progress youve made even if its the first step of a fetus jfc !!!! have respect for your own art no matter how bad it might look to you

[minglana]

train service is so shit that you cant even fucking look at train trips (even for tomorrow) in the renfe website. hell service

[snowflop]

Starting to think computers are actually the work of a dark and twisted demonic force.

[sandara-and-coco]

I’m starting things cool with friendly attack for Cheri hot brother ✨️Amyntas✨️ @stitchesofsoulsart

[black-plumbob]

I've confirmed that I still don't like Sims 3, so I'm not even going to try playing anymore lol. Anyway, I've just gotten things set up on my win7, so I'm about to test it out. If things go well, I'm going to create some additional users so I can separate my CC folders easier (I want to make a user for my Victorian saves, then I may venture into a medieval save).

[taylortruther]

i fucking hate how genius categorizes every album by variant, version, release, "chapter," whatever. like. who does this help re: looking up lyrics! this is ANNOYING!

[button-phobia-is-real]

on the off chance anyone has noticed: im (hopefully) back after an involuntary break from tumblr!

[stillcominback]

🎀 🎀 🎀

[babbyspinchh]

wifi on laptop started shutting down on its own after 5 mins of having my pc turned which is beyond aggravating but after MINDLEES amount of restarts and checking around various settings and the problem still never fixing i concluded i need to download a newer network adapter.....and i even found one from my phone..........HOWEVER.............how can i do this when my net keeps dying

[ezlo-x]

oh btw im opening commissions soon! :] I added a new commission feature (?) so i can't wait to share it!

[postmakerkiwi]

if anyone was thinking about making every single parental control attachment for wifi networks explode into dust now would be a great time to do that