[-] sappyduck@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

thats good to hear that its been generally a smooth process from the couple people talking about their experiences, i havent gotten around to it yet but i appreciate your perspective! might update here on how it goes

[-] sappyduck@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago

and yet, i can see communities that arent on lemmy.world and in fact was calling someone who doesnt use lemmy.world a super-redditor... fascinating...

[-] sappyduck@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

This is awesome, thank you! I'll check out your suggestions.

[-] sappyduck@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Thanks for the reply, but again, very unhelpful. Of course I've heard about lichess, it's my main platform. I'm not looking for lichess. I'm looking for chessbase. You can't imagine pirating chess software because you don't seem to be in the chess ecosystem enough to know the differences between the softwares available. Lichess provides a wholly different service than chessbase.

[-] sappyduck@lemmy.world -3 points 2 days ago

lol, im getting the vibe. seems the majority of content is bots reposting articles from other sites and these super-redditors in the comment sections

should have expected as much, im trying to give decentralized social media a chance because i love the concept but matrix is a barren wasteland of empty rooms and lemmy is... this. too bad i dont like the twitter format, i heard bluesky has a nice community.

[-] sappyduck@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

thanks for the reply, but its rather unhelpful. im a FOSS contributor already and frankly this does not address my question at all. i know what i want and why, and nobody here seems to grasp that concept.

also, suggesting to someone who you assumed has no experience with FOSS (given that you felt the need to explain that people are able to contribute to open source software) to ai generate PRs to other peoples projects is quite honestly a deplorable thing to do.

[-] sappyduck@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

thanks for taking the time to respond to my post, i guess ill just start finagling around with it. i normally use steams proton for windows apps anyway. i appreciate the suggestion.

as for the concerns, they don't need to be addressed here because i am following the ToS in my post and the software itself is not the purpose of the post. ask any tournament level chess player, none of them pay for chessbase for good reasons that i dont need to detail here because it's irrelevant to the topic.

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I recently moved back from windows to fedora again. (Boo windows, whatever, i was forced to use it for school, and they wouldn't let me run it in a hypervisor. That's not the point of the post.)

I don't pirate software often, but sometimes it's morally warranted. In this case, the software that i want to use (chessbase) costs upwards of $220 for a license in my country and it's not even all that great, but FOSS alternatives like en croissant and pawn appetite aren't too spectacular either. For instance, one issue with both of them is that engines refuse to calculate any set-up position where a king is castled, citing "invalid castling rights." Unfortunately, because of these kinds of issues, chessbase is still somehow the leading industry standard for localized chess software. I'm not gonna die without a copy of chessbase, but the alternatives are not well maintained and id like to use it to store my PGNs and whatnot, but the price is egregious for what it is.

Now that that's all out of the way, how has your experience been using windows keygen software and other tools for the seven seas on linux? I haven't even bothered trying because last time i tried to use bottles for (legal) windows software i ran into issue after issue. All of my piracy has only been committed on windows because i just never really needed to pirate anything on linux and it seemed like a hassle anyway considering illegal software distributions are all made and shipped natively for windows, and linux has free alternatives for almost everything.

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