Are you from 2003?

Support for classic bombs was dropped in the latest firmware update.

Kyocera Ecosys M5526cdn

I deactivated DHCP and gave it a fixed IP. The ticking stopped.

Yes, I hired a lawyer for consultation.
Since I was very poor at the time, I could get the cost for it reimbursed from the state, after laying bare my finances in front of a judge.

As for the seriousness, the legal firm moving against me had opened a case before a court in Munich (500km from where I lived) and I had to plead my case in writing to the court.
Next step after a lot of legalese back and forth would have been a summons before the court in person, which didn’t happen. The letters just stopped.

In the end, I paid 60€ for fees and postage. They had wanted me to pay 2000€ to settle and my lawyer told me if it goes before a judge, worst probable outcome would have been 600€ in court and lawyer fees.

Why do we measure fuel consumption in l/100km and not in μm²?

Almost no one uses Linux client PCs for work, except for developers.

Sinn machen ist außerdem seit hunderten von Jahren geläufig.

Ein Arbeitskollege von mir glaubt nicht an den Wetterbericht, er meint die lügen nur. Er glaubt auch nicht an Sonnencreme.

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The way they catch you is by downloading a complete “Linux ISO” you seeded. Their log from that download shows your IP and that’s the evidence.

So either don’t seed a complete “ISO”, or use a VPN from a provider that will laugh at info requests from German lawyers.

Safest way is to make sure you only torrent Linux ISOs that can be legally shared according to their copyright license, of course ;)

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Yeah, “don’t do anything” is horribly advice, at least in Germany.
I managed to avoid the lawsuit by showing the lawyers who wanted to fleece me that I had legal representation and collected enough evidence in my favor to make it difficult.
All they had was a file and an IP address.
It was a back-and-forth of letters between me, them and the court, which eventually refused to formally open a trial.

The data will be safe to play on a linux box.
Whether you’ll be safe depends on where you live and whether you have a VPN in a different country.

I had to fight off a law suit for over 2 years over a single movie I torrented someone on my network allegedly torrented from Piratebay (Germany).

Parent is already an abbreviation.
It’s short for “pays rent”.

percentage of matches won

Ja. Der Titel der Warnmeldung war allerdings auf Arabisch.

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Wenn Putin einmarschiert, kriegen die Grenzbewohner das ja auch so früh genug mit.