Things that will make your computer meaningfully faster:
Replacing a HDD with an SSD
Adding RAM
Graphics cards if you're nasty
Uninstalling resource hogs like Norton or McAfee (if you're using Windows then the built-in Windows Security is perfectly fine; if you're using a mac consider bitdefender as a free antivirus or eset as a less resource intensive paid option)
Customizing what runs on startup for your computer
Things that are likely to make internet browsing specifically meaningfully faster:
Installing firefox and setting it up with ublock origin
adding the Auto Tab Discard extension to firefox to sleep unused tabs so that they aren't constantly reloading
Closing some fucking tabs bud I'm sorry I know it hurts I'm guilty of this too
Things that will make your computer faster if you are actually having a problem:
Running malwarebytes and shutting down any malicious programs it finds.
Correcting disk utilization errors
Things that will make your computer superficially faster and may slightly improve your user experience temporarily:
Clearing cache and cookies on your browser
Restarting the computer
Changing your screen resolution
Uninstalling unused browser extensions
Things that do not actually make your computer faster:
Deleting files
Registry cleaners
Defragging your drive
Passively wishing that your computer was faster instead of actually just adding more fucking RAM.
This post is brought to you by the lady with the 7-year-old laptop that she refuses to leave overnight for us to run scans on or take apart so that we can put RAM in it and who insists on coming by for 30-minute visits hoping we can make her computer faster.
While I by no means want to side with Netflix or any streaming platform really, I will say that something I don’t see brought up in the in the Pro-Pirating posts is that, at the very least, the pirating sites I’m aware of, don’t have subtitles.
I am not deaf nor hard of hearing, however I do prefer subtitles on whenever I can get them. I am easily distracted and my mind wanders so being able to just see what the characters are saying keeps me from having to rewind a few seconds to hear what they said again.
But unless the site is dedicated to subbed anime, most pirate streaming sites I’ve encountered don’t include subtitles. This is an annoyance to me, but to anyone who’s deaf or hard of hearing it makes these sites basically a non-starter.