Professional software engineer, musician, gamer, stoic, democratic socialist
Oh come on. What’s next?
“Child pornography is just a really big number, after all.”
“I didn’t murder anyone, I just rearranged some atoms. We’re all just really big collections of atoms after all.”
If you remove enough semantic layers, you can make anything sound benign.
I’m not anti-piracy, I just think these lines of argumentation are so flimsy as to be entirely worthless for the cause.
ChatGPT really can’t, even when asked specifically to align them.
Flash is actually coming back to life via WebAssembly of all things.
PIA does
FWIW I tried the Helix mode in Zed, and it was missing lots of Helix bindings that I rely on.
NixOS, fish, tmux, Helix, jj
Nothing specific, but I was very pleased with how easily I could download some movies from jellyfin to my laptop before my flight home.
The new DK looked really fun to me, is it not?
Maybe a dumb question: What exactly could go wrong? Has the MPAA done anything to stifle Kodi?
Care to suggest a model? I haven’t seen anything that cheap.
I was going to try ripping a Blu-ray that I bought recently, since I couldn’t find a quality rip anywhere
I don’t have first-hand experience, but I’ve heard that the linux version of MakeMKV does work; though I’ve seen some issues reported in the forum. MakeMKV is even available on nixpkgs.
I don’t know about MicroSD longevity, but I’ve heard BluRay and in particular M-Disc can last 100-1000 years of something crazy. So for archive, it might still be a good option.
I really hope streaming doesn’t become the only option, because even with >1Gbps internet, streaming services generally do not deliver as good of quality as I can get from something like a bluray. Even HBO and Netflix have very noticeable lossy compression.
I’ll give it a read! I wouldn’t have expected much relevant info on the Arch Wiki.
Got it, thanks for the correction. I had never heard of Pioneer before; I must’ve misinterpreted what I was reading on the forums.
Thank you! I found it on Anna’s Archive.
Sadly it didn’t have this one :(
It is safer if it’s an HTTPS link.