They used to not be that way. I have 5 devices (couple connects, amps and plays) that I’ve kept on S1. Haven’t gotten any new features, but never lost any in their whole S2 debacle. Going 10+ years strong.

Honestly my money is kind of on the US starting the next one.

Edited title to reflect the question is about countries, the groups that actually control the militaries, vs demographic groups.

I remember Walmart tried to go into Germany and failed because they didnt understand the culture there. Greeters turned most people off for example.

I’ve honestly never used it for playback but since it can rip 4K at 2x-4x playback speed I would assume it’d be just fine. The issue is the system you build would have to have a card that can output Atmos bitstreams as well as HDR.

As for ripping performance I’m over 500 DVD, BD, 4K and it’s doing great. You do have to give it 30 minutes between 4K discs to cool down.

Sadly no. He packed it up about 6 months ago. However if you can get your hands on an ASUS BW-16D1HT, you can flash the firmware yourself. I could have done that but he was offering it for a negligible difference and it was just quicker to do that method.

I bought a modified BD drive from a person who was flashing libredrive supported firmware and then got a registered copy of MakeMKV.

It’s been stupid simple for me to rip any BD or 4K disc that I can get my hands on. If you choose the “backup” option it spits it out to a folder structure which then use mkisofs to create an iso of things.

Honestly my biggest problem is constantly running out of hard drive space because I want to keep the original, uncompressed isos. What’s nice though is once i have the iso I can pop it back into MakeMKV and just extract what I want. I can then run that through Handbrake and compress to my exact specifications.

cloud stream

That literally plays into the concept of big business having a monopoly

1. Create tokenized item with no actual value (Z = 0)
2. get people to spend real money on random token.
3. collect the money at a high arbitrary value (X)
4. Collect the money at a lower, yet still arbitrary value (Y)
5. Enjoy X+Y-Z profits

Trump never put his money in any of it. He created a random token out of thin air and people willing threw money at it.

Saw a guy on the SF Muni simultaneously solving two Rubik’s cubes, one in each hand. By the time he got off at the next station he was done with both of them.

I always thought that the municipality should own the last mile. FTTP for every unit, then the ISPs could run their lines to a local POP and just cross-connect to the house, apartment or whatever that wants their services. That way it would reduce the infrastructure that an ISP needs and also increases the available choices for a customer.

Payment for the municipal last mile could either be leveraged via your taxes or a fee that is paid by the ISP (which inevitably would be paid by the customer anyway)

+1 to the Windows Internal books. Mark Russinovich knows the inside of Windows better than Microsoft did, to the point they picked him up.

The interesting thing you’ll discover when you start getting in to low level Windows internals is how close things are to Linux and how many parallels there are.

I won’t get started on the networking stack since both Microsoft and Linux stole that from BSD!

Once upon a time it was a good way to help build a community and to help pass along social knowledge of living in groups, however people very quickly learned it could be used for control and since then has been another means of exerting power over gullible people.

Did the ever see what happened to the guy who shoved a glass jar up his ass? He’s lucky he’s alive.

The phrasing makes it sound like there’s a regulation preventing disclosure so they can’t post in states where a law says otherwise.

I generally have an issue with Christmas decorations coming out early and stepping on Thanksgiving. But that kinda works out better.

I started on .ee since they felt like the most open and least restrictive, leaving me to chose what instances and people I wanted to block. Then when they closed down I moved to .zip for the same reason.

I wanted an instance that would help police things like spam and bots without getting into their own personal political ideologies.

There are a lot of IT departments though that get to throw up their hands and say “can’t fix it, it’s a cloud issue!” and watch as management, who pushed for cloud in the first place, sucks it up because they don’t want to lose face for their decision.

(Yes I know some still get yelled at regardless and told to fix a 3rd party service)

All three instances I have accounts on use CF. I was beginning to think it was my client I was using or they suddenly implemented the “Great Firewall of USA” and figured out a way to block Lemmy instances.

Awww. Did my response hurt your little fefes? You need your window to feel like you got what you deserve?