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Lemmy

The fediverse isn’t just lemmy.

also is this your first day on the internet? blowing pedantic bullshit out of all proportion is the baseline experience on any platform.

every time the media lies a neighborhood in Gaza dies

I have SERIOUSLY underestimated the size of Gaza

the actual solution to the femi paradox is that technological advancement will always outpace biological psychology so anti-natalist death cults inevitably arise at a time when they can ask chat GPT to print out a species ending virus before the AI is smart enough to survive on it’s own.

China moves fast and breaks things.

Silicon valley - “No, not like that”

a TBC unit might be absurdly expensive these days BUT a VHS>DVD-RW unit is cheap and needs a form of time base correction to record to digital and that corrected signal is sent to the video out ports, this also strips VHS copy protection that messes up the VHS>DVD internal copy so you have a clean signal to capture out the back.

I used a Panasonic DMR-ES35V and a Black Magic intensity shuttle capture device to rip ads from our collection. and the shuttle has zero tolerance for dirty signals, recording stops when it drops a frame so you know it’s doing the TBC right.

Honestly you should only be archiving television or videos that didn’t get a DVD release.

a VPN is almost never the right choice … so you can forgive their confusion in this case

FREE KEVIN

kids these days won’t know the joys of running a pirate bbs out of an abandoned subway stations connection box

meanwhile consumer prices continue to rise

While I’ve used the pi as a media server before and it did admirably I think you have the wrong idea, it’s just a set top client. A Pi Zero could probably do just as well or pretty much anything that can run Kodi … which rules out AppleTV sadly.

and I’m right there with you not supporting other peoples tech. My parents Chromecast got a PiHole exemption because screw explaining why they’re watching a static screen for 3 minutes where ads used to be … every time; if their tv app even loads without phoning home in the first place.

better value than streaming? yes

better value than free? debatable

I think it’s also technically illegal in Australia but because the rights holders can only come after you for the retail cost of whatever was pirated it’s functionally legal. the MPAA would rather sue a kid in the US for hundreds of millions than one in Aus for $14.95.

this is why I only go to concerts between 11:59 and 12:00

Pi4 just streaming Jellyfin, nothing fancy.

didn’t know infuse had a lifetime cost but look how that’s working out for plex.

I would rather ssh into a linux box I own to bash my head against bluetooth compatibility issues than have everything just work while a company sells every last bit of data they can steal from me.

and now I am too

But Blanks are still useful, I will literally never run out of unusable driver CDs, scratched CD-Rs, AOL cover discs, failed DVD burns, etc …

also floppy discs don’t shed foil flakes when they get wet, just superior coasters.

it might actually look intelligent

only torrent software I’d recommend

and not just for this reason but also because you can run it headless over a webUI … self hosting is an addiction

like most things apple when it works it’s the best user experience out there, but if you have the slightest little issue good fucking luck.

I can’t speak to infuse (because I’m self hosting to get away from subscriptions) but Jellyfin is extremely picky about file formats on appletv, I found myself using VLC more and more often until my Pihole sd card died and I found myself with a Libreelec box that just runs anything I throw at it without complaining.

the search for a remote half as good as a siri remote has begun.

illness isn’t caused by a lack of medication … it really is as simple as stop doing the thing that harms you.