I’d gladly donate a few TB, but Not about to fill my entire array for books i’ll never read…

But, it has no network connectivity! That is against God’s will.

(Thus, no telemetry either)

Very interesting os though. Lots of very cool concepts

Sorry… watching a sponsored video for world of tanks for the 10th time, or simply safe, or whatever other garbage is there isn’t going to make me want to purchase it.

I value my time… If I didn’t use sponsor block, I’m still going to skip right past it… This, just does it for me.

Well, I use plex, because I have used plex for a decade, and it just works.

That being said, if I were to use an alternative, Jellyfin is quite fantastic. I actually have a pod running it, just in the event that plex pulls a stupid move, causing me to lose faith in its platform.

But, that being said, I like the plex interface more then Jellyfin, and have grown accustomed to it.

Also, Kodi while powerful and extensible… just feels like a bear compared to Jellyfin.

For certain projects I monetize, there are reasons I don’t share the code.

Patents don’t magically find people infringing your intellectual property. The owness is on you.

That being said, I have bills to pay, and mouths to feed. Giving my solutions away for free, doesn’t help those issues.

eh… no. its not.

• coming from an actual developer.

I cannot confirm, nor deny.

But, I will say, once upon a time, before the days of netflix, if you wanted to watch things, you needed to spend a fuckload of money, to watch it on cable, with commercials every 10 minutes… or, you drove to a blockbuster. So, you either did that, or you obtained the movie/tv/etc, via a torrent.

Then, netflix came along, gave you a ton of content, at a reasonable price. And- then, there wasn’t really much of an advantage to obtaining media via other alternative means. So, netflix took over by storm, and piracy went way down.

Then, everyone wanted a piece of the action. So, then Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney Plus, HBO+, ESPN+, (And insert 50 other network-specific streaming services) jumped into the fray. Then, they all made exclusive streaming contracts. So, if you watch a handful of things, you would need a handful of streaming service subscriptions.

And- again, the alternative option of piracy, became the better option, as you can watch whatever the f- you want, WHENever you want, without having to pay for 50 different subscriptions every month, just to watch a TV series, which they decide to cancel after the 2nd season.

Do you justify?

If the fucking scumbags didn’t get greedy in the first place, we wouldn’t be in this situation. But, no, everyone wanted an extremely generous piece of the pie, and now everything has went to shit again. Fuck those guys. Isn’t like the actual actors/writers staring in movies gets any of the money anyways.

7zip is the way.

Unless, I am working in linux. Then tar+gzip.

Unless, I am doing backups or ZFS. Then, LZO typically, due to speed and minimal overhead.

Funny note- the way we actually get things to near absolute zero, is by shooting it with lasers.

depends.

In the middle of angry-programming? The linkin park will be turned up to 80%. I want to make sure Chester’s screams wakes the dead.

Business as usual? around 20%. Enough to drown out external noises.

Yup, vanity plates are pretty commonplace. Most cars still have a dealer’s vanity plate on the front because they never removed it, or put something else there.

Front plates are only required in a few states.

flashing tail lights instead of any indicators (we call them blinkers, the orange lights on the corners of cars) was surprising

We don’t require dedicated turning signals in the rear of the vehicle. As long as you have a flashing red or amber indicator at the REAR, and amber at the FRONT, that meets the requirements.

Basically- as long as the car behind you can easily, visually determine that you intend to turn.

All of them weren’t registered

All cars MUST have a displayed license plate at the rear of the vehicle. The only exceptions to this- are temporary dealer plates (which are only good for a month), while you get your permanent plates.

Failure to properly display the license plate is a ticketable offence. Not, serious enough to send you to jail, but, you will pay a fine over it. And- enough tickets, and you lose your license.

OP just needs to visit their local tag office. Will take around 5-10 minutes depending on the line, and everything will/can be solved.

Nothing more is needed.

won’t that make it a criminal travelling interstate to commit a crime, and that be a federal matter?

Unless they are committing federal crimes, motor-vehicle related infractions are regulated by the individual states.

You yanks tend to have a lot less regulation than us, whether it is lack of necessary indicators

All vehicles are required by law to have functional front, and rear turning indicators. (And, a horn. And lights. And seat belts.)

or lack of a need to put number plates at each end of your car.

All vehicles are required to have a rear-mounted license plate. Some states, also requires a front-mounted license plate.

Bring it to your local tag office.

They can run all of the details, and most of the time get you sorted out.

Amateurs.

I have evolved from using file extensions, and instead, don’t use any extension!

They are going to feel pretty damn stupid when nobody can buy/rent/watch/listen to their content and products…

Because, ya know… any product which can play any form of media, has the potential to infringe on IP…

I say, give them EXACTLY what they want. Give them, a week or two with zero profits, and see how quickly they change their tune.

Honestly, I am all good with getting rid of the drives.

I hardly ever touch CDs these days. I keep a spare USB reader, for making a backup copy of a music CD or movie DVD/Blueray, which I use, maybe twice a year.

I have boxes of DVDs and Blu-ray in the garage, and I don’t ever use them. Matter of fact, if I wanted to use them, I’d have to go find a blueray player to actually play them with.

I do all of my gaming on PC, and I don’t think I have physically purchased a game in over a decade. Steam/GoG are both quite nice.

Proton* Proton is the way. Granted, proton uses wine… but, makes getting games running nearly effortless is the majority of cases.

Also, has a nice website, protondb.com, which tells you how well / if a game works on linux.

Lindsey Stirling? Not sure if this is up your alley, but, her music is pretty great.

Also, Two Cellos, and the Piano guys.

Its, not classical. It’s all instrumental music, no singing.

Lindsey Stirling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHjpOzsQ9YI

Two Cellos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT3SBzmDxGk

Oh, and as a bonus- more of their songs then not, are pretty damn good. I can listen to them non-stop through an entire workday.

No, because, it does not fix the root problem.

Also, banning things isn’t the way to fix things.

I would also be a hypocrite for changing to legalize pot, while also chanting to ban corn-based sugars.

Yes. Learned to drive with one. Got my license with one.

Sadly, don’t own one right now, but, will prob get one in the future again. Every 2nd or 3rd car I have picked up, has had a stick.

I’m from the mid-west USA.