Blue_Morpho

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Blue_Morpho ,

You say, "timed exclusives" as a negative meanwhile Nintendo dominates the market and never releases its exclusives.

Blue_Morpho ,

No need for a flipper when you could add a SDR module to a Pi.

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That reads like someone with minor mental illness. Rambling. Evangelion. Rambling.

I clicked their resume and there's no evidence they contributed a single line of code to the project. Yet they demand the person who wrote most of it step down? Yeah.

Write your own project and manage it how you want. Don't threaten others. Do your own thing.

Blue_Morpho , (edited )

does not entitle you to do whatever you want and tell people to "make their own thing" if they don't like it.

He not only wrote it but made it open source so if anyone doesn't like what he's doing they can take all of his work and make their own project.

The author of NixOS couldn't have been more generous. If anyone doesn't like it, they can take all his work that he did for free and make it their own project.

Threatening the creator is wrong.

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should accept everything that person does simply because they started it.

They don't have to!!! He gave it to you for free to do with it what you want.

Giving you something for free doesn't entitle you to threaten him.

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Which doesn't matter because he's already given everything to the community. If they want to take it in another direction, he's already given it to them.

Blue_Morpho ,

What shenanigans?

Blue_Morpho ,

I don't see a problem with Biden. Everyone screams Gaza but there's been no peace in the middle east for 50+ years. So Biden approved some weapon purchases that he could have blocked. 4 years and one decision I don't like? That's a good record.

I don't want a President on the news everyday. If the President is in the news, he's not doing a good job. The past 4 years have been fine.

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What is depressing?

Did you want Biden to draw his own opinions on official NOAA weather maps?

What specifically did you expect Biden to do? He's not King.

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My Helium 7200 drives run cooler and quieter than my old 5400's.

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That returns an error.

Is there another instance you'd recommend?

Blue_Morpho ,

Which instance do you recommend?

Blue_Morpho ,

i will never trust ford

Every car company does it now. You cannot buy a car that isn't selling your data.

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I bought my Toyota from a dealer, not the manufacturer, yet they track everywhere I drive.

It should be a law that all cell antennas come with a physical switch.

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what motivation was behind

No need to be hostile. I bought a Toyota and discovered it tracks my location without consent.

Blue_Morpho ,

I thought it was funny when he argued that the BB-8 droid from Star Wars broke the laws of physics because a rolling mechanical ball can't roll uphill on sand.

He didn't know that the BB-8 shown in the movie rolling up dunes was a physical robot, not CGI.

Blue_Morpho ,

Yes much of bb-8 is cgi, but there was a video of a physical bb-8 prop rolling in sand.

When Degrasse tweeted that it was impossible, Star Wars prop artist responded with a video of the physical robot rolling on sand. I'm not going post a link to Twitter on Lemmy but you can Google it.

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Yes many were stick puppets. Some were trikes.

Blue_Morpho ,

I was wrong. Despite the official StarWars Twitter claim they had the robot bb-8 on the dunes for filming, a documentary says the full robot version wasn't done until the red carpet. However I have found videos of a large bb-8 rolling on sand. The small toy ones cannot roll on sand. (Which isn't surprising because most toy cars can't run on sand despite full size being able to.)

Warner Bros. is now erasing games as it plans to delist Adult Swim-published titles ( www.polygon.com )

Warner Bros. Discovery is telling developers it plans to start “retiring” games published by its Adult Swim Games label, game makers who worked with the publisher tell Polygon. At least three games are under threat of being removed from Steam and other digital stores, with the fate of other games published by Adult Swim...

Blue_Morpho ,

Thanks for reminding me I need to try mdisc. I have multiple redundant backups but don't trust any of them for long term. (Hard drive, SSD flash, USB flash)

My carefully burned DVDs are going bad after 15 years just like you said. (They were checked for pio errors at time of burn using only verbatim azzo 100 year media and stored in my basement in black dvd cases.)

Blue_Morpho ,

Harvey Weinstein is 71. As soon as he's dead, Kevin Smith will buy the rights and you'll be able to buy it.

https://youtu.be/2_DOt1aHjhs?si=bM-2CphP8NDzGeRd

Blue_Morpho ,

It's crazy that WB is getting away with blatant tax fraud. I can't claim my house is worth $0 in order to pay no taxes yet WB can say, "This media is worth $0 for tax purposes."

Blue_Morpho ,

I'd buy it IF THEY WOULD SELL IT TO ME!

The best legal version of Windows I have figured out that you can actually buy as a regular consumer is Windows Server Essentials 2022. (maybe they're up to 2024 now?)

Server Essentials is regular Windows 10 GUI with absolutely no spyware, OneDrive, or pre installed ads hiding as shortcuts. It doesn't even require a TPM. The only nonsense that comes pre installed is Edge.

Updates are for 10 years minimum and they only install when you tell them to.

Blue_Morpho , (edited )

It was $300. It's Server Essentials, not the full Server. Server Essentials doesn't have network controller or unlimited Windows VM licenses.

Blue_Morpho ,

Windows Server Essentials is $300. It is a cut down version of server. It's pretty much regular Windows that includes an extra Windows license for an extra VM. If for some reason you needed to run two copies of Windows legally, that brings the cost down to $150 per VM.

Blue_Morpho ,

The price on the MS website isn't the price you can buy it in stores. For example MS lists Windows 11 as $139 when it's $119 at Newegg.

I bought Sever Essentials from Lenovo for $285.

Blue_Morpho ,

I've been running so long with "Activate Windows" in the lower right corner on one of my computers that I don't even notice it anymore.

But for other PC's, as a rule, I don't pirate executables because of the virus risk.

Blue_Morpho ,

transforms the successor in such a way that the end result is still what the author of the successor intended.

It says that it supports multiple but how would that actually work for more than 2?

You have 3 people who see the word two in a list and each want to add their item as 3rd in the list because it is a todo list and its place in the list is important. Appending based on previous position isn't what they intended (contrasted with the example given where it was their intent).

Court blocks $1 billion copyright ruling that punished ISP for its users’ piracy ( arstechnica.com )

One thing that leaps out at me about this ruling is that courts understand the internet a lot better nowadays. A decade or so ago Sony would have probably gotten away with the argument that Cox profited from the users' piracy; nowadays judges themselves use the internet and are going to go "lolno, they probably would have been...

Blue_Morpho ,

Up next Sony sues Pacific Gas & Electric for profiting off of piracy. All those torrents were powered by Pacific Gas & Electric.

Blue_Morpho , (edited )

You might want to go down the rabbit hole of virtualdub2 and avisynth. Virtualdub provides a GUI for very simple editing but its main focus is encoding. Avisynth allows you to work with video files with scripts. The most advanced filters for improving quality are on avisynth. You can create a .avs script in notepad and then view it in Virtualdub as if its a video file.

You can start with just Virtualdub2. Use its built in deinterlacing filters (because those DVD's are interlaced), resize filters (because the files on a DVD aren't the correct aspect ratio) and video/audio compression. For X264, use quality based encoding at something like Q18 for almost perfect quality.

Trek DVD's are particularly hard because they are a mix of film source and TV special effects so you need a dynamic deinterlacer that can switch between
3:2 pulldown for film parts (live action) and straight deinterlacing for special effects (space battles).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-two_pull_down#:~:text=Three%2Dtwo%20pull%20down%20(3,of%20transferring%20film%20to%20video.&text=It%20converts%2024%20frames%20per,slight%20slow%20down%20in%20speed.

https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=181209&page=26

Blue_Morpho ,

the opposite of the Thinkpad.

To be fair, everything about a Thinkpad is proprietary too. It's accepted because it's a laptop.

Blue_Morpho ,

I don't have a recommendation but I can point you to Gamers Nexus YouTube channel / website and filter on prebuilts to see reviews.

Big names like Dell HP and Lenovo are bad for ability to repair/upgrade. Although I do love buying their old servers because there are so many cheap ones on eBay.

Blue_Morpho ,

You didn't say repairability. You were critical of the proprietary parts.

Dell and HP desktops are even easier to repair than home built because of the no-tool clips for parts and custom sized cables. (But in my opinion that ease of repair doesn't offset the proprietary parts they use.)

Blue_Morpho ,

I've used them but not personally owned one going back 30 years since before they were sold to Lenovo.

Blue_Morpho ,

The OP asked about desktops, not laptops. Why are you bringing up laptops?

He wants a Desktop that's durable and as easy to repair as a Thinkpad.

Lenovo desktops are filled proprietary parts just like Dell and HP. (Power supply, custom atx motherboard, non standard motherboard mounting)

Blue_Morpho ,

He is very clear from the context that he means desktop PC.

"I was wondering, what PC, if any, is similar in this regard? Aside from building your own PC ofc. "

You don't "build your own" laptop.

Blue_Morpho , (edited )

That only applies to a large corporation with contracts.

and upgradable

If it's not something that can go in a slot for Dell HP and Lenovo there is no upgrade. They aren't going to swap an upgraded CPU because Dell doesn't do official bios patches to upgrade old PC's to cpus that come out later. Nor can you get a new motherboard dropped in an old Dell/HP/Lenovo chassis because of the power supply requirements/changes.

Edit: I couldn't even put a modern GPU in my old Dell Xeon because the power supply didn't put out the watts. I had to find a weird Dell to ATX converter cable off of eBay and Dremel the Dell case a little so the regular ATX would fit.

The name is Gamers Nexus, not Corporate IT Nexus.

Blue_Morpho , (edited )

even in a custom build you’d need cables specific to your modular power supply),

I don't think you understand the problem. The power supply Dell included with their standard Xeon wasn't regular ATX so it couldn't work with a regular GPU. I replaced the 10 year old Dell power supply with a 15 year old standard ATX.

Buying unsupported hardware to make it work and dremeling the case wasn't your original claim that Dell etc are an easy phone call to upgrade your PC. They absolutely will not upgrade it.

The OP didn't make any reference to their buying a PC for a large corporation. So extolling the large corporate benefits of support contracts isn't relevant. For a user without a support contract, a regular PC will be easier and cheaper to maintain.

Edit referencing your car analogy:

If every other car manufacturer let you drop in an engine from any other car without even buying a different screw except BMW, everyone would rightly criticize BMW for being proprietary.

Regular PC's, which makes up around 70% of the desktop PC market, are completely interchangeable right down to the screw sizes. It's only Dell/HP/Lenovo that are a minority of the desktop PC market and are incompatible.

Blue_Morpho ,

Where did you read 1TB? The webpage says it supports up to 2TB but doesn't say it ships with an SD card.

Blue_Morpho ,

It was a joke.

Blue_Morpho ,

If I remember correctly, every watt is around $1 a year. So a 100 watt server costs $100 a year every year to run. 12 SAS drives and the server is going to be expensive to keep running.

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If a copy isn't kept after sale, it should be legal. It's my understanding it is legal in the EU.

That is if you can sell a game you bought on Steam. Steam makes sure to copies aren't played at the same time so you can't keep your copy after selling it.

Blue_Morpho ,

If you sell a digital copy you can keep selling that digital copy because you do not necessarily give it away or delete it.

Steam and other DRM systems ensure that copies cannot be played. Yet you can't sell your Steam games. It is my understanding that in the EU, you can sell your Steam games. So there is no legitimate reason you can't sell digital goods.

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Yes, it was a liberal conspiracy to defeat the rabidly conservative city of.... Baltimore.

Blue_Morpho ,

What was it missing?

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Thanks I actually thought this was about emulators like the Tektronics Vt 4052 terminal emulator I used to use.

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Thought so. I have had my own run in with him.

Blue_Morpho ,

It would be nice if lemmy.world mods followed that. I got my posted deleted for "supporting Imperialism" for arguing that focused attacks on Houthi terrorists is ok.

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