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- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 5 days ago:
But what if you can’t get it? Go try to watch the Willow TV show on Disney+. There is no longer a legal way to watch it. They removed it from the service. You can’t buy it. It’s gone. Disney has also been editing its classic movies like Lilo and Stitch and Splash to remove parts that I guess they found objectionable.
The trend that entertainment and culture are increasingly held hostage behind a paywall and subject to edits is dystopian as hell. What’s to stop Spotify or Netflix from moving all of your favorite media to Spotify Pro or Netflix Premium? What if there’s no other way to acquire that media? How much would you pay per month to experience it again? In what way is this a service that benefits the consumer?
I like my collection of movies, shows, and music, and as long as I’m careful not to lose the files, I can experience them, unchanged, for as long as I like.
it’s not like it was physical and became digital only
And that is happening. Many movies are out of print. DVDs don’t always last forever. There has never been a legal way to obtain a movie in a DRM-free digital format. Ripping backups from discs is the only way to guarantee they are preserved and available forever.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 5 days ago:
I have a digital projector that we take camping. It runs androidOS and you can install apps on it. There is no wifi when camping.
Movies ripped to a thumb drive saves the day.
In 1996, I watched Back to the Future on VHS on a portable CRT TV.
Also the ability to pull a clip from any film you own to create the perfect reaction gif is super nice.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 5 days ago:
We’re moving into a space where the only way to access certain types of content that was previously ownable is now through subscription.
There is absolutely no technical reason why Klaus is only available on streaming. It doesn’t require special live-servers to run. There is no staff maintaining it. There are no monthly updates. It’s just 20 gigs of data on someone else’s hard drive that you aren’t allowed to have.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 5 days ago:
My wife loves bandcamp. Especially the sales where they give 100% of the revenue to the artist.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 6 days ago:
Pirated enough games in my childhood. It’s the last I could do.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 6 days ago:
Won’t give them the satisfaction. There are plenty of other Christmas movies (we actually have like 4 days worth).
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 6 days ago:
My wife is the music person, so I set it up for her. She seems to like it. I had funkwhale originally, but it doesn’t have nearly the features (though it does support multiple users’ libraries).
The plan is to generate playlists in navidrome and match the filesystems so she can just drag them to her iPod. I haven’t looked into it all too much, but one annoying thing is that some things are kept in the database that I wish were plaintext. Like, I think you can rename files and whatever in the web interface, but it doesn’t modify the original files. I guess that’s okay if you’re nervous about busting your files, but I wish you had a little more control over it.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 6 days ago:
Yeah, I’d say my collection is maybe 5% 4k (over 1000 titles in total). Some discs are reeeeal finnicky. I actually thought my drive was toast at one point, but I was able to take it apart and clean the lens with some IPA to get it working again. Wasn’t looking forward to replacing it.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 6 days ago:
Go ahead and try to buy a copy of Klaus on DVD.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 6 days ago:
You can get bluray drives used for like $30. The real issue is the 4k drives because only certain older models let you rip those. They’re harder to replace.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 6 days ago:
My wife and I have been slowly over the last few years finding ways to cancel our subscriptions and just own things. If I want to play a vintage game, I buy a physical copy and boot up an emulator. We also set up navidrome and started collecting discs to rip. My wife backed up her spotify playlists before cancelling and we’re trying to find a way to link them to music tracks that we own and make a list of what we’re missing.
Not a terribly challenging task, but I looked around online to see if anyone else was doing it. What I found was dozens of projects going the other way. People saying “I’m looking to ditch my MP3s and move to Spotify.”
It’s certainly less work, but I wonder how all of these people will feel when they’re locked in and their monthly costs for these services increases and there’s absolutely nothing they can do about it.
- Comment on Ah, ah, ah, yeah! 1 week ago:
For me, it’s more of a “Get up Trinity. Get. Up.”
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One I saw recently involved being temporarily radioactive.
- Comment on Leading Edge - Emergence - Lincoln City Fall 2025 1 week ago:
Never seen a kite pop and lock before. Very cool.
- Comment on A question for the ages 1 week ago:
Depends if you’re drinking a Rainier with it.
- Comment on Cable management is an art form 1 week ago:
The extreme detour of the recurrent laryngeal nerves, about 4.6 metres (15 ft) in the case of giraffes,[32]: 74–75 has been cited as evidence of evolution, as the nerve’s route would have been direct in the fish-like ancestors of modern tetrapods, traveling from the brain, past the heart, to the gills (as it does in modern fish).
- Comment on Oh Jesus he is cooked 2 weeks ago:
those understandings have been passed down until down consistently.
[x] Doubt
- Comment on Zoom’s CEO agrees with Bill Gates, Jensen Huang, and Jamie Dimon: A 3-day workweek is coming soon thanks to AI 3 weeks ago:
Or C) actually do 3-day workweek, and pay people 3/5 as much.
- Comment on tall tails 3 weeks ago:
Also, in 40 million years, you can match the beaver fossils to the bones of their still living descendants and find similar features.
- Comment on Anon asks out a friend 3 weeks ago:
Do you feel like you were owed “fun” from other people?
- Comment on Anon asks out a friend 3 weeks ago:
“She fucked so many guys”
Uh…okay?
- Comment on Virtual Boy: Nintendo Classics - Announcement Trailer 3 weeks ago:
lol the actual Virtual Boy only had 11 titles.
- Comment on Anon doesn't like AI 4 weeks ago:
I heard recently this summary:
The US economy depends on two things:
- Steady growth in available jobs
- The bet on AI eventually pay off and replace all jobs with AI.
- Comment on Trump posted this in Truth. 4 weeks ago:
Is that “Redux?” We just picked it up, but haven’t watched it.
- Comment on Trump posted this in Truth. 4 weeks ago:
We just got it on DVD. It’s the “Redux” edition. 3 hours 22 mins. It’s the 6th longest movie in our collection behind LoTR extendeds, Beh-Hur, and Lawrence of Arabia.
- Comment on Trump posted this in Truth. 4 weeks ago:
I’ve never seen Apocalypse Now, but I get the feeling Trump has never seen Apocalypse Now.
- Comment on It can be made quickly and efficiently, even by people without skills or talent 4 weeks ago:
The company is literally called “Name Fatso”.
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 4 weeks ago:
Fall of 2012. Obama wins again. Weed is legal in some states. Gay marriage. Nuclear powered tank lands on Mars. iPhone 5.
- Comment on It can be made quickly and efficiently, even by people without skills or talent 4 weeks ago:
