Making toxic trash and wasting resources just to be a hipster, we’re all proud of you
Comment on Commentary, behind-the-scenes features, bloopers: What did we lose when we said goodbye to DVDs?
ArugulaZ@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
I haven’t given up on DVDs. Don’t assume we’ve all abandoned the disc format, because I’m certain many of us still use them.
VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
….he smugly typed on his slave labor made iPhone.
VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Ha no I’m not an iPhone user but regardless a phone is useful as it allows me to live more efficiently - not traveling to have every important conversation saves resources on its own and there’s thousands of other practical uses – wasting resources needlessly just to be a hipster is totally different.
I just find it funny that lemmy on one hand clmaours to cheer on terrorism in the name of the climate and all that stuff but simultaneous gets super mad any time anyone suggests the slightest lifestyle change for the sake of the environment - even if it’s objectively better.
DVD is a digital format so if you want to watch it in that lowered quality then you can download it in that codec and get literally exactly the same experience - but no, you need an entire wastful industry making short lived plastic disks just to make you feel superior to everyone using the objectively better technology.
Let the DVD factories close, stop making chemical coated plastic needlessly and grow up.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
No, DVDs/Blurays are the only way the average consumer can get perpetual access to content. If companies stop making DVDs/Blurays, they’re not going to suddenly offer DRM-free downloads, they’ll just force people to use their streaming service.
If you pirate, you’re not helping to solve the problem for the average person. Buy physical media to show companies that permanent access to content is still wanted.
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You know there are still a lot of people in North America alone that don’t have good enough internet to stream movies, right?
Are they just supposed to sit and stare at the wall? Railing about DVD trash in a landfill seems… pointless, compared to all the other ways we’re poisoning the planet. Weird battle to fight and especially cast stones at someone else for.
ArugulaZ@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
You’re a drip. I buy DVDs used from pawn shops and garage sales. I’m leaving a mouse-sized carbon footprint; there’s no “toxic trash” that didn’t already exist.
VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
OK well in that case I commend you, though to be really good maybe you should download them to a drive after purchase and then you can donate the dvds for someone else or a community center.
Spaceinv8er@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
There’s literally dozens of us