Malfeasant
@Malfeasant@lemmy.world
- Comment on DVDs are dying right as streaming has made them appealing again 4 months ago:
DVD is better than Blu-ray in that regard - I’ve ripped DVDs that look like they fell off a truck and got run over multiple times and had no problem, meanwhile about 1 out of 5 Blu-rays I got from Netflix would have problems despite looking pristine. It has to do with the data density, Blu-ray packs so much more in the same amount of space, one microscopic scratch wipes out so much data…
Of course some DVDs suffer from bad materials. I was re-ripping my collection recently, and I have a few that have sat in a closet untouched for years, not a scratch on them, but the drive won’t even recognize there’s a disc. Probably oxidation of the reflective layer.
- Comment on DVDs are dying right as streaming has made them appealing again 4 months ago:
Way back when I used to copy movies to .avi files, my computer was in one room, my TV in another, I had a video card with TV out and a long set of cables, I’d preserve the copyright warning because it gave me time to start the movie then walk to the living room to watch it…
- Comment on DVDs are dying right as streaming has made them appealing again 4 months ago:
VHS was kind of 2.5 thanks to macrovision…
- Comment on DVDs are dying right as streaming has made them appealing again 4 months ago:
Yo ho!
- Comment on DVDs are dying right as streaming has made them appealing again 4 months ago:
That’s just single layer - dual layer is something like 8.4 if memory serves (which it often doesn’t…)
- Comment on DVDs are dying right as streaming has made them appealing again 4 months ago:
Wow, I don’t even remember that. I’ve been playing DVDs on a computer basically forever, which rarely obeyed such restrictions…
- Comment on DVDs are dying right as streaming has made them appealing again 4 months ago:
I’ve been doing this since 2008 - although I only recently setup Plex in 2017, before that I just ran a web server and played movies in a browser on various smart TVs, but around 2017 was when my main TV got an update that rendered its browser mostly useless… Fuck Sony by the way. And before smart TVs I just had a video card with TV out and long cables… Or burning VCDs, I still have my 5-disc DVD changer that could play VCDs as long as they were burned to CD-RW discs, though it’s just gathering dust now.
- Comment on Most consumers hate the idea of AI-generated customer service 4 months ago:
Tell that to my employer… We moved to a bigger office a little over a year ago. The old office was cramped, but it was reasonably quiet. Those of us who are on the phones were in a corner pretty well shielded from everything else. The new place is one huge continuous expanse, and we’re right in the middle of it. And it’s what I would call cheap and unfinished, but a commercial realtor would call it “modern industrial” meaning you can see all the wiring and ductwork and such- and bare concrete. Which makes sound carry throughout and echo. Just the other day my boss had to go hush a gaggle of developers that were congregating 20 feet away and laughing uproariously.
- Comment on Most consumers hate the idea of AI-generated customer service 4 months ago:
a more useless application of electrons
Microsoft is worse… Have a problem, google it, find a link that has a promising summary, click it- “try Windows 11!” Because that’s what dead links do.
- Comment on Most consumers hate the idea of AI-generated customer service 4 months ago:
under the age of 40
I’m pushing 50 and I won’t call if there’s a website…
- Comment on Most consumers hate the idea of AI-generated customer service 4 months ago:
My wife… She will never stop buying from Amazon no matter how shitty they become. She was refusing to go to Wendy’s for a while because they were considering surge pricing, she swore up and down she would not reward a company for doing that - so I said what about Amazon? How often does prime get you free shipping anymore? And with streaming, now you have to watch ads when you didn’t before… But of course that’s all “different”.
- Comment on An airport is an air-port. A port via the air. 4 months ago:
No shit?
- Comment on An airport is an air-port. A port via the air. 4 months ago:
I live in Phoenix, our airport is called sky harbor…
- Comment on Benny 😍😍😍 4 months ago:
Every accusation is a confession…
- Comment on That's just what happens. It's life. 4 months ago:
Do you know what she’s called?
- Comment on Ironing 4 months ago:
Fold‽
- Comment on Ironing 4 months ago:
Dyslexics untie!
- Comment on Ironing 4 months ago:
I think gen x did that… You’re welcome.
- Comment on He remains at large 4 months ago:
Toddlers are plenty rebellious already, it’s just a different kind. Teenagers rebel against authority. Toddlers rebel against their own existence.
- Comment on He remains at large 4 months ago:
Yeah but that’s an average, you never know when he’s going to double up one week so he can take the next one off…
- Comment on Automation 4 months ago:
Would you have accepted “righty tighty lefty loosely”?
- Comment on We need this level of energy. All the time... 4 months ago:
including the dak side of it.
I assume you mean dark- but there is no dark side, the moon rotates with respect to the sun as it goes around the earth, so it has a day / night cycle of about a month.
- Comment on Why do men call their father their "old man", but their "old lady" is their wife? 5 months ago:
What if your wife already won’t have sex with you? Asking for a friend…
- Comment on Child care costs more than a mortgage payment or rent almost everywhere in the U.S.: ‘There is no escaping it’ 5 months ago:
You get YOUR head out of your ass.
When was the last time you accurately predicted the next 20 years?
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 6 months ago:
I’m just relating my experience - when I was younger, I commuted 20 miles round trip every day, and I worked at a bike shop with weenies that were always trying to shave weight off their bikes, so I did whatever I could to add functional weight (so no filling the tubes with lead, that would be cheating) including building up a dually, two rims side by side on a Sachs 3x7 hub. My average speed was higher when commuting (lots of rolling hills, but overall uphill in the morning, downhill going home) than it was on days off, when I was mainly riding around town where it was flat.
And it certainly wasn’t because I wanted to go to work…
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 6 months ago:
Cars are just catching up to HVAC systems… In the last 3 years I’ve had to replace both inside and outside fan motors because their (maintenance free) bearings failed.
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 6 months ago:
It’s even worse when you have a new-ish car that can handle any size USB stick, but will only load the first 8000 files it sees…
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 6 months ago:
Weight speeds you up downhill more than it slows you down uphill.
- Comment on Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app 6 months ago:
It’s a dumb way to make a profit.
If it works, is it dumb?
When VHS was still around, DVDs were priced higher even though they were much cheaper to produce. If people are willing to pay more, producers/distributors will charge more. Yay capitalism.
- Comment on Elon Musk wants to turn Tesla’s fleet into AWS for AI — would it work? 6 months ago:
Eh, at least feudal Lords offered protection from barbarians…