JordanZ
@JordanZ@lemmy.world
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 2 months ago:
The LG drive in my photo(looks like the top drive on yours) can take custom firmware that allows them to be region free and add the ability to rip 4K disks. Can’t actually play them as that requires decryption chips to be in the drive but it makes for a MUCH cheaper 4k ripping drive than a true 4k drive.
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 2 months ago:
I own over 4k titles in physical copies. So probably closer to 5-6k discs. As the other person said…backups. I’ve already found a few degraded discs as I’ve been working through.
Pretty much everything in the basement is some variant of linux. Couple more boxes(not pictured) higher in the rack that are just recycled desktops in rack mount cases. Some of the other stuff is windows because of the software being used. I use Mac stuff at work cause that’s what they provide. I don’t really care what OS. I just need it to work and the quickest way for me to get whatever it is done. I’ll reformat stuff to whatever when this project is done and I move on to the next.
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 2 months ago:
That is what it is. My older CyberPower unit is down below. Was just easier to manage it all from one place. Need to repurpose that or sell it off…
The screens work fine with the stickers on. Never saw the point in peeling them off.
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 2 months ago:
- Comment on Microsoft just paused Windows 11 24H2 update for many PCs due to crashes and freezes 2 months ago:
Let’s get this out of the way…I use windows, Mac, and Linux for various things. There is a ‘Select When Quality Updates Are Received’ in group policy editor (sorry home edition users) that allows you to delay the feature updates by a year. You still get the monthly security patches. My win11 box just updated to 23H2 and not 24H2. That gives me plenty of time to figure out how to unfuck what’s coming down the pipe.
- Comment on Crunchyroll just Committed a Federal Crime. 2 months ago:
I buy almost exclusively physical media. I don’t care about streaming so crunchy roll was just a thing I ignored. Then they bought like everything… Funimation and Rightstuf/Nozomi being the largest. I use to have probably a grand on preorder with rightstuf at any point in time. Talking easily 10K+ a year. I haven’t bought a damn thing off crunchy roll’s site. I don’t care for the company and their site sucks. Which is saying something cause rightstuf’s site was slow and clunky but it was simple and got the job done. Crunchy roll’s store site is just a giant ad for their streaming service that they also happen to sell stuff on.
Also despise that I had to talk with customer support multiple times to get off their damn mailing lists that they just signed everybody up for because they converted rightstuf accounts. The ‘unsubscribe’ link in the email was broken…hell it’s probably still broken. Even though that violates laws…clearly they don’t care about those.
- Comment on have you ever been given a warning or suspension for using profane language at work? 2 months ago:
Also work in software. Had people swear on 300+ person meetings, vendors meetings, etc. Nobody has ever been written up to my knowledge.
- Comment on I'm back with another great recipe 2 months ago:
It’s just hard boiled eggs…not as appealing to look at but it’s fine.
- Comment on Cable companies ask 5th Circuit to block FTC’s click-to-cancel rule | Cable companies worry rule will make it hard to talk customers out of canceling 2 months ago:
It’s your internet. Who cancels that without already moving to another ISP? I work from home so not having internet even for short durations is a non-starter. Forcing me to talk to someone is an absolute waste of everyone’s time. They have a zero percent chance of keeping me because I already left. I just want the bills to stop for a service I disconnected from.
I understand the whole ‘game’ for pricing/discounts but when you legitimately are leaving then this is just dumb. I think the whole game around discounts is dumb too but that’s capitalism.
- Comment on Windows Recall is secretly installed on non-Copilot+PCs (Privacy Nightmare) 3 months ago:
Not enough AI PC sales. They need to push it out anyway. Consume all the CPU and power they can and then market AI PC’s as a way to improve performance and lower your power bill.
- Comment on Is this shitpost enough 3 months ago:
I have not reached rich enough to change my toilets by the holiday levels…so neither.
- Comment on Dell Sales team told to return to office 5 days a week 3 months ago:
I know this was a facetious comment but it reminds me of the time Kingston stuck 75 leds in an SSD and it got so hot the computer wouldn’t even boot. There is a video.
- Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second 3 months ago:
There is usually two types of MAC randomization and they both apply to wireless. One is pre-auth and is part of the IEEE 802.11aq Pre-Association Service Discovery spec. It makes it harder to track a user just because they got in range of an AP.
The other is when they actually connect to an SSID. Win10 and mobile OS’s started supporting this but it maintains a relationship between a MAC/SSID pairing otherwise you would have all kinds of network/auth weirdness if it didn’t.
Regardless if I noticed a device on my network behaving poorly by randomizing its MAC on every connection then I’d swap my network over to a grant list of MAC addresses and it can happily knock itself offline as much as it wants. Utilize a guest networks for visitors to avoid the headache of list management when a friend stops by and wants WiFi.
I can say I’ve never seen that behavior across all my devices though.
- Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second 3 months ago:
I don’t think my TV has ever been connected to the internet. As a safe guard to ensure that it never is I banned its wired and wireless MAC address from my network. So even if someone did plug it in…nothing.
- Comment on We lost Keanu 4 months ago:
- Comment on Amazon's Monopoly of the tech industry is ruining the US economy 4 months ago:
Mean while my Best Buy has so much crap in the aisles that you can’t pass a person without having to do the weird turn side ways shuffle. Home Depot isn’t much better. Trying to push a lumber carts around is a joke now. So much crap stuck in the middle of the aisles or at the end of the aisles. So I don’t think it’s a lack of inventory but a variety of inventory.
- Comment on Got caught 4 months ago:
You joke…but yeah(Obviously nsfw).
