Australis13

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨16-inch laptop with Blu-ray drive, USB 4 and AMD Ryzen 7: Fujitsu FMV Note A launches⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That's quite possible, unfortunately...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨16-inch laptop with Blu-ray drive, USB 4 and AMD Ryzen 7: Fujitsu FMV Note A launches⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I have several use cases, a big one being that it gives me an alternate storage medium for backing up home photos and videos. Obviously there's caveats on how long BD-Rs last (although M-discs should outlast me) and the issue of needing a player in future, but it gives me more peace of mind knowing that I can backup these sorts of things to different storage types (external hard drives are all well and good until they're corrupted by power issues or user error, or you want to keep a copy at a relative's place and it's a multi-hour trip... with optical media you can just keep adding discs to the offsite backup as needed and update the external HDD less frequently).

  The other major use case I have has already been mentioned - backing up Blurays that I've bought (or, in the case of a few shows I like, being able to compare the DVD vs Bluray frame by frame).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨16-inch laptop with Blu-ray drive, USB 4 and AMD Ryzen 7: Fujitsu FMV Note A launches⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting to see that demand for optical drives is increasing, although apparently it's only in Japan: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/optical-drive-demand-surges-amid-windows-10-retirement-japanese-users-switching-to-windows-11-are-buying-up-blu-ray-drives

  Still, hopefully that means Bluray writers stay on the market for a bit longer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, I definitely agree. We need better privacy and data protection laws here in Australia too. In the meantime, however, I do what I can to minimise my footprint. I'm well aware that other people are going to be the weak link!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fortunately not... I'm generally the one responsible for IT maintenance with my parents' as they get older. Disabled OneDrive long ago since they don't use it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian Government gets a taste of what everyday people have to deal with in terms of data breaches as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's mobile phone number released online⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably right on the money, sadly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If I hadn't abandoned OneDrive already, this would make me do so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The desktop application (both Windows and Linux) allows free users to pick tracks. The mobile application does not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The mobile application has always had this restriction for free users (as far as I know), but the desktop application has not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sources to purchase mp3s?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is definitely a decent starting point but not a complete solution, unfortunately. It's not always cost-effective if you only want a few tracks from an album or need to import it to get it at all (or if it was a limited release it can be hard to find at all).