I don’t see that either. People have disagreed with me politely and intelligently here which is just good conversation.

I’ve ripped a good number of blu-rays to network storage. If you’re looking for older, less popular stuff it’s the best option. And older releases are usually just a few bucks. The new stuff I torrent because I can usually find a decent rip, but for stuff I want to put in my library a rip from optical disk is the best, but not free of course. You can even do it for free, public libraries often have a good collection of older releases on optical disk.

I rarely use any kind of chat, but I used IRC sometimes back in the day. I was recently working on a thing where I needed to use Discord for some programming advice. I got the info I needed, but yeah that Discord is a convoluted mess. Newer hardly ever means better.

Great software, used it a lot. Also Handbrake.

How does it impact Chromium?

Chromium is the open source part of Chrome. I’ve actually run Chromium before, but it’s kind of hard to find a binary release. Chromium lacks some Google additions like an mpeg player and PDF reader. It’s also free of some annoying add-on stuff like that app tracker that runs a background process full time. Who knows what that process does really. Of course I have it disabled on my system, but you have to go out of your way to kill it.

Otherwise Google has the Chromium project under their thumb so they’re not going to do anything Google does not approve of or refuse to do anything Google wants them to.

Speaking of Google influence, it bothers me that Google is a big contributor to Mozilla. I think it’s mainly to stay out of hot water with the FTC. They know all too well what happened to Microsoft and Internet Explorer in 2001. They need to keep the competition alive. Still it makes me cringe knowing they could exercise their will on them as a big contributor. I mean everyone has a price, and in Silicon Valley it’s not very high.

and am stunned when I see the web without an adblocker.

True, True, it’s damn near unusable. You take it for granted what a job your blocker is doing for you.

I know my uBO has saved me from some hostile shit. So yeah it’s a part of my browser security. I have it configured to a stricter blocking mode so it’s not just blocking ads for me, it gets other stuff that can be a problem.

Anyway I’m aware of the Manifest V3 business and being on Chrome I’m just waiting for the hammer to fall before going to Firefox. If they start adding DRM as well, I’m out of there quick.

Yeah, yeah, I know, just go to Firefox now, but I don’t really want to deal with a new browser and all my custom stuff until I have to. I’m old and that shit is super hard to motivate on for me. Not to say I’m inept, I mean I’ve spent my whole career in tech, but old dogs and all.

Is that for real? Got some serious crazy going there.

The singularity would reverse the big bang.

Now that’s a funny comment, haha.

I have a couple really old games you can’t even pirate because they’re just not around anymore. They’re PC games and still run well on my version of Windows so I’ll hang on to them as long as that’s the case. Even so there’s always going to be a consideration for supporting hardware and software. It can get tricky as things forge ahead and old games fall into obsolescence.

It’s supposed to be seamless, but there can be issues in federation between Lemmy and kbin. I log into Lemmy and have a number of subscriptions to kbin magazines. I’ve found it to be less than perfectly reliable. Consider they’re two different platforms with two different teams. Development is running at a quick pace making it more likely for something to break. If that happens they’re not always directly aware of issues between them.

Also instances don’t synchronize all content between all instances. They do it on demand so if you’re the first one on that particular instance to subscribe to a particular remote community then the instance will start federating content at that point.

Got a laugh out of that, Rodent theme adds ten horsepower.

I think Boost and Sync are going to generate another inrush.

Yeah this latest version of Lemmy seems to be humming along well oiled. It’s working really good for me.

Haha. You triggered me, now for a vicious verbal attack…

I’m posting a lot more here than on Reddit. There was less motivation to post there, for one a post can get buried in minutes so it can be like talking to a wall. Then there’s the hostility if a post does get play.

After giving Reddit the punt I became active about a month ago, but I had browsed Lemmy initially quite some time ago. Back then I was like, “Oh this is neat, but all I hear are crickets.” Can’t say that now, it’s getting busy. There’s more content than I can review in a day now, and that’s just from the front page in Subscribed view.

That would be very handy, I have a couple instances I use and would like to synchronize them. Also synchronize the inbox and profile data. That’s something that should be in the code base.

That would be very cool to print a new car, but realistically it’s cheaper to buy one if you consider the cost of your time and materials. I mean you have to render all the parts and assemble the thing. Then there’s parts like wiring harnesses you still have to make by hand. Still how awesome would that be drive a car you made yourself.

As far as I know, generally you can register a home built car in the USA, but it varies by state. Different states have different regulations. Typically you just have to jump through some inspection hoops. Not too long ago I converted a couple off-road motorcycles to street legal in Nevada and it wasn’t difficult. Though in states like New York and California a gas powered car may have additional smog regs impossible to get past. A lot easier for an electric one, no smog regs.

As far as the copying, you would only be infringing on any patents or trademarks that may exist. Those are regional and I don’t believe they apply to personal use. Even if they did, I doubt any car maker is going after someone who makes a personal copy of their car. Now if you tried to produce and sell copies, that could get you a lot of attention. But even then it depends where you’re doing it. In China they mass produce exact copies of popular western cars even down to the trademarks, but they don’t export them and China doesn’t care so there’s nothing to stop them.

The easiest thing to do is download and install a repack, but there is some comfort in knowing you’re using the original game files. I remove the DRM on all the games I keep on my drive and most of those are from legitimate sources. I’ve jumped through a few hoops to manually remove DRM before.

It’s not like days of old were you only needed to replace the game’s exe file. You have to look at the protection on each game to see what needs to be done. I’m not familiar with that particular game so I don’t know what kind of DRM it uses, but you should be able to find out with some searching.

There’s no set procedure in removing DRM manually, games can vary quite a bit. Some Steam games have several layers of DRM, such as the Steam client, then 3rd party protection, then in-house protection. On the other hand, some Steam games use only the Steam client where all you need is an emulator.

Sometimes there is an easy way to manually remove DRM, sometimes there is not. You may or may not need a Steam emulator which removes the need for the Steam client to be running. Then you may or may not need a crack exe. Sometimes you can find those crack exe files stand-alone on gamecopyworld. Another place you can find stand-alone crack exe files is on cs.rin.ru. You may even need to download a whole pirate copy of a game to extract the crack exe out of it. Worst case the game uses some kind of hard DRM like Denuvo that requires multiple cracked files if the game is even cracked at all.