richmondez

Bioware has been replaced a person at a time ship of theseus style with lesser quality staff, the magic has long departed and it’s just another mediocre studio now trading on a name.

Just like pretty much all media ever really. It’s not like many novels, songs, movies and TV shows are world wide hits either.

Converting from one lossless to another is still transcoding as you are changing the encoding format of the data. The conversion being lossy or not is related to the choice of formats, not the process itself.

I disagree with the “don’t ask stupid questions” any question you ask might be viewed as stupid by someone who knows the answer. Better to say “don’t ask questions you know are stupid”.

Got to wait until the network effects make it hard to get the momentum to go elsewhere before really turning the enshittification screws. Look at how much it’s taken to dent twitter significantly.

All of us are neandthal too, and decendants of various ancient celebrities as well as all the forgotten commoners.

This only tells you about your very recent ancestry, but go back enough generations are you are descended from everyone alive at the time who still has living decendants, just like everyone else.

When we’re they last sold though, eol 8 years after last up for sale is fine, but if they were still on sale up to last month that is a different issue.

I wouldn’t call anyone buying into a piracy service an elite pirate, they are the piracy equivalent of script kiddies.

Now all restaurants are taco bell.

Why have content on the web at all if it can’t be viewed by anyone? Even if generated with an intention to generate profit, there is no opportunity to do so if no one is looking at it.

And if everyone blocked ads and couldn’t see sites that insisted on advertising, how would that work out for the websites?

If you are going to worry about archival then when reencode it at all? Just remux the content from the dvd into a suitable container and be done with it.

The whole idea of copyright is a granting a state backed monopoly which is the antithesis of a free market as I understand it.

Easier to keep shares online 24/7 with a dockerised we app vs a desktop application I need to be logged in to a system for it to run. Best of both worlds would be a Nicotine+ like desktop fronted app that talked to the server component, but I don’t think there is such a ui app for slskd.

Rocky now is what Centos used to be, a downstream rebuild of Redhat Enterprise. Cento Stream is now a rolling release and is pretty much RHEL unstable.

If you want to accomplish a noble cause like preservation I don’t think it’s disingenuous to also satisfy some personal desires along the way. Easier to get people on board to do it if you do.

Downloading has never been stealing to be fair, that has always been emotive framing for copyright supporting propaganda.

People can run a self hosted search engine/indexer with bitmagnet, how are they going to be taken down?

I felt the /s was implied but clearly enough people actually believe that linux is only for people who master arcane command lines that it could be taken as a genuine belief.