MP3 isn't dead but smells funny. Today I manage a ton of OGM, AAC, FLAC and other formats.

#Welcome to the Arab Parallel Universe:

"500 Kids with cute cats killed at a hospital at Gaza by evil Israel bomb!"

"But the terrorists already confessed it was their own rocket short firing?"

"Oops, ok, then nobody was killed and the handful of slightly wounded have already left the hospital. They were also ugly and noone liked them."

at least you avoided a "useless cat" by using "more" instead. Respect Bro!

Me last Thursday:

user@work5:~$ [CTRL-R] ls

user@work5:~$ ls

me: "That will do..."

I just want to point out there are some plugins and scripts to use Youtube from VLC. The "Library" then works as a search frontend. It is supercool though I can't find the link at the moment. I remember I had to download some scripts manually and place them into my VLC-Installation. Another bone: Massively reduced CPU power. Playing a Youtube-Video in Firefox needs like four times more power. Really nice if you work on battery.

Go back 50 years and that was what we did: Go to church for 30 Minutes and sing, then feast with beer, sausages and bretzels for 60 minutes.

Hey, if it makes you happy and you don't swing it around in front of my face: you have my blessing.

Non-Religion is cool if you get used to it. 91% of all Germans are "Not practising any religion". On paper some 70% still are members of religious communities but otherwise we don't give a fuck and instead going to church we meet for beer and bretzel breakfast on sunday. We stopped being religious after two World Wars as God was never on our side. Now we ain't on his side either. Never been more happy.

Funny thing, officially Religion is part of school. But from what I remember it was more a history lesson. I remember every jewish and muslim holiday but not a single Christian Martyrer. Yes, around half of religious lessons at school was about other religions. Most likely because of selective memory - on holidays I could have beer and bretzel breakfast. Martyrers don't feed me.

Show me someone who claims to have always been legit and I show you someone who has lied at least once.

I don't mind piracy much but don't rely on it anymore.

But I can perfectly understand if Lemmy wants to distance from Pirate/Warez Sites. Those Sites may cooperate between themselves but not within the Lemmy Backbone.

Torrents of all kinds can be easily tracked and its users be sued because they do not only consume but also distribute.

One-Click-Hosters and Streamingz-Sites on the other side are hard to track and their users don't distribute.

At least by German Law it is mostly "we only care about distribution, not consumption". The later has an estimated damage of $1 per case, that is not even petty crime. Distribution on the other hand often is handled at $1000/case... I think there was not a single case of a Streamingz-User being prosecuted but already millions of Torrent-Users.

Who buys his kids products from Apple or Nintendo is most likely also torturing cute cats in his basement. And enjoys it.

Nope

Those Times where Warez-Streaming-Sites had low quality are long gone. While 4k=3840 releases are rare, we have mostly 1920 nowadays with some 1280 in-between, often Bluray- or Streaming-Rips without re-encoding, at least if the source was H264/H265. Older MPEG2/4 though is still often recoded. You can easily re-encode an old MPEG2-Bluray from 20Gig to H265 4Gig without visibly loss. With more modern Codecs the Data is usually "re-containered" which means the Content itself isn't changed, only the Encryption and Container are changed.

Overall Streamingz-Sites are pretty good nowadays, Amazon and Netflix take up to one minute to switch to high Bitrate quality for me. With Warez-Sites you have to wait 3-5 seconds but then it immediately starts at Max Quality and NEVER at lower quality. And their Search actually works great and is well organized and everything reacts so much faster because they reduce the eye candy. They also often have bookmarks - which don't work as good as commercial providers but good enough.

I can only have access to Amazon, Netflix, Joyn and Public Television Media Centres so for other providers your mileage may vary.

I say the time of Torents is OVER. Today Streaming-Warez-Sites are the Kick.

You know, what you can not find on EBay you can find on PBay. Or whatever warez site you prefer.

Last time they ate the rich afterwards everybody starved to death because nobody was left knowing how to do thing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1930%E2%80%931933

And the funny thing about it: When some poor had learned how to do things again those poor became the new rich.

Capitalism might be bare of morale but at least it cares for paying customers in spite of all alternatives.

For reruns in Argentina, nothing beats Disney’s Zorro. It’s a full-on revered classic here.

Wow, I remember that one too from my child hood. The German TV played it once, the Austrian TV played it like over and over again. Don't ask me why but the Austrian TV was always miles better than the German TV. Living close to the border allowed us to watch both, sometimes even the Swiss TV which was usually attrocious.

Well, in the 1970/1980 there actually were still a lot of black and white movies on TV. "The Streets of San Francisco" "Kojak" "Dragnet" not to mention the endless reruns of Stan and Laurel.

At least on Debian/Ubuntu I can use tasksel to select a useful preset of packages right while installing. Base is just a text mode shell with minimal command line tools, Server has some Network Stuff, LXQT, Gnome and so on... for the total N00b it is fine to default to KDE or Gnome, I prefer LXQT though. And tbh, I think Firefox, Libreoffice and VLC are useful preinstall in nearly every use case while the usual stuff on Windows is pretty useless (Another Antivirus? Really? A trial version of a paint programm inferior to Gimp 1.0? Office 365?)

Good Luck. I haven't seen those drive ANYWHERE outside Amazon and Microsoft backend Systems. Technically speaking they weren't even from "Servers" but from "SAN" systems.

Beware: Those MTD-Stuff does NOT work with consumer stuff. Highend-MTD is practically not existing for consumers because Windows doesn't support them anyway.

If you check the Linux Kernel Frontend you'll find a section about "MTD devices". There are some userspace programs listed for managing the kernel components. Those tools are somewhat good for Host Based SMR hard drives but you might need tools to unlock the drives which I didn't need because they got unlocked at work. Those HDs are only sold to data centers. The two I have at home are from work and it is a miracle they let me have them at all.

Flash based MTD though is sometimes available but not in normal computing. Because SATA, NVMe, eMMC are actually "to advanced" for that stuff. MTD is VERY Low-Level. The driver does everything, buffering, moving from MLC to QLC, refreshing cells and so on. For me it is a PCIE-Card with absolutely no intelligence but a very fat driver. But you might also find it in old Linux/Android-Based phones, Netbooks and Tablets though current smart phones use "smarter" storage like eMMC. Iphones have MTD but you can not get Linux to run on them.