this is why physical media and torrent backup sharing are essential and will never go away. streaming is one thing, but i refuse to license the music and movies i buy. drm is a shitcoin. break it. resist
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wow. self-host your data or be rugged forever.
💯 hate it's not open source but #plex has a bit more going for it than jellyfin rn imo. lifetime member here 🤙🏻
I use jellyfin personally. What steers you to plex ?
i prefer jellyfin but i use plex more. yes it's getting bloated with audio (i don't use) and streaming, free tv etc (i do like). so basically, it comes dow. to plex ux, clients (inc apple tv) and compatibility makes it easier to share my server with friends and family and it gives them the benefits of my plex pass.
i agree with techhut who has a great experienced analysis of the two
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MUhpu42sWWM&pp=ygUQamVsbHlmaW4gdnMgcGxleA%3D%3D
The worst is these games cart/disc that still need an internet connexion to start or download missing content.
Resist until they break themselves.
💯- plus we are now in the age where the books and movies you purchased can be altered after the fact to suit whatever the Current Thing demands.
Someone please recommend me a good torrent client
Make piracy great again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWq65etOM-M
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What’s really sad is Xbox is removing the last optical drive this year, and PlayStation is expected to follow suit.
oh noooo. source?
PlayStation is still speculative, Xbox was confirmed through court documents.
https://www.polygon.com/23880201/xbox-series-x-mid-gen-refresh-brooklin-ellewood-sebile
thx. not cool. hopefully we'll get a detachable optical drive. either way, so glad i didn't wait
Be interesting to see how they would work that with the disc drm. 🤔
how so? i assume just like any other drm enabled dvd/bluray etc. the xbox software decodes it and attaches the "ownership" license to your account.
here's a good article
Idk how it is now. Back in the day the drives used to require custom firmware in order to read the game.
gotcha. yeah, they'd make it so that wouldn't be an issue, just an extra cost. can't wait to see the hardware mods unlocking the series x system and games. got my ps3 modded to play ripped and burned dv-r games when it came out in taiwan. i miss it
💯 valorant did that thing where they required win 11 tpm 2.0 and secure boot to be enabled which was basically hardware drm. we need more open hardware...and games too damn it
Time to burn DVD for every console owner.
At this point if you are no longer allowed to view what you purchased, the company must reimburse you. It would be the only right thing to do.
But, you know they won’t.
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As an additional backup medium, CDs and DVDs are still an easy, cheap and highly durable option. As a secondary, or tertiary backup, these durable forms of media can last many, many years. The USB drives you can attach to computers can be purchased cheaply as well.
Nothing can give a user more peace of mind than multiple backups across different forms of media. Mailing a trusted party a disc, or dropping it off with them during the holiday season is an easy way to achieve piece of mind.
In training, we learned the 3-2-1 Rule, which states the following:
There should be 3 copies of data
On 2 different media
With 1 copy being off-site