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Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by mynameisnull »

yucky wrote: post #132
rolenthedeep wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Our public libraries are underfunded and used as a punching bag by conservatives. Libraries have very limited shelf space and must constantly prune items from the collection. If a movie isn't checked out for a few months, it gets sold for like 50 cents and replaced with whatever is currently in demand. Most public libraries don't have the resources to archive materials. That's mostly down to academic and specialist l…

The US has by far the largest public library system in the world, and it's not close. So by what metric would you consider it underfunded?

If you mean the library of Congress sure. If you mean the most libraries not based on a quick google (https://www.quora.com/Which-country-in-the-world-has-the-mos...). But I guess it depends on what you mean. I am genuinely curious as there are several ways of looking at this.

Also, the person above could have been talking about compared to days past. I can tell you the libraries I had access to when and where I grew are less funded (many closed), but again depends on where and what you’re comparing against.

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by tracker1 »

And this is why I have a NAS with a dozen 12tb drives on two raid 6 arrays. Most of it is h265 encoded, which is smaller, and the blur of h265 doesn't annoy me like the blockiness of h264.

I am only using about 22tb currently, upgraded about two years ago.

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by tzfld »

layer8 wrote: post #97
satysin wrote: post #65

I get the point the author is making but keeping all the DVDs also isn't the answer IMHO. At least it wasn't for me, it was just annoying to find a place to store it all, to move it when we moved country would have cost money for basically nothing of value. I had a purge of pretty much all my physical media a bit over a decade ago. I had a little over 1000 DVDs and Blu-rays. Probably 200 VHS too. God knows how many C…

You can store them in CD wallets like this one: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/388541-REG/Case_Logic... I have ~1500 DVDs stored that way in less than a meter of shelf space.

This may be space saving, but not a recommended way to store discs for long periods.

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by fullmoon »

shrimp_emoji wrote: post #121
DoneWithAllThat wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Stop what? Using accurate information? Not ignoring the complexities of the world? That comment is absolutely correct; to make things more confusing, people whose sex appears female can turn out to have XY allosomes in some, or all[0], of their cells. 0: https://www.invitra.com/en/morris-syndrome/

As the article you’ve linked states this syndrome affects males, makes them resistant to androgens, so they have an appearance of females.

It doesn’t state anywhere that the patients are either female or belong to a novel category.

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by jsz0 »

meindnoch wrote: post #124
jsz0 wrote: post #109

Alternatively consider reducing your addiction to television/movies and stop worrying about where your next fix is coming from. In the golden era of piracy I used to be a huge media pack rat spending hours a day obtaining more media to stash away. One day my ZFS array puked and I lost almost everything. I wasn't even upset. It was a blessing in disguise to be liberated from caring about hoarding media. Never seeing y…

>One day my ZFS array puked How does that happen? No redundancy?

Totally self inflicted. I was using a beta version of OpenZFS on a beta version of OSX. Begging for problems and I finally found one. Maybe I was subconsciously looking for an off-ramp of the burden of managing my horde of data. All my personal data was backed up so I just restored that and let the media horde go.

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by [deleted] »

zdw wrote: post #85
photochemsyn wrote: post #42

One real danger of putting all historical video media on streaming sites is that it makes it far too easy to introduce an Orwellian Ministry of Truth that is empowered to rewrite the past to make it conform to today's acceptable social norms, academic ideologies, government agendas and so on. For example, one could make the argument that Alfred Hitchcock's entire library promotes negative stereotypes of women - and i…

There are already incidences of this: The TV show Community is missing an episode on Netflix for some reason (edit: reason was Ken Jeong in what could be interpreted as blackface). The IT Crowd is missing one in some geos because it was considered anti-Trans by some - that episode also has the unrelated and hilarious plot where Roy and Moss convince Jen that they're loaning her a "black box that holds the entire inte…

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Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by cgh »

ghusto wrote: post #137
beej71 wrote: post #11

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A friend of mine refuses streaming. He buys CDs in bulk from the flea market and rips them to FLAC. I was just thinking of doing the same for my collection in the attic, assuming the CDs have survived a couple thousand freeze/thaw cycles. :) I like the idea of ditching the hard cases for space.

Yup, I do the same, and can recommend it. You get the benefits of both physical media, and convenience of soft storage availability. That music is mine, and can never be sold to me again. In case some might be wondering what the "benefits" of physical media are; it's my belief that having to _commit_ to listening to a CD (not being able to flick through different albums and artists easily on Spotify, as the whim come…

My personal best example of this is tape-trading (which were mostly CD-Rs, but whatever) underground metal back in the '90s. The sheer amount of work it took to find people to trade with, burn the music, send it through the mail and, best of all, get their package in return made it seem so significant. And it was the best way to find out about new bands. Even bands that eventually became huge, like Metallica after they changed their sound, built their initial fanbase via the trading scene.

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by asddubs »

zdw wrote: post #85
photochemsyn wrote: post #42

One real danger of putting all historical video media on streaming sites is that it makes it far too easy to introduce an Orwellian Ministry of Truth that is empowered to rewrite the past to make it conform to today's acceptable social norms, academic ideologies, government agendas and so on. For example, one could make the argument that Alfred Hitchcock's entire library promotes negative stereotypes of women - and i…

There are already incidences of this: The TV show Community is missing an episode on Netflix for some reason (edit: reason was Ken Jeong in what could be interpreted as blackface). The IT Crowd is missing one in some geos because it was considered anti-Trans by some - that episode also has the unrelated and hilarious plot where Roy and Moss convince Jen that they're loaning her a "black box that holds the entire inte…

I mean, "was considered anti-Trans by some" is pretty charitable for that episode. It is pretty overtly anti-trans, and the show as a whole was written by grahan linnehan who has also been vocally anti-trans

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by evandale »

shrimp_emoji wrote: post #121
DoneWithAllThat wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Stop what? Using accurate information? Not ignoring the complexities of the world? That comment is absolutely correct; to make things more confusing, people whose sex appears female can turn out to have XY allosomes in some, or all[0], of their cells. 0: https://www.invitra.com/en/morris-syndrome/

From your own link Morris syndrome affects males. In fact, the presence of a Y chromosome by definition means the person is of male sex and it really is as simple as that. One's appearance has no effect on their sex.

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by Klonoar »

legitster wrote: post #89
zdw wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are already incidences of this: The TV show Community is missing an episode on Netflix for some reason (edit: reason was Ken Jeong in what could be interpreted as blackface). The IT Crowd is missing one in some geos because it was considered anti-Trans by some - that episode also has the unrelated and hilarious plot where Roy and Moss convince Jen that they're loaning her a "black box that holds the entire inte…

A couple of episodes of 30 Rock as well.

Doesn’t Always Sunny have this issue as well?
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