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Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by chownie »

LawTalkingGuy wrote: post #125
chownie wrote: post #117

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This is a pretty disingenuous take isn't it? Dylan Mulvaney carries tampons as a service to others who might need them because she was once asked for one in a bathroom.

No, because while Dylan sometimes says that, the rest of the time they talk about the miraculous changes to their body, etc, and participate in female sexual health panels. They're trying to have it both ways as convenient. If you feel that this is incorrect, go to Wiki and try to edit Rachel Levine's entry to remove the word female and you can personally see how the community views this.

Ok, so what you said was in fact untrue? Dylan says she has tampons for other women, in separate other videos she talks about changes to her body.

With regard to female sexual health panels this also appears to be a fabrication. I googled this and your comment was one of the first results, unless you mean the NowThis News panel with Biden? That being a progressive news org having a media moment with the president, not a female sexual health panel as you've called it.

Your last point is complete non-sequitur. You're operating from a place of discomfort and then working backwards toward rationalisation, that's much is clear from the half-truths you're telling. If there were any concrete concerns beyond your personal feelings you wouldn't feel the need to lie.

Re: My husband was right about DVDs

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Post by Sakos »

jsz0 wrote: post #218
Sakos wrote: post #174

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I have terabytes of movies and series. I've spent like 1 hour in the past 12 months adding some stuff to my collection. HDD space is extremely cheap and keeping a local copy is such low effort that I don't see why I should get rid of my collection. Some of it is also so rare as to be impossible to find unless you're a member of some private sharing sites (try finding a complete archive of Jon Stewart on The Daily Sho…

If you're able to horde in a healthy way it's no problem. I just think for a lot of people it tends to become an unhealthy obsession of relying on obtaining media to self medicate. Chasing the dragon trying to obtain more and more media. Then ultimately facing the disappointment when it doesn't provide the dopamine fix or childhood nostalgia you're hoping for. I vividly remember the terrible feeling of opening up Ple…

There's a difference between moderation and abstinence, no? If I notice there's nothing I want to watch in my collection or online, I start to ask myself why that is and what unfulfilled needs might be the cause. Then I know I need to deal with that somehow instead of trying to distract myself with a movie.

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Post by bsagdiyev »

rrrrrrrrrrrryan wrote: post #395
LarryMullins wrote: post #336

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In my family we swap around portable hard drives loaded up with movies. Mostly orchestrated by my aunt who started the tradition. Before then, it was burned DVDs and before then it was copied VHS tapes. When I was a kid my mother showed me how to circumvent copy protection on VHS by connecting a VCR to a VHS camcorder, although I forget which was doing the playback and which was doing the recording. It was a neat way…

Kids these days share their collections on Plex

I've been doing this for 5+ years at this point. Your post reminds me that I need to finally, at some point, just build a new home server. This E3-1230v1 on DDR3 is getting a little old.

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Post by bsagdiyev »

mths wrote: post #373
HollywoodZero wrote: post #361

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Anyone else rip their DVDs, import them into Plex, then share your Plex library with others?

On that note, what kind of hardware/connection does that require? I run Plex on a rather old Synology NAS at home, and it's great for streaming at home at original quality even up to 4K but can get a bit sluggish when it tries to scale the video one way or another. Then I go out of my home and it's unwatchable when streaming even original quality, which is odd because I have 20Mbit up with fiber to the premise at hom…

I use my old GTX1060 for transcoding and it does a decent job. Upload speed could be another factor, as well as pointed out elsewhere making sure there is direct internet access to the Plex server so it doesn't use a middle server via Plex themselves.

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Post by eggy »

542458 wrote: post #196
eggy wrote: post #186

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I grew up when there was a smoking section on the plane (BTW, why do modern aircraft still have ashtrays? Are there any airlines that allow smoking?). I miss All in the Family. Is it even available anymore?

The ashtray is actually mandatory even in new planes per FAA rules. Modern aircraft still have ashtrays in the washrooms because they’d much prefer that somebody choosing to sneak a smoke puts their cigarette somewhere other than the washroom trash bin where there’s a history of them starting fires.

The ashtray in the washrooms makes sense, but I was just on a newer plane with ashtrays at each passenger seat armrest. It was Saudia.

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Post by mixmastamyk »

danaris wrote: post #400
mixmastamyk wrote: post #386

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> discard the physical discs. Donate to the library at least. > burned DVDs can have a lifetime of less than 5 years in some cases. My CD-Rs from '97 are in fine shape, thanks.

Sounds like you happened to get a good batch or a good manufacturer. I had some from around the same time that were becoming unreadable by the mid-2000s. The point is, you can't count on them lasting unless you specifically go out and buy the archival type.

All of them are still in good shape. We bought good brands, not the cheapest.

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Post by steponlego »

LinuxBender wrote: post #2

Not just DVD's but also music CD's. Plenty of music from the 1960's through early 2000's is no longer online for either contractual disputes, or cultural cancellation and other reasons I have yet to figure out. I assume some of this transition must be the cost issues of producing physical CD's vs. delivering online or renting the music online. When it is only available as a stream online I call it renting and every d…

It's just nice to pop a good CD into a nice CD player and play the whole thing. Also, despite what some people may claim, there can be huge variations in sound quality between different DACs and their associated output stages, whether or not the DAC happens to be inside a CD player, your computer, or an outboard USB device and this can easily be measured and heard by people who know the program material well.

Many people think the best sounding DACs are the multibit jobbers from Philips which haven't even been made in thirty+ years.

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Post by steponlego »

deergomoo wrote: post #44

Availability and ownership aside, Blu-ray is far better quality than what you’ll get on most streaming services. If I really care about a movie or show, I always get it on Blu-ray. That said, if they could shift 1080 BDs down to DVD pricing and UHD BD down to what BD costs now I would buy a lot more. I’m starting to build up a collection of UHD Blu-rays but Jesus, £20-30 per movie really adds up. Definitely paying th…

We learned after the Universal fire that many Blu-Rays are just high quality rips of Laserdiscs.

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Post by scintill76 »

Fnoord wrote: post #278
zirgs wrote: post #266

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This is why I don't have a DVD/BD player and only use streaming services. I almost never watch the same movie more than once.

Me neither, but there are some exceptions. The original Star Wars trilogy, LOTR, Dune, ... My wife loves Harry Potter. So we got these ripped. We ditched her DVD collection after ripping everything. Legal copies, saving space. Don't even think we brought them to some second hand store.

IANAL but I don’t think your rips would be legal if you gave the discs to a second hand store or any other person.

Circumvention clause of the DMCA probably makes DVD rips illegal in the US, even if you keep your original copy and don’t otherwise violate copyright law.

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