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Re: Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Google login

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First, I dispute that piracy is really better. Amazon and netflix generally work easier than piracy. My, um friend, has radarr + usenet + plex, and its work pretty well 80%. But subtitles are often a problem. Unpacking/par checking sometimes takes forever. Sometimes the decoder in plex doesn't really work. Sometimes the movie has been DMCA'd off the use net servers. Private trackers involve sucking up to to 15 year o…

When I said piracy was the better service, what I meant is it offered much higher quality, not that it was easier to use. Piracy actually takes a ton of work. Of course paying for a streaming subscription is the easiest solution: people just pay and enjoy what it offers. The problem is the fact they consistently offer the lowest quality product. 1. Horrible video compression to save bandwidth When they offer users hi…

Another point, cloud service is extremely unstable. The movie/anime/feature/etc would disappear somedays without any reason and no way to rebase.

For piracy, one just needs to backup. And, this is controlled by user not whatever COMPANY/POLICY.

Re: Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Google login

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Wait, can you not play SDR 4K on Netflix? What happens if you play the first season of Stranger Things, which was produced in 4K but not in HDR?

SDR? Sure. But unless something has changed recently, 4K Netflix on PC requires a particular flavor of Windows DRM that is only supported by NVIDIA GPUs starting with Pascal and Intel integrated graphics starting with Kaby Lake‡. On a more technical related note, I'd imagine 4K SDR variants of all Netflix HDR productions are generated on the back-end as an output of the same post-production process used to produce SD…

Excellent reply, thanks very much. My HTPC is ageing, but I like to push the life of my computers to the most. So needing an even better GPU or CPU when it should have been able to downgrade a tad is annoying.

Re: Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Google login

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I've looked at syncthing, however it doesn't have an iOS app. Regarding nextcloud - it only seems to do full syncronisation like dropbox does. How can I store large shared directories on the server side only? eg, my FreeNAS box has ~20TB in it, and I'd like to be able to access it as a shared directory, but obviously not sync it to my laptop.

Just deselect that directory in the app on your laptop.

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