A lot of non-tech people are really passionate about the idea of "physical media" when the truth is that your physical media is infinitely more likely to be damaged, lost, stop being compatible with your device, need manual patching, etc.. You have to realize the "physical" in physical media is as much of a money grubbing industry as having it be owned by a company, and DVD readers and retro consoles will one day be dusty collectors items that will cost you an arm and a leg for upkeep
If you're into tech (real practical tech, not the political industry) you'll understand the only truly infinite and forever is piracy. that's right. Neither corporations nor your beloved physical hands that God made could do anything to make your precious little movies and video games last forever. But you know what does? Torrent sites. Illegal cloud storage so scattered and abstract no force on this earth will ever reach them. Not corpo. Not the law. Not even the natural force of fucking entropy. Do you know how a cloud works? One million computers, all connected to the internet, each host multiple copies of your media. One million or more. An infinite army of disposable clones that can never be contained. Missing bit from computer 9,681 during download? Computers 22,316-933,183 have that bit uploaded for you and you don't even have to think about it. When you "torrent" something, a number of computers equal to the population of a metropolitan city is at your service and ready to put it together for you atom by fucking atom from a total of several quadrillion bits collectively hosted in unreal digital space
That's why I'm not into physical media.
If you're into tech (real practical tech, not the political industry) you'll understand the only truly infinite and forever is piracy. that's right. Neither corporations nor your beloved physical hands that God made could do anything to make your precious little movies and video games last forever. But you know what does? Torrent sites. Illegal cloud storage so scattered and abstract no force on this earth will ever reach them. Not corpo. Not the law. Not even the natural force of fucking entropy. Do you know how a cloud works? One million computers, all connected to the internet, each host multiple copies of your media. One million or more. An infinite army of disposable clones that can never be contained. Missing bit from computer 9,681 during download? Computers 22,316-933,183 have that bit uploaded for you and you don't even have to think about it. When you "torrent" something, a number of computers equal to the population of a metropolitan city is at your service and ready to put it together for you atom by fucking atom from a total of several quadrillion bits collectively hosted in unreal digital space
That's why I'm not into physical media.
I don't think that you are exactly on point, but you're pretty close.
Physical media really doesn't matter, what really matters is DRM free. You don't need original physical media if you can make as many copies as you want, and then it doesn't matter if you lose the original disc, because you have 10 others.
For a lot of these games, they will give you a CD but who cares -- you can't start a single player game without contacting an external server anyway!
Physical media really doesn't matter, what really matters is DRM free. You don't need original physical media if you can make as many copies as you want, and then it doesn't matter if you lose the original disc, because you have 10 others.
For a lot of these games, they will give you a CD but who cares -- you can't start a single player game without contacting an external server anyway!
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@MK2boogaloo Fuckers nowadays don't ubderstand that cd rot is still athing that can happen to their precious dvd and blue ray discs, i still remember back in 2007 when my first eminem cd became unusable because of cd rot.
@MK2boogaloo I do both for some things. I buy CDs but rip them all immediately to be safe. I buy them to collect so it's kind of a different thing
@monkey @MK2boogaloo buying and ripping CDs is a legit way to get DRM free files while also supporting the artist more than using Sp*tify
@EdBoatConnoisseur @MK2boogaloo Quality optical disks can outlast HDD's and SSD's easily, although a lot of them are junk that just rot, thus for storing certain things, DVD's or bluray disks with plenty of parity via dvdisater can be good.
@Suiseiseki @MK2boogaloo Still my chain of trust for important data tp be stored long term is: lto tape > hard drives in a raid array for parity > zip archives on hard drives.
@EdBoatConnoisseur @MK2boogaloo I have a Linkin Park CD I got in like 2002 that still works
@monsterislandcolonizer @EdBoatConnoisseur @MK2boogaloo I'm so sorry are you hanging on to it because your trash can is full?
@Escoffier @EdBoatConnoisseur @MK2boogaloo I got it for my birthday was I was 9 so I'm keeping it for sentimental reasons
@monsterislandcolonizer @EdBoatConnoisseur @MK2boogaloo My condolences
@Escoffier @EdBoatConnoisseur @MK2boogaloo It's ok, I love that album
@monsterislandcolonizer @EdBoatConnoisseur @MK2boogaloo I'm so sorry*
*these are what the kids on tiktok call "jokes?" Its kind of a new thing you may not have heard of it yet
*these are what the kids on tiktok call "jokes?" Its kind of a new thing you may not have heard of it yet
@Escoffier @EdBoatConnoisseur @MK2boogaloo No I unironically like Linkin Park's first 2 albums
@monsterislandcolonizer @EdBoatConnoisseur @MK2boogaloo I think there may be a pharma for that?
@Escoffier @EdBoatConnoisseur @MK2boogaloo โ๐ป๐
Silence zoomer
A millennial is listening to early 00s hits
Silence zoomer
A millennial is listening to early 00s hits
@monsterislandcolonizer @EdBoatConnoisseur @MK2boogaloo I actually wasn't aware they were still making music at that point and, oh my sweet nature's child, am i ever not a Zoomer
@Escoffier @EdBoatConnoisseur @MK2boogaloo >I wasn't aware LP was still making music in 2002
Oh ok
OLD
Oh ok
OLD
@monsterislandcolonizer @EdBoatConnoisseur @MK2boogaloo I would go with amazing but, ok
@MK2boogaloo
>A lot of non-tech people are really passionate about the idea of "physical media" when the truth is that your physical media is infinitely more likely to be damaged, lost, stop being compatible with your device, need manual patching, etc.
>infinitely more likely
Stopped listening to this heavy bait right here.
>A lot of non-tech people are really passionate about the idea of "physical media" when the truth is that your physical media is infinitely more likely to be damaged, lost, stop being compatible with your device, need manual patching, etc.
>infinitely more likely
Stopped listening to this heavy bait right here.
@MK2boogaloo There is no cloud - it's just other people's computers.
Depending on the popularity of the torrent, there can be millions of seeders or none.
Videos in proprietary formats or proprietary games are not forever, as eventually you won't be able to get the right proprietary player working or the right proprietary OS working for the games (in a reasonable amount of time or at all).
A video encoded in a free format will be playable pretty much forever of course.
Most quality movie torrents were dumped from physical media (as that's the only way to get a quality version of the video for most movies) and bittorrent just acts as a backup really.
Depending on the popularity of the torrent, there can be millions of seeders or none.
Videos in proprietary formats or proprietary games are not forever, as eventually you won't be able to get the right proprietary player working or the right proprietary OS working for the games (in a reasonable amount of time or at all).
A video encoded in a free format will be playable pretty much forever of course.
Most quality movie torrents were dumped from physical media (as that's the only way to get a quality version of the video for most movies) and bittorrent just acts as a backup really.
@EdBoatConnoisseur @MK2boogaloo Don't use zip archives - zip is a pretty terrible format.
If you want a long-term archive format that also does compression properly, you want lzip (it can restore a good file automatically from two or more files that are corrupted in different parts and can automatically repair/workaround minor corruption).
If you want a long-term archive format that also does compression properly, you want lzip (it can restore a good file automatically from two or more files that are corrupted in different parts and can automatically repair/workaround minor corruption).
@Suiseiseki @MK2boogaloo There's a reason i put zip at last, been also looking at 7z and tar.zst as options, i got some .rar files that i gotta convert to either zip or 7z, believe me i do lament that the innovation on compressed archive algorithms and formats has put more importance to speed and compression ration than to archival for bit rot and file corruption prevention/mitigation.
@prettygood @MK2boogaloo well I buy most of my CDs from thrift stores so it's not helping those people. However I do but cds and tapes from artists on Bandcamp too. I'll even pay for digital downloads cause I'm trying to help some people out. I actually used to be subscribed to an artist on Bandcamp for $90/year to get access to their fill backlog and unreleased stuff (he had like 300 albums, some of which were unreleased)
@jorgaborg @monkey @MK2boogaloo @prettygood I hate paying money for bits, if I'm buying it I want to have it pressed into plastic
@MK2boogaloo DVD virgin: I have to store it away from light in a specialized sealed sleeve otherwise the bits will rot like fruit removed from a tree
piracy chad: piratebay is launching drones with raspi servers on them to make sure my tracker is available in the event of nuclear war
piracy chad: piratebay is launching drones with raspi servers on them to make sure my tracker is available in the event of nuclear war
@EdBoatConnoisseur @MK2boogaloo there was that big youtuber guy that was into physical stuff and whatever and his place burned down losing everything and i gloated about it on fedi lmfao
@SuperSnekFriend @MK2boogaloo "need manual patching"
You can play pre steam half life on old PCs you need windows 10 for steam half life
You can play pre steam half life on old PCs you need windows 10 for steam half life
@Pawlicker @Suiseiseki @MK2boogaloo so, which compressed archive fromats are good and bad? rar is bad cuz proprietary, zip is better than rar, 7z idk.
@EdBoatConnoisseur @Suiseiseki @MK2boogaloo rar is bad if you're fixating on that but it can handle corruption vastly better than 7z. 7z doesn't have a recovery record like rar does.
https://menga.net/why-i-still-use-rar-instead-of-7z
https://menga.net/why-i-still-use-rar-instead-of-7z
@EdBoatConnoisseur @MK2boogaloo Does a USB drive last longer than a CD? I haven't seen much research into the shelf life of disk and flash drives compared to CDs and Blu-rays.
@sj_zero pirating the game can remove the DRM in some cases.
@MK2boogaloo@lab.nyanide.com yes but physical media looks very neat
@EdBoatConnoisseur topics aside, you have a gay taste in music.
@hor32 buy the physical medias then make sure to back them up.
Yeah, in that case you're getting an objectively better experience by stealing. Which happens more than you'd expect...
@MK2boogaloo@lab.nyanide.com I stopped getting physical media years ago, and only buy for sentimental reason (e.g. Pink Floyd's last album). Other than that, torrent is the way to go, so in the end the only thing I have to be concerned about is to keep the storage drives in working order and make backups regularly.
@Suiseiseki video in proprietary format is fine, it's far better than any retarded stollman shit.
Everyone should digitalize their physical media just as another backup. Whether its books or dvds.
@MK2boogaloo @sj_zero also you aren't guaranteed a drm free game with physical media if it's not an old enough release
@MK2boogaloo @sj_zero and if you do look for old enough games that are gonna be drm free, you're gonna overpay for "limited quantity" "retro games" instead of just buying a fucking game
@MK2boogaloo @sj_zero i can already imagine someone selling WON half life for over 9000 dollars cuz it's rare, you're better off making your own physical media distributions of games by buying dvd-rw's and shit
@MK2boogaloo @sj_zero most niggas don't realize that storing pirated, cracked games on your hardware is already physical media
@lina @MK2boogaloo @sj_zero imo storing pirated games has more of a charm for me. The communities that get together to get rid of a drm on a game/app basically feel more welcoming than whatever gay little set of patchnotes that the dev left around.
Custom ascii art for the scene? Check.
Special midi song for the keygen? Check.
Thank you note? Check.
Nothing is more at home than this.
Custom ascii art for the scene? Check.
Special midi song for the keygen? Check.
Thank you note? Check.
Nothing is more at home than this.
@lina @MK2boogaloo @sj_zero Back when LGR was still cozy he often noted that there were already entire shops selling for hundreds dollars what he could find by thrift hunting.
It probably is even worse now.
It probably is even worse now.
@vokainen099 @MK2boogaloo @sj_zero the more oldschool stuff ends up in grifter hands, the higher the prices get, it's a race for getting the goods
@lina @MK2boogaloo @sj_zero A race mostly lost already, and most collectors end up as grifters when they decide to rid of their stuff
@vokainen099 @MK2boogaloo @sj_zero yeah because they're like piranhas that smelled blood in the water, they will either snatch up all the goods before actual human beings get their hands on them or they will drive the prices up so high that only they will be able to afford them
@MK2boogaloo @lina @sj_zero He got increasingly repetitive and soulless. Part of it obvs is the increasing difficulty in finding new content to talk about, but since he dropped his actual job to do YouTube you kinda feel he's less himself
@lina @MK2boogaloo @sj_zero Imagine when your average customer experience becomes like buying a fumo
@vokainen099 @MK2boogaloo @sj_zero i remotely have an idea about that cuz i remember that one time some guy bought all the ran yakumo fumos and drove their prices up too far
@vokainen099 @lina @sj_zero damn, I kinda understand. Youtubers who went from doing it in their free time to full time usually lost whatever made their stuff fun to watch in the first place.
@lina @vokainen099 @MK2boogaloo @sj_zero imagine buying the whole stock of those reddit plushes, glazing all of them with cum and then selling them back to those cucks that want them without cleaning up
Heโs mentioned that in his recent stuff, that itโs not really possible to thrift for this stuff any more (also personal anecdote, Chain thirft shops suck now, goodwill stopped doing in store auctions and puts all of the good stuff online and jacked up the prices too, I own a fair few older consoes I got there as a kid with games for $20-$40, that just isnโt possible any more)
@MK2boogaloo I've never experienced CD rot or cartridges dying due to static with my games but this is still a trvth nvke if not for the fact having a lot of physical media ends up developing the big issue of storage. Also nice butt
I used to use thrift shops a lot because I'm a cheap fuck, but eventually they priced stuff higher than new and it's like "well why don't I just buy a new one then?"
@Pawlicker @MK2boogaloo @EdBoatConnoisseur rar is a terrible proprietary format that should not be used.
>windtoddler blames windows limitations on 7z.
>windtoddler can't handle filesplitting extensions.
>toddler can't handle the software not being bloated and not integrating, parity, instead of a parity program for that if wanted.
Install GNU/Linux and use lzip and parity software.
>windtoddler blames windows limitations on 7z.
>windtoddler can't handle filesplitting extensions.
>toddler can't handle the software not being bloated and not integrating, parity, instead of a parity program for that if wanted.
Install GNU/Linux and use lzip and parity software.
@Suiseiseki @MK2boogaloo @EdBoatConnoisseur yeah there's a reason why a guy I know hosting hundreds of iso files uses rar though and it's because of what I just said
Why does it not integrate shit that other file formats can do fine? Oh wait you're a professional arguer who wished he could have been as cool as the tapout shirt guys in school
Why does it not integrate shit that other file formats can do fine? Oh wait you're a professional arguer who wished he could have been as cool as the tapout shirt guys in school