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Cake day: June 8th, 2025

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  • I bought a modified BD drive from a person who was flashing libredrive supported firmware and then got a registered copy of MakeMKV.

    It’s been stupid simple for me to rip any BD or 4K disc that I can get my hands on. If you choose the “backup” option it spits it out to a folder structure which then use mkisofs to create an iso of things.

    Honestly my biggest problem is constantly running out of hard drive space because I want to keep the original, uncompressed isos. What’s nice though is once i have the iso I can pop it back into MakeMKV and just extract what I want. I can then run that through Handbrake and compress to my exact specifications.








  • I know this is gonna dig deep, but consider this…

    Linux just barely broke 3% share. As a company, whose goal is to make money, would you focus on what 97% of your base uses, or the 3%?

    Further more, the company needs to spend QC resources for 1-2 versions of Windows, vs the multitude of Linux distros, but let’s say you can get a passable port, may not be the best but for minimal effort you can sell to a handful of that 3%, the business thinks “why not?”

    In the grand scheme of things, native Linix ports is still low on the priority list for a company focused on making money




  • What does it matter if there’s new “anima”. I am me. It doesn’t matter if it’s my original body or another body. It’s whatever is my current frame of reference for the corresponding meat bag that I inhabit.

    I really don’t understand the whole “well I died, and this isn’t me”… are you conscious? Lucid? Retain your memories? Then what does it matter?

    “Well what if the original is still around or there are two copies?” Again, it doesn’t matter, because at that point they are two physically distinct entities. You only inhabit one of them and the moment you start experiencing different stimuli, you’re two separate people. Granted at that point there are some legal and logistical issues, but it’s not a metaphysical one.