renegadespork

For internal desktop drives, I have the WH16NS40. After flashing some open firmware on it, it works perfectly for playing and ripping BRs. Looks like I’ll be picking up a spare in case this one dies.

The MakeMKV forum has a lot of good tips and instructions on selecting and configuring BluRay drives.

I’d have no issue with digital media if there was a way to actually own it. Everything is either streaming only or ridden with DRM that can only be played within their app. Blurays, assuming you can decrypt its DRM bs, are the last bastion of media ownership left.

These specs look like a leftover casserole of hardware.

Never buy any hardware that doesn’t work offline.

Think Different Freely.

When you install Windows, you don’t really control your computer. Microsoft does.

I liked to imagine that it was just part of his boot-up routine and he didn’t even gain awareness until after he said the line.

Forgot to label the bag “Don’t open, gun inside.”

Does this plugin work on mobile too? I’m looking to try out Obsidian and this sounds promising.

I used to use Tube Archivist, but once I discovered that Pinchflat can integrate with existing media libraries (Plex, Jellyfin), I switched to that.

These were/are both hosted using Docker on Linux servers, accessed via the WebUI.

It’s a lot more work to set up, but having videos just show up in my Plex library with all the metadata is worth it.