TheImpressiveX

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15713559

The cause of death has not been revealed, but by all accounts he was healthy.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15318807

Looks like trunks are back in style!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15188270

1. The Marvels (Disney/Marvel)
   • Budget: $219.8 million
   • Box office: $206.1 million
   • Net loss: -$237 million
2. The Flash (Warner Bros./DC)
   • Budget: $220 million
   • Box office: $271.3 million
   • Net loss: -$155 million
3. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (Disney/Lucasfilm)
   • Budget: $387 million
   • Box office: $384 million
   • Net loss: -$143 million
4. Wish (Disney)
   • Budget: $200 million
   • Box office: $254.9 million
   • Net loss: -$131 million
5. Haunted Mansion (Disney)
   • Budget: $150 million
   • Box office: $147.5 million
   • Net loss: -$117 million

For those of you who don't know, Linux From Scratch is a project that teaches you how to compile your own custom distro, with everything compiled from source code.

What was your experience like? Was it easier or harder than you expected? Do you run it as a daily driver or did you just do it for fun?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/11289587

This is the first version of LibreOffice to use Calendar Versioning, and it also comes with numerous updates and changes. See the blog post for details.

And here are my qBittorrent stats. I left my computer running for 6 days, I never thought I'd get this far! But that electricity bill's gonna sting...

It's good to give back to the community.

EDIT: To any three-letter agencies who might be reading this post, I was uploading Linux ISOs and scientific research papers. I would never dream of uploading copyrighted material...

Taken from the CompTIA IT Fundamentals Exam Guide book (2nd edition, published 2021). I'm not sure if they fixed this in newer versions, if at all.

TL;DR at the bottom.

I started getting into torrents about 2 years ago, at the time I started out with downloading YIFY rips and x265 RARBG encodes. I didn't care about the quality at the time, I was just happy to get movies. But I also wanted stuff like Special Features, and while Tigole and the QxR team occasionally added them for some of their movies, it felt like something was missing.

Eventually I grew dissatisfied with encodes, and wanted to watch movies in the highest quality possible. I would have downloaded BDMVs, but no one seemed to be seeding them, or in the case of less-mainstream/obscure movies, they weren't on public trackers at all. (I tried downloading REMUXes from FGT, but they always replaced the PGS subtitles with UTF text subtitles, which I didn't appreciate.) So in early 2022 I bought myself a Blu-ray optical drive, set up MakeMKV, and bought the Blu-ray of the movie I wanted to rip. After that, I bought some more BDs to rip, and I started making my own REMUXes. Some time after that, I flashed my drive with the LibreDrive firmware so I could rip my 4K UHD discs too.

So anyway, my point is that the arguments that piracy is "bad for business" and causes companies to "lose money" are full of hot air. If anything, piracy is good for them and increases sales. There have been numerous occasions where I have wanted to download a REMUX and there were no seeders, and decided it would be easier for me to buy the disc and rip it myself.

So, the main takeaways are:

1. Piracy isn't nearly as bad as the authorities say it is, and may actually increase sales.
2. Create good-quality encodes.
3. Seed all your torrents.

TL;DR: Started buying and ripping my own Blu-rays due to dissatisfaction with low-quality encodes and lack of seeders.