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  • About a year ago, I started buying DVD’s from thrift stores. I rip them all and put them on my Plex server. I recently aquired a Bluray player and starting to collect those too. Since those take up MUCH more diskspace, I only watch bluray with the physical disk (storage in Europe is unfortunately more expensive than in the USA)

    I also started collecting CD’s again (mostly from thrift stores too). I rip these to FLAC and also put them on my Plex.

    The beauty of this system for me is that I still have to physically flip through stuff to build my collection. Since it takes up physical space, I limit myself to stuff I actually really want to see/listen to. But by digitizing it, I have the advantage of having acces to that curated content everywhere. The added timesink of ripping and metadata correcting gives me more satisfaction and appreciation for what I bought. A sense of pride and accomplishment, if you will.

    So I buy Physical to make sure the collection stays curated and manageable, but digitize most of it for the convenience.

    Due to the appreciation of my collection, I now watch more movies and listen to more music than when I had acces to netflix or Spotify.





  • I guess that’s where I have a limited understanding of how Internet and maybe even exploits works: how would people even find my machine? There is little to no incentive, unlike with a corporation. They must know where my door is to even use the keys.

    Can you just sort of do a brute force scan of all machines currently on the internet? Seems unlikely. In my mind, you can only access a machine if you have some idea about it’s whereabouts, either physically or digitally. But then again, I have no knowledge about these kinds of things.








  • I think you vastly underestimate how many edgecases there actually are. Every one edge case might be a small userbase, but combined, all those small userbases make a significant userbase for whom Linux is less than ideal. And (just a hunch) on Lemmy, this % of users is actually larger than the population at large. Tech-savy people tend to use more obscure programs.

    Some edgecases I happen to know(because I happen to fall into three edgecase groups!)

    • VR
    • adobe stuff
    • Many music plugins

    Those are two creative edgecases. And I believe using your PC for creative work is actually quite a significant userbase.

    And sometimes even IF a product is supposedly supported on Linux, it doesn’t work straight up. I recently tried to install Ubiquity’s Unify program on my Pop!OS, but nope, errors before even installing. Happened to need all kinds of weird dependencies that are outdated and are hard to install. Even when following Ubiquity’s install guide. On windows it just worked. Another edgecase, but it adds up.

    So I disagree on your “majority” statement. Especially on Lemmy, I don’t believe that to be true at all.

    But meh, maybe agree to disagree.



  • 3D models aren’t tied to Unity, so all 3D models could probably easily be imported to Unreal.

    Unity also has a 3D model exporter, so they could have used that to get all 3D models positions into Unreal within minutes.

    E: still stuff like animations and game logic obviously take more time. Not trying to say that porting a whole game can be done in minutes, just the 3D Models.