miguel

I buy physical media frequently, but the quality of it in the video sector has really dropped. Musicians are over here constantly stepping up their game, but hollywood has so over-consolidated and accomplished so much regulatory capture of their remaining competition that they just serve slop.

Great example is a recent It DVD that I bought, which was so perfunctory and so poorly made, it’s hard to believe it even exists.

That’s true, and you’re completely right. It’s also 100% an argument against DRM, but also: https://www.avclub.com/warner-bros-replacing-disc-rot-dvd

I mean, that’s still pretty awful :D

Warner Bros, the same ones who made the DVDs that rotted on the shelf? That Warner Bros?

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Can I just pretend I’m texan and vote illegally 10x next time they vote to secede?

I’m subscribed to a number of ‘magazines’ and none of them have any politics at all. I peek into ‘all’ every now and again out of curiosity.

So, same as reddit - gtfo of all, and change your default feed to be what you want to see.

I am sad about this, but considering what a pile of junk my pioneer is, I could be sadder. I replaced it with a non-name version for $30 that’s done a LOT better.

That’s excellent news. Good for them #UnionStrong

Oh look, the MS steamwreck.

Same with Mexico, who hasn’t considered USDA guidelines sufficient for ages. There’s articles from 2008 and before about it, and it took super heavy threats from the US to force them to accept some of our trash quality produce (GMO, beef, etc).

We can’t have anything nice

Everyone is doing this, partially to stop AI scrapers and bots. It’s a bit weird on an “about” page, but welcome to 2025 and the dead internet.

What “kickstart”? The fediverse isn’t a commercial venture. If we can connect with our friends and interests, it’s already “working”. I find fantastic new people here all the time, doing really niche stuff I’d never find on a platform focused on appealing to everyone.

If “99%” of people aren’t on it, that’s perfectly acceptable, and just makes it easier for the ones on it to find and talk to their friends. I don’t think we need or want the vast torrent of spammers, downvote bots, and “influencer” types who use whatever gives them clicks.

I was told something like this about an article I was pointing out wasn’t on page 1 of google, but was on virtually all other engines. “Unless it’s page 1 of google nobody cares”

And all I can say is “who cares? those aren’t the people it’s for”

Considering it’s shipped by default on the fedi, on ghost, discourse, bsky and loads of other very hot upcoming and established tools, it’s very much alive. Just because xitter and facebook and google failed to find a way to monetize it and therefore tried to kill it doesn’t make it dead.

I’m a huge fan of RSS, it’s how I get 90% of my media now.

Can’t think of any times when “undesireables” have been sent to prisons/gulags in other countries. Nope. Nothing springs to mind…

I think even UK common law has something to say about that, some kind of Magna Carta? We regressed right back to pre-constitutional monarchy, do not pass go.

Dude literally pointed to his friends who made a killing on it, and posted “buy” info on his socials before reversing.

If we had any kind of system of laws, that’d be jail time.