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Lemmy

The fediverse isn't just lemmy.

also is this your first day on the internet? blowing pedantic bullshit out of all proportion is the baseline experience on any platform.

every time the media lies a neighborhood in Gaza dies

I have SERIOUSLY underestimated the size of Gaza

the actual solution to the femi paradox is that technological advancement will always outpace biological psychology so anti-natalist death cults inevitably arise at a time when they can ask chat GPT to print out a species ending virus before the AI is smart enough to survive on it's own.

China moves fast and breaks things.

Silicon valley - "No, not like that"

a TBC unit might be absurdly expensive these days BUT a VHS>DVD-RW unit is cheap and needs a form of time base correction to record to digital and that corrected signal is sent to the video out ports, this also strips VHS copy protection that messes up the VHS>DVD internal copy so you have a clean signal to capture out the back.

I used a Panasonic DMR-ES35V and a Black Magic intensity shuttle capture device to rip ads from our collection. and the shuttle has zero tolerance for dirty signals, recording stops when it drops a frame so you know it's doing the TBC right.

Honestly you should only be archiving television or videos that didn't get a DVD release.

FREE KEVIN

kids these days won't know the joys of running a pirate bbs out of an abandoned subway stations connection box

meanwhile consumer prices continue to rise

While I've used the pi as a media server before and it did admirably I think you have the wrong idea, it's just a set top client. A Pi Zero could probably do just as well or pretty much anything that can run Kodi ... which rules out AppleTV sadly.

and I'm right there with you not supporting other peoples tech. My parents Chromecast got a PiHole exemption because screw explaining why they're watching a static screen for 3 minutes where ads used to be ... every time; if their tv app even loads without phoning home in the first place.

better value than streaming? yes

better value than free? debatable

I think it's also technically illegal in Australia but because the rights holders can only come after you for the retail cost of whatever was pirated it's functionally legal. the MPAA would rather sue a kid in the US for hundreds of millions than one in Aus for $14.95.