d-RLY?

Would love a car decal version of this!

Gonna have to stop all sales of lead and brass in any form (don’t want to have access for people to melt things down). Gunpowder of course, including all the elements needed to make gunpowder. You know, just to cover all the bases. /s

People really want those builds/any files from Half-Life Episode 3. The other stuff is just extra.

I will say at least with those you can still sell them, trade them, whatever. Unlike digital games.

Being able to sell/trade a specific copy of digital media kind of is the one functional use NFTs could be used for (if companies would be willing to treat digital media to be treated like physical media which they obviously like the current setup). Would also kind of need a universal industry blockchain (or some other ledger system) with better scam protections, and be used for the “new” sales for the trades and “used” sales. Which is way more effort than digital media companies would ever care to figure out (especially now) and were able to get away with not being required to treat digital like physical. And the major players don’t have to care about making their stuff DRM-free.

In the case of video media it is worse since there are so many set-top devices that don’t allow offline downloads like the mobile versions of the same apps (mostly since the boxes don’t have storage for it) or ability to use on a home media server (Plex/Jellyfin). So you may have a license to a movie/show but not have access to it if networks are down. And digital audio media has been reverting since a lot of new music can’t be purchased and only streamed. Which is sad since I had some early hope that the digital video stuff would follow how audio was working with a lot of DRM-free options Apple and Amazon managed to “legitimize”. I will give some level of credit to the UV/Movies Anywhere system that allows retaining a supported movie/show if you have accounts on multiple services and any one of them shuts down. But that still requires that stores/studios support it, AND that the core system isn’t the thing shutdown.

I tend to still get pulled onto it via search results when the stereotypical specific answer to specific answers are basically from there. But Lemmy has really grown so much since I first found out about it a few years ago (one of the big ditch Reddit waves of course). Still not at the “magical answer to the very issue I need info on” levels as subreddits, but getting closer and closer everyday. Also really cool to get and reply to sources from other Fediverse projects that aren’t Lemmy if you choose to follow them. Just so fun overall.

I have been curious if IPFS would be useful for releases if the trackers keep getting taken down (or another option aside from torrents and Usenet). But aside from installing IPFS a few years ago, I haven’t looked into it. And the crypto parts are a turn-off for folks that hate the crypto-bro stockmarket/scams (which is completely justified to hate). The decentralized part of it is cool.

More related to torrents. It would be cool if Nyaa and other large trackers were to setup i2p versions of the sites. Since it actually helps make the system run faster the more people install the routers.

The rest is general ranting.

With all the different decentralized P2P, a lot of spreading out of concentrated server loads could help beyond piracy. If profits/copyright/capitalism weren’t the things holding us back (along with data caps). I wouldn’t mind sharing some of my connection for so many things. Like updates for programs, media I happen to have copies/parts of, or even random files/parts of files that rotate into and off of specially allocated amounts of my drives.

Even Windows has the option for helping updates for the OS to other PCs. But I am not trying to help them with all the shit they pull while making billions (especially if I had a data cap) while not legally able to do the same for general data. If profits/copyright/capitalism weren’t an issue, then stuff like having digital libraries constantly at risk of shutting down and losing everything would basically be a non-issue. If one service pulls out, the data is still accessible via another front-end. I would even be fine with options to donate money to the devs/artists for stuff I use/like in amounts I can afford as I can.

I feel you on that. I also have random issues with stuff just not show up. Seems to happen with shows especially if it doesn’t like some seasons that have names that change the title of the show. Sometimes part of each season might show up marked as being in correct seasons, but missing chunks of episodes in each season. Also have it happen with movie series that I want to keep together in a folder for the series (but not be an issue for other stuff using similar series folder).

I don’t see it happen as often as I used to, but does still happen. Can sometimes force things by adding the specific movie/show season to the library as a source location.

Wait until they find out what can be done with socks and some rocks inside them.