and then we all decided optical disks aren’t as easy as little thumb drives.
I just couldn’t watch The Hobbit on linux, i guess because the new keys used aren’t leaked yet (Video too new) or my drive (running a whole fuking VM) is too new, who knows?
Now imagine what they would’ve done with thumb drives? Just a remember; SSD are still running a blackbox firmware emulating a HDD.
Brass cleaner, a microfiber cloth, and some elbow grease can fix any scratched disc. Apply liberally, rub in a circular, outward motion (against the “grain”, i.e. against the pits where the data stream is stored). Repeat until disc works again.
I had a friend who didn’t take very good care of his games. When the game would stop loading, he’d let me keep it. They always came back to life using the Brasso technique. Got to enjoy a lot of free Xbox games thanks to him. Halo 2 was an especially memorable experience. My brother and I got many years of entertainment out of that one.
Only if your backup (or restore) process circumvents the DRM. But, yes, fuck the DMCA.
On that subject, copyright is a broken system, and I don’t think anyone should feel compelled to participate in it anymore. You should try to compensate creators, but copyright theft is just the norm for corporations now (not just LLMs either, legal fictions have let Disney justify not paying on some of their licenses) so you do you.
Nah, just adding color to the discussion. I run a 7-bay NAS that I built myself (3D printed case). I’m definitely not too concerned about respecting DRM/DMCA, but I don’t like having my legal rights stripped from me by some back door shenanigans.
I get you. DRM is absolutely ridiculous in implementation, but I’ve just kinda accepted it as it is what it is, and then promptly veer around it. Like I’m not opposed to paying my fair share for something, but I have zero sympathy for greedy executives that arbitrarily raise prices or pull other anti-consumer bullshit to make the imaginary line go up, especially on old digital content that is long past it’s profit peak.
My friends actually took good care of borrowed CDs. My older brother, on the other hand… One time I handed him down a PSOne (back in 2006 i think, he was never big in videogames, but he played once in a while) - the dense fucker kept a thesaurus on top because he couldn’t figure how to close the lid (there was a small, bumpy part next to the open button, you had to press the lid there so it’d click close). That almost fucked the actual clicky thing
They were great for light scratches and buffing out blemishes, it came with this solution spray and the wheel was basically just a buffer pad that wiped center out while rotating the disc. But anything beyond a light scratch was pretty much DOA.
How much were you charging? How did you advertise? Word of mouth?
I’m just curious. I sold warheads in elementary school. For a quarter a piece at first then down to nickels and dimes as people ran out of quarters. I think I just wanted to see how much I could sell by making different deals. As an adult I hate haggling though.
That’s a good profit margin. By the time I was trying to get extra weed money, I was “extracting shareholder value” when I was working at Wendy’s. There was more opportunity working the drive thru.
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