Chronographs

There’d be a nationwide tomato shortage

Proceeds from the tomato sales go towards funding his continued imprisonment

He just wouldn’t show up and they would be too scared to drag him in

I ordered my last ones directly from seagate but it’s an awful time to buy storage in general right now, the ones I bought last year are already over twice as expensive. I use backblaze for backup as they don’t have storage limits and it’s 100/year.

As someone else said the squares are how it saves space and it usually does the black areas first as (older) monitors are bad at showing detail in black.

Yeah there’s been multiple times where I’ve pirated things for subscriptions I’m already paying for (for other people mostly) because the draconian DRM or shitty players won’t actually play it at the full quality (drm requirements for hdr/4k, desktop player not supporting surround sound etc).

Yeah I mean it’s nice to have physical things but it’s not worth it to me and my friends just use my server anyways.

I’m pirating video because they won’t let me legally download a bluray without tons of drm. I don’t want to lose any quality and even with these ridiculously inflated prices hard drives are cheaper than buying all the blurays (which I’d also need to find a place to store) so I generally try and get remuxes or untouched streams. That said I got my drives from shucked external drives which are now going for over double what I bought them for.

HDR should help with the rich blacks if you have a monitor that supports it, I think it might with tonemapping too but it obviously will depend on how it was mastered in addition to what anyone does to encode it afterwards.

Could be useful for hot humid climates. I’d want to know more about the durability and if it could cause mold problems- it says it reduces ambient humidity but it’s not clear from the abstract where the moisture is going.

Can’t argue that, but hopefully it’d be motivation for them to look at what they’re opening.

I absolutely have, and if they infected themselves with The.Odyssey.2026.1080p.AMZN.WEBDL.H265.exe I would absolutely make fun of them.

Sure, but this isn’t geochemistry it’s the most popular desktop OS in the world that the person in this scenario ostensibly owns and uses. In addition, they’re using it for the famously risky practice of piracy so you’d expect a modicum of caution.

So unhide them? It will still say Application under type. I’m not going to defend Microsoft doing that but it’s not like it’s a new thing or it’s hard to fix.

If you run an exe expecting it to be a movie you kind of deserve it.

I pirate everything but software, partially because there’s actually a malware risk there and partially because steam actually has a lot of value compared to the official methods to consume other types of media. I pirate video because even though I have a dv monitor and surround sound it’s nearly impossible to get the streaming services to actually give me the full quality I pay for because their drm is so broken, and there’s no way to actually select what quality stream to use or to download it.

You can split traffic btw but the ability to do that depends on what vpn client you use. Forcing qBt to use the vpn adapter is definitely important though. qBt also has a setting to start up in a paused session which I find helps so you can set your port before it starts contacting all the trackers

The fun part is because the primaries aren’t an actual government election they can just use their superdelegates to choose whatever neoliberal ghoul they want anyways, like they did with Hilary