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Ripping Blu Rays is way deeper than I expected

I recently got into the rabbit hole of digitizing my DVDs after discovering that disc rot is very real. I bought an LG blu-ray external driver, followed steps, to flash firmware, bought a MakeMKV license to support the software, and bought a NAS to run a RAID 1 configuration to hold the backups of the DVDs.

I do think with Netflix buying out Warner Bros, optical media will take a hit. But companies like the Criterion Collection keeps optical media alive. Also CDs are alive and well when it comes to music.

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Massive Attack to take all songs off Spotify

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The company, Helsing, pledges to only sell towards democratic governments. I think it's a very slippery slope. In my opinion, once you've taken a step towards the military industrial complex, you are the military industrial complex.

I'm not sure how much funding came from the profits of Spotify. It could have come from other investments. Ultimately, you have Spotify leadership involved in a defence company that makes drones. Ethically, I don't like my money going towards someone who invests in this.

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Steam Deck / Gaming News #4

Wow!! Tibia is getting an update?? I played briefly around 2004 to 2005. What a throwback. Thanks for posting that update.

I also want to play KCD2, especially after hearing they are not using DRM. Also I have not heard about the RoboCop game, I'll check it out.

Thanks!