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Cake day: June 27th, 2023

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  • Why not? First of I have all the episodes as mkv files, they are high quality but indeed compressed.

    Second, if I will AI upscale the episodes, I want to use uncompressed video files, and then compress them after the upscale. Maybe 720p would be more than enough? Maybe 1080p? I don’t expect 1440p or 4k to improve the viewing experience much over 1080p

    Lastly, in Norway, ripping DVDs for own use is specifically legal. The act of format shifting or making straight up copies at least of music got legal precidence about 20 years ago. I don’t remember exactly, just remember watching the news. Reasoning was, for the sake for format shifting, or making backups to preserve your original. Giving away, lending, or selling your backups was strictly made illegal, except if the original is included when you sell your backup. As well you can’t make a backup and sell the original without destroying the backup or including it with the sale.

    One of the guys credited with breaking the dvd encryption was Norwegian. He didn’t do it alone, and last time I called him the guy who broke thebencruption, someone on reddit yelled at me. He had the code printed on a t-shirt, and used it in every interview on TV. There FBI had an arrest warrant out for him, he even won an award he didn’t attend in the US. The warrant was later recended or something I don’t know, because he did move to the US in the end.

    Final thoughts. I think my ps3 can be used to rip dvd’s using home brew? I might not need to buy a usb drive if I don’t want to.






  • I’m just waiting sometimes searching for an in depth guide, or an easy to use tool, to upscale my sg-1 dvd’s directly from original non compressed quality, to a more palatable resolution before they are compressed and converted to mkv. Tools being FOSS is a soft requirement, it kind of has to run on Linux, or I need to find an older dual core Intel Mac in storage or run windows in a vm.

    I don’t have any computers with a DVD drive any more, but I’m not opposed to buying one



  • Maybe depriving your self of sex is entirely your decision, and not someone else’s. It sounds so gross to hear people wanting to control the sex life of other people, because I am unable to by any stretch of the imagination interpret someone being offended by other people not wanting to have sex with you in any other way.

    I can only imagine, that a woman in the US, that are not allowed to end an unwanted pregnancy, and live under a government that actively floats that they would like to end contraceptives. So what happens is if you stick your penis (stop seething when you read this) inside of her, all her rights her mother had before in the same situation goes out the window.

    Just a reminder, your unalienable rights do not include forcing someone to have Sex with you



  • The important part is to make your subscription to your car and your subscription to your house a big enough part of your pay check, so that you are afraid if you use too much electricity your budget for your food will not be enough. For everyone else make sure they need Netflix, HBO, YouTube premium, reddit coins, and every thing else to get into the same situation

    Then make it so you are afraid to lose your job because you can’t save up for a rainy day fund.

    Then be afraid of the rain

    Now the rest is slowly boiling the frog, so you are used to it