Post AOLQKWWInKrB4krAWW by kgerloff@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #AOLQKUdJoHHTDw7kBM by kgerloff@mastodon.social
2022-10-07T21:31:25Z
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Computers suck. No wait, I have proof.
(DIR) Post #AOLQKVBLlkVEvU2vE8 by lxo@gnusocial.net
2022-10-07T23:12:46Z
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hah, you misspelled DRM as computers!
(DIR) Post #AOLQKWWInKrB4krAWW by kgerloff@mastodon.social
2022-10-07T21:33:46Z
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I borrowed a movie DVD from the library today. Tried to watch it on three laptops with different OSes. All had their problems.
(DIR) Post #AOLQKYODqLa8sH5kCu by kgerloff@mastodon.social
2022-10-07T21:35:50Z
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1. Shiny, brand-new MacBook Pro w/ M1 chip: Can’t push sound to Bluetooth speaker.So I connected the speaker with a cable. The sound dropped out entirely whenever there was a quiet bit in the movie.(It has lots of quiet bits.)
(DIR) Post #AOLQKZy3yZqTlirsi8 by kgerloff@mastodon.social
2022-10-07T21:40:48Z
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2. Lenovo X390 Yoga running Win10: incapable of playing DVDs without installing additional software.GTFO. Are you kidding me? DVDs have been around for decades, and your lame-ass excuse for an OS doesn’t know what to do with them?!
(DIR) Post #AOLQKbmREljdOFRcrw by kgerloff@mastodon.social
2022-10-07T21:45:51Z
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3. Lenovo Thinkpad running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS: VLC sees the DVD just fine, and shows the DVD‘s onboard menu.It can’t play the damn thing though, because it lacks some mysterious package - BUT IT‘S NOT TELLING ME! VLC just doesn’t play the movie. Some other player software tells me about the package, at which point I can’t be arsed to install it.
(DIR) Post #AOLQKdXyfVM8ryh6bg by kgerloff@mastodon.social
2022-10-07T21:46:02Z
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I don’t want to do sysadmin work.I just want to quietly watch a movie with my wife, FFS.
(DIR) Post #AOLQKf2V7VMlUvyzp2 by kgerloff@mastodon.social
2022-10-07T21:52:26Z
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In sum:DVDs have been in common usage for a quarter of a century. And yet, we still can’t make them just work.Instead, the Apple App Store has dozens of fart-related apps. And of course we have smart contracts on the blockchain.Perhaps we’re just getting what we deserve./fin
(DIR) Post #AOLR0JV9aUSsrVFKxE by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
2022-10-08T03:24:42.977749Z
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@kgerloff Viewing DVD's unlicensed is still illegal in the USA and getting certified for a license for software to play a DVD requires the software to be proprietary and proprietary software is most often garbage.I don't have any issue playing DVD's on GNU/Linux once I've installed mpv+libdvdcss (typically not installed by default on distros, as distributing libdvdcss in the USA is illegal, although nobody has been yet charged for doing so).It's typically best to just download movies in the .mkv packaging format (somehow, as to how is up to the user), as those play just fine.
(DIR) Post #AOLRRJ2fP6L7FunDxg by a1ba@expired.mentality.rip
2022-10-08T03:29:17.487039Z
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@Suiseiseki @kgerloff isn't it nice living in US-centric world?I hate it.
(DIR) Post #AONz42sl6ZX7Ea9suW by kgerloff@mastodon.social
2022-10-08T10:56:39Z
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@lxo That’s what I would have thought if everything had worked well with the Mac.But it didn’t, which is why I’ve decided that it’s really computers as a whole that suck.
(DIR) Post #AONz43TysBJ761Zbvc by lxo@gnusocial.net
2022-10-09T08:41:54Z
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with the mac? why would a monopolist allow an out-of-the-box experience for something that competes with its own streaming services?