wow. self-host your data or be rugged forever.

💯 hate it's not open source but #plex has a bit more going for it than jellyfin rn imo. lifetime member here 🤙🏻

The worst is these games cart/disc that still need an internet connexion to start or download missing content.

Resist until they break themselves.

💯- plus we are now in the age where the books and movies you purchased can be altered after the fact to suit whatever the Current Thing demands.

Thank God for torrents.

💯 and #theInternetArchive

Not your FLAC, not your song.

yuuup 🔥

The future isn’t so great…

unless we continue to do something about it

Someone please recommend me a good torrent client

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What’s really sad is Xbox is removing the last optical drive this year, and PlayStation is expected to follow suit.

oh noooo. source?

At this point if you are no longer allowed to view what you purchased, the company must reimburse you. It would be the only right thing to do. But, you know they won’t.

@Ava As an additional backup medium, CDs and DVDs are still an easy, cheap and highly durable option. As a secondary, or tertiary backup, these durable forms of media can last many, many years. The USB drives you can attach to computers can be purchased cheaply as well. Nothing can give a user more peace of mind than multiple backups across different forms of media. Mailing a trusted party a disc, or dropping it off with them during the holiday season is an easy way to achieve piece of mind. In training, we learned the 3-2-1 Rule, which states the following: There should be 3 copies of data On 2 different media With 1 copy being off-site