It’s definitely cheaply built. There is no RFI filtering and they used a resistor as a fuse. At least it appears to have a decent amount of separation between the high and low voltage sides though.

I use rsync to transfer files between my VPS and computer. Don’t torrent on Oracle Cloud without a VPN, they will terminate your account.

Did you install the libdvdcss package? It’s needed to crack the encryption and may not be installed by default due to legal issues.

Torrents are more reliable too. Every block gets its checksum verified automatically. If there is any corruption, the block will be downloaded again. With a direct download, you have to verify the checksum yourself and if it’s corrupted, you have to download the entire ISO again.

That works 99% of the time. I’ve run across a couple that refuse to extract, so I had to run them in a VM and copy the files over.

Just poke the battery and it will go bang too.

Everything posted on Lemmy is public though.

We really need to strip back copyright protection and limit it to 10-20 years.

Because that would take a long time if you deleted a large file in another partition or drive. You could also end up not having enough space to move the file to trash and if the trash directory is on an SSD, it would add a lot of unnecessary wear to it.

You don’t get segmentation faults if you don’t have an MMU. That can certainly make debugging more interesting when your firmware starts overwriting memory that it shouldn’t until it finally crashes.

MakeMKV is the only cross platform bluray ripper that I’m aware of that will work with any disc. For DVDs, I normally use Handbrake.

They don’t need enough workers to watch every video uploaded, they only need enough to review copyright claims.

They should get rid of the copyright claim system since it gets badly abused and just use DCMA since it’s illegal to file a false DCMA claim.

Some Lemmy instances disallow indexing in robots.txt, however indexers can choose to ignore that and actually blocking them takes a lot more effort.

Oh nice, maybe I will get a check for less than the cost to mail it in 5 years.

It seems like it’s mostly just bots left there now.

It’s best to install yt-dlp manually and let it self update. It needs to be kept on the latest version since youtube is constantly breaking things. It’s only a single file and it can be installed in any directory in your $PATH.

That would be great for a server, but 1.7GHz is a bit slow for a desktop.

Nice one Intel. My next computer certainly will not contain an Intel CPU.

I wish someone would start making desktop motherboards with socketed RISC-V and ARM CPUs.

Yeah, they really want to keep your data.

Have you tried mounting the google drive on your computer and copying the files with your file manager?