I mean if you’re going for the piracy route, you never used streaming services or bought physical media anyways and the whole discussion is moot.

Well with your DVDs the “HD resolution” question is easily answered: you don’t get HD resolution. Weird comparison there. Especially since you complain about Disney+ not going beyond 480p in your specific case - so why buy DVDs with the same shitty resolution?

While I generally agree here, resolution isn’t everything, bitrate also plays a role, and some content in streaming services has been compressed rather badly so that you get artifacts that you don’t have on DVDs. A DVD will certainly look better than 480p streaming content despite a much older codec which light only exists as a reason for an upsell.

I think the way to go is a Homeserver (could even be a raspberry pi) where you can somewhat secure your storage with appropriate redundancy.

And how would you get stuff onto your homeserver legally?

The “don’t break userspace” is a kernel rule. It’s ok to break userspace within (like on library upgrades). The equivalent for Linux would be breaking kernel space, which they do… very often. It’s the reason DKMS exists and why Nvidia can be such a hassle

Wow way to make assumptions huh

It’s a fountain pen

Imagine installing Arch without having to bindmount dev, proc and sys smh my head

PREDICTABO

Stronger compartmentalization

Ok, I don’t really know why I wrote all that because it was pretty clear from context you know the difference. Hopefully it helps others.

For me, Mullvad isn’t an option because they don’t have port forwarding anymore.

Tailscale is a VPN in the classic sense, I e. to build a secure network over an insecure one. Mullvad is a service to hide your public IP address and switch from having to trust your ISP to having to trust Mullvad.

I too have a subscription to one of the latter services, but I always find them sketchy

I too watched Watchmen

It revealed itself to me in a tarot session

Oh my God, it’s the guy from City of the Wolves!

Probably any furniture store

First of all, genuinely happy for the both of you.

Second of all, I don’t think it’s mentally healthy to have such a negative view on such a large portion of a society - personally, I’m very picky with friends and acquaintances, but the “I hate people”-attitude is rather something I associate with edgy teenagers and people who never grew out of that mindset.

I mostly ignore that people who I don’t like exist and reduce my interactions with them to a minimum. Constantly hating just sounds exhausting, even if it’s so abstract.

You are obviously free to do as you please; I’m just trying to provide another perspective that maybe brings more peace of mind.

It’s fifty-fifty, either it will be or it won’t

LFS is a distro in the sense that a cookbook is a buffet

input input input input

Just make him tanky and put an Insight into it, it’s a Polearm weapon, bam, useful

I think it can be assumed that of a machine has sudo, it also has touch.

It’s called subsidizing