You could always get binders to stick them in to save space that way.

I’m not so sure I would recommend 7Digital anymore since they’ve been delisting a lot of stuff lately, meaning even if you already bought it, you can’t download it anymore.

Also, if you plan on building up a mainly digital collection, I wouldn’t use lossy codecs like MP3 for my main files, instead opting for FLAC or some other lossless codec, which can then be safely transcoded to a lossy copy at will.

I’ve stopped pirating more than a decade ago but streaming and “buying” content is getting worse and worse.

Even when buying physical copies, BD movies have at least one, sometimes two layers of DRM to put up with; AACS and sometimes BD+ on top of that, and even DVDs technically have DRM although that was blown wide open eons ago.

Also, although CDs are DRM-free, for now, there’s a 9/10 chance that if you get a new CD album instead of a lossy download through iTunes/Apple Music or wherever or streaming it through Spotify, that it’ll be brickwalled to hell; blame Oasis on that one for starting the Loudness Wars, meanwhile if you go to track down an old vinyl album or even a CD pre-1995 or so, it’ll likely have been mastered decently; a lot of the time an old vinyl album is mastered better than a new CD album, both because of predating the Loudness Wars by decades typically, and also because a mastering house will have had a 20Hz-20kHz window to work in with vinyl generally.

If it is, then the entire black/dark comedy genre is full of troubled people.

Couldn’t the US hypothetically put a clause in some ‘online safety’ law conveniently deanonymizing Tor given they own most of the exit nodes?

I just disabled SecureBoot on my end.

Forgejo, Codeberg, Gitlab, or self-host.

It’s great if you’re not into online multiplayer, and I was already running Linux for years as a daily driver before it ‘got good.’

It’s fine right now still, but given it’s a centralized, corporate-run platform at the end of the day, I’m skeptical of its long-term prospects; what’s stopping the guys in charge of that platform from going turncoat and turning it fully into Twitter 2.0?

Mastodon by contrast of being an open, decentralized platform, has some immunity against the enshittification that will inevitably ruin any centralized platform.

Going to the club. I mean, if you want to hit up a nightclub, you do you, that’s your decision and your avenue of leisure, but I’m really not into that.

If you didn’t switch already, switching from Windows to Linux might be a good idea soon too, especially with Win10 going EOL, and Win11 not only basically forcing new hardware in a lot of cases, but also being really bad as an OS atm.

peertube.wtf and lemmy.wtf are both down right now.

Nvidia recently started NVK for Turing and newer and even more recently it was made conformant going back to Maxwell, but that still doesn’t give me a lot of hope for everything between Maxwell 1 (so basically just the GTX 750/750Ti for desktop Maxwell 1 cards) and Turing after driver version 580.

Also, Nouveau works for Maxwell 1 and earlier but ymmv with that stack, and it’s still not like Mesa RADV and AMDGPU for Radeon cards going back to GCN1.

Plus physical media on consoles is effectively worthless now, even on the Switch 2 with most of its library set to be downloads with literal license dongles ala the Game-Key Card which is targeted at third parties as a cheaper option than putting the whole game on a cart.

That Game-Key Card format will effectively render most of the Switch 2 library impossible to emulate assuming they need online access to run.

And even on PC, there’s nothing stopping publishers from getting smart and using kernel-level anticheat as a DRM substitute for single-player games, EA already set a precedent internally within their operations for doing that with EAAC on the latest WRC installment, for example.

As for the Switch 2, I wouldn’t put it above Nintendo to completely axe the cart slot for the Switch 3, if there even is a Switch 3 and the games industry doesn’t collapse again before that has a chance to happen, and make it a digital-exclusive console.

And even if you do boycott Sony, that’ll discount entire market segments and almost entire content niches as I just mentioned.

Sure, but I’m not touching anything Sony with a 10 foot pole.

That’s going to discount most of the camera market if not the entire camera market then because Sony makes basically everyone’s imaging sensors, plus a large portion of the anime genre given that company bought out Funimation.

That rootkit thing failed miserably, thankfully, and audio CDs have been DRM-free ever since.

At least you can watch BDs without a web connection still. For now…

Also, LibreDrive is a thing for hacking BD drives with in order to bypass DRM, but I wouldn’t be surprised if that got blocked and/or taken down at some point.

And it’ll be nuked the moment it announces its existence publicly.

This is tragically ironic given Metal Gear Rising was recently ported to GOG.