My hard drives are PHYSICAL media.
Digital media is fine as long as it’s liberated from the shackles of DRM
I was hoping something like Project Silica would take off for home use
I believe in a “legally obtained” digital media stored on my own hardware.
Its always a good idea to make backups of your local library’s media. You just never know. 🤓
Does “legally obtained” in quotes mean “illegally obtained”? Good on 'ya.
Inflammable means flammable? What a country!
I’m thinking buying physical media is great and shopping for physical media is so much more interesting.
Using physical media is a hassle, I much prefer to rip the contents, then convert the stuff as necessary.
…Books are an exception. I just recently rediscovered that reading isn’t annoying actually, because you don’t have weird technical and DRM issues with physical books and you can keep reading the pages for hours and hours. My tablet sucks, but physical books don’t keep freezing!
I recently bought a tiny eink reader which is great. Plus it’s flashable and heaps of community around it - I also love the idea of reading books but they just don’t fit into my day to day life very well!
Which reader?
I believe in “backups” (liberation) of said media.
Y’all old media still works? All my dvds are garbage now from dvd rot
Lost mine because for a few months a year the sun beam would hit the boxes, a few years of that, no more ps1/ps2 games.
I’m fine with digital media, if the system goes down I’ve got enough storage for a long time, if it’s longer than that I’m not going to have time for gaming anyways.
If the service I’m paying to license games removes my licenses (without refunds) I have no problem going back to the seas (something I haven’t done in over a decade, because it’s convenient enough to support the developers I want to support)
i believe in piracy supremacy. most forms of physical media decay over time and withholding as much of your hard earned cash as possible is how you can minimize the harm caused by the evils of capitalism
How about FOSS crowdfunded media supremacy?
As free as piracy for most users, but legal and developers get to keep the lights on
i’m an open source developer and i support open source as much as I can, actually open source projects are among the only things i will donate money to. but i will pirate anything that isn’t open source and i feel damn great doing it!
Fair enough, as until Stop Killing Games reaches its goals, piracy might be the only way to preserve some games.
sadly it most likely never will, lawmakers are captured by lobbies, they will always side with corporations over the working class, any legislation will be watered down to the point of uselessness if it ever even passes
piracy is the best way to preserve all forms of media, for online services it needs reverse engineering which is a shitload of effort
Perhaps, but it’s still worth a try.
Rome wasn’t built in a day, after all.
sure, it’s always worth trying things, just add it to the pile of reasons to be disillusioned with liberal democracy under capitalism when/if it fails, let yourself become disillusioned with the system. we all need to take our own path to radicalization
physical media supremacy
optical media disc rot
VHS is cool to have on the shelf if you’ve got space, but unless it’s a modern reproduction, the tape is very much going to be turning to dust over the next decade or so.
DVDs/Blu-rays should have a good few decades left on them unless they were super low budget (i.e. basically on recordable media rather than properly pressed)
So my 4k collection that most was pressed after 2020 should be good for 20-30years?
At least, yeah. The estimated lifetime for pressed consumer compact disks is 30-100 years (incl dvd/bluray), assuming a bell curve distribution, you should get at least that
Rock on! That will outlive me then. Take that kids!
And not a single Game Boy cartridge. Now I’m just disappointed.
Aren’t the batteries in those coming up on their end of life? I remember reading stories years ago about how those carts were starting to fail as the batteries died.
Game Boy carts don’t fail when the batteries die, they just lose their dave data. And most games didn’t even use battery saves. Thankfully replacing the batteries is a pretty simple job!
When everything collapses, people who own multiple DVD players will be the new tech bros. /s
After the collapse of civilization, the people who tell stories around the campfire with the aid of a slide projector will be wizards.
mario odyssey being in the picture kind of already crosses the line since the game kind of makes some things difficult for you without internet connection.
but i believe you could definitely play the game if all nintendo servers go down, so it does count.
My collection of movies and videos are saved on my PHYSICAL drives
As one said: “optical media bad”
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But I don’t agree
not korn though
me too
