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optical media is low-key underrated tbh.

A rewritable BD-RE is 25GB, and you can get a spindle of 10 (250GB) for about the same price as most cheap 64GB flash drive these days.

"But quad, burning a disc is so slow"

And so what? A blu-ray writes at around 4 MB/s, and every single writer I've seen does 2X speed. Most bargain bin flash drives I've encountered don't go much faster anyways. If you want a fast flash drive they definitely cost more than optical media.

The main disadvantage is of course that devices need to have an optical drive, and if you plan to rewrite the media 100 times, flash storage is likely a better idea.

But in an age of overpriced flash storage, a cheap plastic disc can be a godsend


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man, i wish i could just buy these and put my own android on them. would make for great Kodi boxes.

By far the cheapest way to get a doodad capable of decoding AV1 and outputting HDR as well.

But no, like any Android device it's either run the a spyware-infested stock OS, or bet on the 1% chance it'll get lineageos support two years after it was last available for sale

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Good news today, my workplace finally got IPv6

Bad news is that it wasn't intentional, some idiot managed to enable a DHCPv6 server on their computer
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you ever think about the fact that modern 1080p video streams at 7-ish mbit are so compressed that they'd still fit on a DVD disc if only players could decode it.

The 1080p streaming gunk on the internet is just DVD quality video, stretched to cover a much higher resolution and then hoping a newer codec will manage to at least make it watchable

Wolf480pl · 3w
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Wolf480pl · 3w
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Wolf480pl · 3w
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they should move scam call centers to europe, so that the employees get long summer vacations and scam calls stop over the summer and other holidays since nobody's at work to scam people
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Wolf480pl · 3w
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The weebs don't want you to know, but you can put furigana on anything ( ザー ウィーブズ ドーント ウォント ユー ター ノー バット ユーキャン プット フリガナ オン エニシング)
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The Bleach TYBW Part 3 Blu-ray is a bit of a funny accessibility catastrophe.

Every Bleach TYBW part has a specific accent color. Part 1 was magenta, Part 2 was cyan. The european publisher (All The Anime) decided at the start to make their blu-ray releases be "<accent color> on black".

Unfortunately for them, when we got to Part 3, it turns out its accent color was... black.

Yet the absolute fucking MADLADS actually just went ahead and printed the part 3 blu-ray with its color scheme being black on black.

You can BARELY tell there's something printed on there, only because the printed parts reflect slightly more light at the correct angle. I managed to get a somewhat visible photo of the front, wasn't as lucky with the spine.