Yep. And I don’t have to use 10 different video player UIs. I can just use Plex. That lifetime pass from years ago has been worth it. Even if I know people are critical of Plex.

Same but photopea usually replaces Gimp for me now. Works in the browser and is basically Photoshop but without all the automated tools.

That’s likely safe. But…

Most malware isn’t trying to make your computer unusable anymore. That was the old days when people just wanted their “hacking” acknowledged.

You can definitely still be running a crypto miner if you sudo’d something stupid you downloaded on Linux.

He’d probably just upgrade your drivers to the latest stable version for your distro and fix all those W: prints you see whenever a guide tells you to “sudo apt update”.

You know who you are and you’re me.

I hadn’t really thought about it until reading this comment but I am definitely the same. I use to pirate so much software back in the day. But, I really just find myself looking for projects on GitHub that fit my needs.

I pirated a video upscaling program just to test it out. Topaz I think it was. But it was mostly just curiosity because it was very niche in it’s performance improvement over it’s open source alternative video2x.

That’s literally the only software I can remember pirating in the last 10 years.

If it’s good and requires a one time purchase. I buy it. Unraid is obviously going to be an example of that for a lot of people here.

I think I’ve spent more money donating “coffee” to good open source projects though. And going windows free for over 3 years now has been a big part of that. I can’t stand when I have to use Windows now. Work still forces it on me. But I literally only use it to SSH into my redhat VM.

All my piracy is media these days. And that’s only because the streaming services have basically reached the point that cable did back in the late 2000s.

Piracy has always been based on convenience rather than cost for me. “Piracy is a service issue” is the famous quote. Additionally it’s about services not giving you ownership over the thing you purchased. Which is what a lot of software has become.

Think you hit the nail on the head. God I hate how capitalism was applied during the induction of computers and the Internet. It ruined so much trying to force “scarcity” driven supply/demand on a technology that fundamentally removed the supply problem. At least in terms of software.

Software never should have been allowed to be restricted by past limitations only to ensure profits could be made.

But we force it on it. Only for the benefits of companies that serve to prevent innovation more than they produce it.

That’s absolutely fucked.

When https://massgrave.dev/ exists it’s even worse.

I think this tax on tech illiterate people is getting too high.

Should I start selling USB drives for $5? I don’t wanna encourage Windows. But I feel bad for the normies. $211 is insane.

MS literally allows massgrav on GitHub. They have for years. They do not give a fuck.

Paying for windows at this point is a normie tax. And it’s gotten too damn high!

You’re on a piracy sub mate. I had assumed the point would be to share with others.

Doesn’t look like it supports libdvdcss in any way.

Check that library and look for alternatives. dvdbackup is what I used back in the day.

Edit: looks like people still use dvdbackup. Which is open source. Dump the disk with it and then use handbrake.

Though I don’t know if this will be raw video passthrough like MakeMKV. But you probably want to compress it anyway. I don’t know why you’d want to keep a 8GB 1080p video in 2025 with the modern compression we have today. This is why there is CPU intensive stuff happening in handbrake. It’s using modern compression. Do you not want this? Just want to dump the massive files and be done?

Wish I had time to mess around making something like this. There definitely SHOULD be an open source project. These are all very doable things. My guess is it’s just not worth anyone’s effort when MakeMKV or dvdbackup exist.

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