In the short term since Denuvo is usually only when the game is released and then removed thereafter.

I’ll gladly wait especially since I’m not at all on board with Ubisoft and Rockstar’s executives thinking they deserve more than $70 for these games their companies are making.

Ubisoft solidified my position.

I pay for Ghost Recon Wildlands. I play the game a lot, rack up hundreds of hours. I go to a location that doesn’t have internet access available and am told I need to go online to play single player campaign. Ubisoft Connect says I need to be online to play the game. Try putting it into Offline mode and it still says I need to be online to activate a game I have paid for years ago and put hundreds of hours into. I use my shitty mobile phone 2G whatever speed to email Ubisoft support about the issue. Ubisoft support tells me to put the Ubisoft client into offline mode.

…do you know who doesn’t have this issue? People who pirate the game.

If I ever play another Ubisoft game, it will be pirated.

If it’s on the registration plate (what we in the States call a license plate), then that’s not so bad since it’s not directly on the car itself.

Sticker…I had a brainfart when I said “badge” and meant stickers. I’ve seen the name of the dealership and even the address of the dealership written out as a full sticker put directly onto the paint.

I see it every once in a while when you see an out of state vehicle here or if I go to another state. It’s never been something that caught on here except for Carmax and one of those online sellers. But it always looks so tacky and I have no idea how people are okay with that. A license frame is bad enough but at least it’s held on with screws and not jeopardizing the integrity of the paint…

That’s funny because mine did the opposite. Without the frame, mine has been rattling. I kept wondering where that sound came from and then one day I played with the license plate and realized it wasn’t tightened fully. Well, it is, but there’s a gap that is causing it to move.

So while I haven’t put the dealership one back on, I actually threw it away, I’m going to have to get some frame for the first time to fix this annoying sound. I usually just go without any frame for my license plate.

First thing I do when buying a vehicle, new or used, is take off the ugly license plate frame that advertises the dealership. I’m glad I don’t live in other states where it seems more trendy to put an actual badge sticker from the dealership onto the paint of your car. I see those for Carmax and can’t understand how anyone is fine with that unless they got a discount on the car in doing so.

Can’t argue with them there. Adobe is not trustworthy.

Thanks for the reply!

Strangely enough, ISO is fine. Same with the generated mkv file. It seems the issue was when I uploaded to Plex. I didn’t think to check the file that was created, now this is making me wonder where I went wrong.

I just tried using this last night for the first time on some indie movie from the early 2000’s. Surely no type of hard DRM to crack.

But when I finished, the movie was very pixelated.

I converted DVD to ISO file and then the app converted the ISO to mkv file all using default settings. Is that okay or should I have changed some of the settings?

I did this recently. I bought an album off iTunes and Apple Music fucked my library up so I had to revert to a backup which happened to be before I backed up that album. That album is no longer available for my region, according to iTunes, and iTunes/Apple support has been unhelpful in completely ignoring all my support tickets to ask how I can download a copy of this album I paid for.

Fuck it. I downloaded the album from less than legal ways. I did pay for the album, after all.

I am pleasantly surprised at the episodes of old TV shows I’ve found there. I grew up with some very obscure direct to VHS movies/shows and was surprised to find many available there!

Definitely need to be uploaded there. We can’t trust Google to keep those up and available.

And the theme song wouldn’t change.

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500

Promise you won’t rob me? Pinky swear?

I always go for 720 or 1080 despite having decent 4K TVs. My reasoning is file size too but because I don’t have a ton of space to spare for all the stuff I want to store. I have about 2TB left but that’s going to get used up eventually.

There are some things I’ll go for the high quality stuff like Super Mario Bros which looks amazing but that’s rare for me.

30GB for one movie is nuts.

Not to mention it was a smart home with all kinds of AI minus the “artificial” part of AI.

Same here. I tell people that it’s my reminder of my mortality and how fragile life actually is. Treat each day as your last and live as if you won’t be here tomorrow, because it is promised to no one.

Thought I was looking at ice cream at first.

In my country it is illegal to share, but not illegal to download

By torrenting, you are sharing by default as it’s P2P. Even if you choose not to seed after downloading, you’re still sharing while you are downloading as other people who download after you are downloading chunks of the data from your partially downloaded data too.

So technically you are still committing a crime here.

Should that law change, it cannot retroactively affect something that happened in the past

Not necessarily. Very tyrannical governments don’t care and will tread on your rights even going backwards before the law was enacted if they so desire to do so.

Most laws don’t apply retroactively, but some can and do.

They do in more quiet ways nowadays. Microsoft Office and GamePass, for example, can only be used on Windows (unless you count the cloud versions that work through the browser).

Then there’s workplaces which most workplaces use Windows. You cannot escape it there.

My workplace is in the process of locking down remote work to where you can’t use Linux for anything anymore. I was looking for a way to remote in using Linux so I could ditch my Windows devices but even that is not going to be an option for me. Defender is enabling that type of stuff more easily in the name of security.

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