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   Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Dec-2025 20:07:01 JST Miakoda

   Ya know what'd be awesome... Being able to buy a movie, at a reasonable price, and instead of ripping, I just download a .mp4 or .mkv with subtitles and open it in whatever player I feel like without some weird DRM keys. That'd be fucking nice.

   🤡 "But they'd go out of business with all the piracy!!!"

   This is literally how RiffTrax sells their video content and they are very much not out of business.

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Dec-2025 20:17:33 JST Miakoda

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     • datenwolf

     @datenwolf My 4U is configured with like 96TBs of storage. Even with all 24 drives removed, and the power supplies removed, this took 2 people to get it down the stairs. I'm not sure how to deal with this if I ever have to move out. This place is under capitalism... I'm sure I'll eventually have to move out, if I don't die from the fascism first.

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     datenwolf (datenwolf@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Dec-2025 20:17:35 JST datenwolf

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     @hellomiakoda

     Indeed.

     If I could buy movies and download them as I do on Bandcamp I'd have to invest in so much storage.

     On that note, I recently came across the whole collection of the old planet of the apes movies on 4k Blu-ray for 2 bucks. Instant buy.

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Dec-2025 20:37:10 JST Miakoda

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     • datenwolf

     @datenwolf My 4U in default settings is VERY VERY power hungry. But, with some careful configuring, I got it down to about a couple of lightbulbs, unless it's doing some heavy transcoding. The trade off is, if nobody has been watching anything from a particular array for a couple hours, the first video played takes almost a half minute to actually start. I'm fine with that.

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     datenwolf (datenwolf@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Dec-2025 20:37:11 JST datenwolf

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     @hellomiakoda

     I can relate: In 2010 I got the old storage system from my alma mater university physics department student computer pool for free. One 4U disk shelf unit and two 2U servers with multipath SCSI controllers.

     I scraped it 6 years later, because boy was this thing loud and heavy and power hungry.

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Dec-2025 02:09:06 JST Miakoda

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     • kolya

     @kolya Just not video... GOV... yeah, not this one!

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     kolya (kolya@social.cologne)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Dec-2025 02:09:07 JST kolya

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     @hellomiakoda GOG for movies