I’m not the person who originally made the ‘mile’ comment, but surely you can give grace to somebody using the unit they are most comfortable with when making a generic statement. Like if a Brit used the word “colour.” We get the point.
Of course, the argument that metric units should be used everywhere has merit, but way way way above the level of an internet post.
A mile is a mile no matter where.
I was permanently banned on reddit for commenting under this exact story that I think Islamic terrorists maybe have a point.
Oh, mine is a terrible idea, but maybe one of the least bad. I like your idea of making it reusable somehow.
I agree with others here when they say that age-verification laws aren’t about children at all, and identification isn’t a side effect, it’s the raison d’être.
But if I were to earnestly try to solve the problem, I might look to the physical (non-online) world. In every part of the world I’ve been to, buying alcohol requires one thing; to be of age. So if you very clearly look of age, you are allowed to buy it. If you look younger, you may be asked to provide ID proving you are old enough. While some vendors may take additional precautions such as scanning your ID, it is not a requirement and most do not. They simply look at your ID to verify, then allow the purchase.
One could buy a physical verification token, like one might buy a gift card currently, and the purchase requires the same verification as buying alcohol. Imagine you buy a plastic gift-card-like item branded Roblox and they verify you are of age, when you sign up for Roblox you enter in the details of the gift-card-like item. You are verified to be of age, and no-one has any other details.
Being illiterate is a prerequisite for being in the GOP.
FFS… “fewer” trips, not less.
My general suggestion would be to fit whatever your stays/fork/brakes could accommodate. My guess is you could probably size up to 28mm no problem. Maybe 30.
FWIW, your first comment was a blanket statement about “people,” not simply about you.
I’m not here to make people care.
But I do care, and lots of other people do too.
You got that backward, chief. Not caring who controls these companies are keeping people glued to Meta, X, and the like.
People who pay attention care.
I also find many of the downloads strive for smaller file size over quality. I want the opposite, as I don’t ever want to have to rip again, and I want them to look perfect.
Then why transcode them? Rip the remux direct from MakeMKV. As long as you’re transcoding them, it’s been my experience that there are much much much more knowledgable people than I when balancing quality/size.
Apparently, it seems my information might be outdated so I apologize. I’ve MakeMKV ripped from disc images before, but was under the mistaken impression that physical BD disks were unable to be easily ripped from.
I’d look at retired business machine, preferably something small like Lenovo or Dell SFF office pc, with 8th gen i3 at minimum. 8th gen is where the integrated gpu shines for this purpose. Install plex or Jellyfin. And if possible, stick to internal drives instead of external; one fewer thing to draw extra power. You could even do a second drive internally for backup.
Standard blu-ray most certainly is not limited to 720p.
I hear you on those concerns. You may find that ripping blu-rays, even if legal, has technical decrypting hurdles too high to clear. Just keep your option open is my suggestion.
Thirdly, the rips you’ll get from the alternative methods will likely be a better quality and/or smaller file size than a personal rip.
One thing you might consider is skipping buying the Blu-ray player and obtaining your movie rips alternatively. Only you know your appetite for risk, but so long as you’re only getting copies of the movies you own, I’d guess the risk is small. Besides, simply ripping your physical discs isn’t strictly legal everywhere, so that itself may have a small risk.
Put the money you save into a better machine.
My comment didn’t accurately express that I meant it about the terrorist acts against Israel.