So, this is the place where I’m going to be generally hanging out and trolling around, while my Pixelfed, Mastodon, and Blacksky accounts are going to be primarily art posting accounts, and I also have a Nooki account.

I’m also going to start to be active more on here than on lemmy.org, so I’m making this my primary Lemmy account now.

I’ll link the other socials I’m varying levels of active on below, plus my lemmy.org account which I’m demoting to my secondary account if that instance is going to be more unstable from now on.

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Cake day: August 8th, 2025
  • Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Do you guys think the boycott against Playstation is gonna work?byDFX4509B@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    26 minutes

    The fifth part has an asterisk: Access can still be denied for physical copies, too. The Crew proved this, not to mention all the old G4WL CD titles which are effectively paperweights because their DRM is defunct and there’s no crack yet for a lot of them if there ever will be any, and as for BD movies, in theory the studios could revoke AACS keys for a given group of media and render those media into coasters as well.

    Audio CDs are DRM-free at least so they’re pretty much immune to that, but if Sony had their way with their rootkit DRM and didn’t get successfully sued over it, audio CDs would be DRM-encumbered too, thankfully they didn’t get their way and did get successfully sued over it so audio CDs remain DRM-free to this day so you could rip them to FLAC and do as you wish with that copy.

  • Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Do you guys think the boycott against Playstation is gonna work?byDFX4509B@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    22 hours

    And even dedicated BD players are seemingly on the way out as most of the major manufacturers either severely pared or discontinued player production outright, assuming they’re even in the home AV business anymore to begin with.

    Sony just has one model each for a 1080p and 4K BD player, I don’t know what Panasonic is up to with their players if they even make anymore, and beyond that, boutique videophile brands like Magnetar and Reavon were still making players last time I checked, but they’re ludicrously expensive.

    Assuming Sony discontinues their dedicated disc players and moves exclusively to streaming boxes, they’ll be done with physical media forever. And I’m still surprised they even make traditional AVRs and speakers and didn’t kill those in favor of a couple soundbars yet.