Handbrake only converts an existing Blu-ray rip to a video format, it doesn’t rip DVDs and Blu-rays on its’ own.

You can install MakeMKV to rip your discs, then convert them to video files in HandBrake.

Ah, thanks.

Never leave the home directory without it!

That is correct.

I rate it a 10.10.0 out of 10.

I sue mojeek

Ah, this comment makes much more sense now.

Thank you!

If you’re concerned about this, you may want to consider buying a commercial display, which is basically just a giant monitor. They’re meant for businesses and hospitals, so they’re going to be expensive. Many brands such as LG and Samsung sell commercial displays.

Anothet alternative is to buy a projector. Projectors offer a much more “cinematic” experience, and they can be cheaper in comparison to commercial displays. Although there are a few projectors that have smart (anti-)features, most of them lack these. For a projector, I recommend the BenQ HT2060. It’s confirmed to have no smart features, and supports HDR.

Any GPL violations would be reported to the Software Freedom Conservacy, who would go to court on the dev’s behalf.

There was a major lawsuit back in 2022 between the SFC and Vizio, and the SFC won.

It means it can’t ever become proprietary closed-source software (not without a major lawsuit).

Wasn’t there recently a controvetsy about Ventoy having binary blobs? Or did that get resolved?

TLDR : Does finnish man like bearded GNU jesus man and the same vice versa

My impression is that they both have a respect for each other, although they don’t necessarily like each other.

The MIT license guarantees freedom for developers. The GPL guarantees freedom for end users.

People in the comments seem to be confused. “Archived” as in compressed to a tarball, or “archived” as in no longer maintained?

Here’s some more excerpts from the book that I found amusing:

As you learned in Chapter 1, Linux is an open source operating system, meaning that anyone can download and modify it. Open source operating systems can benefit from improvements contributed by thousands of programmers. Some people choose open source operating systems out of an anti-establishment spirit; others choose them as a practical matter because they are free.

“Anti-establishment” isn’t the word I’d use, but I guess that fits.

One of the most popular distros for casual users, Ubuntu, comes with a DE called Unity (shown in Figure 5-16)

That hasn’t been true since 2017.

Be suspicious of free apps. In the best-case scenario, the app does what it says but installs ads or other software. In the worst-case scenario, the free app is, or contains, malware that might steal personal information from your device, encrypt your data files and demand a ransom for decryption, or monitor your device usage. Installing an app sometimes asks for specific permissions that the app will use. Be selective in allowing app privileges to items such as contact lists, GPS location, e-mail messages, and so on.

Okay, I’ll admit this is good advice if we’re talking about “freeware”, but there’s also free/libre/open-source software, which has all of the benefits of freeware, and also gives you the freedom to read/mofify/share the source code, if you wish.

As for that “malware” you speak of, you might as well be describing Google Chrome.

No media player supports all formats, so it’s important to find one that supports the formats of the clips you want to play.

Clearly, these people haven’t heard of VLC.

Codec is short for “compressor-decompressor”

It actually stands for “coder/decoder”.

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