They, like DVDs, have a lifespan of ~20 years but can last a lot longer if kept in a cool and dry spot.

But also you can rip the discs and store them digitally on hard drives or whatever :)

Source on that?

Blurays are better quality than streaming.

4K Bluray is the highest quality you’ll ever get in your home by like, a lot.

Streaming is a regression.

I think !movies@lemmy.world would be a much better option if you’re going for wider reach. It’s orders of magnitude more active. Keeps topics less fragmented too.

Yep. In my country 3G is shutdown. Without 4G and VoLTE you cannot make calls.

8 bucks is definitely 10 bucks in my book. 6.99 is 5 but above that and I start thinking 10.

I was confused too. This comment doesn’t look too bad but given it’s a 7 hour old account it made several multi-paragraph comments like this in a formulaic outrage-bait kinda way. This comment looks fine but the full comment history is pretty AI like

Full comment history: https://files.catbox.moe/uf48if.png

Probably not. Main problem is energy density.

Theoretically we could visit things thousands/millions of light years away within a human lifespan, but the necessary energy to do so is just infeasible. You’d have to spend half the energy slowing down at your destination so you’d need all that energy onboard. Just not happening IMO. As a bonus you’d basically also be inventing a time machine (forward only)

Interstellar travel? Like to the nearest star systems? Maybe. In the far future. But not intergalactic. Andromeda is the closest galaxy and it’s 2.5 MILLION light years away…

It’s default installers aren’t as newbie friendly IMO. And the defaults/theming are a bit bland out of the box.

Some drama on their licensing situation:

https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost/issues/8886#issuecomment-3837091846

I mean that’s vague.

I’d say it depends on the content too. On a computer monitor at typical size/distance? Yeah probably. Small text will look much much better.

Depends on the screen size and distance.

And piracy gets them from Bluray.

Now that that’s dying I’m afraid we’re gonna be stuck with streaming bitrates.

There’s barely any actual 4K content you can consume

I feel like that’s not true. But you’ve gotta try. If you’re streaming it, chances are it’s not really any better. 4K Bluray (or rips of them…) though? Yeah it’s good. And since film actually has 8K+ resolution old movies can be rescanned into high resolution if the original film exists.

Supposedly Sony Pictures Core is one streaming service that can push nearly 4K Bluray bitrates… but you’ve gotta have really good internet. Like pulling 50-80GB in the span of a movie runtime.

I feel like on monitors because you’re fairly close getting at least 2k is good. Depending on size even 4k makes sense.

Small text on large 1080p monitors looks… Not great.

For gaming though absolutely

Nah. On larger screens it’s good to have

Yeah. A 1080p Bluray clocks in around 20GB. A 4K bluray is 60-80GB.

If you’re downloading something smaller it’s probably lower quality

Funnily enough piefed.social does not seem to block .ml

Huh? I wasn’t trying to stalk you, you said you had run into them so I took a peek.

I mean, here’s a Hexbear thread about him winning.

https://hexbear.net/post/6637842?sort=Top

They’re skeptical that he’ll stay principled but nobody there is saying he’s the next coming of Hitler.