iOS user here, and I have seven of those. Of course, on Android you can more easily build an app from source whereas on iOS, “open source” doesn’t mean as much since you can see the source code posted online, but you can’t see the source of the app you’re served from the App Store.
But if they count, then I’m sure I have others. Firefox, for instance.
I never watched the second season, which I understand not only broke up the movie, but added some minor (insignificant?) scenes. Watched season 1, then the movie, then the next couple seasons. I haven’t seen the latest season, or the new movie.
I’ve had non-anime friends see the new movie and they said they were fine with not knowing anything about Demon Slayer going in. Still, I’m not going to watch it until I see the latest season. Apparently, the movie and two others will finish the series.
And fanon is fine for custom ordering if you’re just playing files in VLC. But if you’re using an organiser, you’re gonna have to comply whatever metadata that organiser pulls from or weird shit will happen. Pretty much just episodes being numbered with no names, no cast/crew list, generic date (1/1/1970), and an ugly thumbnail for the episode preview. Which all defeats the purpose of using the organiser. The point being, for it to look pretty on your TV or mobile device.
With Jellyfin, you can pretty much force it to go the way you want, though. Just match everything and then manually enter all the data. You can force Jellyfin. Plex on the other hand…
I use a tool called Rename My TV Series — and it’s available for macOS and Linux as well as Windows. And it’s never steered me wrong.
People do all kinds of dumb shit when naming TV series and numbering them. And for the MOST part, it doesn’t matter — until you run a Plex or Jellyfin server, and then you gotta comply with TVDB’s systems.
Like for example Sword Art Online fans. A very weird, very clannish bunch and they’re not kind to outsiders, especially when they want to know when season 5 is coming out. Because to everyone else, Sword Art Online was the first season, Sword Art Online II was the second season, Sword Art Online Alicization was the third season, and Sword Art Online Aliciziation War of Underworld was the fourth season. Part of the confusion is, the author tweeted that they were gonna make 48 episodes of Alicization. And they did. Half of it was Alicization and the other half was Alicization War of Underworld, which was the fourth season. Each season of anime is its own production with its own name and that’s how TVDB does it. Now if you’re just storing the files and you’re gonna open them with VLC, you can number them how you like. But if you try it through something like Plex… things break. And it’s really only weird because the fans make it weird.
I was talking to one guy who misnames Demon Slayer seasons, intentionally, because he didn’t think the second season should exist. So, the story with that was, Demon Slayer Mugen Train was a movie, but then they broke it up into episodes and made it the second season. This guy doesn’t think that season should exist. So in his eyes, season 3 is actually season 2 and so on. And that’s fine on his hard drive, but on Plex, it’s gonna take those episodes listed as season 2 and it’s gonna change the names to make them season 2 episodes.
There’s an -arr program that handles renaming, so if you’re a Linux (?) user and you use the -arrs, you should definitely use that, it should fit right into your workflow. But if you don’t use the -arrs or you’re on an OS that most of them don’t work on (like me with my Macs), Rename My TV Series is super easy for that. And it’s free. And it’ll even set the file creation date/time as when the episode originally aired. So that’s neat.
What’s the one mistake? Telegram? Or Signal?
The way I see it, the goalposts keep moving because Telegram was the private alternative to FB Messenger and WhatsApp. Then Signal was the private alternative to those, and Telegram. Now people are saying Signal is a problem (I’m guessing because of the cock up the US government had last year?). The goalposts keep moving, but Telegram is still fine for what I need. I keep both as alternatives to texting for people who want to reach me however they’re comfortable doing. I also have one called Session. I don’t use Twitter/X, Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp, or Reddit. I have a Discord because I have a couple things that are only available up there, but it’s not a good way to reach me as I have notifications disabled on it.
It’s not logically sound, but at this point the burden of proof needs to be on Big Tech if they want to claim they’re not spying. Otherwise we’d have to prove it for each individual model, and that isn’t feasible, and only supports the opposition.
It’s always gonna be a moving target. Wife and I started using Telegram because it wasn’t monitored like Facebook Messenger (which I don’t have an account for) or WhatsApp. Now people are saying Telegram isn’t good enough, use Signal. It’s still good enough for us. I also have Signal. No one I know uses it, but I have it in case they wanna start using it.
Honestly though, iMessage is secure enough for most people. Basically texting through Apple servers.
But any security or privacy expert will tell you that you need to determine your own threat model. No one else can tell you what that is.
I’m guessing you formatted the drive? Most of them are NTFS by default.
When I switched to Mac, my Mac wouldn’t even read the drive, due to the enclosure being Windows-specific (to be fair, it said so on the box; they’ve since expanded). So I shucked the drive, put it in a custom enclosure… and paid $10 for a program that lets me R/W to NTFS on macOS.
I can’t remember if it had a light.
Oddly, the new enclosure also uses USB-B. Hate that damn port. I have a hub that uses it, too. Fun fact: that port is the reason for Lightning existing. Apple was (and is) on the USB committee or whatever it was, but when they saw USB-B, they (quite rightly) said hell no and went to Intel to develop Lightning. They wanted something that they could roll with for ten years. USB-B was used in a handful of phones for like one generation (Galaxy S5/Note 4) and then it was USB-C. If the USB committee had jumped straight to USB-C, Lightning never would have happened. In case you needed another reason to hate that connector.
You can’t “never” get malware on Windows, but you can avoid a lot of it with common sense. I used Windows for ~30 years before jumping ship a few years ago (to Mac) and I had a couple malware issues, but nothing major. No ransomware (did get it on Android once, but right after flashing custom firmware, so I just wiped and re-flashed). Just being very careful.
Anything that tells you to disable your antivirus is probably not your friend and is probably trying to get malware on your system. Anyone telling you to disable any part of your security software (even if, and especially if it’s “just” your ad blocker) is not your friend and is probably trying to get malware (or specifically ransomware) on your system.
Now, I know… you can’t really pirate software without cracking it… but when a game is on GOG (no DRM) and Steam (DRM), and you see the “Steam version, but cracked”, you have to ask yourself, why they didn’t just get the GOG version? Part of it is the thrill of the challenge. But then it wants you to disable your antivirus? That’s someone looking to make a buck or two off of you. They didn’t go with GOG because they wanted to turn your computer into part of a botnet or something. Fuck what they say, look at what they do. Now, if the game’s not on GOG… you have to trust others who say that group is not shady, and even then, something can still go wrong. But riddle me this… if you can supply a program that cracks a game or program for me to make it so it runs DRM-free on my machine, but I have to disable my antivirus to run it… why couldn’t you just crack it on your end? Why do I need to run that program on my end… to put it another way, why can’t the one guy who released it do the work one time? Why do the 500+ people who download each need to do it? Unless you’re trying to build a botnet, so of course you need them to run it.
Around 45 minutes an episode.
So, VHS tapes (for those who don’t know — not saying you don’t, but, for the benefit of others) were limited in how much video they could hold by the length of tape spooled up. That had a physical limit, but tape could be recorded at three speeds (possibly more, but home players could only play three speeds, so that was the standard). If you had 2 hours of tape at SP, you had 4 hours at LP, and either 6 or 8 at EP (I forget which). Not sure if they had formal names, but we called them Standard, Long, and Extended Play.
Some cheap tapes came with like half an hour at SP but were recorded at EP speeds so they could save pennies on the tape.
I imagine the Star Trek tapes were your bog standard 2 hour tapes, but they might have cut some off at the end as it wasn’t needed.
If you had extra tape, the tape would continue to play (with nothing to show) until it reached the end, so it was a waste for all involved, especially since some home players, when they reached the end, would automatically rewind the tape.
I miss cassettes. 8-tracks, VHS, Betamax, and audio cassette tapes. They just had a feel to them. The media quality sucked, but nostalgia is always rose tinted.
I bought .hack//SIGN like that. Except I think it was 4 per disc. Something like 24 episodes, it had six discs. But some had more than others. What was cool was if you put the DVD cases together, they had letters on them, and they spelled LOGOUT. So it was basically SAO before SAO was SAO… only it was one guy trapped in the game, not ten thousand. Ton of other similarities. Not that I like it more — SAO did almost everything better, even if it was completely derivative.
Back in the day, Star Trek episodes used to come on VHS, two episodes to a tape.
I’m not. Naruto is on my server because my wife asked for it. But, she’s watching One Piece instead. It’s still on my server because I haven’t had to make room yet.
(One Piece is not on my server. She’s watching that on Netflix.)
Well, it tells you I was right about the resolution (720x480) and it gives you the frame rate, 29.97 (effectively 30 but not quite, mathematically). And the audio is basically uncompressed 48khz at 1536kbps. And that you’re watching in Japanese (ja) and English (en) isn’t available.
It looks like you’re 14:20 into a 1:09:27 DVD which is like 3 episodes?
.iso is a disk image, DVD is an optical disc format, and MPV is a software media player. None of these really have anything to do with anything.
You’re probably dealing with MPEG-2 video (what was standard on DVD) with low frame rates and the player is trying (badly) to fill in the gaps. But let me be clear, I’m not besmirching MPV, it’s probably doing the best it can. It’s probably the source. If it’s from DVD, it’s max 720x480 (16:9; 640x480 for 4:3, not sure what these old Naruto eps are in). So you could do better with some webrip from Crunchy or whatever where it’s 1080p, either natively or, for the old Naruto, possibly upscaled. Or just find it in 720p (1280x720).
(Just checked mine, it’s 480p.) (Let me know what episode and time stamp this is and I’ll check mine.)
Funny you should mention that… 7-zip is not available on macOS as a GUI (probably due to limitations on file managers maybe, since it can be used as one), and the command line never works for me with password protected archives. However, with Jd2 it works, as long as I supply the password before the archive downloads.
I do have an unpacker, but it doesn’t work on everything (like password protected .7z files).
I could probably get a more robust file manager (something like Directory Opus for Windows, but I’m sure other options do exist on Macs) that has a built-in archiver that would do what Jd2 does, but for now Jd2 solves the minor issue.
Pretty sure you can disable archive extraction in settings if you don’t want it to do that.
Yes but the caveat is you have to use the “clean” one. The publicly facing JD2 downloader comes with malware. There is a clean link that can be found on their forum. Once you have that though, the thing just updates itself a couple times a day, it’s not an ongoing issue once you have the damn thing.
Then it has ads that you can disable, but they re-enable after so many days. It’s just an annoyance though, like how we’re in the year of our LORD 2026 and it still has no dark mode. There IS a hack to get it dark, but again, like the ads, it doesn’t persist for long and it’s generally not worth doing. I’ve done it a few times, and it’s nice, but it goes away before you know it and then it’s like “fuck it”.
I think the thing you want to be careful with is, by default it scans your clipboard. Granted it does this for download links, but it catches all kinds of bizarre shit. So I just leave it off. When I want to download something I copied, I just find it on the dock, ⌘+L to open the link thing, ⌘+V to paste it, enter, then I’m good to go.
Speaking of the dock, it keeps moving itself to the end. I think what is happening is, after an update, it adds itself to the end of the dock if you’ve moved it to the middle or the left.
The dock is Mac specific, I’m not sure if it acts differently on a Windows taskbar or whatever you have on Linux (it’s Linux, so it could be either). Of course, so are the command shortcuts, but if you’re using Jd2, subscribed to c/piracy on Lemmy (especially if you’re a db0 user… you can figure them out for your OS. ;)
People using Macs, or installing Linux on Windows PCs, and emulating Windows via a compatibility layer.
Android… no idea. Google’s about to lock it down like iOS, but there are no Android apps I would want to pirate. I own the few good ones I care about, like Nova Prime and Poweramp. I don’t much care about phone games. Anything that’s available as a subscription, you can almost always find an app you just need to pay for once, but the App Store and Play Store won’t promote them because they want their cut.
As far as Windows itself goes… I don’t really care. I imagine I’ll be using it at work for some time. At home, I just use a Mac, so I miss most of the bullshit. And a lot of the Windows bullshit is tied to having a personal Microslop account attached to Windows — the corporate one I use for Microslop 365 doesn’t “cut it”. And I’m fine with that, with Copilot not working, etc.
Mac guy… I’ll say desktop environments. It’s an advantage over both macOS and Windows. The ability to choose your desktop environment. I prefer GNOME.
Sideloading implies you have to jailbreak, like an iPhone. I could sideload apps on my iPhone if I really wanted to, via sidestore. I just don’t have any use for that (and the better options are paid).
With Android, Linux, macOS, or Windows, it’s just installing. I use Macs, virtually no Mac users care about the Mac App Store. It’s trash. We don’t like it, we don’t use it. It’s not on my Dock. It’s in the Apple Menu and can’t be removed from there. So I ignore it. Once in a while I look, see it’s still trash, and ⌘+Q that shit. If apps are signed by Apple, installing is as easy as (install wizards) or easier than (drag app icon on Applications shortcut) Windows. Of course ‘brew install’ via the terminal is even better since it bypasses Apple’s gatekeeper service (or can be made to, I forget). Windows it’s a bit less static (no gatekeeper) but more spyware/malware threats. And then there’s Linux. With Android, it’s more like macOS where you gotta deal with a gatekeeper, but it’s easy enough to deal with… for now. (To be clear, easier than macOS outside of ‘brew’, but not as easy as Windows/Linux.)
They definitely meant haram. Because they make a good point.
I’m not religious, but I agree wholeheartedly with the sharing of information… not because of a threat from Allah, but due to my own ethics. I believe information learned is meant to be shared, so I give it freely, not asking for compensation or expecting thanks. I just believe it is expected that I share what I know as others have shared to me, and by freely sharing, we better ourselves and each other. That’s not religion, it’s just my ethics.