xposted to !plex@lemm.ee

i was listening to a podcast a month or two ago that brought light to this problem - soldiers, who may never have seen combat but were within range of powerful blasts, can suffer enormous amounts of brain damage from it.

The episode was discussing the case of one particular soldier who worked in a support role and later went to teach a course that bombarded cadets and trainees with all sorts of simulated blasts. Just because he was there, it caused him huge amounts of brain damage only discovered after he'd killed himself.

CTE can't be reliably diagnosed right now as the only definitive test for it is to cut your brain into millimeter-thick slices and analyzing them. obviously, they can only perform this test upon the deceased.

Where do you think the people who pay the creators get the money to pay them?

ads, mostly.

From sales from the results of the last creators who worked for them.

so? they already got paid. i feel no remorse for pirating from a global megacorp.

And neither should you

edit: and - once again - if i couldn't pirate it, i wasn't going to buy it anyway. You can't even argue lost sales (which the creators never see).

I don’t think I’ve ever been quite that high

That all sounds like it’s still terrible idea to use optical media for backups

The creators get paid when they do the work, not from sales.

Also, a much more important note: if I couldn’t pirate it, I wasn’t going to pay for it anyway.

And why on earth would I pay for media when I can get it for free?

My Plex server is packed with downloads and rips.

I also don’t care to look

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I quit optical media around 03. Haven’t even owned anything with an optical drive for nearly a decade.

We talked to each other, read books, went on walks…

Also, tv. Lots of tv.

I don’t want physical media because it’s a liability. It can get lost or destroyed very very easily, especially optical media.

Digital copies are portable, I can data hoard them, and, worst case, I can just re-download it.

RIP funny man. you'll always be Col. Mustard to me 💔

i guess, but they're not great for backup. Eps. R/RW optical media doesn't last that long (5-10 years) and is easily damaged. You'd be better off with tape for long-term storage. or an M-Disk or some similar magnetic backup solution.

and now you're trapped in a House subcommittee where Taylor-Greene screams, "WOKE!" and then you get shelved, never to see the light of day again.

i didn't want to vote for Biden in 2020, either, so i voted Green.

i was in NY at the time, so my vote didn't matter, but now that i'm a in red/swing state, I'm def voting Biden just to cut across that Trump edge.

yeah, you can get them at costume shops.

or online, obvs

sure, and Kai Winn was just some priest...

the term "physical media" typically refers to portable physical media, such as floppy disks, optical media, and other solutions such as tape.

This term was in wide use before portable hard drives became a thing.

i can't even remember the last time i saw an optical disc. it must be several years.

I hope they didn’t sprain something before the mental gymnastics Olympics happen this year

I’d be happy if they could just come off cleanly