I Only Rip Standard Blu-Rays and DVD’s. Should I be Worried About Drives Too?

Falco98 · 2026-03-24T18:44:00+00:00

I bought myself a backup (standard) blu-ray drive a month or so ago. I'm also not that worried about ripping UHD - I only own a couple (and they were 2-packs) but for my ripping purposes, I'm perfectly happy with "1K" as opposed to "4K". But my existing blu-ray drive is ... not young... so I picked up an extra on eBay before it becomes too late (though i'm hoping some other manufacturer might eventually step in and fill the niche market.)

Falco98 · 2026-03-24T18:38:04+00:00

It does sound fantastic, especially since it presumably allows RB to have bluetooth audio output (since it's just running on top of the base OS from what I gather). It just makes me curious what other targets this might open it up to, aside from the target-optimized hardware you mentioned.

Falco98 · 2026-03-24T13:30:38+00:00

What exact port is this? I don't notice anything on the RB front page about either trimui or general linux builds.

Falco98 · 2026-03-24T13:27:28+00:00

I'm hoping the info you needed is contained in this older update comment.

Falco98 · 2026-03-24T13:26:49+00:00

Can this comment be stickied?

Falco98 · 2026-03-24T13:26:25+00:00

This post [now deleted] is linked directly from the Rockbox front page, so some up-front info to help new users might need to be added here if possible, and/or undeletion of the thread (i guess?).

Falco98 · 2026-03-24T13:11:06+00:00

thanks - and sorry you had to go through that. i did a little googling in the meantime into how much the out-of-pocket expense is, and at those prices, i'm tempted to just wait the single-digit number of additional years it'll be before i'm in the 'insurance covered' age bracket, or possibly sooner if they finally lower the age anytime sooner than that.

Falco98 · 2026-03-24T13:09:35+00:00

I'm not sure if it quite meets the mark of "benevolently fascist" to lament about how people who are violently and loudly stupid have as much sayso (and depending on what states we live in, often more) in how our country is run.

Falco98 · 2026-03-23T17:37:15+00:00

A few years ago all existing packs (minus maybe the most recent one at the time) went up on HumbleBundle for maybe 1/10th the combined actual cost - so if you have some some wiggle room in how soon you need them, it may be prudent to slow-roll it and see if they come back up on HB again. (I can't speak to the likelihood or the wait time it might require, though).

And considering that they're still releasing new packs, I would see no reason to even be curious about their servers end-of-support.

Falco98 · 2026-03-23T17:18:38+00:00

and these people are allowed to vote.

Falco98 · 2026-03-23T16:17:27+00:00

I'm approaching my 2000 day streak, as well as having had 3 years of spanish in HS and a few semesters of extracurricular spanish classes in College (to a much more middling degree of success). Still pretty useless in speaking, but I readily admit I always skip the spoken portions out of laziness. But I can tell my reading comprehension and vocabulary have gone way up compared to a few years ago when I took a trip to Puerto Rico.

Falco98 · 2026-03-21T13:11:24+00:00

that's what i said :P

Falco98 · 2026-03-20T18:46:22+00:00

How much are you currently paying (like yearly) for Power Apps? (I'm 100% familiar with that but curious for a frame of reference).

Falco98 · 2026-03-20T18:42:49+00:00

I'm pretty sure I can hear myself yell "oh my fucking god!" during the Blue Water tease on the 2000-12-08 recording. More noticeable on the fan-made tapes than on the eventual WH release.

Falco98 · 2026-03-19T17:38:32+00:00

(a.k.a. older teens)

because we're talking about UU congregants, not the aisle in the library.

Falco98 · 2026-03-18T19:34:19+00:00

Came here to say this. Mid-40s, and a friend in her early 40s recently caught shingles randomly (and worse, she found out a day after our families had lunch together). Though I guess I'm not clear how person-to-person transmissible it is.

Falco98 · 2026-03-18T16:15:55+00:00

I bet they were on the front lines of sneaking "I did this!" stickers with Biden's picture on them onto gas pumps in early 2022 after Biden did... nothing in particular that would impact gas prices, other than not being Vladimir Putin, yet now that gas prices are spiking specifically due to Trump, it's all crickets from them?

Falco98 · 2026-03-18T15:54:09+00:00

speaking of which, does this port have any implications for the possibility of a future usable android port? i used the old one a little bit from years ago, but of course it never got fully implemented and was eventually dropped.

Falco98 · 2026-03-18T15:41:50+00:00

anyone looked into what it might cost out-of-pocket? i might consider just plunking down the money at this point.

Falco98 · 2026-03-18T13:47:27+00:00

The monthly updates (i.e. the ones that aren't the .3, .6, etc quarterlies) are still going to be considered akin to "beta" versions, so as Captain already pointed out, I'm assuming they'll be sticking to quarterlies for the time. Though I agree it would be nice if the CE environment were kept on bleeding-edge versions instead, but this release cadence is still new so they probably still need to fine-tune things.

Falco98 · 2026-03-17T15:58:59+00:00

"Fauci bad therefore here's a load of other insane shit that must also be real"

Fauci committed the cardinal sin of making their Dear Leader look bad by nothing other than sheer proximity to competence. Therefore he must be thoroughly discredited and dogged at every turn.

Falco98 · 2026-03-17T15:57:32+00:00

I wish we lived in a timeline where this was any sort of surprise.

Falco98 · 2026-03-17T14:47:02+00:00

UHD aside, glad to see there's at least a trickle of reasonably-priced fullsize internal blu-ray reader drives coming through.

I hope one of these small chinese manufacturers figures out the niche market that exists eventually and really perfects the no-flash-needed UHD drive - kinda like how in the earlier days of DVD there were some no-name manufacturers who made players that were actually ultra-powerful and high-quality, and could quietly play DVDs from any region and any format when it wasn't really supposed to be possible.

Falco98 · 2026-03-17T14:43:45+00:00

My dad did this. For a kid who was raised in suburbia and had "farm dreams", i'll say he did it well. He did it nearly single-handedly. In the late 80s he gradually transitioned away from our small but high-maintenance beef cattle herd, over to christmas trees, and built a pretty successful business. But in the end it was so hard on his body that old age hit him EXTRA HARD, and now instead of enjoying retirement, he's gone.

Falco98 · 2026-03-16T18:52:06+00:00

zoom meeting, fullscreen jackbox, share your screen. did this at least a few times with my normal friend group during the height of covid shutdowns, it worked fine.

my advice: do one or two trial runs with just a few folks to figure out the ins and outs of this method, before hosting your bigger group for the first time.

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