Could be one of those C-suite power plays:

Texeira is managing their one profitable product profitably and looks destined to be CEO.

The old CEO Baker suddenly resigns, and appoints Chambers as (permanent) successor CEO.

Chambers and/or Baker is in tight with the head of HR Chehak, and gets her to declare that Texeira is physically unfit for his job as Chief Product Officer or any other job at Mozilla.

Chambers and/or Baker get their wish for Chambers to become CEO;

Demonstrably competent exec Texeira is essentially out of a job;

Great success!

Don’t blame the writers, some of whom are long dead, and some titles are long out of print.

Yes, I did try to install it on Windows.

Still, that really disqualifies it from being open source…

Like “free” software requiring installation of weird browser toolbars back in the day. I still have nightmares about those things.

https://vipleague.im/motorsports-schedule-streaming-links

https://freestreams-live.my/motorsports-streams5/

Requires installation of weird undefined “CutoutPro” shit.

That’s a nope from me, dawg.

The full disc images worked well, and hard drive space is so cheap these days, that I’d worry about getting the virtual drive emulator working first.

WinCDEmu is FOSS, so you might look into that first.

Back in the day, I bought Alcohol 120, and it worked great.

The mini-CD image trick (optional): https://forum.daemon-tools.cc/forum/copy-methods-questions-daemon-tools/general-copy-discussion/4900-

Those no-disc patches can be sketchy and infected, so watch out!

My preferred way to play games without CDs was virtual disc emulators, so you can store a copy of your game disc on your hard drive, and virtually pop that game’s CD image into the virtual drive in when you want to play that specific game.

One good trick with these, is that you don’t even need a full copy of the disc: There was some trick to creating a very small disc image that just has enough information to get past the game’s copy protection, but it’s been well over 2 decades since I did any of that, so you’ll have to do your own research.

I have also noticed some dips in brightness in some shows.

Sounds like an encoding problem, or some sort of form of copy protection in the streamed video that screws up the encoding algorithms, like the old Macrovision copy protection on VHS tapes.

I love Sync!

Except on iOS, where my bookmarks and passwords never actually synch, because it’s not really Firefox but a weird skin on Safari because… Apple.

I can see this being very taxing on an instance’s network resources, maintaining and sending the complete list of communities that it has access to every time a request like this is started.

How would that even work?

Any given instance only has records of the /c’s that its users have joined, and there are likely plenty of /c’s that its users have not joined.

What if some instances have disappeared, along with their /c’s? There are some zombie /c’s out there because of this, and those could really use some cleanup because their content is still in the caches of many instances.

What about de-federation? What happens to de-federated /c’s?

🎵 “Today’s random number… 3 bits” 🎵

I tried on my iOS device, v 2.9.1 and it’s behaving similarly to what I describe in my reply to @pro_user@lemm.ee who told me about pulling down to refresh:

It seems to cycle between “Failed to find random community”, !100yearsago@sh.itjust.works , and !categoryiii@lemmy.world - which is a /c that I subscribe to already

but in iOS v 2.9.1 it adds !3dprinting@lemmy.world , and wowthisnsfwsubexists@zerobytes.monster - which returns a “nothing to see here” message, and some Korean NSFW /c that has never come up again after coming up twice.

Interesting, I didn’t know you could do that!

But it doesn’t really work.

It seems to cycle between “Failed to find random community”, !100yearsago@sh.itjust.works , and !categoryiii@lemmy.world - which is a /c that I subscribe to already

I am using Android v 2.9.1

What does VLC have to do with piracy?

It’s just a media player, right?

Could be a double meaning and mean both.

I always wondered where the name came from. I always assumed it was a real person, like craigslist.

That it’s short for Anarchist’s archive makes a lot more sense.

Usually x264 rips are available faster than x265, due to slower encoding time for x265, so depends on how long you want to wait vs download time and HD space.

The sites that I see get x264 first, then x265 of the same shows some hours later.

nyaa for anime

sukebei.nyaa for nsfw Japanese media

no account needed for either of those.

I still run official eMule on Windows 10, even though it hasn’t been updated in 13 years.

I understand that aMule, a fork of xMule, has relatively active development, and was last updated 2 years ago.