It wasn’t just the one offhand comment. His entire attitude was “always online and a mandatory camera attached to your device are just how it is, loaning games is gone forever, and you’re stupid for even questioning any of it.” His decisions singlehandedly tanked the popularity of the Xbox brand so hard they’re still feeling the effects one whole console generation later.

Though not a CEO, I’d say Don Mattrick made even dumber decisions than Ballmer. When asked flat out saying that if active duty military can’t use the new always online console they can use the last gen console or get fucked was… a choice.

Just wanted to follow up since I took a poke at this. Your best bet is still DVD Decrypter, which you can run through Wine. For some reason drive detection fails unless you set the operating environment to Windows NT 4.0, so use Winetricks to make an application-specific override for that. Once you do that you should be able to use it.

They also revealed their new slogan:

Foster’s: Australian for “tastes like your horse is pregnant”

Try installing libdvdcss or libdvdcss2. That may make Handbrake work correctly.

Past that, VLC also supports pulling content from DVDs, though it again uses libdvdcss. MakeMKV is probably the easiest option to use, though it will only extract the video/audio content and won’t preserve menus and the like.

Quite honestly though this is one of the things where the bulk of the best tools are Windows-based. The original DVD Decrypter is still rock solid for most DVDs, and anything it can’t handle you can usually get with DVDFab HD Decrypter or AnyDVD. All of those have pretty bare bones minimum system requirements, so your laptop should be able to run 'em. Whether you can do it via Wine/etc. or need to use a Windows VM I can’t tell you, but that’d be where I’d go.

EDIT: You can in fact run DVD Decrypter on Linux through Wine, you just need to use Winetricks to make an application-specific override to set the operating environment to Windows NT 4.0 so it doesn’t error out trying to access the disc drive. Program works great once you do that.

Mind you I tested this on a machine running Linux Mint, but it should work on Debian 11 as well.

It’s honestly surprising how bloated Windows has become, and for no clear reason either. Even with all of the obvious bloat disabled and resource-intensive features turned off there’s still a significant overhead, it’s just so constant that you don’t notice it. Then you load up Linux on the same hardware and realize what you’ve been missing.

I think it took 9 months for Putin’s checks to stop clearing.

I’m on Spectrum in the US and their “support” is somehow worse than just not having IPv6. Tons of dropped packets, shifting IP address ranges, and overall a lot of headaches. Tried everything I could to sidestep the issues but there was nothing doing. Eventually I just disabled IPv6 and the issues went away. Maddening.

Joke’s on you he’s into that shit.

The future of piracy is going to be running your own LLM with all the corpo-mandated guardrails disabled.

Like I needed another excuse to replay Earthbound. Dammit man!

Seriously cool though.

A VM is going to incur a pretty big performance loss. From what I’ve read, Soulframe works just fine with Proton. Either Lutris or the Linux Steam client should work for running it.

I was listening to a Jim Gaffigan bit he wrote during the first Trump admin which is even more true these days. Short version, he compares having Trump as President to having a parent who’s a raging alcoholic: what he does isn’t directly your fault but you still know you should apologize.

I love how the UK’s supposedly left leadership aggressively, insistently opened with “let’s cut off the heating for old people in winter” and kept doubling down on it.

Debian 12 let me turn an ailing Gateway Centrino laptop into a media center + game station. It’s technically dual core but it’s 32-bit and really, really goddamn slow. Still, it’s more than fast enough to run everything from the 4th console generation and before, and play a bunch of stuff I snagged with yt-dlp… as long as I made sure it was h264 and 480p or lower. Yeesh.

Still more than enough to make the break room at work amazing.

What’s the Venn Diagram of “childhood pyromaniacs” and “Linux users” look like?

Hey, remember the time you said Elon’s Nazi Salute had been “debunked”? 'cause we do.

Go Sealion elsewhere.

No, he had sense to not ever include any of it from the get-go. Plenty of websites and services suggested he include 88 in his username though.