Blu-rays are purposely made to be combersome to read and use without explicit permission from the Blu-Ray commission.

Blu-rays aren’t DVDs, each release has a unique encryption on it that you either break, or use a program to scan and break for you with public listings of known keys.

VLC would need to ask the Blu-Ray Group to open up their software on how encoding and decoding works, and they never will.

Sony gets a cut for every single Blu-ray, it’s why you need to install the app for Xbox when the gaming console can naturally play Blu-ray discs for games. Microsoft doesn’t want to fork over more money to it’s main competitor, and part of why they backed HD DVD.

Is it VLCs fault? Not really. If they had a lot of money and man hours they could maybe work something out. But DVDs are child’s play to figure out compared to Blu-Rays. That’s on purpose.

Both are good tools for the job. I use mpv but VLC just works for 99% of use cases. mpv is best for working with terminals, vlc is best for GUI and is consistently easy on any operating system, even android.

But fascists need to be protected according to .world. You call someone out for being a genocidal freak? You’re the problem, but they won’t get banned.

Literally yesterday at my local diner some dipshit MAGA was complaining that Mamdani was going to give away free food. Just hated the idea of food for the poor.

Dude doesn’t like what’s in the Bible he swears he read.

Yeah but clearly corporate knows that wasting paper and your time is better, we’re the problem to them.

Ans that’s why I’m all for documenting bullshit of anyone, any organization, any company, anything, as long as it’s documented verified shit.

Otherwise it just gives them ammo to ignore the reality and say if 40% if false, then 100% must be.

Fuckin’ fire song.

No, he was anti-Trump and even did tweets supporting trans rights.

He however did do a concert in the middle of COVID, but he was not mentally well from a mixture of drug abuse previously and mental health before he did any of the partying in the 90s. Not going to defend it, just explaining.

But I don’t think he ever was pro-Trump.

This is Smash Mouth slander, that band was cool and the world is a darker place without Steve Harwell.

If you’re reading this and haven’t listened to their albums Astrolounge and their self titled album Smash Mouth you’re missing out on some good pop rock. Even one song is a Bossa Nova song, completely original to them, Satellite.

I will use any excuse to talk about a good band that is only known for one hit, but Smash Mouth has a few, just no one remembers much beyond All Star.

Shhh, you’ll interrupt the lib circlejerk of how they’re the only good ones who commit atrocities, every other atrocity done by others is worse.

How can you claim that that is a direct quote in your supposed dossier of Lemmy dev statements post that you keep spamming? It seems that many (most? all? I haven’t reviewed all of them yet) of your other “quotes” are similar in nature - your own radically distorted interpretation of what they said.

That’s what they want. They want you to never actually click a link, they want you to take their word for it.

Some of the stuff that’s actually said it atrocious and disgusting. Some of it is hyperbole and out of context to make them look bad.

Meanwhile if we just post their actual wording and actual beliefs, people would side more against them.

If we mixed in hyperbole and bullshit with the real, it gives them ammo. It makes people second guess. It just muddies the water.

But they’re on a tirade against weirdos online who think Russia is cool for various inconsistent reasons that contradict each other. So why not lie and repost memes manually? That’s clearly a better time if someone’s life.

Nah, clearly the out of touch DNC knows something we don’t. Giving Republicans what they want is somehow good, according to them and the bootlickers here.

He’s useful for the people who pay him. Just not the people who he is meant to represent, or the party as a whole.

He represents AIPAC, not New York.

A possible vote on the Epstein files is apparently worth sacrificing healthcare and SNAP for millions of Americans and making Republicans worried about consequences.

Controlled opposition.

Bullshit. I will believe it when I see it.

They’re trying to introduce backdoors to various chat programs right now, so they’re likely going to be guilty of the same invasion of privacy soon.

Ableism and then acting like we’re the assholes for defending ourselves.

“No you see, I found one person saying it who was downvoted, that means every leftist was saying it!”

I hope Putin’s Russia just implodes as the people who’ve been stuck under him can have a government that actually respects them.

Preferably with like a implosion of the Kremlin.

His ass.