Depends on how they set boundaries in their marriage, which they absolutely should have. Movie sex usually has a completely different motive and execution than regular cheating.
I think they want to avoid legal trouble so they won’t distribute DRM-breaking software. Maybe there’s a fork but I would first try libdvd on Linux or MakeMKV on Windows.
Yes, it works with all protected discs I tried. It’s freeware and you only have to pay for Blu-ray support. A small issue is that it will never allow audio-only or subtitle-only MKVs, which would speed up the process of acquiring rare dubs & subs where HD video is available from elsewhere.
It is possible from a technical standpoint (look up libdvd or MakeMKV) but it might not be worth it for some titles. Here are some considerations:
➖ Pressed DVDs, as opposed to DVD±R(W)s, last very long and do not take up too much physical space on spindles, in paper sleeves or organizers (depends on your apartment size of course). Drives do fail but can be acquired cheaply (or for free if you salvage them from old PCs and have a USB adapter).
➕ DVDs will always have worse compatibility with modern equipment than MP4. Good luck getting a smart TV to play one from a drive over USB.
➕ For content that only ever existed as SD video, your non-reencoded rip will be pretty much the highest quality available.
➖ That rip will almost certainly be in SD MPEG-2, interlaced (unless it’s a movie), and gigabytes in size, usually a little over 4 or 7 GiB (most discs are single-layer or double-layer and the video bitrate is set to fill the capacity).
You can reduce file size to 10-25% by reencoding to H.264 or H.265, using a lot of computing power and losing a little quality. H.265 does not support interlacing and takes way longer to encode, but you can fit a good-looking 100-minute HD movie on a CD with it! Many pirates overestimate the bitrate they need with H.265, leading to unnecessarily giant release files.
➖ Likely not a concern for you but ripping copy-protected DVDs could be illegal even for personal use while downloading others’ HD rips might not be, like in my country.
DVD subtitles are 1bit bitmaps, ugly and relatively big in terms of storage. Their positioning is tied to video resolution so they will be at the center left if muxed with HD video. The MKV container is the only modern one that handles them at all. Converting to SRT or other text-based formats requires OCR (which does not always fully work). If they aren’t on OpenSubtitles.org, I would rip them, skim the OCR and upload them there.
➖ You will lose interactivity but that was usually more of a nuisance than a feature. I don’t think Bandersnatch or another similarly suitable title ever released on DVD. (Yes, I am confident that DVD Video is just barely capable of holding the entirety of that movie’s footage with full interactivity and everything but I doubt Netflix bothered, it would have cost a fortune.)
I would definitely back up niche DVDs but not mainstream ones – depends on how much you trust the scene to have your back. Up to you, really.
Depends on how the song is interpreted. The intention is probably “by the 𝑛ᵗʰ day of Christmas, my true love had given to me [list of 𝑛+(𝑛–1)+…1 items]” but the actual grammar means that by day 12, you’d have received 𝑛(13–𝑛) of the 𝑛ᵗʰ item, or
12 drummers drumming
22 pipers piping
30 lords-a leaping
36 ladies dancing
40 maids a-milking
42 swans a-swimming
42 geese a-laying
40 gold rings
36 calling birds
30 French hens
22 turtle doves
12 partriges in pear trees
Total is 184 birds. By day 7, only 69 birds, up 50 % from 46 by day 6. At least the number of received birds stays constant (23) on days 8-12. The geese technically-a-reproducing are not accounted for, as the eggs might not be fertilized and take several weeks to hatch.
They have done shitty things to Gmail before, such as forced Google+ integration, with backlash as expected. They are shutting down the basic HTML version soon, too.
That’s what I thought because that was my experience last time I used Windows; that’s why it surprised me that the previous comment suggested otherwise.
registry setting enabled that lets you run non 64 bit programs
Do they seriously not support 32bit software out of the box anymore? I know getting 16bit software to run on x64 is close to impossible (look up NTVDM x64) for obvious reasons but there is still lots of x86-only stuff.
Not now, I don’t really have time for that. I suggest you look at this Medium article / opinion piece (?). Sorry that I cannot go deeper into this rabbit hole with you but I need to sleep before a busy week. I am pretty sure it is not as deep and twisted as some think it is.