Don’t suppose there was a similar report about the strength of Russia’s army before we found out the reality of it in Ukraine?

They used to not be that way. I have 5 devices (couple connects, amps and plays) that I’ve kept on S1. Haven’t gotten any new features, but never lost any in their whole S2 debacle. Going 10+ years strong.

I’ve honestly never used it for playback but since it can rip 4K at 2x-4x playback speed I would assume it’d be just fine. The issue is the system you build would have to have a card that can output Atmos bitstreams as well as HDR.

As for ripping performance I’m over 500 DVD, BD, 4K and it’s doing great. You do have to give it 30 minutes between 4K discs to cool down.

Sadly no. He packed it up about 6 months ago. However if you can get your hands on an ASUS BW-16D1HT, you can flash the firmware yourself. I could have done that but he was offering it for a negligible difference and it was just quicker to do that method.

I bought a modified BD drive from a person who was flashing libredrive supported firmware and then got a registered copy of MakeMKV.

It’s been stupid simple for me to rip any BD or 4K disc that I can get my hands on. If you choose the “backup” option it spits it out to a folder structure which then use mkisofs to create an iso of things.

Honestly my biggest problem is constantly running out of hard drive space because I want to keep the original, uncompressed isos. What’s nice though is once i have the iso I can pop it back into MakeMKV and just extract what I want. I can then run that through Handbrake and compress to my exact specifications.

Can someone please tell me what his official government position that warrants his comment or the validity of it?

Frankly I’ve always thought the concept of military bases on foreign soil was creepy at best. And it’s hilarious how many people welcome it and the. Freak out when Saudi Arabia is looking at a base in the US. Now you know how it feels.

Once upon a time it was a good way to help build a community and to help pass along social knowledge of living in groups, however people very quickly learned it could be used for control and since then has been another means of exerting power over gullible people.

Won’t that just increase the meat usage for the meat grinder?

The thoguht definitely crossed my mind. Especially with the trust IT is given, but that is a one time use card and you would be blacklisted from any company ever again.

Saw a job for VP of IT posted that looked interesting. Then I saw it was for “Kushner Group”. Hit that X button faster than when your mom walked in and you were watching porn.

That’s how I’ve been. I know I’m dreaming, but unless I think something is egregiously wrong, I don’t bother to alter it and instead let it play out with the actions I think I should be doing.

I had a proc with a couple bent pins, my pocket knife was th perfect width to be able to straighten them back out.

It’s been the same damn group of people running the world since the 90s. Move the fuck over people.

Why aren’t more people complaining “ICE is getting paid but our troops aren’t” or “ICE is getting paid to kidnap Americans, but your flights are delayed because air traffic controllers aren’t”?

So are ICE and the National Guard getting paid? I’m sure some of the people in ICE enjoy being assholes for free, but after a while it won’t pay their bills.

They really are doing this to themselves.

For anyone wondering what’s going on, rice prices in Japan have been skyrocketing for a number of reasons (harvests, workers, etc). However their laws are so protectionist and their nationalism is so strong, they only want Japanese grown rice and refuse to import/place massive tariffs on imports.

For a country that rice is basically their largest staple, this is starting to have a big impact due to prices which is why this is happening.

There is not a global shortage, and prices are reasonable everywhere else, they just refuse to give in to help out their citizens.

Look, she’s still not gonna let you feel her boobs.

Does anyone ever pick anything besides a queen, and if so, why? Picking a knight would be true anarchy.

Ooh, starting to mess with the pockets of the Military Industrial Complex. Bad move Donny… Haliburton and Raytheon have overthrown governments for less than that.