Anyone else have problem with updating calibre on Windows?

Every time I run the installer (even with admin rights), the installer (for the latest version) fails with a cryptic code.

This is so annoying.

I don’t do software development, but I am enough of a nerd to know what python.

Good on them. The American far-right (and it’s proxies) need to be shown that they are compromised individuals that lack integrity.

AV1 content is rather rare and encoding even 1080p content (from BD) is pretty slow unless you have a 9985WX Threadripper Pro (which costs over $11 K retail where I live).

And AV1 client support (HW decode) is lacking compared to HEVC/x265.

Don’t know which country you live in but $160 for a 14 TB HDD is a good price. It’s been a while since I lived in North America, but from memory this is a good price for US/Canada.

One general tip for saving space is to get x265/HEVC content, as it tends to be most space efficient on both an absolute and a “quality per GB basis” (some caveats of course, but I digress). That being said you may want to make sure all your clients support x265 (I prefer to simply never have to transcode and have all clients support Xvid/x264/x265 and all major audio formats).

It is possible to address this, but it would require implementation of anti-corruption, criminal and judicial reform in the US and not only.

And a conservative analysis suggests that such reforms are unlikely in the US the next ~20 years if not more.

Wonder why their telegram chat/community was banned.

For a second I thought this was a corporate bittorrent client or something similar.

I never knew pet insurance existed, although I guess it makes considering how my American friend complain about the cost of veterinary services.

Russian roach will be launching an EUV based process (even though China is struggling)!

Not only semiconductors, hardware in general, but there is a big focus on semiconductors:

!hardware@lemmy.world

I donate on a monthly basis to some open source projects I find really useful.

I would argue it’s a cultural thing. The internet has conditioned every to think in terms of nominally free, so it’s difficult to get people to pitch in. There are also on-boarding issue, there is no standardized protocol for managing subscriptions/donations. The size of fees (in % terms) for small scale donations (e.g. $1 a month) are relatively high.

We are likely going to have a major change in socio-political thinking (e.g. compare and contrast the world before WW1 and after WW2) before we get anywhere with this.

Fair point. :)

The only reason I mentioned this is I have multiple family members who have by this point learned how to stream via bittorrent and how to use rutracker.

Why not just use something like rutracker.org ?

All the netflix releases are on there and vast majority of them can be streamed via bit torrent. Just select language defaults in your media player and you’re good to go.

Great unique art (as usual), a bit depressing message though. :(

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I love this!

I wonder if anyone under the age of ~30 would get the meme.

Looks like the bugs used by Fire Ant were patched in late 2023.

If you’re running system with critical unlatched bugs, you shouldn’t be surprised when you get attacked.