Do you have some movie recommendations? I’m also happy to hear about older movies (60s 70s 80s)

The quality contrast between blu ray and DVDs is massive if done properly. As I said I only encountered it two times so far and I guess this was simply a cheap money grab and taken from the DVD or even worse sources yeah. Mostly noticable if they out multiple movies onto a single disc, but with all the other stuff blu ray is way more crisp than dvd. Maybe your tv is just better in upscaling. I guess especially for animes it’s easy to do so

I got tired of blu rays somehow:

• trailers at the beginning (skippable)
• copyright and and piracy warning (non skippabale)
• usually no english subs for blu rays bought in germany (original english sound though)
• got one with really bad quality and other versions on the internet looked way better (original the hills have eyes)
• wanted to lend a friend without a blu ray player a few by giving him my old laptop with a blu ray drive. No proper software to play it without fiddeling under linux
• resources and plastic cases (started buying used - but then if it’s a really good movie the studio won’t receive any support for it)
• players will need updates to be able to handle new encryption keys (never ran into it though bc I keep my PS updated)

Pros:

• the collection looks nice in the shelf
• picking up a movie is usually easier for me than on netflix
• I watched the bonus material after the movie which was often interesting

I know that feeling and you’re not alone. It’s terrifying and I don’t know how others handle it or if everyone just keeps quiet about it or live in ignorance about that fact. Also doesn’t help that I don’t believe in an afterlive.

So also keep it on while sleeping? Sounds a bit scary. I guess back in the days someone was chosen to keep the fire running anyways but nowadays? Also turnover wouldn’t happen for a few hours.

Until it’s an iron pan…

I once hurt myself bc i tried to catch two bowls falling of the shelf. In the end I had a blue toe and a nasty wound on my wrist.

Atleastforme I’d like to have a directory watcher syncing updated/new files automatically similar to the camera syncing. I’ll look for a custome solution (syncing it first to my raspberry pi and then to proton drive) once I have my new phone.

All that being said, I do think there is a place for chat GPT in simple queries like asking about syntax for a language you don’t know.

I am also weary regarding AI and coding but this is actually the first time I used ChatGpt to programm something for a small home project in python, since I never used it. I was positively surprised in how much it could help me getting started. I also learned quite a bit since I always asked for comparison with Java, which I know, and for reasonings why it is that way. I simply also wanted to understand what it puts out. I also only asked for single lines of code rather than generating a whole method, e.g. I want to move a file from X to Y.

The thought of people blindly copying the produced code scares me.