And people like to forget the artist is the first one screwed out of their work when the corporations get involved.

Remember boys and girls, AI doesn’t have to be as good as you to take your job. Just has to be good enough. Because AI doesn’t go home for the night, it doesn’t take vacation, it doesn’t take sick days, it doesn’t care about holidays, it doesn’t go to the bathroom, it won’t go get a cup of coffee, it doesn’t need pay and benefits, it doesn’t require payroll taxes be paid…

And now think about how the economy seems to have shifted to catering to the wealthy. Vegas only wants the high rollers, everyone else fuck off. Car companies have priced all their vehicles like luxury vehicles even if they didn’t do anything to make them luxury. Companies know only the wealthy will be able to buy anything in the near future.

The other option is to build and sell a ton of them. It’s profitable even if the margin is smaller. Right now, the problem is the price of the Maverick is starting to run into the Ranger price range. Why make both? What the market told Ford is that an inexpensive vehicle has demand. Jacking up the price will kill that demand.

Remember boys and girls, the Maverick was a small truck that started at $20,000. It is now $35,000. Base. They can do it, they just don’t want to, and every time this concept comes up the price goes up. Next month they’ll be talking about a “cheap” $40,000 truck.

What would you advise i do? what did you do when starting out?

Bought a VPN.

Anna’s doesn’t have everything. That’s why I’d rather break the DRM of what I have.

MakeMKV for ripping it. You can either buy it or use it free by going to the forums and getting the monthly reg key.

If you then want to reencode, Handbrake. I’ve given up on reencoding my personal collection and bought a couple of large hard drives. But to make sharing easier, might want to reencode to x265 or AV1 to manage the file size.

Also might want to consider a libre drive. It is a Blu-ray/UHD drive that has custom firmware which region unlocks it and helps the ripping process. You can find reputable sellers in the MakeMKV forums.

Yeah, I have that and it was great. However, after they disabled the ability to download, Amazon introduced a new file type, .kfx instead of .amz or whatever. I haven’t got DeDRM to work on those at all, and it looks like you need Windows with some tools to break it.

You wouldn’t be able to play official tournaments or at most hobby shops. Hobby shops are where most people play now.

But everyone believes they’ll wait and try again.

What software are you using on the RPis as a client to Music Assistant?

Some.bands do that. Most do not.

The Pedo in Chief won’t stop him, won’t allow the DOJ to act, so he will get away with it.

No they’re not. All but one major network DRM’d the whole works in my area. They want to turn OTA TV into Cable/Streaming. FCC should force them to give up the public airwaves leased to them for doing that. Make them broadcast over the internet like every other DRM’d pay service.

And Europeans and their governments are currently talking of denying all Americans immigration. Europeans are for more xenophobic, and refuse to see Americans trying to leave the US want to leave this all behind.

It’s basically live streaming like if you had YoutubeTV.

IPTV from Z2U. I went with a Trex provider.

No, that’s not it. It was never economically viable. They had to use ultra expensive exotic materials to make it work. No one outside a lab wanted it, and the project proved the point. Oak Ridge and other military facilities could produce all the weaponized material the US needs, they don’t care about private industry producing it.

It’s a materials problem that has persisted for decades. The US ran a thorium reactor for nearly 20 years and couldn’t make it work, but that was shut down in the 60s. I’m not holding my breath.

The problem with molten salt designs is they eat the pipes transporting the molten salt. They require lots of maintenance to replace those pipes. That’s why no one has made an economicly viable molten salt reactor yet.