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[–] 133 points 1 year ago (15 children)
  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    How do you use firewire on modem operating systems? I need to know.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    If it's Linux, sounds like it should just work out of box, at least for a while longer.

    https://www.tomshardware.com/news/linux-to-support-firewire-until-2029

    Linux to Support Firewire Until 2029

    The ancient connectivity standard still has years of life ahead of it.

    Firewire is getting a new lease on life and will have extended support up to 2029 on Linux operating systems. Phoronix reports that a Linux maintainer Takashi Sakamoto has volunteered to oversee the Firewire subsystem for Linux during this time, and will work on Firewire's core functions and sound drivers for the remaining few that still use the connectivity standard.

    Further, Takashi Sakamoto says that his work will help users transition from Firewire to more modern technology standards (like perhaps USB 2.0). Apparently, Firewire still has a dedicated fanbase that is big enough to warrant six more years of support. But we suspect this will be the final stretch for Firewire support, surrounding Linux operating systems. Once 2029 comes around, there's a good chance Firewire will finally be dropped from the Linux kernel altogether.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I have a feeling its mostly due to some audio and video hardware that has some real longevity. I've got a VHS+minidv player that I am transferring old videos from using FireWire (well, for the minidv. VHS is s-video capture).

    I'm just passing a FireWire PCI card through to a VM though. Though with how old the box is, it doesnt really need to be a VM. Thats a whole different discussion though.

    I had some FireWire audio interfaces too, 8ch and 16ch, but I got rid of those a while back. I'm sure someone's making use of it though! Probably the m-audio delta 1010 I sold too, I think they are still going for a few hundred each despite being so long in the tooth.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I have a feeling its mostly due to some audio and video hardware that has some real longevity. I’ve got a VHS+minidv player that I am transferring old videos from using FireWire (well, for the minidv. VHS is s-video capture).

    Yeah, that's a thought...though honestly, unless whatever someone is doing requires real-time processing and adding latency is a problem, they can probably pass it through some other old device that can speak both Firewire and something else.

    Probably the m-audio delta 1010

    That doesn't have a Firewire interface, does it? I thought I had one of those.

    checks

    Oh, I'm thinking of the 1010LT, not the 1010. That lives on a PCI card.

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  • [–] 86 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (20 children)
  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    It’s noticeable when you look at the price of the subscription. That’s almost $300 million.

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  • [+] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)
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    [–] 70 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Don't roll over for the Orange Turd or you will pay the price.

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    [–] 56 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Liberals make up more of the consumer class than conservatives. That highly marketable strata of people that have disposable income tend to be affluent, college educated liberals. Its why they keep winning the culture war and it drives conservatives insane.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    the problem is these corps/media is controlled mostly by conservative ceos, which will lick TRUMPs boot anytime, they are fickle and untrustworthy, but the gop is the most consistent in not interfering with "unethical business pratices", plus they also use these media/ to issue propaganda in many forms, like you said to institute culture wars.

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    [–] 46 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Nice. None of those “go woke go broke” boycotts ever actually materialize into meaningful business pressure.

    Unless you’re fucking Cracker Barrel.

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    [+] 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    Streaming services are very sensitive to the ups and downs of anything that's a standard deviation of from normal. They're too new to have 10+ years of data to fall back on, so the same overreactions that canceled Kimmel also uncanceled him because of panicky reactions to repercussions.

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    [–] 33 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    And they sold the list of people who cancelled to the US government!

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Wooooah, there, buckaroo. Gonna need a citation for that.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (4 children)
  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    tbh, I expect a lot of subscribers to resub sooner than later. Sadly

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    This just shows that the whole "muh, it is the corporations fault for the climate emergency, there is nothing I can do about it!" is a load of BS. You can vote with your wallet. Become anti-consumption.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    That's an incredibly naive and misinformed opinion you've got there. Most of the companies polluting are not businesses that members of the public buy services from. The vast majority of the largest polluters are business to business providers, Joe public can't do anything about that.

    Just look up Monsanto, if we took them out the total pollution worldwide would probably drop by about 50% but they sell to farmers, so you might say well don't buy from farmers that buy from Monsanto but the problem is all farmers buy from Monsanto, so there isn't another option.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    It takes two to tango, they say. Corporations have a lot more wallet to vote with, as it were - but we are not powerless or blameless when we support them out of complacency.

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    [–] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It hurt itself in its confusion doing exactly as it was told by the orange diaper man

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Fuck Disney, I even got my sister to change their vacation plans over it

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    [–] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Almost everyone I know who cancelled their subscription is happily renewing it now that Kimmel is back on the air. I'm sticking with donating to PBS every month instead.

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    [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    Surprised it was only that many. Needs to triple.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    I unsubscribed. Wasn't really even using it.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    And then they raised the price, so anyone who goes back sheet this is punished for leaving in the first place. Screw Disney.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I wonder what is worth more to ABC/Disney, all those direct subscribers, or these affiliates that are consolidating into two or three big media companies?

    This might be the beginning of the death of the affiliate model. What would happen if Sinclair simply stopped affiliating with ABC altogether? They own enough stations that they can do their own thing. Would it matter if there is no ABC station in Mobile, Alabama, if people who still want to watch can stream it?

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