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I'm not sure how to do what you want with customizing Mint directly, but a possibly simpler alternative solution is to just send two clearly distinguishable USB drives (e.g. label them "1" and "2" with a label maker or get two drives with very different colors) and tell him to install (unmodified) Mint from the first and then have him run a program you provide on the second after that's done to make the other changes.

I have an older version of TrueNAS on it from when it was still FreeBSD based (instead of Linux). I might replace it with Scale whenever I get around to doing maintenance on it next -- or maybe just go to stock Debian or something since I don't use most of the bells-and-whistles.

I run my NAS that way too. I just mount it and play videos with VLC if I want to watch something I have on it. The main reason I have a NAS is because I ran out of drive bays in my main system a few years ago... Works fine for my needs currently; no need to make it more complicated.

Possibly relevant to your interests: !kemonomoe@ani.social

Yep. Just like how some sites try to recruit you if you open the JS terminal. Spam knows no limits.

You know, I've gotten job offers in Apache logs, but no one's ever asked me out through referer/user-agent spam...

Historically, I don't know, but personally, I prefer YYYY-MM-DD style dates since they sort naturally in basically all computer software without having to think about it.

I have a folding card table that currently serves as my desk. I don't know how old it is -- 1960s, maybe, based on the style of the brand/sales label on the back? It's almost certainly older than I am, at least... Got it from my uncle back when I was in college and its still working well enough that I haven't bothered to replace it.

"The easiest way to stop piracy... is to give those people a service that's better than what they’re receiving from the pirates." -Gabe Newell

Yep -- although even there, I have 5x as many games on GOG as Steam because they're mine and I don't have to worry about dealing with forced updates ever. That was a BIG deal for me when I had crappy internet access -- a single game's forced update could tank my entire month's quota... I still get nervous putting Steam in online mode to this day even though I don't have to deal with that shit any more.

Disagree with you on the BD issue, though. Much more capacity, higher quality video and audio, and drives are dirt cheap. I have a BDROM in an external enclosure, and it handles DVD and BD perfectly.

My complaint there's about Blu-Ray's DRM. Better quality video means nothing to me if I can't actually get the damned thing to even play.

Whilst I agree, there's (currently) nothing stopping you from buying the DVDs?

I have a ridiculous number of DVDs. (Blu-Ray on the other hand can fuck off and die.) A ton of content is just not practically available as DVDs.

Checking Amazon just now for some stuff that was absolutely impossible to find at all a few years ago when I was looking for it, there seem to be non-US releases now (e.g. region 2, region 4...) for some of them at not insane prices. Others want $300 for "only 1 in stock" from a nonsense bot account with a last purchase comment from ~2015... i.e. they probably aren't real listings even if I was willing to pay that insane amount. A few others look like they might be commercial pirate offerings with only subsets of episodes and strange packaging. (I might just be OOTL on some marketing gimmick with those though.)

Honestly, I've largely given up on anime since COVID hit. I still like the art, but I don't really watch new shows any more. The inability to get legit copies in a timely fashion is the main reason why. The shift to Blu-Ray really alienated me. Yes, I can work around its bullshit up a point. No, I am not going to pay ~$60 for half a show from years ago and then have to do quasi-illegal shit just to get it to maybe play on my computer -- without menus. Fuck that.

I really wish someone would just set up "GOG for anime seasons" and let me buy and download MP4 files (or whatever) so I can have an offline collection legally.

I don't know what anyone else intends to do, but if I can fix the issues I'm currently looking at -- and no one else has stepped up in the interim -- I'll at least take a look at the 1.0 stuff. (I use mlmym and would like it to keep working...)