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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...)

the thumbnails now are even more clearly 4-pixel potatoes

pictrs's thumbnail parameter uses dumb raw pixel sampling -- which leaves something to be desired... It has other sampling options implemented (with resize, according to the docs), but they don't seem to accessible on my instance. You can remove thumbnail=96 if you want to get the image without that thumbnail sampling, at least.

make everything zoom 150%

I do this with my browser's UI (ctrl-plus keyboard shortcut in FF-based browsers works for me).

e.g. right side bar

[...document.querySelectorAll(".side")].forEach(sidebar => sidebar.remove())

You could also just adblock the element with class side.

someone forks and maintains it.

MrKaplan already forked it and is keeping it on life support for lemmy.world. I've been trying to make enough sense of it to fix several issues that have been bugging me for a while, and will contribute my fixes there if I can figure them out.

I've only got a few hours each weekend where I have good concentration + enough free time to work on it, and don't know the relevant languages (Go, Rust, TypeScript), so my progress is pretty slow... but I'm still poking at it.

Voting

You could support this by making vote buttons submit a form if JS isn't enabled. (That's what mlmym does.)

Can't manually switch between dark and light mode

Hmm... There are some pretty nifty things you can do with a hidden checkbox, label, and some clever CSS (e.g. html:has(#element:checked) + CSS variables -- though FYI :has is baseline 2023.)

Making it persistent would require some more effort -- e.g. form + cookies + server side style sheet selection, most likely. mlmym lets users change their theme w/o JS by submiting a form on the setting page. I'd have to think a bit if there's a good way to make it persistent across multiple requests for logged out users with a CDN caching things in between though...

only automatically based on browser settings

Doesn't actually work for me in a FF138-based browser w/ JS blocked via NoScript -- I always get light mode despite having a dark mode preference set. (Where do you have your prefers-color-scheme media query?)

Also, FYI I had to manually override font restriction -- otherwise all your buttons end up as tofu characters. (I think NoScript is being kind of unreasonably strict there by blocking first party fonts.) That's a papercut kind of issue, but figured I'd point it out in case it might save you some debugging time if you get confused NoScript users in the future.

You're thinking about how much you want to **** rule, aren't you?

Ancient internet meme

Yuyushiki, maybe? It's slice-of-life with three girls in a computer club instead of a music club. I liked K-On's humor more, but I remember thinking they were similar when I watched it a long time ago.

You can just use the rendered fat as a cooking fat for anything that pairs with the spices you infused it with.

Fried rice might be nice!