atocci

joined 1 year ago
[–] atocci@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

What are you an accessory to? Murder? On the dance floor?

[–] atocci@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I have 8Bit Music Power Final on NES, I'd love to get the other two also!

[–] atocci@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I liked the introduction of gestures, so much screen space was lost to those buttons.

[–] atocci@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

I just bought a drone, hopefully it arrives by this weekend and I'll start posting some pictures

[–] atocci@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm not sure yet, I've been researching what to buy since then and I found this guide. It sounds like a sit-on-top with a flat hull is good for beginners, and I have a preference towards nothing inflatable also.

If you have any recommendations though, let me know! I also need to get a roof mount for my car.

[–] atocci@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago (4 children)

You have convinced me to buy a kayak. 👍

[–] atocci@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Jolly good show!

[–] atocci@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Man yeah I don't get this one either. Is he putting bees in his dentures? Is there a punch line here?

[–] atocci@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oops you're right, shame one me for not verifying that before posting. I was at work, didn't have it on me to check, and I couldn't find the answer online, so I took a guess.

It is still a separate partition from the one the OS is installed to though, which I'm guessing is ext4 since it's Linux

[–] atocci@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Microsoft's solution above is tacked-on and inelegant, it's a bandaid to fix a problem with WMDRM that MTP devices were causing in the first place. MTP wasn't built for enforcing DRM and and Amazon would just be setting themselves up to face the same issues if that was their goal here. Also, unlike Microsoft, they don't have the advantage of being the original creators of MTP. If they did want a completely DRM controlled environment, turning the Kindle PC app into something more like iTunes where it's the only program able to communicate with Kindles would have been a much better first step than implementing an industry standard file transfer protocol. They could have jumped straight to your second step like that.

My best guess as to why they're making the switch to MTP is because USB Mass Storage currently requires them to maintain a separate partition with a fixed size formatted in ~~NTFS~~ FAT32 on a Linux-based device just so it can occasionally be exposed to a PC it's plugged into, and that's... kinda stupid. MTP provides them the option to just not do all that. MTP is the standard mobile devices use these days, it's going to be easier and cheaper for them to develop around and they won't need two different file systems and partitions on one device anymore.

[–] atocci@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

The Kindle doesn't use Windows Media DRM for its DRM protected ebooks, they use Amazon's own DRM. Even if they did use WMDRM though, this is just an extension for MTP that would enable it to be used for streaming WMDRM content. It "provides a mapping of WMDRM: Network Devices Protocol messages to the Media Transfer Protocol (MTP)" and that's necessary because MTP would otherwise not provide the data necessary for for the DRM protected content to play.

There's still nothing here that would prevent you from copying your own "legitimately obtained" epub files or Amazon-encrypted AZW files to or from your PC.

I see this article is the first result when searching "MTP DRM" on Google though 😉

[–] atocci@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Oh they turned it into a movie? I missed that that happened

 

One painful firmware update later and the z-offset bug that has plagued me since getting the Neptune 4 Pro is finally resolved and first layers are good again just like that. I just had to share the thrilling end result.

 
 

I found this tiny cherry grove surrounded on all sides by frozen peaks

 
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