ElectroVagrant

Quick search surfaced the following for Linux:

k3b, where the source repo states bluray burning capabilities.
xfburn also mentions bluray burning capabilities.

For Windows, albeit old and unupdated, I know the following still works for other purposes (never tried bluray burning/writing though):

ImgBurn mentions bluray burning/writing capabilities, but never tried it.

Bonus: not capable of bluray burning/writing but just fun to mention for any still into ripping/writing to discs on Windows:

InfraRecorder, simply a classic, and it's open source!

Appreciate the writeup! Reading towards the end, it sounds like a good idea would be to fully discharge the controller's battery before disassembly to avoid some of the risk during reassembly, supposing it's functional enough to power on for that. Also given the possible parts loss, disassembling over a bowl or similar might help prevent losing anything. Honestly it's a good idea anyway just for holding screws.

Also for any interested in some visuals, iFixit has a teardown video here.

Friendly heads-up, link's running into a lemmy quirk, has to have the https:// in there, so: [dbu](https://dbu-rpg.com). Without backslash: dbu.

Wasn't aware of DBU RPG, so that's cool to learn about!

Besides this, I'm still looking into & trying to decide whether I'd want to get more into writing. Last year around this time I wrote a few short stories for [email protected], but not as interested in that this time

Thinking I should take a break from thinking on that and maybe watch some stuff or play some games, but indecisive, so instead posting this. 😅

You might be thinking of Solid led by Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

I think I see where you're coming from on this, and to clarify I'm not thinking so much of people developing common interests and relating individually as you describe. Instead I'm thinking in terms of people posting about an interest in a broader community, like Schizo describes with a hypothetical Hobbies community, to gauge interest and carry on for awhile until it's pretty clear they'd benefit from creating their own community.

A classic example is like the TV or Games communities that eventually draw enough people interested in the same specific shows/games that they then create sub-communities dedicated to those specific shows/games.

When preserving culture is criminal, or punishable, ya might want to reevaluate your laws

In the meantime, people are gonna do it anyway 'cause why ask permission to back up and preserve your own stuff? And when the law finally catches up, some will be grateful to those that did so despite the earlier wrongful laws that tried to discourage them.

Added a few new communities.

[email protected] has been added under creative communities>writing and humanities>literary arts

[email protected] has been added under entertainment>playing (not sure why I didn't have this one to begin with tbh, sorry about that!)

[email protected] has been added under creative communities>writing and entertainment>reading and listening

RSS would be an interesting route but like, it would need a feed for every creator wouldn’t it? unless the social media platform allows it built-in like BSky does

If I understand ya right yeah, with BSky/Mastodon you pull the individual feeds for each account if you go that route (or maybe someone has an .opml file of several already grouped by topic to import). To me it's no worse than having to individually follow them on-platform, but I know I'm atypical in that respect

Once ya have'em it's all in one feed in your reader so not too different than the following feed

What you describe is basically the flipside of what happened to RSS folks, so I know what you mean. It sucks to stop getting updates the way you're used to, and more hassle making the transitions to whatever the different method is.

It's basically the reason Twitter/X still has anyone there, except they have higher switching costs compared to an open following format.

Honestly I take the compromise approach where I can, which is social media that still generates RSS, like Bluesky/Mastodon/etc. and use that to avoid making additional accounts.

how many more steps are being forgotten or overlooked? how much complexity do we take for granted with each tech we use? if we really dig down to fundamental tech, to say even linguistic literacy, then so, so much

Fun ships!