Up next Sony sues Pacific Gas & Electric for profiting off of piracy. All those torrents were powered by Pacific Gas & Electric.

You might want to go down the rabbit hole of virtualdub2 and avisynth. Virtualdub provides a GUI for very simple editing but its main focus is encoding. Avisynth allows you to work with video files with scripts. The most advanced filters for improving quality are on avisynth. You can create a .avs script in notepad and then view it in Virtualdub as if its a video file.

You can start with just Virtualdub2. Use its built in deinterlacing filters (because those DVD’s are interlaced), resize filters (because the files on a DVD aren’t the correct aspect ratio) and video/audio compression. For X264, use quality based encoding at something like Q18 for almost perfect quality.

Trek DVD’s are particularly hard because they are a mix of film source and TV special effects so you need a dynamic deinterlacer that can switch between 3:2 pulldown for film parts (live action) and straight deinterlacing for special effects (space battles).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-two_pull_down#:~:text=Three-two pull down (3,of%20transferring%20film%20to%20video.&text=It%20converts%2024%20frames%20per,slight%20slow%20down%20in%20speed.

https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=181209&page=26

even in a custom build you’d need cables specific to your modular power supply),

I don’t think you understand the problem. The power supply Dell included with their standard Xeon wasn’t regular ATX so it couldn’t work with a regular GPU. I replaced the 10 year old Dell power supply with a 15 year old standard ATX.

Buying unsupported hardware to make it work and dremeling the case wasn’t your original claim that Dell etc are an easy phone call to upgrade your PC. They absolutely will not upgrade it.

The OP didn’t make any reference to their buying a PC for a large corporation. So extolling the large corporate benefits of support contracts isn’t relevant. For a user without a support contract, a regular PC will be easier and cheaper to maintain.

Edit referencing your car analogy:

If every other car manufacturer let you drop in an engine from any other car without even buying a different screw except BMW, everyone would rightly criticize BMW for being proprietary.

Regular PC’s, which makes up around 70% of the desktop PC market, are completely interchangeable right down to the screw sizes. It’s only Dell/HP/Lenovo that are a minority of the desktop PC market and are incompatible.

That only applies to a large corporation with contracts.

and upgradable

If it’s not something that can go in a slot for Dell HP and Lenovo there is no upgrade. They aren’t going to swap an upgraded CPU because Dell doesn’t do official bios patches to upgrade old PC’s to cpus that come out later. Nor can you get a new motherboard dropped in an old Dell/HP/Lenovo chassis because of the power supply requirements/changes.

Edit: I couldn’t even put a modern GPU in my old Dell Xeon because the power supply didn’t put out the watts. I had to find a weird Dell to ATX converter cable off of eBay and Dremel the Dell case a little so the regular ATX would fit.

The name is Gamers Nexus, not Corporate IT Nexus.

He is very clear from the context that he means desktop PC.

"I was wondering, what PC, if any, is similar in this regard? Aside from building your own PC ofc. "

You don’t “build your own” laptop.

The OP asked about desktops, not laptops. Why are you bringing up laptops?

He wants a Desktop that’s durable and as easy to repair as a Thinkpad.

Lenovo desktops are filled proprietary parts just like Dell and HP. (Power supply, custom atx motherboard, non standard motherboard mounting)

I’ve used them but not personally owned one going back 30 years since before they were sold to Lenovo.

You didn’t say repairability. You were critical of the proprietary parts.

Dell and HP desktops are even easier to repair than home built because of the no-tool clips for parts and custom sized cables. (But in my opinion that ease of repair doesn’t offset the proprietary parts they use.)

I don’t have a recommendation but I can point you to Gamers Nexus YouTube channel / website and filter on prebuilts to see reviews.

Big names like Dell HP and Lenovo are bad for ability to repair/upgrade. Although I do love buying their old servers because there are so many cheap ones on eBay.

the opposite of the Thinkpad.

To be fair, everything about a Thinkpad is proprietary too. It’s accepted because it’s a laptop.

If I remember correctly, every watt is around $1 a year. So a 100 watt server costs $100 a year every year to run. 12 SAS drives and the server is going to be expensive to keep running.

I’d like to know which artist is claiming AI is copying their style for this photo?

If you sell a digital copy you can keep selling that digital copy because you do not necessarily give it away or delete it.

Steam and other DRM systems ensure that copies cannot be played. Yet you can’t sell your Steam games. It is my understanding that in the EU, you can sell your Steam games. So there is no legitimate reason you can’t sell digital goods.

If a copy isn’t kept after sale, it should be legal. It’s my understanding it is legal in the EU.

That is if you can sell a game you bought on Steam. Steam makes sure to copies aren’t played at the same time so you can’t keep your copy after selling it.

What was it missing?

Knitting is religious?

Thought so. I have had my own run in with him.

It would be nice if lemmy.world mods followed that. I got my posted deleted for “supporting Imperialism” for arguing that focused attacks on Houthi terrorists is ok.

???

Are you worried about being banned if you name him?

A prominent /c/Risa shitposter

This isn’t reddit, you can name names.