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  • addie@feddit.uktoRPGMemes @ttrpg.networkEarth divided
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    6 days ago

    There’s three regions missing here - region 0 is “worldwide”, region 7 is “special purpose”, Oscar screening DVDs and the like, and region 8 is “international waters” for cruise ships and things. You can set several regions on the same disk, to make a 2/4/5 and the like. Set each region as a bit, and you can store that in a single byte - that makes it very easy to flash the firmware on DVD players to decide which disks they can play. Aus/NZ will want content in English and Latin America will want Spanish or Portuguese, so the DVD consortium can still get up to their often-illegal, certainly immoral, price fixing and bullshit.

    Really, fuck DVDs. So much potential in the increased capacity, and then it was mired in crap like this and “disabled user operations” so that you can’t skip trailers. Time to raise the black flag and set sail for prosperous waters, me hearties.


  • We’ve a few rescue cats - we got them all when they were about three / four years old. We kept them inside initially for six weeks or so, made sure that they’d got used to living in a new house before we let them outside.

    The one which had been abandoned and had been living outside for a few weeks (a boy) stopped using his litter tray completely, as soon as he was allowed outside again.

    The other two, both girls but a ‘smooth’ changeover, took a bit more time to get used to being outside. One transitioned off of her litter tray after a couple of months by herself; the other took more like four months, and she was a bit of a fair-weather pooper for a while as well.

    My take-home message would be that cats generally prefer to do their business as far away from where they live as possible. Only possible bit of advice would be to wait until the weather’s getting better in case your cats dislike the wind and the rain. I believe forest cats love the frosty weather anyway, though?


  • Cat food is enriched with the amino acid taurine, which they can’t produce themselves. Dog food is not. Feeding cats exclusively on dog food will kill them eventually, via blindness and heart disease.

    Not a disaster if they steal it from the dog once or twice, but it cannot be their long-term diet.