The best advice was gratuitous.

good looking out.

you know, you could also either include a lossy copy next to the lossless ones, then rsync only lossy extensions, or, if that pollutes your collection, have a separate but identically-structured directory tree, where all your lossless files have lossy copies. Then, you can rsync both folders (send-only) to your single remote (lossy extensions only).

but, yeah, Git really isn’t the tool for this, agreed.

Make a script. I’d use xonsh or python with sh.py.

• create a dict for remote to local filename map
• walk your local collection
  • for each file, determine what the correct remote name (including a valid extension) would be, and add the pair to the dict, with remote filenames as keys, local filenames as values
• make a set like local_munged_names from that dict’s keys
• walk your remote tree, and store the filenames in a set like remote_names
• names_to_upload = local_munged_names - remote_names
• for each name in names to upload, look up the local filename from the remote to local filename map. Then, encode it if it needs encoding, and upload.

came here to see if Fedora had a --download-only equivalent.

yes.

I came here for this. with 200 dvds, you put the ripping system somewhere you pass by often. pop one out and pop one in whenever you happen to walk by.

you can rip all features - though that may not include the menus.

You really might want to consider using this:

https://github.com/automatic-ripping-machine/automatic-ripping-machine

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yes. and you can just use any distro that has gparted, like >!Ubuntu!< or similar.

meh

Huh. Yeah. I just probably did what was necessary and didn’t think about it too much, but that’s just because I’ve been using Linux for ages.

looks like the easiest way is if you have them on two separate drives. I don’t, they share an efi partition… … but, Windows has also overwritten things on there before, and I had to rescue the Linux side. Not most peoples’ cup of tea.

I didn’t remember doing that, but I’ve been using Linux for ages and might have shrugged that off and forgotten.

pop os. most apps you can right-click to run on discrete graphics card, and they tried to make it gamer friendly.

worth a shot, anyhow.

yeah, it turns the thing into clickbait.

no flatpak. chill.

but, he doesn’t like it, so it’s a scam. it’s not enough just to not buy it, he has to bitch about it and save the world from this evil, malignant company selling extremely customizable Linux laptops with versatile expansion options.

the alternative to gstreamer. both were precursors to pipewire, which aims to meet both use cases.

absofuckinglutely.

Always welcome. Sharing the good things is a part of the fun.