i think if you ask that question, itll result in abolishing the minimum wage, in the usa anyway

does stapler really mean forklift, and lager really mean storage, in german?

i get a lot of simpsons pictures in the image results for some rsn

i get it, i collect them too. but only retail releases. no way to control the quality if the source isnt authoritative.

to me, if youre 1-to-1 copying a retail blu ray, then authoring isnt required. if youre ripping it and compressing it (losslessly or otherwise), keep it on a nas for easier access. but if youre downloading a movie from the web and burning it, i dont see the point, since its already been compressed most likely, or at least you cant be sure its a great copy. especially with the audio side.

i knew a guy who used to make full backups of redbox blu rays for archive purposes. that made sense to me.

as to why might you be trolling, well, this is the kind of troll post id make haha

if this isnt a troll, then you are one of a dying (pretty much never existed) breed

burning dvds or copying vhs tapes made sense years ago bc you needed a converter to plug your computer into a tv, and the quality was iffy. now most machines and tvs are compatible with hdmi, so going from digital to physical is like printing a mapquest route and taking a picture of it with your phone

edit: sorry i didnt provide a soln

thanks so much for the coaching!

okay i got it now.

was something wrong with the mirror i was using? if so, is there some way to know if i have a “lesser” mirror? or was the arch linux world just going thru a major update today and i had to wait it out?

so… i did another reflector refresh and then did an Syyu. Now this is happening…

this is with the mirrorlist shown in the picture below. not sure why i’d be getting almost 3 gigs of updates right now. i’ve been updating this and using this machine daily for months on this installation. when that is complete i’ll try for python-polib again.

about 15 ruby packages got replaced with extra/ruby just now too.

that asciicinema thing is super cool too

pacman -Qi python | grep Architecture yields Architecture : x86_64

yep, dns points me to 108.61.5.83 and i can get there by hostname and address thru the browser. i spun up a new live arch session i built with archiso. still can’t get a hit thru pacman tho. really can’t explain it.

absolutely. i’ve tried this on two x86 systems as well, my desktop and laptop. if there’s no quick fix or obvious problem, i’m not above doing a full reinstall to fix this.

i’ll spin up a vm to test too

output:

Server = https://arch.mirror.constant.com/$repo/os/$arch

Server = https://mirrors.rit.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch

Server = https://us.mirrors.cicku.me/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch

Server = https://america.mirror.pkgbuild.com/$repo/os/$arch

Server = https://mirrors.vectair.net/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch

Server = https://mirrors.lug.mtu.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch

Server = https://arch.hu.fo/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch

Server = https://archmirror1.octyl.net/$repo/os/$arch

Server = https://mirror.theash.xyz/arch/$repo/os/$arch

Server = https://us.arch.niranjan.co/$repo/os/$arch

no luck. still getting: error: target not found: python-polib

giving this a try: sudo reflector --latest 10 --protocol https --country 'United States' --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist