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Don’t worry. It was a bit ambiguous 👍
I use xe/xem or they/them pronouns ATM.
I wanna be a cat girl! Or a cat enby perhaps. Nyan.
Don’t worry. It was a bit ambiguous 👍
This should work with some caveats.
/dev/cdrom
with the name of the device file corresponding to your drive.Linux trys to treat devices like files. If you ran xxd /dev/cdrom
, you would see every bit on the disk (not just those of the files, but those in the free space as well) in order from the first to the last (converted to base-16 in what is called a hexdump). Not that you need to see this, but your video player does. The “DRM cracking” is actually a feature of libdvdcss that makes it possible for the system to treat the disk this way. dd
is just a general copying command and if Stack Exchange is to be believed, it isn’t necessarily the best option (https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/12532/dd-vs-cat-is-dd-still-relevant-these-days). But it probably is necessary for the linked guide to work because it has dd
truncate the file.
edit: caveats is note spalled caceats
edit: file → files on the disk
I would’ve appreciated a trigger warning on the post since it uses a slur, but wow, it is amusing (I’m sure it’ll be less amusing once I experience more overt transphobia).