I know the pain. I had to use iTunes in a Windows VM. Now I have a Google Pixel with Graphene OS. No problems now.

Pretty.

It is kind of annoying people blaming Americans as if I personally am responsible for the shit Trump does.

Sorry, but I did an oopsie. I watched the video linked, they destroy the books to scan them. It's really sad. Though I'm sure they would destroy them anyway.

So, as someone in the business it's not so much that people aren't buying it as much as it is they ordered way too many. Allow me to explain. The webapp the store uses to order it has "suggested orders" for your convenience. They also conveniently recommend you order lots of what ever the latest product is to increase their sales numbers. Some managers are lazy as fuck and couldn't be fucked to peak in the stock room and see what's running low so they just order whatever is recommended. So, if it feels like they don't get in your favorite drink as often as you'd like but are drowning in cases of the newest drink nobody wants, it's not just your imagination.

To keep their competitors from buying them and scanning them.

Yes, but the bulk of it is CD, DVD, and Blu-ray rips.

If you use ZFS like me, you can never have enough.

True, but I'd much rather ask some of Lemmy's tech veterans than a souless fucking website run by an evil megacorp trying to sell me shit, sell my data, and spam me with AI bullshit. Also, I like fun discussions and the fediverse needs more content.

And yet 40TB still isn't enough for my needs.

Ah, This explains everything.