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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 points 9 hours ago (4 children)

Interesting, everyone I've heard talk about it who has seen it says it was god awful and an insult to the original premise.

People never cease to amaze me how they'll happy absorb whatever corporations give to them

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

There are piles and piles of older TV shows and movies, so much media you could never consume it all in a lifetime

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 27 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Now, is this a docker image I can run?

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have run into family and friends accidentally at airports multiple times now. One time I just saw friends at their gate and went over and talked, another time got a text from a family member saying "I'm on a layover in X airport" in a conversation and I was like no way, me too, and we met for lunch.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ironically, no. I'm saying your grandma sounds like that person who would call in the bins.

I'm saying that your scenario of the bins is the same as the bus stop. Just deal with it, ignore it, and live peacefully. It's a molehill she made a mountain out of.

Ah but I have strict religious upbringing, so I can help out with that!

You see, God is the alpha and Omega, and thus lives outside of time. It's why the earth only being built in 7 days is okay because 7 days to us could mean something different to God. (Why did they bother to say days in the Bible? Who knows!)

Since they are outside of time, then Jesus being born may have happened in the future, but to God he always was.

Then we get into the whole holy Trinity where they all are god but also not each other, and then you can justify anything.

That's what they crammed into my brain when I was a kid instead of science.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As long as they offer DRM free games I'll buy. No sense worrying now about something that may not come to pass. They're still a massive underdog who have seen epic and ea fail at stores, and they know their edge is DRM free

As soon as they give up DRM free I'll stop giving them money

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

For everyone here, this is true, and I'd recommend buying a couple drives for quick replacements. If you don't you're gambling that 1) a replacement drive will be available and 2) that it will be affordable.

Keep a few spares lying around while we get through the ebbs and flows of the market. As K said, a person is smart, people are dumb and panicky. If ssd and storage prices rise, people panic and our hdds will rise too.

Prep now and thank yourself later.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech -1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Hold on, you never said residents. If this was a neighborhood-wide push then I would be open to it. The neighborhood may have a good reason to say bus stop should be here or there, if there were many home owners asking for a change then that is something I would agree with. Maybe there's a coffee shop a block away that more people congregate at and it would be better used there, maybe people don't want to j-walk to catch their bus. Those are reasons that make it worth changing - for the good of the public and the neighborhood.

However, if it was one house then as I've said and stand by, I view it as selfishness. I see it as one person dictating how many others can or can not go about their time on public property, and trying to dictate to the city where they can or cannot put public services on their own land. I don't care if it was 70 feet or 700 feet, it's one person with a minor, tiny, insignificant change. I said this elsewhere and I stand by it:

They didn’t want to see them out their window? Deal with it. You want privacy? Close the curtains or pay to put up a fence. Someone is loud? They’re there for 20 minutes max until the next bus. Or what is most likely from the photo - they probably wanted a parking space there. I don’t see any reason to push to move it that wasn’t selfish.

The best reason I heard is that maybe it was an issue with how loud the bus was, that one may have credence. However, pushing it closer to the neighbor doesn't seem like a solution, and it seems like it should be a neighborhood discussion.

I'll say the noise factor is the first reason that I've heard could be a legitimate issue for the person living there, I appreciate that reason. If that was the case, then I would back it, but also I live ~1 block from the bus stop and I can hear the air brakes from my house through walls, so I would think they are pushing it to their neighbor's house instead of talking about the actual problem with the city.

I see there's still a pro version though, that's how Insomnia started and features have slowly been leeching to "pro only", is that a worry with this one?

because to me it's pure NIMBY-ism. Maybe it's because I'm a city guy, who is used to whatever going on around my home, but it's just a weird thing from my perspective to get upset about. I personally just don't see anything that's worth going to city council and complain about. To me I see a bus stop which from the image below looks like it's a very suburban street so we're talking a few dozen people a day, max. Whatever the reasons were in my opinion were selfish. They didn't want to see them out their window? Deal with it. You want privacy? Close the curtains. Someone is loud? They're there for 20 minutes max until the next bus. Or what is most likely from the photo - they probably wanted a parking space there. I don't see any reason to push to move it that wasn't selfish.

It's the city's property. It's on the city's sidewalk, it's for the city bus, and street parking is public funds for private vehicles. It's theirs to do with as they will. The homeowner has rights up to the edge of the property. The city has a duty to provide ingress and utilities to that property. To me it's the definition of Karen-ing.

People disagree with me. Fine, but I'm holding my ground. I call it selfish. Yeah it's 70 feet, but it all in my mind is "The city must change their plan and their property for my convenience"

 

I've been using Insomnia, but it seems they've enshittified. I started it up after an upgrade and found that Environments are now paywalled/behind an account. Is there a true open-source alternative to Postman/Insomnia anyone recommends?

 

Inspired by the post about cold-war era holiday specials, what creepy cartoons or claymations scarred you for life?

For me it was Twas the Night Before Christmas . The animation was too goofy and I swear my Megalophobia comes partly from the clock tower in that show. I don't know why but it made me so uneasy that even now large clock towers make me feel weird.

 

I'm very torn about it. Curious to here what others think

 

JeffTek, a small creator made "What Happened To Linus Tech Tips" last week, going over some of the public issues of the channel and it's falling out. (Main link on this thread, also here ) IMO very fair, straight to the facts, a bit of his own opinion in there, but he defended Linus on multiple steps too.

Linus catches wind and goes to R_ddit, putting the guy on blast for "rehashing things from the past". Not wrong... but weird for the CEO to do this directly in a Reddit thread.

JeffTek now responds to the comments in his latest video.

 

Unique ask, but I hope some folks here will help me out a bit. I'm talking with a youtube creator who focuses on waste in society, and they are interested in doing a youtube video on Windows 11 and the planned obsolence around ending Windows 10, and requiring the TPM.

Part of this that I'm pushing is the "Don't throw it out, install Linux". While I can describe a good amount, does anyone have any good resources that you recommend that I can forward on about what Linux is, and why someone may want to look into it? This would be for someone who is non technical - think an average Macbook user.

Appreciate any links or youtube videos or anything you may have stored away for this teaching Linux!

 

Currently I have random docs/how-tos for my network stored in a forgejo repo, just a bunch of READMEs. I'd like to somehow make that a bit more official, I like writing it in markdown/git and having source control, but was wondering if anyone has a good wiki tool they like that can consume that and make it more hostable? Thanks!

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/52920216

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Fairphone 6 in US (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)
 

My phone is definitely showing it's age, about 5 years old now, battery doesn't last more than 7ish hours. I've done research and if possible, I think I'd like to get the Fairphone. Does anyone have experience with it in the US? I know I'd have to import it, but using local carriers how well does it work?

 

A bit dumbfounded and just had to express it.

I had a 7 hour flight a couple of days ago and it had free wifi on the flight. Neat, I get to message people on the plane. However, I feel that for that long you still bring a book, or puzzles, or in my case I brought my Deck and played games for the duration of the flight.

The guy next to me though watched TikTok for the entire flight. 7 hours of constant stream of algorithm content to his face. I kind of understand why it's so addicting, it just keeps coming and coming with no end. I was just astonished with how he could keep going for 7 hours. An hour fine, it's a lot but we've all lost ourselves for an hour. 7 hours of constant feed though.

Idk, people come here to Lemmy and the Fediverse and say there isn't enough content. Well if 7 hours of content like that is expected it's too freaking much. If anything I feel I'm much healthier with social media now. Maybe they're angry because it feels more like a withdrawal.

No real point to this post beyond that. Just a very interesting thing to witness.

 

Dave & I don't always agree, but this was a good video. Admitting Windows coddles it's users too much, showing why Windows lost it's hardcore audience, and what it would take to win any of us back. (Not that that's likely, but what it would take)

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to c/movies@piefed.social
 

Coming up on the 20th Anniversary of the release, more relevant each year unfortunately.

Available to rent on Youtube and Amazon Prime

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