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- Comment on Apple's USB-C transition is a confusing mess (and that might be on purpose) 2 hours ago:
They’ve just done this to create artificial value for the “Pro” models.
Correct. They found out professionals have money to afford premium hardware and software so you can charge them that. Perfectly reasonable way to make money.
- Comment on Apple's USB-C transition is a confusing mess (and that might be on purpose) 7 hours ago:
I’m sure we’ll find much evidence for hobbyists on Lemmy having different use cases from the general public but Apple wasn’t ever interested in supporting that niche at budget prices because there’s little money to be made there.
Regular person doesn’t need much offline storage because they download apps from the App Store, listen to music from a streaming service and sync photos to iCloud or Google Photos. Those people probably shouldn’t store their data offline either way because they won’t back it up properly. It’s another case of Apple treating general public like incompetent grannies but they’re kind of right about that.
- Comment on Apple's USB-C transition is a confusing mess (and that might be on purpose) 9 hours ago:
They let iCloud do the thing. Their computers don’t have that much storage.
- Comment on Apple's USB-C transition is a confusing mess (and that might be on purpose) 11 hours ago:
People discuss this as if they connected their phones to their computers more than once in the past 5 years.
- Comment on What TV series would you call some of the earliest examples of 'prestige' TV? 1 week ago:
Twin Peaks broke the episodic TV paradigm making way for longer stories being told via this medium. It still got loads of filler, especially in the second season parts without Lynch, but Rome wasn’t built in a day (/chuckles).
- Comment on Michael Bay And Sydney Sweeney Team On Movie Adaptation Of ‘OutRun’ Video Game At Universal 1 week ago:
If this exists only to capture that brief moment of bliss while driving along the coast to Passing Breeze, I’ll watch it.
- Comment on What’s your favorite “flop” of all time? 3 weeks ago:
I’m now at risk of becoming a Wachowski-explainer but I think actions scenes being this bad was either intentional or intentionally neglected. It got dumb at times because it expected you to suspend disbelief and all of us have trouble with that these days. 20 years of unserious media full of quips, 4th wall breaking and so on killed the child like wonder in many people.
- Comment on Bubble Trouble - An AI bubble threatens Silicon Valley, and all of us. 3 weeks ago:
The biggest lesson from The Big Short movie is that you can be right at predicting a bubble for years but politicians and financieers can stall until they exit the market and everyone else has to deal with the aftermath.
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- Comment on What’s your favorite “flop” of all time? 3 weeks ago:
And what a great nose rub to the studio it was! :)
I think the movie stands on its own however. I didn’t like Matrix 2&3 but Resurrections made them irrelevant. We got an ending to the story that included both Neo and Trinity and we got some ambiguity in place of convoluted lore, which is good for something as crazy as Matrix. It’s basically Matrix 1 reboot/remake that prevent another terrible follow-up. Making fun of CGI-heavy actions flicks was just a cherry on top.
- Comment on What’s your favorite “flop” of all time? 3 weeks ago:
I love me some cheesy Christopher Lambert movie. I watched all Highlanders after all. Added this to my watch list, thanks.
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There are some really good movies that flopped that are too boring to list so I’ll go with something more controversial. I really really enjoyed last Matrix movie. I’m 99% sure most people didn’t understand what it was.
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- Comment on What TV show were you highly excited for, but ended up quickly disappointing you? 3 weeks ago:
Lots of good series have a terrible first season. I don’t think it was salvageable due to how shallow everything was. It wasn’t bad necessarily, it was extremely mediocre with most of the world building consisting of adding mysteries writers didn’t know answers to. Most were just indifferent to it in the end, which something beyond disappointment.
- Comment on What TV show were you highly excited for, but ended up quickly disappointing you? 3 weeks ago:
There was a time where content wasn’t so abundant, people watch TV on the TV and marketing mattered a bit more. Back then you didn’t have 2137 sci-fi shows to choose from so you watched what you could.
Take Terra Nova. Released late 2011, Spielberg as an executive producer. Dystopian future, time travel to the prehistoric era, hint some dinosaurs. Hype. It was cancelled almost immediately after the first season due to how disappointing it was.
- Comment on The rise of ‘Frankenstein’ laptops in New Delhi’s repair markets 3 weeks ago:
Hackintoshes will be over soon unfortunately. A pity since that’s how I originally entered Apple ecosystem. ThinkPads with MacOS are bees knees.
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- Comment on 'Mickey 17' to hit streaming services after a disappointing month in theaters 4 weeks ago:
Oh, I thought it released already since it „appeared” on my media center last week in a very good quality.
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Pretty good movie with a botched ending. As a person in chronic pain I particularly liked how Pattison played that gentle, accepting attitude you get toward repeated trauma. Sucks the movie switched into Hollywood mode for the last part, it would be one of my all time favourites otherwise.
- Comment on Gen Z's safe space - Sick of Musk and Zuckerberg, Gen Zers are flocking to Tumblr 4 weeks ago:
This and clickbait. Both ware a race to the bottom for information and debate quality motivated solely by greed.
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