i_stole_ur_taco

@i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony, which is making a Helldivers 2 movie, is also making a new Starship Troopers movie, but it's not based on the Starship Troopers movie we already have⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sony Pictures is rebooting one of their IPs?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I use winrar to compress 80gb of tv and movies. Then can I compress it further by making it an iso?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The short answer is no.

  You can do an easy experiment to see this using image files. Grab a random JPG file and open it in a graphics program and save it as a BMP format image.

  JPG is already compressed, and BMP is absolutely not compressed. Then try compressing each image. You’ll find that the JPG doesn’t get much smaller, or might even be a bit bigger when compressed. Now do the same with the BMP - that one makes for a smaller RAR!

  The main issue here is that compression is about removing empty space in a file (it’s a weak analogy but bear with me). If the file itself already had some kind of compression (basically every AVI or MP4 or MKV you download probably is already compressed), then there’s already a lot less empty space inside the file. RAR doesn’t have much empty space left to work with, so it can’t really reduce the file size any more.

  It’s worth doing some testing on a single movie to see how this all works. You’ll probably find that it’s best to just leave the files exactly the way they are. No RAR. No ISO. No tricks. The gains simply aren’t there.

  If you’re looking to save on some disk space with your movies, you’d get a lot farther by just deleting one movie you don’t really want that badly. The amount of space you get back from that will exceed your compression gains. It also means you don’t have to go and uncompressed the movies every time you want to watch one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I recommend you don't watch this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Guys I don’t think this is real. It’s possible AI was involved.

  If you look very closely, you’ll notice that Elon Musk looks young and is ripped. I don’t think that’s right.

  The rest checks out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just watched someone walk their cart all the way to the corral at the back of the lot rather than back to the store that was much closer.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Little did OP know that while they were watching this strange performance unfold, the other guy was sneaking up behind OP and stole their wallet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is it wrong/selfish to cut contact with my trump-supporting father?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Dad, I can’t do this anymore. You do you and I’ll do me and let’s touch base again in 4 years.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To whomever invented LED bus advertisements: I despise you.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Technical education opens doors, or your child.

  Please don’t open my child.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SLAY⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this like a prison teardrop tattoo for birds? Should I be cautious?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At the airport. The TSA thought my daughter's Hello Kitty carry-on was suspicious. [More in body.]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Guess how many bombs the TSA has protected people from.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is a stickup!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Uplemmingers? It’s called VALIDATION

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AT&T's CTO tells his US team there won't be 'one-for-one seating' upon the return to 5 days in office — read the memo⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My company is the same. I love when we all come together in person once a week to sit at our desks and put on our headphones and spend half the day on Zoom calls with our colleagues because they work at an office in a different city.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Lemmy is the Worst Social Media Platform I Use⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A+ shitpost

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Interesting analogy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect the real solution is somewhere between that and corporate land acknowledgements.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As the Canada "tax holiday" starts, Walmart increased the price of an item by the amount I would have saved⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Last week, a vendor sold an item for $10. With tax, that item costs $12. Let’s pretend a 50% markup (which is reasonable for retail but insanely high for groceries):

  • they made $5 profit
  • they recouped $5 for their costs
  • they collected $2 of tax for the government

  Now the government has a GST holiday and there’s no tax. I went to the store and bought the item and it still cost me $12.

  • they made $7 profit
  • they recouped their usual $5 for their costs
  • they collected $0 of tax for the government

  The main thing is that their costs for that item didn’t increase and they’re still selling it at its original ”final” price (because they added the tax amount to the sticker price). That tax savings went straight into profits. It was intended for the consumer to save money but the consumer is spending the same amount and the government isn’t getting anything. That money went somewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As the Canada "tax holiday" starts, Walmart increased the price of an item by the amount I would have saved⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Explain your math. It’s absolutely 100% benefit to the seller and 0 benefit to the buyer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨github issue⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “PRs are always welcome”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen players after giving Chris Roberts a month’s pay for a 400-meter Liberator-class carrier by Shitfuck Industries⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Really? I backed it what feels like over 10 years ago and still don’t have a finished game.

  Chris Roberts is the Elon Musk of game dev.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mama's boy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh, just a shopping complex near where I live…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not gonna lie, I kind of want this⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Where do my fingers go in?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I will vote for whomever bans happy birthday.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You just gave me opinions I didn’t know I held.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be happy if you woke up today and your throat didn’t hurt.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also:

  A bite on the inside of your cheek

  Canker sore on your tongue

  Broken baby toe

  Broken off splinter in your finger

  Sunburn

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨stars & sharks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They probably died off because they couldn’t use Polaris for navigation!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shopping website search is terrible⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Better yet, there’s sites that have filters you can set. So you set the wattage filter to 60w and then…. no fucking results. But if you clear the filter, there’s lots of results, because it turns out their entire inventory has a wattage of “n/a”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon's system marked an item I returned a year ago as not received and charged me for this return, but the chat bot already knew they had received it.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think companies understand that the words “we will make a one time exception for you as a courtesy” is the magic incantation to ensure that customer never returns.

  I got that from Staples last week because they did me a real solid by refunding my online order they cancelled instead of going to a store with ID and the invoice and original credit card. Who the fuck goes to a physical store to get a refund on an online order the company themselves cancelled?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨unwatchable!!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you eat a fang and it gouges into your skin and injects venom, did you eat it or did you get bitten?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whoever wrote this headline has never encountered a passenger train before in their lives⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  lol. They’re promoting their employee shuttle. Classic Felon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USA to be renamed to XXX⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but he’ll change every base unit to x, so now we measure acceleration in x/x^2 and volume is measured in x^3 and the highway speed limit is 80x/(x/60).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Those poor plants⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can tweak this metaphor and get plenty of real life examples. Cats are obligate carnivores. There’s been lots of morons who went vegan and decided their cats could be vegan, too. I’ll leave guessing the outcome of that as an exercise to the reader.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this normal?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you put regular detergent in a high efficiency washer?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facial Recognition⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I took photos at a friend’s wedding and most of the photos of his new wife had her wearing a lace veil.

  I dumped all the photos into Picasso (precursor to Google Photos) and it did its background facial ID on everything. Then it suggested more photos that might also be tagged as her.

  The extra photos were all just tables with tablecloths on them. It thought she was a tablecloth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Toot toot⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a manager once who had 3 small kids and he rarely caught himself when he excused himself from a meeting to “go potty”.