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- Comment on Hollywood Is Cranking Out Original Movies. Audiences Aren’t Showing Up. 1 day ago:
When I was a kid you saw it on the big screen or you waited several years for a truncated version to hit one of the three networks. Saw Star Wars in 1977 at 6-yo, didn’t hit broadcast TV until 1984.
- Comment on Adobe Deletes Bluesky Posts After Furious Backlash 1 day ago:
had to get picked up
Not sure what you mean. Just deliver the finished product?
- Comment on Torrenting is not allowed on Windscribe 1 day ago:
Meh. I turn it, pirate. Turn of off when I’m done. No issues unless I fuck up and leave the torrent running for 24-hours.
- Comment on Torrenting is not allowed on Windscribe 2 days ago:
Is spinning up your own out of the question? I pay $6/mo. for a Digital Ocean droplet. Installed OpenVPN server on it and I’ve been good to go for years. Their step-by-step documentation is the best I’ve ever encountered, seriously. Only got hung up on one tiny bit.
- Comment on Adobe Deletes Bluesky Posts After Furious Backlash 2 days ago:
For those that want Photoshop functionality and controls for free:
No idea why that site isn’t more well known.
- Comment on Krull (1983) - Mastodon watch party this Sunday evening! 3 days ago:
Beast Master FTW.
- Comment on What’s your favorite “flop” of all time? 4 days ago:
The Way of the Gun is fantastic.
- Comment on How do I pronounce "slava Ukraini"? 5 days ago:
Got that impression. She was definitely foreign, but I did hear enough to make a call. Also, I could not begin to guess her heritage by her looks.
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- Comment on Clothes company cannot "cancel" an order that hasn't shipped, must ship it and do a return. 6 days ago:
It’s a serious term in IT! One of those things that’s recognized as an issue, and then blown off IRL.
Think of paying down a monster credit card bill while living like a monk. Only same thing to do, but it hurts in the short and midterm. Long term, you gonna pay far more.
- Comment on Clothes company cannot "cancel" an order that hasn't shipped, must ship it and do a return. 1 week ago:
Bet something’s broken in IT. Some system can’t talk to some other system. In any case, something stupid is broken in logistics. A desk jockey decided return labels were cheaper than implementing the solution, and that might well be true!
Making shit up: The frontend can’t talk to the backend without an expensive addon, which is a monthly subscription, which has to be applied to 1,000 machines. They could unwrap all that and simplify, but now we’re talking a massive overhaul that drags in 14 other systems, costs 10,000 man hours and had some inevitable downtown.
“Fuck it! We’re sending return labels!”
And this kids is why tech debt comes with usurious interest rates!
- Comment on purpose 1 week ago:
Then do what you can to promote dragonflies.
(Don’t know how to better link this old comment.)
photon.lemmy.world/post/lemmy.world/19193004?thre…
tl;dr: Just read it.
- Comment on purpose 1 week ago:
Wasps are just fine. We’re recently learning their tiny brains have enough pattern recognition to recognize/remember a human face. Guess how they feel about humans screaming and waving and spazzing out? They never touch my pet pig, because he doesn’t hassle 'em. Let a nest grow under my front door, deliberately avoided looking at them, stayed chill. No problem.
HORNETS OTOH CAN DIE IN A FUCKING FIRE.
- Comment on ooo.ooo 1 week ago:
I was noticing him slowly dial back the makeup and fake colored hair late in his last admin. Somehow… the makeup returned. (with a vengeance)
- Comment on Max pulling THIS shit every time I finish watching Last Week Tonight 1 week ago:
Keep saying this, and no one has ever had a plausible answer: YouTube does not do that to me.
I watch lots of gun content, you would think I’d be overrun with right-wing horseshit, but that never happens. I get sane channels, apolitical, learning, legal and fun related stuff, like I like.
Here’s my front page this evening. All interesting except maybe some TV shows I’m not familiar with but have watched clips. Don’t think I’ve done much of anything to curate all that, just let YouTube decide.
The only time I remember the algorithm going nuts was after looking at survival gear and gas masks. LOL, quickly run down with crazier and edgier content. That could have been a rabbit hole, had to cut myself off before it got worse.
Maybe it has to do with my subscriptions?
- Comment on Today's lesson on threading a needle 1 week ago:
For large loop needles?
Here’s the real sauce: Hold the thread still and bring the needle to it. Most people who struggle are trying to poke the thread through the needle.
- Comment on Who needs to retire anyway? 1 week ago:
Forgot all that! Had though Harding was the one who knee-capped her, and it wasn’t even the knee.
- Comment on Tron: Ares - Official Poster 1 week ago:
Gillian Anderson may get my view, but in any case I’m not going to the theater.
- Comment on LinkedIn’s cofounder Reid Hoffman says seeking work-life balance is a red flag that you’re ‘not committed to winning’ 1 week ago:
a reality check for entrepreneurs
Yes. You gotta grind like hell to start a seriously profitable company. Had drinks at our company’s open house with a client who owned 3 or 4 small construction related businesses.
“You have to bust your ass for about 2-2.5 years to get a business rolling, then it mostly takes care of itself.”
- Comment on How chaotic gang of British 'geeks' launched one of most lucrative gaming franchises of all time [Grand Theft Auto] 1 week ago:
Scots sounds like:
"Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna’ be fooled again!”
- Comment on LEAVE SQUIDNEY ALONE 1 week ago:
Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!
- Comment on Why Do Sites Keep Shoving Features We Don’t Want Down Our Throats? 1 week ago:
You have the correct term, but that’s not exactly how it works. At my last job the CEO told the board that he intended to lose money building our staff, skills and core software products. They applauded him. (Oops, we made a profit on those years anyway, but the point stands.)
Fiduciary responsibility mainly means they have to make a good faith effort to protect and grow company finances. They have no obligation to drive the line up quarterly.
- Comment on Why Do Sites Keep Shoving Features We Don’t Want Down Our Throats? 1 week ago:
I’m one! Honestly don’t get the hate. There was a comment the other day that made me think the haters are phone users. Shorts work fine on a 47" TV, for me. Hate that you can’t turn the giant captions off on many videos, but the people I follow usually don’t do that.
For me, shorts are a thing I can scroll past once and be done. Is it painful on a phone for some reason?
- Comment on Should a movie released in 1995 be considered an "old" movie? 1 week ago:
Ah! Old temporally vs. old culturally. Thoughtful take!
- Comment on Should a movie released in 1995 be considered an "old" movie? 1 week ago:
Let me add 12 Angry Men to that list.
Had no desire to watch it, but people on reddit were flipping over it. Put it on late, figured I’d get to bed for work the next day. Nope. Glued to the screen for every second of it. You can feel the heat and physical closeness of the single room it all takes place in.
Didn’t think my Filipino wife would like it, maybe wouldn’t get the English. Nope. She was perfectly still absorbing it all.
Only thing that feels out of place is the old-timey, fast-talking 50s feel from some characters. OTOH, you could re-shoot the whole thing, almost word for word, and it would still be a masterpiece.
- Comment on Antony Starr is glad ‘The Boys’ is ending: “I don’t like seeing things outstay their welcome” 1 week ago:
lemmy is unusually respectful of differing opinions
Are we talking about the same lemmy?
- Comment on Antony Starr is glad ‘The Boys’ is ending: “I don’t like seeing things outstay their welcome” 1 week ago:
limited one season shows
That’s called a “mini series”. :)
And BTW, Shogun was the finest thing I’ve seen in years, maybe ever. My wife and I were drooling for the next episode, week in, week out.
I admit to prejudice. Watched the original mini series many times growing up, read the book three times. My wife’s half Japanese, really seems to dislike Japanese anything (🤷🏻), still loved every second of it.
- Comment on We are so cooked 1 week ago:
It’s always the lingering part. What was that one that fucked Houston not long ago? Sat on top of them forever. Hurricane Ivan was like that down here. Only a CAT-3 at landfall, but I listened to that freight train sound for over 10 fucking hours.
- Comment on Clean butt 1 week ago:
Installed one for my wife when she moved it, never used it. At this point I’ve forgotten it’s even there. Talk about old habits dying hard.
- Comment on Clean butt 1 week ago:
My wife blots with a bit of TP and tosses it in the trash can. Guessing plumbing is more sensitive where she’s from.
