Blackmist

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Blackmist,

That’s DeWALT now. All rolled up into the Black and Decker-verse.

Blackmist,

No, there’s definitely an element of not speaking clearly.

Matthew McConaughey and Tom Hardy as examples. Chris Nolan gets shit on for his terrible sound mixing, but him picking actors who mumble is the main issue.

Put on a movie from 1980 vs one from 2020. The voice clarity is night and day.

Blackmist,

What about M3gan though?

Blackmist,

You dirty bird.

Blackmist,

So who builds it? Do you just get together with 40,000 of your friends and go “hey if everyone here chips in a million, we can compete with TSMC”?

Blackmist,

I guess it also helps when you already own all the land to put them on.

Blackmist,

That moment where you finally convince your boss it’s not worth fixing, and then you instantly think of a way to easily solve it.

Blackmist,

It would hardly be the first time.

I’d settle for “not actively supporting it” at this point.

Blackmist,

Google and Facebook in shambles.

Blackmist,

https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/6403b1d9-7aff-457f-aaff-72e5196ea428.png

Blackmist,

The golf course near me has spent the last month about a foot underwater.

I have never been so smug. I hope it’s ruined.

Blackmist,

It’s strange because Jellyfin claims to be able to extract and convert subtitles on the fly, and even has an option to disable that, but for some reason it’s choosing not to do it. There doesn’t seem to be a definitive list of what does and doesn’t work. You just play things and hope it doesn’t trigger the transcoding dance.

Kodi’s player does work (to an extremely impressive level, including DVD rips I made years ago), but I’m really not keen on the UI, dating as it does from before Android TV was a thing. All the buttons seem configured just differently enough from everybody else that simple things like checking how long a video has left, to backing out so you can finish watching tomorrow are borderline infuriating. I did get a keybinding editor for it, to make it so pressing back stops the video, but knowing all the functions is something that takes more knowledge of it than I have. I’ll probably get it configured eventually, but it’s annoying to start with.

The Jellyfin UI on the other hand is great. I love the detail on each film, all the cast and blurb and all that. It’s just the player is Exoplayer, and every limitation in that is now Jellyfin’s limit too. There does seem to be an option to swap it, but what with? I’m not sure what Kodi uses internally. Maybe it’s their own thing.

Blackmist,

I’ve got old PCs, but would rather have something that uses very little power rather than some ancient Athlon X2 running full tilt.

Those mini PCs are neat, but lack space for drives.

Blackmist,

Isn’t that exactly what most PS5 games do?

Blackmist,

Everyone gets a lootbox.

The lootbox contains one poor quality item.

You get it two years after launch.

Blackmist,

What do you think seafood sauce is? Sure, you can buy it in a fancy little jar, but it’s still 99% ketchup and mayo.

Blackmist,

Or when they ask for the 2nd, 5th and 8th letters.

Or have a max character length.

Blackmist,

Made three out of the top four grossing movies of all time.

I don’t really like any of them, but you can’t argue with the results. The man knows how to put bums on cinema seats.

Blackmist,

This haircut makes my eyes rain!

Blackmist,

OK, total personal income for the US is 21 trillion so you’ve raised $2.1t. 260 million adults. That’s about $8000 each. Can you live off that? I’m not sure I could and I own my home outright.

If it’s not enough to live off, it’s not UBI.

Blackmist,

That leaves 4000 dollars for rent

I think you can work out the next flaw in the plan for yourself.

Blackmist,

That’s OK. We’re only interested in white history.

Greeks, Romans, Vikings, tell me more.

Aboriginals and Aztecs? They’re just some guys squatting on that land we found.

Blackmist,

It would be a dangerous game if the politicians and their donors weren’t also playing it and rigging it in their favour.

Blackmist,

Poor motorists having only like 99% of infrastructure reserved for them.

So victimised right now.

Let’s take away railway sleepers so they can drive on the tracks.

Blackmist,

If popularity was all that mattered, McDonalds would have Michelin stars.

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