wreckedcarzz

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago

Add my hat to the “wtf does Disney make anymore?” club. I’ve never watched any SW, anything Marvel, I haven’t seen a Disney movie since VHS was the standard. I have friends who are very much into Marvel movies and even then I couldn’t tell you anything about any of the films, I have absolutely zero interest (there’s a guy with a circle shield with a star on it, I think?).

Hell, the only content I consume is stuff I find out about organically on my own; I’ve been enjoying my anti-advertising bubble for near two decades. I didn’t even know about a couple of these ‘big name’ studios running streaming services until a show I was actually interested in slid across my radar, and I’m like ‘the fuck, Paramount is doing this now?’. Disney I found out because people were bitching about yet another streaming service, otherwise I’d still be in the dark.

I grew up in peak Disney content time (90-00, everyone knew about the Disney Channel), and other than a handful of VHS films and Mickey Mouse, they might as well not exist to me. I’m sure there is a ton of stuff like that, where I just have no interest and with the lack of advertising I completely skate on by, none the wiser.

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago

Cue: “mysterious fires at Sony HQ, responders say likely many simultaneously acts of arson”

Fired bungie employees: “oh no! anyway”

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago

Yeah that’s me, hi. It’s not my fault you can’t even take the temp change when you sip on your pumpkin spice iced latte.

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago

It’s been a couple years since I tried the graphene camera, but (at the time) it’s essentially trash in comparison to the Google camera. I just use the gCam without internet permissions and call it a day.

But I’m not hardcore tin-foil ‘the NSA will use your office mirrors reflection to precisely heat up a 2mm space on the side of your phone that somehow enables Bluetooth and with that the G + glowy bois will exfiltrate your data at 10Kb/s’. I want additional security hardening and some privacy additions, but I also use the play services and store, like a typical user. Yada yada threat model yada yada - I just want my phone to simply function at the end of the day. Middle of the road, if you will, between stock os users and the guy that’s now boarding up all his windows because of the 2mm Bluetooth mystery vulnerability.

Unknown about the claimed AI features - my 8 pro is in transit. But I can check in a few days, if interested.

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago

So (having tried various distro for almost 2 decades now, but always reverting to windows) the two useful things as I read that are 1) not having to know thst some bullshit distro doesn’t use apt and you need to figure out wtf the package manager is because this distro is a special snowflake and they wanted to show the world by being a bitch and not using apt; and 2) direct from devs, which is nice and imo preferred.

But like… native packages mostly handled this? I’ve been watching from the sidelines for a few years as this happened and I’m still like ‘this is a solution looking for a problem, and adding complexity in the name of simplicity’.

Can I get a tl;dr on flatpak? I think it’s basically snaps but again ‘we can make this standard better! by creating another fragment to the available standards!’ which is just, ugh.

That kinda is (one of) the big issues with Linux, in my eyes - everyone thinks their shitty implementation is best, and this happens for everything, and so instead of having one standard for everything you have 53 and none of them get the proper dev time and so ‘I can do this better’ and now you have 54 standards and […]. Like, it’s cool to be able to patchwork together the special sauce of 18 distros manually, but like… There could be consolidation and then 1 would have the special sauce of 18 in a user-friendly iso instead of taking 35 hours to get working. As a user, I want shit to just fucking work, or be moderately easy to get. Adding more fragmentation to the space is doing a disservice to the whole community.

My thoughts.

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago

Weirdly enough, you didn’t say but drew the readers to that conclusion, hence my point for others.

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago

⚠️ Do not use the app as the only way to store your photos and videos.

immediately followed by

⚠️ Always follow 3-2-1 backup plan for your precious photos and videos!

now I don’t think I’m overly bright, but that doesn’t seem like advice to ignore

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago

I think you need a plex pass but am unsure, as I already paid the ‘lifetime’ sub before I added a tuner. I think so since the guides aren’t free (for plex) but it’s been a few years since I researched it all.

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago

Ye, this is one thing I did for the folks, so there is always new stuff even when I’m not managing it. They have like 20 shows they are slowly recording.

I got the HDHomeRun Extend, 2 tuners in one unit. Slap an antenna on the wall and boom, extra functionality.

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago

Pocket sand!

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago

No, that’s not how you make one

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago

Possible, sure. With these clowns, not a chance in hell. Now you show me a credible threat - not this nonsense - and I’ll get out of my chair and start shoving my cane up people’s asses with glee.

But this ain’t it chief.

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago

we [who?] got tired of you all [who?]

As I recall, the US waves their paper dick around and gets into shit its not involved in, because paper dick. The US gets into wars it can’t win, goes into countries where it has no business, occupies countries under the veil of “fighting terrorism” like its trying to police the world, all while the vast majority of elected officials are so stupid that they still believe their sky man is real and santa really does visit them.

The US is the annoying kid in class who tries to tell everyone what to do and starts drama with everyone. Wave that paper dick proudly, like it’s worth something.

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago

I am getting a strong sense of “I am French and why is nobody else rioting” from this.

But yeah country’s fucked, has been for way more than a decade. Nobody actually has the balls to do anything about it. The people who get elected don’t do shit and it turns into a kindergarten slapfest. Even at a young age I was like ‘wtf is actually happening’.

I’m just waiting for the boomers to die off. It won’t be the fix-everything solution but it’ll balance things.

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago

plan would perform a quick takeover of the entire U.S. federal government

Because that worked so well last time, didn’t it?

This reads more like “jesus is coming next year!” nonsense that has been repeated every few years. The insane people eat it up, nothing happens, and ‘oh no we meant next year’ rinse and repeat.

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago

Everyone is the main character in their own story.

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago

gives myself a billion dollars

oh shit it worked wtf

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

Needs more purple paint with sparkles, and some gold accents, also with sparkles. And spinners. Purple and gold for those, with sparkles, of course.

And hydraulics. See this jumping as it waits for red lights.

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago

Yes sir I see your 3 titty woman wallpaper but what are you ordering?

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago

Hey hey, Al Bundy has something here, a million dollar idea!

it falls over anyway but it is damn cool until it does

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago

grabs popcorn

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago

I did this on reddit for comments I knew would be a shitshow, just drop brutal fire, set to no notifications, post. Let the haters spew and I’m just kicking back on the next conversation.

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago

You can’t tell me what to do!

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago

I’ve only used Thunder, but it’s been just fine and I haven’t felt like I need to see what else is out there. I guess it could be more responsive with reply notifications and such but that’s pretty minor.

wreckedcarzz, 1 year ago

brb sanding down my suspension