Eh. Which one? I once had a $10 Nokia phone that ran Windows... 8? The mobile version, I mean. I got it for shits and giggles. It was cheap and I thought, no way could this thing be good. It actually surprised me. I ended up gifting it to a friend who needed a phone. I think he got like 2 years out of that thing.
Windows Phone before the iPhone was trash though. The old smartphones. Most of them were hot garbage. The iPhone cleaned house for a reason. Later Windows phones weren't bad, they just didn't sell.
I loved when Facebook took out a full page ad saying ATT was hurting small businesses. I love how Tim Cook introduced it. I'm paraphrasing, but he said something like "starting with iOS version whatever, Facebook will still be able to track you across the web via your iPhone. They just need your permission first." And he shows the prompt and shows that you can hit yes or no, or allow or decline, whatever it is. I actually have the setting that doesn't allow them to ask. They are allowed to make a case to you, but they can't track until you say yes or hit allow. And that's how it should be.
The thing is, people are looking real hard at what Apple is doing, and Apple is saying they're a privacy company. Their words are "Privacy. That's iPhone." But people are reporting that that isn't always the case. And now they have ads in Maps. They've had them in the App Store. They suppress apps that are free and only promote apps with recurring subscriptions. And I suppose that's their right, but the App Store itself is just so toxic these days. They're adding more ads. Those who say Google isn't an advertising company are straight up wrong, but they just remember when Google was a search company or an email company. Now they are an ad company. I'm wrong to say Apple is a computer company. They're a phone company now. It's close enough that I'm not being disingenuous. One day they may be an advertising company, too. But that's what people want. People buy phones from the advertising company over the phone/computer company for whatever reason. I'm not saying Apple is struggling. They're not. But they're following the money.
There's a user on Lemmy (I forget what instance and the name of the user/comm escapes me right now) but they just blog on their own comm, which shares their name IIRC, and anyone can reply to them. I've replied a couple times and they don't always respond (and I wouldn't expect them to; I don't respond to a lot of replies to me), but when they do, it's usually a pleasant experience.
You might be wondering how you get subscribers. A lot of us just browse /all, so we see everything. (I've since learned how to hide NSFW comms/posts and that's made my experience better. YMMV. I wish I could still see NSFW discussions; I just don't need to see porn of girls who look 15, and guys who try to get other guys to look at their junk — it's usually one or the other, and neither appeals to me at all. So not everything.)
I like the effort they put into the death face in the remake. I thought they were both pretty forgettable, but I'm not a big fan of horror. Everyone caught the second death face, when the mother recounts finding her daughter in the closet. There's another one, during the cold open, but if you blinked or looked away, you'd miss it. The girl who died goes up the stairs and puts her hand on a door, then you get the title card, unless you didn't blink, in which case you saw it switch to a POV inside the room, and rapidly zoom in on the door as she opens it, and her face turns green and elongates unnaturally. This particular image haunted me for a while. At one point I had a production still from the scene which is zoomed out a bit. The shot does not exist in the movie; it looks like it was a photograph somebody took on the set. Anyway, I don't recall the original going that hard. Also, Daveigh Chase. She was adorable, so she was a tragic villain, not just a scary one. I think the remake humanised her a bit more. Otherwise, the remake felt "safe", whereas Japanese horror from back then was kinda edgy and gritty.
Running a 'brew upgrade' as we speak. Just checked, Terminal is still running it.
Any opinions on BrewUI vs CaskHub (or similar)? I quite like the look of CaskHub, and my first impression of BrewUI (from Homebrew's site) was "ew, no dark mode?". I'm not sure if that's accurate and they only had the one screenshot, so maybe there is a dark mode, but it didn't exactly put its best foot forward. I will say I appreciate its minimalist design. But I have CaskHub and that works great, so no need to add a second GUI for it here. But a good step for those who don't have a GUI for it and may be less comfortable with the Terminal and/or would like a visual representation of apps it's offering.
The perception of viability of the "Thanos solution" (snap your fingers and a literal random half of every population ceases to exist) depends almost entirely on which side of the snap you find yourself on. Those for are banking on their survival. They don't care about yours.
There are, of course, a few who do want to be eliminated by the snap. They don't want to be in the resulting world, and death by snap is completely painless by any account. You simply cease to be. The only issue is you see it coming, so you have a moment to reflect. But nobody seemed to suffer for it. Just the ones who were left mourned the lost.
There's also the proposition made by The Leftovers (a TV show on HBO), that if you remove just 3% of the population, the world changes drastically. However, in that scenario, it was only on Earth, and it was only humans and, IIRC... birds? Every other population was not culled at all.
(Note that the video that autoplays in the background is slightly NSFW.)
They sound fun, and they're on streaming services (at least, Apple Music), so I'm gonna have a listen up there. I care a lot more about music than I do about photography... though, that's more to do with me sucking at the latter than not appreciating what others do, which I definitely do. But yes, as someone already said, stage lighting at concerts can be very hostile toward equipment. I figure it's either going to be too dark, or it's going to put the light in a place that looks good to fans but isn't conductive to good shots.
Right. I still pay for streaming music because music is still generally all available on each service. If you pay for Apple Music or Spotify, you pretty much get everything. Exceptions generally happen across all services, and they're rare. Country artist Garth Brooks, great example. He was briefly on Amazon Music for a minute, but AFAIK isn't on any streaming service. Most stuff most of us like, if it's on one of the big music streamers, it's on all of them. I still prefer to acquire FLACs of what I really like. I have most of my favourites on my Plex server. I also have them on my desktop PC. And I have them on an old Android phone's SD card.
I could go fully offline with my music, but I don't want to. I love music and I don't mind paying. If movie/TV streaming had the same idea, I'd support that, too.
I think a better example of your situation was exactly what happened with Yellowstone. That was made by Paramount, but it wasn't available on their streaming service, because they wanted it exclusive to their cable TV channel. That's why all the stupid spinoffs exist, because thoseare on the streaming service. Paramount owns all of it but it can't put all the Yellowstone content in one place. Personally, I liked it until Kevin Costner dipped out. I'm curious about some of the newer spinoffs, but the whole situation has just left a bad taste in my mouth, and there's better stuff out there. Also, Taylor Sheridan's work has gotten so diluted over the years. He spread himself too thin. His movies, Hell or High Water and Wind River still hold up, as do the first couple seasons of Yellowstone (I'd say, until the big assassination attempt season ending). None of the spinoffs I've seen were very good. I watched the first standalone, and the first season of the second one (both named after years).
It's crazy because if they allowed savvy users to cleanly opt out of everything, they'd still make a killing. Smart users who block ads and resist advertising and incentives have never really been a problem for companies. They aren't being targeted for the most part, they just don't want most people getting out of their web.
I also don't fully blame the companies. Consumers not only allowed this, they actively campaigned for it. For every company that has tried to push privacy, the Internet/populace has pushed back. Those of us who care are having to lie in the bed made by the rest because those companies that promoted privacy are starting to learn they have to adapt or survive. 15 years ago we literally had a phone made by a computer company and a phone made by an advertising company, and the right one didn't win... so now it's just following the trends the consumers demanded.
This same group actually has a bunch of songs parodying popular songs from the point of view of various horror icons. There are a bunch of good ones. The videos are decent, too.
This. Specifically, if you want to do things like sync playlists and listen stats between different devices (e.g. Android, iOS, Windows, macOS), you want a dumb client that connects to a server that handles all that. I do it on Plex but Navidrome looks awesome.
If that’s all it is, the book more or less covers that bosses and other NPCs are recycled and have their memories tampered with. The book goes more into this later. They could be from any season/planet, too.
She works well with Mike but in a different way. It’s like Sammy Hagar and David Lee Roth. Both great singers for Van Halen but very different; almost incomparable. But in both cases, the band can be enjoyed equally with either singer.
They could almost justify the $100 price tag on GTA 6 if they were treating their employees fairly; instead, they’re union busting?
Companies need us more than we need them. No one needs a new video game, especially not at nearly double the going rate, with everything going up and then laying off workers.
But let’s unpack this bullshit right here. Everything is going up. Someone wants to download something for free because they’re getting squeezed on all sides. So let’s not only charge them for content that’s already been paid for and made all its costs back, we’ll bump up the price every year or so, and use that money to advertise our rising price service to people who are struggling to make ends meet rather than just lowering the price.
That’s without even getting into who owns Paramount and what their politics are.
Eh. Which one? I once had a $10 Nokia phone that ran Windows... 8? The mobile version, I mean. I got it for shits and giggles. It was cheap and I thought, no way could this thing be good. It actually surprised me. I ended up gifting it to a friend who needed a phone. I think he got like 2 years out of that thing.
Windows Phone before the iPhone was trash though. The old smartphones. Most of them were hot garbage. The iPhone cleaned house for a reason. Later Windows phones weren't bad, they just didn't sell.
Really?
Do better.
I loved when Facebook took out a full page ad saying ATT was hurting small businesses. I love how Tim Cook introduced it. I'm paraphrasing, but he said something like "starting with iOS version whatever, Facebook will still be able to track you across the web via your iPhone. They just need your permission first." And he shows the prompt and shows that you can hit yes or no, or allow or decline, whatever it is. I actually have the setting that doesn't allow them to ask. They are allowed to make a case to you, but they can't track until you say yes or hit allow. And that's how it should be.
The thing is, people are looking real hard at what Apple is doing, and Apple is saying they're a privacy company. Their words are "Privacy. That's iPhone." But people are reporting that that isn't always the case. And now they have ads in Maps. They've had them in the App Store. They suppress apps that are free and only promote apps with recurring subscriptions. And I suppose that's their right, but the App Store itself is just so toxic these days. They're adding more ads. Those who say Google isn't an advertising company are straight up wrong, but they just remember when Google was a search company or an email company. Now they are an ad company. I'm wrong to say Apple is a computer company. They're a phone company now. It's close enough that I'm not being disingenuous. One day they may be an advertising company, too. But that's what people want. People buy phones from the advertising company over the phone/computer company for whatever reason. I'm not saying Apple is struggling. They're not. But they're following the money.
No, the one I'm thinking of has a shorter name than that, but I'm sure there are lots of good examples.
There's a user on Lemmy (I forget what instance and the name of the user/comm escapes me right now) but they just blog on their own comm, which shares their name IIRC, and anyone can reply to them. I've replied a couple times and they don't always respond (and I wouldn't expect them to; I don't respond to a lot of replies to me), but when they do, it's usually a pleasant experience.
You might be wondering how you get subscribers. A lot of us just browse /all, so we see everything. (I've since learned how to hide NSFW comms/posts and that's made my experience better. YMMV. I wish I could still see NSFW discussions; I just don't need to see porn of girls who look 15, and guys who try to get other guys to look at their junk — it's usually one or the other, and neither appeals to me at all. So not everything.)
I like the effort they put into the death face in the remake. I thought they were both pretty forgettable, but I'm not a big fan of horror. Everyone caught the second death face, when the mother recounts finding her daughter in the closet. There's another one, during the cold open, but if you blinked or looked away, you'd miss it. The girl who died goes up the stairs and puts her hand on a door, then you get the title card, unless you didn't blink, in which case you saw it switch to a POV inside the room, and rapidly zoom in on the door as she opens it, and her face turns green and elongates unnaturally. This particular image haunted me for a while. At one point I had a production still from the scene which is zoomed out a bit. The shot does not exist in the movie; it looks like it was a photograph somebody took on the set. Anyway, I don't recall the original going that hard. Also, Daveigh Chase. She was adorable, so she was a tragic villain, not just a scary one. I think the remake humanised her a bit more. Otherwise, the remake felt "safe", whereas Japanese horror from back then was kinda edgy and gritty.
I watched the original afterward.
Running a 'brew upgrade' as we speak. Just checked, Terminal is still running it.
Any opinions on BrewUI vs CaskHub (or similar)? I quite like the look of CaskHub, and my first impression of BrewUI (from Homebrew's site) was "ew, no dark mode?". I'm not sure if that's accurate and they only had the one screenshot, so maybe there is a dark mode, but it didn't exactly put its best foot forward. I will say I appreciate its minimalist design. But I have CaskHub and that works great, so no need to add a second GUI for it here. But a good step for those who don't have a GUI for it and may be less comfortable with the Terminal and/or would like a visual representation of apps it's offering.
The perception of viability of the "Thanos solution" (snap your fingers and a literal random half of every population ceases to exist) depends almost entirely on which side of the snap you find yourself on. Those for are banking on their survival. They don't care about yours.
There are, of course, a few who do want to be eliminated by the snap. They don't want to be in the resulting world, and death by snap is completely painless by any account. You simply cease to be. The only issue is you see it coming, so you have a moment to reflect. But nobody seemed to suffer for it. Just the ones who were left mourned the lost.
There's also the proposition made by The Leftovers (a TV show on HBO), that if you remove just 3% of the population, the world changes drastically. However, in that scenario, it was only on Earth, and it was only humans and, IIRC... birds? Every other population was not culled at all.
If anyone's as curious as I was: https://chanpanmusic.com/
(Note that the video that autoplays in the background is slightly NSFW.)
They sound fun, and they're on streaming services (at least, Apple Music), so I'm gonna have a listen up there. I care a lot more about music than I do about photography... though, that's more to do with me sucking at the latter than not appreciating what others do, which I definitely do. But yes, as someone already said, stage lighting at concerts can be very hostile toward equipment. I figure it's either going to be too dark, or it's going to put the light in a place that looks good to fans but isn't conductive to good shots.
Okay, I haven't gotten that far yet. This Inevitable Ruin is the seventh book. I'll be there soon enough. :)
Right. I still pay for streaming music because music is still generally all available on each service. If you pay for Apple Music or Spotify, you pretty much get everything. Exceptions generally happen across all services, and they're rare. Country artist Garth Brooks, great example. He was briefly on Amazon Music for a minute, but AFAIK isn't on any streaming service. Most stuff most of us like, if it's on one of the big music streamers, it's on all of them. I still prefer to acquire FLACs of what I really like. I have most of my favourites on my Plex server. I also have them on my desktop PC. And I have them on an old Android phone's SD card.
I could go fully offline with my music, but I don't want to. I love music and I don't mind paying. If movie/TV streaming had the same idea, I'd support that, too.
I think a better example of your situation was exactly what happened with Yellowstone. That was made by Paramount, but it wasn't available on their streaming service, because they wanted it exclusive to their cable TV channel. That's why all the stupid spinoffs exist, because those are on the streaming service. Paramount owns all of it but it can't put all the Yellowstone content in one place. Personally, I liked it until Kevin Costner dipped out. I'm curious about some of the newer spinoffs, but the whole situation has just left a bad taste in my mouth, and there's better stuff out there. Also, Taylor Sheridan's work has gotten so diluted over the years. He spread himself too thin. His movies, Hell or High Water and Wind River still hold up, as do the first couple seasons of Yellowstone (I'd say, until the big assassination attempt season ending). None of the spinoffs I've seen were very good. I watched the first standalone, and the first season of the second one (both named after years).
It's crazy because if they allowed savvy users to cleanly opt out of everything, they'd still make a killing. Smart users who block ads and resist advertising and incentives have never really been a problem for companies. They aren't being targeted for the most part, they just don't want most people getting out of their web.
I also don't fully blame the companies. Consumers not only allowed this, they actively campaigned for it. For every company that has tried to push privacy, the Internet/populace has pushed back. Those of us who care are having to lie in the bed made by the rest because those companies that promoted privacy are starting to learn they have to adapt or survive. 15 years ago we literally had a phone made by a computer company and a phone made by an advertising company, and the right one didn't win... so now it's just following the trends the consumers demanded.
This same group actually has a bunch of songs parodying popular songs from the point of view of various horror icons. There are a bunch of good ones. The videos are decent, too.
This. Specifically, if you want to do things like sync playlists and listen stats between different devices (e.g. Android, iOS, Windows, macOS), you want a dumb client that connects to a server that handles all that. I do it on Plex but Navidrome looks awesome.
If that’s all it is, the book more or less covers that bosses and other NPCs are recycled and have their memories tampered with. The book goes more into this later. They could be from any season/planet, too.
Bedlam Bride (6)? I’m finding it to be pretty dark. Butcher’s Masquerade (5) had its moments, too.
Vertical video format confirmed. “You guys have phones, don’t you?”
She works well with Mike but in a different way. It’s like Sammy Hagar and David Lee Roth. Both great singers for Van Halen but very different; almost incomparable. But in both cases, the band can be enjoyed equally with either singer.
They could almost justify the $100 price tag on GTA 6 if they were treating their employees fairly; instead, they’re union busting?
Companies need us more than we need them. No one needs a new video game, especially not at nearly double the going rate, with everything going up and then laying off workers.
It’s actually an ad and marked as such.
But let’s unpack this bullshit right here. Everything is going up. Someone wants to download something for free because they’re getting squeezed on all sides. So let’s not only charge them for content that’s already been paid for and made all its costs back, we’ll bump up the price every year or so, and use that money to advertise our rising price service to people who are struggling to make ends meet rather than just lowering the price.
That’s without even getting into who owns Paramount and what their politics are.