WormFood

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[–] WormFood@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

I love the lotr movies but even the extended editions can't fit in the nuances of all the supporting characters. this gets worse the later you get in the trilogy, the biggest victims probably being the ents, faramir, denethor and pippin.

my own personal pick is probably one flew over the cuckoo's nest, where they change McMurphy's crime from battery and gambling to statutory rape. that did not engender sympathy

[–] WormFood@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I will go to bat for the later seasons of Fargo, in particular seasons 3 and 5.

[–] WormFood@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

if displayport isn't backed by home media interests then why did they implement hdcp?

[–] WormFood@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

spotify pays me half a cent per stream, the profit margins for them must be fucking insane. and the music sounds like shit. I'd much rather people pirate it than support these leeches

if you want to support artists you like, buy the music, ideally on bandcamp. if you do have to steam it, Deezer at the very least won't vandalize the audio

[–] WormFood@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

About 10 years ago I worked at a company that had broken ground on a solar factory in the UK. The government cancelled subsidies for solar and they pulled out.

[–] WormFood@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

disco elysium is mostly driven by character and theme rather than plot. you're not expected to solve the mystery, the game is more interested in which sidequests you engage with, how you treat the other characters, and how you choose to interpret the story. the choices you make don't influence the mystery but they do influence the events of the mercenary tribunal, phasmid encounter and the final scene quite a lot. the tribunal is mostly about how well you did at the detective work and your relationship with Kim, whereas the phasmid encounter is about Harry's inner journey, then the results of both of these scenes filter through to the confrontation with the other cops.

I also think the game does a pretty good job of setting these expectations, because for most of the game you just think the hardy boys did it, instead the game works pretty hard to make you curious about other things and you end up just going through the motions of the actual investigation

the deserter is probably one of the weaker characters, he does feel like a plot device, but he's there to let the story connect the events of the game and harry's own personal journey directly and literally to the history and politics of revachol, i think that's probably why they decided to make him the killer in the first place

[–] WormFood@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

my understanding is that Mozilla paid good money for pocket and never made much from it

[–] WormFood@lemmy.world 63 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I know this is a meme but historians like Livy never used to let facts get in the way of a compelling historical narrative. obviously these sources provide a lot of useful information but taking them at their word is the equivalent of historians in the year 4000 trying to recreate 21st century life out of nothing but Joe Rogan podcasts

[–] WormFood@lemmy.world 67 points 5 months ago (11 children)

it is 2019, the 2060ti has 8gb of vram. it is 2020, the 3060ti has 8gb of vram. it is 2023, the 4060ti has 8gb of vram. it is 2025, the 5060ti has 8gb of vram.

[–] WormFood@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

I built my own nas back in the day and it is not worth it. trying to remember an the mdadm commands, setting up Cron jobs for scrubbing and smart tests, setting up email notifications if the tests fail, flashing the firmware on my hba, setting up dynamic DNS, fail2ban (later a private key whitelist), borg etc etc. it's not too bad if you're an experienced Linux user but it's still a lot of time out of your day, meanwhile if you're a new Linux user then you're basically just playing russian roulette with your data. building a jellyfin server is a good learning experience but for a nas I would pick an off the shelf appliance every time

[–] WormFood@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (4 children)

never had a Seagate drive last more than two years

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