[-] ramble81@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

I often times wonder if an extraterrestrial threat would be a unifying factor or if people would still be selfish unless it affected them. The pandemic was the closest we've seen to a world level threat recently and it just increased selfishness IMO (at least in the US)

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Was just watching Jack Ryan Season 3 and seeing the display of force and their movements causes some interesting dissonance given what we know now.

[-] ramble81@lemmy.world 80 points 1 year ago

Control is another thing. I can't tell you the amount of execs I've heard say "they're losing control of their company" or "I don't feel I have the same control over my people". It's crazy that they think that. What do they think the past 3 years have been when they've gotten record profits "oh, but our profits would be even better if we had people back in the office". Sadly no amount of data will override the entrepreneurial "it could always be more" what if that they throw out.

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Does anyone know of a digital player or Android app that supports DVD ISOs to include the menus and chapters? I've found quite a few that can handle BD and UHD ISOs but any that support DVD ISOs are janky at best. I have a large number of DVDs I want to back up and not convert them to MKVs because I want the menus and extras too.

[-] ramble81@lemmy.world 50 points 1 year ago

Ironically Sync can block entire instances.

[-] ramble81@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago

I live dangerously. I have it set to show NSFW and to not blur it in my feed. Give me all of Lemmy unfiltered.

[-] ramble81@lemmy.world 143 points 1 year ago

Gee, take your pick: you have the bad rebranding, the yanking and cancellation of some of their best shows (seriously, Westworld? You owned it!), cancelling already completed movies (Batgirl) or raising the price and removing 4k as a default among other things.

I thought musk was doing a Speedrun on how to kill a company but didn't realize he had competition.

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Anonymous Account (lemmy.world)

So when first launching Sync, it has a default of anonymous browsing on lemmy.world and then you can add an account for any instance you have a log in on. Is there a way to add anonymous accounts on other instances so you can browse their local communities without posting?

[-] ramble81@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

Unlike the GOP is already doing via Russia troll farms?

[-] ramble81@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

Easy to confuse stupidity with malice. They're chasing one thing and one thing only: the almighty dollar. Look at it through that lens and their actions make sense. For the rest of us though, that's just stupid.

[-] ramble81@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Saw this in a news article: The monthly principal payments on a $1M note at 3% is equal to the monthly payments of a $500,000 note at 9%.

So a 6% jump in interest rate effectively halves your buying power. Of course people aren't going to sell their houses if they don't have to.

Edit: got my percentages 1 point off.

[-] ramble81@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago

Ah Slackware, the first time that I learned software could damage hardware. It has the option to also configure hsync on your CRT monitor, and if said monitor didn't correctly validate the range it would permanently fuck it up.

[-] ramble81@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

Just start posting screenshots of the sexually explicit parts of the game and see how Reddit responds about taking away NSFW status.

[-] ramble81@lemmy.world 105 points 1 year ago

I'm fully behind the moderators and read their well crafted response, but the admins are going to nitpick the definition of "sudden" and kick out all the mods. /r/pics was one of their highest ad revenue boards and they can't let that happen.

[-] ramble81@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago

Doesn't work when you don't type it out correctly. It's interpreting the "m" as million and "in" as inches. Use "m to ft" to get it every time

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