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@anonymous234 You forgot:
- Be able to choose what gets saved on your machine, and where.
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The walled garden is for your security
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BREAKING NEWS
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@hungrier Just more proof that Apple is all form over function...
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Don't rub your credit card against gas pumps. It's common sense, jeez.
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@MrL said in In other news today...:
Don't rub your credit card against gas pumps.
Why, does it makes it harder to get credit?
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@MrL said in In other news today...:
Don't rub your credit card against gas pumps.
Why, does it makes it harder to get credit?
I want to say yes.
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the lack of support makes XP a potential security risk
It's not a risk if you're the one doing all the hacking
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@AyGeePlus said in In other news today...:
Oh jesus, that guy is from a company that builds a food stamp app.
Seriously? He takes his work seriously enough to write in the bugtracker. That is, he puts in effort. I thought food stamp apps would be built by the lowest bidder, likely in India. They wouldn't report bugs.
Afaict it looks like his app sits on top of the actual system and is theoretically less shit. Apparently in some places to check your EBT balance you have to call a call center?
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@TimeBandit
I knew it all along, playing video games all evening long is ideal!
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@izzion I use f.lux to keep my blue lights in check during the day.
I share a bed with someone who watches TV in bed to provide blue light when trying to sleep.
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Remember Soylent? It's back! In burger form!
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@anonymous234 The world's first plant based burger? They said it was Impossible and Beyond the capabilities of science
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Unless they make a burger patty out of garlic and habaneros, I want nothing to do with plant-based burgers.
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@mott555 said in In other news today...:
Unless they make a burger patty out of garlic and habaneros, I want nothing to do with plant-based burgers.
you have my attention......
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@hungrier No, the world's first plant based complete burger.
As in you don't need to combine it with vegetables to stay healthy.
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@anonymous234 But vegetables are a part of a standard burger?
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@anonymous234 But vegetables are a part of a standard burger?
Vegetables are what food eats.
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@Vixen appropriate coming from a (near?) obligate carnivore.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@Vixen appropriate coming from a (near?) obligate carnivore.
There's a person on the internet who has ferrets, and periodically she feeds them butternut squash because they like it. It comes out completely unchanged by its time inside the ferret.
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@AyGeePlus said in In other news today...:
It comes out completely unchanged by its time inside the ferret.
And then she can feed it to them again!
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
@AyGeePlus said in In other news today...:
It comes out completely unchanged by its time inside the ferret.
And then she can feed it to them again!
knowing ferrets....... they would eat it too...... or roll around in it and attempt to smear it over anything and everything they can.
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
Is it healthy
Without RTFA, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and say probably.
and tasty?
That depends on your definition of tasty. Even rotten, moldy garbage is full of flavor. Whether the taste is pleasant is a different question.
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“Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” is on track to be one of the worst-reviewed films in the nine-picture saga.
Commentators who found the film underwhelming pointed to a number of problems: It answered some of the same questions and themes of past movies, according to the British Broadcasting Corp.’s Nicholas Barber; it was dull, according to Joshua Rothkopf of Time Out; and Entertainment Weekly’s Darren Franich called it a “zombie.”
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
“Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” is on track to be one of the worst-reviewed films in the nine-picture saga.
Commentators who found the film underwhelming pointed to a number of problems: It answered some of the same questions and themes of past movies, according to the British Broadcasting Corp.’s Nicholas Barber; it was dull, according to Joshua Rothkopf of Time Out; and Entertainment Weekly’s Darren Franich called it a “zombie.”
Then it ought to be a smash hit. Everybody loves zombies these days!
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
“Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” is on track to be one of the worst-reviewed films in the nine-picture saga.
Commentators who found the film underwhelming pointed to a number of problems: It answered some of the same questions and themes of past movies, according to the British Broadcasting Corp.’s Nicholas Barber; it was dull, according to Joshua Rothkopf of Time Out; and Entertainment Weekly’s Darren Franich called it a “zombie.”
Star wars part nine is formulaic and samey?
Let me fetch my fainting couch.
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@AyGeePlus honestly, better formulaic and samey than ruthlessly taking apart the things people liked about star wars like last time. Hopefully the explosions will look nice?
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@Magus said in In other news today...:
@AyGeePlus honestly, better formulaic and samey than ruthlessly taking apart the things people liked about star wars like last time. Hopefully the explosions will look nice?
Hate to tell you, but they managed to do both.
There was a large-ish extended universe in books, comics and video games, that they could have used for the sequels, most much more palatable than these new movies were.
I feel like the only point of killing Solo off and making a new script was to cycle the cast.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
Everybody loves zombies
Isn't that necrophilia?
It's not that kind of love, but a lot of people do confuse them.
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@AyGeePlus said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
“Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” is on track to be one of the worst-reviewed films in the nine-picture saga.
Commentators who found the film underwhelming pointed to a number of problems: It answered some of the same questions and themes of past movies, according to the British Broadcasting Corp.’s Nicholas Barber; it was dull, according to Joshua Rothkopf of Time Out; and Entertainment Weekly’s Darren Franich called it a “zombie.”
Star wars part
nineeleven is formulaic and samey?Let me fetch my fainting couch.
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@AyGeePlus said in In other news today...:
Star wars part nine
Starwars counting:
4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3 10, 11, 12, 7, 8, 9, 16, 17, 18, 13, 14, 15....
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@AyGeePlus said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@Vixen appropriate coming from a (near?) obligate carnivore.
There's a person on the internet who has ferrets, and periodically she feeds them butternut squash because they like it. It comes out completely unchanged by its time inside the ferret.
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I wonder how frequent this is?
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@Benjamin-Hall Probably fairly frequent among the bargain-basement website creator for hire set.
Or they might just be utterly incompetent and fail to pick a compatible set of libraries so that once any part gets a critical security update it all breaks anyway. It's hard to tell sometimes.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@Magus said in In other news today...:
@AyGeePlus honestly, better formulaic and samey than ruthlessly taking apart the things people liked about star wars like last time. Hopefully the explosions will look nice?
Hate to tell you, but they managed to do both.
There was a large-ish extended universe in books, comics and video games, that they could have used for the sequels, most much more palatable than these new movies were.
I feel like the only point of killing Solo off and making a new script was to cycle the cast.The first movie in the new trilogy was fine: it was there to reassure everyone that this wouldn't be another episode 1 situation. It left them open to do something cool for the second one. The problem is that afterward, they hired a guy to direct that who just wants to do what no one expects. Which is fine, and even a good thing in many cases, but he went too far and ruined a bunch of star wars things people liked, cut off all the paths forward and backward, and left things kind of stuck. I wish him luck elsewhere, but he wasn't great for star wars.
As for solo being killed off: Ford hates star wars and wanted out as soon as possible from what I've heard.
The reviews for this movie seem both promising and horrible so far, so I'm have to wait and see, but I'm seeing it today in a company outing for some reason, and I'm looking forward to seeing what we're in for. People have complained that it's overly complex and undoes a lot of things, yet it's boring and doesn't develop any characters. I can't wait to find out what that means.
The things that would make me happiest at this point are the RLM predictions of horrible time travel or an ewok death cult. But at this point, I kind of don't care what they show me, I'll probably enjoy it.
As for the extended universe, that had to die. It was making it impossible for people to make new movies because there was too much existing semi-canon to watch out for and avoid making impossible.
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@Magus said in In other news today...:
It was making it impossible for people to make new movies because there was too much existing semi-canon to watch out for and avoid making impossible.
the EU ALREADY had in place the mechanisms to let one create new movies. there were tons of stories to tell, ebcause the galaxy is a fucking huge place the EU never contained even a percent of a percent of all that happened.
and even if you did make a fist party movie that contradicted the EU, Movies are cannon. by definition in the EU, so any sources that contradict the movie and primary movie source books are either wrong, flawed retellings, or misinformation propaganda. no contradiction.
the only thing killing the EU gave them was a blank slate so they didn't have to do even a modicum of research into the EU to create stories that fit the gestalt. they preferred to be lazy and just create from whole cloth, and we've seen how well that turned out for them now didn't we? not bloody well.
oh and then there's Marvel's recent habit of tracing fan designs of ships for their comic books, blatantly stealing renders from artists in the fan community, calling them their own and giving no credit..... so that's fun too, not even slightly out of character for Disney given their history. In fact that's rather what one might expect of Disney.......
also what the hell? in what way was that appalling Starfortress doing in starwars? that thing was incredibly wasteful of materials and personnel, needed to get far to fucking close to the opposing capital ship to do its job, and was far too slow and poorly protected to be effective on the battlefield. there's no way it was better than a squadron of Y-Wings as a bomber. whichever admiral decided that the starfortress was a ship fit for combat should be shot, in the back of the head, by the men their stupidity killed and/or maimed.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@Vixen Well...
at least the starfortress matches the performance of it's terrestrial counterpart.....
THAT IS NO EXCUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! EVEN UGLIES WERE MORE FIT FOR COMBAT AND THOSE WERE LITERALLY DEATHTRAPS!
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
A system from when the relations between USA and Russia were the best in the entire recorded history, and so had the least reasons to put a backdoor that targets his government specifically? Doesn't sound like a bad choice.
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@Vixen I remember those. Those were cool.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
I wonder how frequent this is?
LOL! From the comments (+250/-6):
ETA: the only appropriate punishment for this crime is being sentenced to work helpdesk.
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Phone deals thread
That's $150 CAD. No idea if the same coupon code will work in other countries
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@Magus said in In other news today...:
The things that would make me happiest at this point are the RLM predictions of horrible time travel or an ewok death cult. But at this point, I kind of don't care what they show me, I'll probably enjoy it.
Still rooting for Darth Binks to be behind everything.
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@Magus said in In other news today...:
Ford hates star wars and wanted out as soon as possible from what I've heard.
He was also old enough to literally break a limb during filming.
They could have just cast someone else as Solo. But no, that would have been too practical.
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Okay I watched the star War.
It was dumb. There was a scene at the start that made me face palm and laugh, and the pacing was a bit too fast and things were too convenient. Cgi young Leia still looks dumb. There were cheesy throwback moments.
I liked it. It was a dumb adventure movie, and the dialog was almost too playful at times. I even thought we were getting a very Disney moment toward the end, which did not exactly happen because that's not okay in $current_year. But I liked it. It had fun explosions, was star warsy, space wizard fights, lots of space boats shooting color beams.
I recommend people see it. It isn't a cinematic masterpiece that will go down in history for its thought provoking and deep narrative. If you wanted that, why would you be paying to see star wars anyway?