rumba

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I went from full piracy to legit (netflix, steam etc) just to be driven back to piracy,

I think most of us who were of job age did the same. $10 a month not to worry about disc failures, shitty updates and they have most of what I want to watch? HELLS YES. We were naive to think they'd keep it going. They're all trying to get up to that $100 per month per head cable price.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 hours ago

They are, however, absolutely thrilled that the smallest resistor package is now ~ 1x the plank length on the narrow side.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 hours ago

Location sensor would be a good minimum bar.

A custom card for your app that is just basically a iframe into your app with auth would also be pretty decent. Your version of a map looks really nice.

Maybe surfacing metrics of distance traveled or number of geolocations.

I'll have to install the app and play around with it to make other recommendations but those are the first things that come to mind.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

It was not Netflix. At a certain point Sony decided to strip the future from the PlayStation you didn't have to strip the future but you could no longer update the PlayStation.

Netflix was first to require a newer version of the OS but sooner or later every game and every streaming title would require you to update to play the latest version.

They stripped it under the guise of piracy, It did absolutely nothing to stop piracy. The most they accomplished was keeping you from making a ISO of a disc after a long convoluted Linux install.

There were already blueray drives on the market that could read them enough to produce an ISO. It's not like you could play any of the PlayStation games under Linux.

Furthermore, if you decided you didn't want to game or stream on it anymore you could have left Linux on it and if anybody was really pirating using that feature they would have just bought another one and played on it. The only person they f***** over in this scenario was the average consumer.

Well, I don't own shit from Sony anymore

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 3 points 17 hours ago (5 children)

I had two big screen TVs, receiver, PS3, audio gear, Dv cam. When they forced me to choose between disabling Linux boot on the PS3 or using Netflix just literally stripping away features I paid for, I never bought another Sony product.

They used to fill living rooms and be all over personal wear. Now they make an ok showing in what, mirrorless cameras?

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 17 hours ago

Does what's in the picture look like way more than 20k to anyone else?

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 3 points 17 hours ago

AWS has an r4.8xlarge 244gb ram with 32 vcores for $2.13 an hour If they can handle Linux. $2.81 an hour for windows.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 18 hours ago

Agreed, most of the actual problems seemed to be in reporting. I saw some cobol stuff that went to 1900. There were a few things where 00 wasn't an option, But mostly it was just really heinously written stuff that wasn't expected to be in service even in the '90s.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 19 hours ago

Choosing the right hardware is complicated. If you are transcoding 4K video on jellyfin you probably want a Nvidia 1080 or higher video card.

If you're running Intel, 10th gen and higher with internal graphics has some pretty good encoding efficiency so you consume less power for a lot more work done.

I'm still rocking a 7th gen i7 with a 2070 super. It still gets the job done for me.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Hopefully it's another Y2K nothing burger. (Which was largely because a lot of people prepared for it)

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 3 points 19 hours ago

Been in it since the web was a thing. I agree wholeheartedly. If people don't run auto updates and newbies will not run manual updates, You're just teaching them how to make vulnerabilities.

Let them learn how to fix an automatic update failure rather than how to recover from ransomware. No contest here.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 8 points 20 hours ago

So basically how to operate in most of the jobs I've ever had

 

Those aren't supposed to be round on top.

 

This one may indeed be a fever dream. I keep hearing whispers from social about mini-tanks showing up in US citites. And as horrifying as this is, I get a little chuckle when this image pops into my head of Shriners driving tiny tanks around in a march to war. I could have SWORN this happened in Futurama, but I don't see it in Ghost in the Machines (parade day), or War is the H Word, and I just can't place where else it would have been, well, unless I'm imagining it, which is absolutely reasonable.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

 

Could I make a little gun and just walk around through the parking lot and aisles of the supermarket and freeze all the carts in place?

 

I can remember the quote and voicing but no other details, can't place the episode

Something about flying around things trying to get somewhere

Professor gestures wildly with his hands left rightleft : "WooooWOoooWoooooo ... SAFE"

 

I just tooled around on sites for the top-ranked Futurama episodes, and no two media outlets even had similar lists. I was wondering what it would look like with a small group of diehard fans here.

Once the votes stop coming in, (assuming they start) I'll tabulate the results.

Just give up to 5 episodes in a comment and we'll see if any of the different outlets got it right.

**Update: **

8 Voters

25 Candidates

Assuming everyone's #1 is their best choice candidate and they decrease in order:

In a Ranked Choice Vote Single-Winner and Dual-Winner scenario, it takes 4 rounds and "Devils' Hands" takes first place. Luck of the Fryish takes second place with two.

I tried to recalculate it RCV style for a list of 3,4,5, but we don't have enough votes to make it work.

In other voting calculations:

Jurassic (4), Godfellas(3), and Devils' hands(3) won with the most overall votes.

Jurassic Bark won with the highest number of top votes after 2 rounds.

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