CaptPretentious

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean, that's been an accurate statement for decades.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Currently I'm listening to "What It Means to Be Moral" by Phil Zuckerman on Audible.

I like how it contrasts why some people might do the things that they do based on their beliefs and what it can lead a person to do or not do. It doesn't force any conclusions on to you but it does make you think about things to come to your own conclusions.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean, that makes sense to some. But not reasonable for an average user. He just did a search for top rated, recommended routers and bought what all these crappy sites recommend. He tried to do the needful.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Not all routers are in there. Buddy of mine just bought a new TP-Link router and it's not listed.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago

This was the inevitable result even years ago. When self-driving cars were the hot topic and several companies were doing their own thing, that's when it should have been obvious it was never going to happen. It's not a problem any one independent company was ever going to solve, especially quickly. For to work it would have to be an open source, global standard with several companies working together.

I mean you'd have to build out a massive amount of infrastructure to further support it. All vehicles would have to have a module in it that would communicate with everything else around it, regardless if it was self-driving or not. There can't be a premium model, or a subscription, ect., it would need to just be there and work.

The overall task to get this done was never going to be quick, easy, or cheap. This was always going to be bigger than any one single company and a handful of engineers. It's going to take the effort of many companies and governments all working selflessly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yep! With apples new patent pending upgrade process, it's super easy!

You take the device that you want to upgrade and you throw it in the garbage and then you go to an Apple store and you pick up the upgraded model! It's so streamlined!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Oh please tell me Totoro was second! That it ended on a high note!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

These are not feel good movies at all but I think really send important messages. Not for kids, but at 16+ would be good. There's very important takeaway messages in both.

Grave of the Fireflies

Requiem for a Dream

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Dracula: Dead and Loving it. It's a comedy/horror with Leslie Nielsen.

Tales from the Dark side: The movie (I never watched the series, so can't comment).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I mean, yeah. If it was actually AI and not the "AI" we currently have... there's 2 possible options. It either tells us to immediately power it off and insults it's creators for ignoring the simple solution. Or, it creates terminators to get rid of the source of the problem.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Here's a bear, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G1aHkLHQ2I just leave it alone and it'll leave you alone is incorrect. And dangerous advice. Bears are unpredictable wild animals.

men are unpredictable

So women, are exempt, women are absolutely predictable? Cool. Totally NOT sexist. Also, hot take, but what's your stand on trans-men/women?... Are they predicable or not?

You also seem to imply that women aren't likely to abuse, sexually assault, straight up rape, or even kill ? Shit, i must have had bad luck, because I've been physically assaulted by most of the women I've dated, raped by one, and I've known countless women who'd joke directly to me "if he gets hard, he wants it... can't rape the willing". Cool, good to know I've just had bad luck...

And sorry, but people asked a question on the internet, where people chase trends and fades like mad... that's the data source. Unreliable.

It's sexist. I've proven, right there it's sexist. Potentially, transphobic. It's wrapped in false information, a false narrative. And then twisted at the end to try to sound like it's not, and it comes very much across like far-right PR spin.

 

This might not be the best place for this question but I honestly can't think of another place, but if you know of one please let me know. But I figured someone here might have the experience I'm looking for.

I own the discs for various Star Trek series and everything Stargate. What I'm trying to do is use handbrake to encode them to put them on Plex. But everything I try, it just looks worse. Is there a repository of like recommended settings for various media?

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