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by funimpoded 4mo ago
That might make room for Apple to finally try. The AppleTV is already in a similar tier to modern consoles, as far as specs and benchmarks go. Most of what's missing is a first-party controller and a marketing push. Disk space is tight
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by funimpoded 4mo ago
BeOS was way, way snappier to use on the same hardware than Linux (or Windows) no matter how much you trimmed down your (GUI) Linux. IDK what scheduler voodoo they were doing, but it was awesome. Only things I've seen that achieved som
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by funimpoded 4mo ago
It’s a famous phrase coined by McLuhan. He means that the form of a medium determines the kind of overall message it delivers. A case of scrolls carries a different message from a bound codex collecting those same scrolls, and so on. Whatev
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by funimpoded 4mo ago
> If you strip social media down to its essential parts it's simply a multimedia communications and networking paradigm. Nothing ontologically good or evil about it. “The medium is the message”. This stuff’s been around long enough
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by funimpoded 4mo ago
Dunno how it is these days, but that reads like Android roughly 2012-2020. I once found a looooong bug report thread on their issue tracker 7ish years old that had all the usual waves of promises that a fix might make the next release, then
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by funimpoded 4mo ago
You’ll need an under-25 who’s both used some of these enough to really understand them, and has watched others of mixed expertise levels use them, to get a meaningful opinion. Screenshots don’t cut it, for the same reason as why modern UIs
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by funimpoded 4mo ago
> I agree with everything you've said, but don't you think quite a lot of things have also been like this before, just to a lesser degree? That’s exactly the reason LLMs and friends are so dangerous to companies, and it’s so ha
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by funimpoded 4mo ago
I increasingly see “AI” as a sort of virus tuned to target management, specifically. Its output is catnip to them, and it’s going to be unavoidable for those who want to look good to superiors and peers (i.e. the #1 priority for managers)
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by funimpoded 4mo ago
It reminds me of how movie special effects making-ofs got super boring when most of the work started being done with computers end-to-end. But with everything.
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by funimpoded 4mo ago
“You want to play house, you got to have a job. You want to play very nice house, very sweet house, then you got to have a job you don't like. Great. This is the way ninety-eight-point-nine per cent of the people work things out, so be
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by funimpoded 5mo ago
> at the same time it's unbelievably sad that in recent years about 70% of the movies i saw at a cinema were multiple decades old. There are literally thousands of good movies released between ~1890 and last year. It’s improbable mo
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by funimpoded 5mo ago
Lots of these franchise-connected series are flabby as hell. Netflix’s marvel series were almost all very bad about this, but so are most of the Disney Marvel series. On the Star Wars side, whatever positive qualities they may exhibit, Asok
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by funimpoded 5mo ago
> I don't think it's that compelling to say "obviously no one wants to be on Instagram and they're getting manipulated into it." ...yeah they do! The question is can you make a compelling case that spending time
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by funimpoded 5mo ago
Funny, the deeper I get into film the more I respect how much the original trilogy does really well. Especially the first two, Jedi’s got some “I have a story I want to tell a certain way but am stuck with more characters than I need and re
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by funimpoded 5mo ago
> Disney can do whatever it wants if it restores and releases a 4K version of the theatrical cuts of the original trilogy, something the fan base has wanted for decades at this point. I won't hold my breath. We have 4k77 and the fol
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by funimpoded 5mo ago
TLJ was almost great, but clearly needed to see Rey go dark at the end, while Kylo turns away from the dark side, and we get a role-reversed third movie. It was heading there so clearly that I have to think juking and doing the obvious, b
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by funimpoded 5mo ago
Yeah, questions I have: 1) what’s the effect for countries with humane amounts of paid leave (e.g. France’s 7ish weeks plus ten or so holidays) and working hours; and 2) so how about, you know, the idle rich ? Should we be forcing them to