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BrooklynMan

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designer of experiences, developer of apps, resident of nyc, citizen of earth

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BrooklynMan,
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I also like Dan Stevens. I was really surprised to hear that he was cast, but given his talent and how great he was in those two very different roles you mentioned, I think he’s probably going to be a lot of fun as Korvo. I look forward to seeing it!

BrooklynMan,
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we frequently see crew members drinking (often coffee) in scenes in TOS. props were often a typical styrofoam cup painted a bluish-grey.

BrooklynMan,
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Gibson was correct about much of our education system and Galileo was certainly right about the consequences of overvaluing mediocre wit that merely happened to well-timed. what neither of them had to content with, however, was the internet and how social media can combine the inability to reason critically and mediocre wit with crippling insecurities and anti-social personalities to what should be predictable results.

a least Gibson understood that a technocratic future didn’t imply that people’s lives would necessarily improve.

BrooklynMan,
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Who the *uck wants to send an X?

douchebag edgelords who use the ‘X’ as a dog whistle for a swastika

ya, know, people like musk

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watching that dude pull out the plastic cylinder with that spindle of platters that probably had a storage capacity of maybe 30MB while the narrator brags about the transfer speed of a blazing 1.5MB/s… awww…

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well fuck that! i’m so sorry that happened to you!

you don’t need anyone’s permission to be yourself. ❤️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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oh, damn. i was really hoping Apple would ignore this or do something “Apple” with it like somehow making it create something interestingly useful yet benign. now I’m concerned they’ll do something I won’t like.

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the quidditch metaphor is particularly apt. in the game, while the seekers are chasing the golden snitch (which is mostly separate from the main game), the rest of the players - the chasers and the beaters - are busy trying to score goals by getting the quaffle through the rings at each end of the pitch. and (as we read in the books) since quidditch games can last days or even weeks, catching the snitch doesn’t necessarily guarantee a win as, during that time, the opposing team may have scored enough points to offer the snitch’s 150-point value.

and, while the seekers represent billionaire CEOs like musk, the beaters and seekers scoring goals represent the managers and laborers trying to make a profit.

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oh, apparently I did know, lol

BrooklynMan,
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i used Atom for years until they suddenly stopped development. Pulsar is a fork of that project.

i use it for low-level code editing like bash scripts, js, and markdown document editing. some json and html.

BrooklynMan,
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Davinci Resolve originally ran on SGI and Sun graphic workstations, which ran IRIX and SOLARIS respectively, both System V UNIX-based OSs. It’s pretty cool that they’ve maintained *nix-based support all of these decades.

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yeah, having 30 years of Photoshop experience and then being told I have to learn a whole new tool that looks and works completely differently? it took a very long time to become a master of this one tool. now I have to completely re-learn and re-master a new one?

no thanks.

not to mention that GiMP is just a pain in the ass to use.

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I’ve used Photoshop for 30 years and have never - not once - paid for it.

pay for it, HA!

But just because I have the option of running Photoshop doesn’t mean I’m not allowed to have an opinion on GiMP, lmao. Enough with the gatekeeping.

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Something about her grandmother in a parallel universe, i think? it’s been a while since I watched the show.

BrooklynMan,
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in a parallel universe and in the past! during the Pakistan/India partition! it’s like the writers were like, “so is it time travel or the multiverse?” and they just did both.

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and piracy has become easier than ever; with the Plex and the *arr suite of apps (plus a VPN), it’s become a completely automated process to create your own, custom streaming server, and for cheaper than paying for several streaming services.

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lol, do it anyway. let’s see russia hike its troops all the way to the southern tip of Africa. Putin can barely muster enough fighters and ammo for one war on his own border. let’s see him try to fight another one half a planet away, lmao. it might as well be in space-- at least there are some russians there already! 🤣

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lol, what an amusing metaphor. much better than the “drunk bear in a china shop” I was thinking of.

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ideally, you want to minimize the amount of transcoding you do at all. most clients nowadays should be able to first play/direct stream just about anything, so, at worst, you’re just remixing which doesn’t really take any resources.

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I’ve seen a few people, here and there, trying to test the limits and finding very quickly that they’re not going to get very far.

BrooklynMan,
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oh, c’mon… as if that guy would leave any cocaine un-sniffed…

BrooklynMan,
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I find the taste of it utterly revolting. it’s like a sweet imposter, and my mouth says, “no!” It tastes somewhat metallic to me. I prefer stevia. although I don’t normally use sweeteners in stuff like coffee or tea. I avoid soft drinks in general, preferring fruit juice if I drink something other than water or milk.

BrooklynMan,
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i usually get my juice fresh rather than from a bottle

BrooklynMan,
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fresh-squeezed juice still has pulp. are you going to keep going on forever just to keep criticizing?

people like you are exhausting.

BrooklynMan,
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I quit twitter when Elmo bought it and quit reddit when they announced their new pricing model. lemmy and mastodon are great!

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