DJDarren @ DJDarren @thelemmy.club

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I’m bona fide!

I saw Grave of the Fireflies once.

Once.

Could never bring myself to go through it again, despite how utterly beautiful it is.

But my favourite thing about it is that it was originally a double bill with My Neighbour Totoro. Imagine seeing those two back to back. You’d get some serious emotional whiplash.

As much as I enjoyed Banshees, it didn’t have the snappiness and immediacy of In Bruges.

That movie is damn near perfect.

In a way I’m glad we didn’t get a sequel, because the execs would have diluted it down to a PG rating in order to maximise the merch sales.

My kink is thirty disappointing seconds of plain vanilla missionary with the lights off.

I get that most people are just listing their favourite movies, and that’s fair, but I feel like a lot of them are already well watched.

My suggestion is The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.

Everything about it is a stunning piece of cinema that got massively overlooked at the time, and I don’t really know why. It stars Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck, has a score by Nick Cave (who has a cameo) and Warren Ellis, and has cinematography by the mighty Roger Deakins.

On the cinematography; you could pause it at almost any point, take a screengrab, and print it out for display. It’s a stunningly well shot movie.

Nothing about the movie is fast. Everything takes place as it needs to, in its own time, all creeping glacially towards what you know is going to happen.

I adore this movie. I showed it to my kid a couple of years ago, fearful that he would hate it. Turned out he loved it as much as I do. It’s the best western I’ve ever seen, but to call it a western does it a disservice.

As a fellow school child in the ‘90s, I can confirm that almost anything anyone did was gay. Holding hands with a girl? Gay. Liking video games? Gay.

Have you considered seeking an ADHD assessment?

You have my empathy, friend. Be strong, and never forget that your inherent value is not tied up in how much you earn.

I’d probably lay on my sofa, mindlessly scrolling, beating myself up for not being more productive. It’s the ADHD way and there’s nothing you can do about it.

And with GMail and Chrome, it is still.

My 18 month old 13 mini is running 18.1 and has been off charge for a little over ten hours. I’ve barely used it today as I’ve been at my desk with my iPad and work Mac, but the battery is at 63%.

My year old iPad mini has been off charge for a couple of hours, during which I’ve been typing in a Pages document using a regular Logitech keyboard and mouse hooked up via dongle. The battery is at 58%.

Something ain’t right with the drain in 18.1.

I'm not much of a troll these days, but I do enjoy when people will give my generally bad language on Masto a pass, but clutch their pearls when I call something or someone a cunt. Which I'm wont to do because I'm English.

But which is it to be; the simplicity of iPadOS, or cramming iPads with ultra-powerful processors that are hilariously overpowered for what the OS can achieve?

In the case of the iPad mini: it could be an excellent, simple computing device, a la Chromebook. Hook it up to a display, get a Stage Manager-led device that can be controlled with a keyboard and mouse and used to get on with simple computing tasks. The iWork suite would be perfect in that setup.

Instead, when you do that you get the regular 8” display blown up to the size of whatever display you have, which adds nothing. The Mini has the capability to be so much more without losing what makes it such a compelling device, but Apple don’t seem to care.

And it’s not like I’m asking for them to make it a Mac replacement. There’s no danger of it cutting in to iPad or Mac sales. It would become its own little niche. Hell, they could make iPhones do the same. But they won’t, because money.

I have the previous gen iPad mini (and iPhone mini as well…), and it’s a genuinely wonderful device. It’s the perfect size for idly reading the internet, PDFs, and books. Also, It’s great for propping up by my Mac at work to show me Mastodon, Lemmy, Messages, etc… that I can control with my Mac’s trackpad and keyboard.

But if I hadn’t got it as a present last year there’s no way I’d own one for what Apple are charging for it. It just is not worth £600+

Partly that’s because of iPadOS as a whole, but also because they’re charging in the region of iPad Air money for it while leaving out several iPadOS features that might make it a legitimately useful tool.

I never use Stage Manager on my Macs, but if I could access it on my iPad, then hook it up to a display and have it as a handy portable computer I’d be all over that. But Apple removed that from the mini, despite it having the guts to support it. Hell, even if activating it turned off the iPad’s display it would still be really handy. Nope, can’t even do that.

I have no idea why Apple keep selling the iPad mini, because they don’t really seem to give a shit about it, and it’s a shame.

Unrelated to US politics, but I genuinely worry about how social media is fucking over the older generations.

My mother in law is 76, and only gets her news from Facebook these days. On Saturday she told me that Sadiq Khan, the London Mayor, has been voted out during the week. Fuck knows where she got that from because it’s just not true. She doesn’t even live in London, but he’s a demon to the kind of ‘news’ sources she’ll read because he’s a lefty who does lefty things.

It’s mad.

It’s a bawg.

And some of us are blessed with producing more shit than others.

Meanwhile, my Blue Yeti has a fucked mini USB socket, though in fairness that's because Blue, in their infinite wisdom, positioned it right next to the mounting insert. It's remarkably easy to knock the cable against the mount when moving it about.

Of course they do.

If there’s a binary choice (and here in the UK it basically is), you’re going to vote for the candidate that broadly covers your requirements from government, conveniently ignoring the bits you don’t like. The alternative is to not vote at all because no one candidate or party can perfectly mirror your values.