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It’s the 30% supply charge increase that made me mad. That’s not tied to the wholesale cost. Thankfully I have solar panels so my bill is already quite low. But I still need grid access. Paying 30% extra now for that “luxury”.

The “Vinegar” app for iOS blocks youtube ads as well as adding various playback improvements.

https://apps.apple.com/au/app/vinegar-tube-cleaner/id1591303229

For me: iPhone, MacBook, and AppleTV4K are fantastic devices. Apple Music is great. If you want a smart watch and tablet, then the Apple Watch and iPad are also the obvious choices for those categories.

Anything else I could take it or leave it. HomeKit, HomePod, and Siri are atrocious in terms of reliability, which sucks because the Google and Amazon alternatives are a privacy nightmare.

My guess is this is mostly support payments for people who are unable to work.

Mazda. They’ve brought back physical buttons and have support for CarPlay if you want it.

The problem with (almost) all social media platforms is they need a LOT of users. Because each individual users brings in such a small amount of revenue.

So these companies (running on investor money) go through a deliberate early “growth” stage, where their singular goal is to get as many users as possible. They usually do this by…actually making something people want to use. Plus some addictive tricks thrown in to keep people “engaged”.

Once they have their 100 million users, or whatever number they’re targeting, then the processor of turning it to shit begins. Because now they have the users they need to extract revenue from them. The problem is that growth stage often kills off competitors as well. So now you have a near monopoly tightening the screws on users, who have to just accept it because the cost of moving to an alternative is too high.

But eventually it hits a breaking point. Users jump to something new, and the cycle repeats. The users who stick around with a shit product are the ones who ultimately pay the debts that early users got to enjoy.

Except in the courtroom, then they STFU. Because their words there have consequences.

It’s what Jesus would want.

One consideration for me is: how grainy is the source material, and how much do I care about retaining that? Because film grain is the first thing to go when you apply too much compression. Dark scenes, too.

For kids movies or something I’ll watch casually: 15gb x265 rips are fine.

For new releases that I want to watch and maybe will a few more times: I’ll grab the 20-30gb web-dl and enjoy that.

For a movie I consider a masterpiece and want the best possible? Give me the 50-80gb remux.

Another +1 for “Orbit”

Assuming the .iso file is a DVD/Bluray image: Open the file in MakeMKV. Select the tracks you want, and it will…make a MKV file out of it. That should be fine for Plex.

Not having ambassadors sounds serious. There must be a very good reason for the process being blocked…

Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky has put a hold on all State Department nominees, demanding that the agency turn over further information related the origins of Covid-19

[Senator] Vance has put a hold on multiple State Department nominees, including the nominee to serve as the Representative to the African Union, citing concerns that she has pushed a “woke” ideology instead of pushing ahead America’s national interests.

Nope, just usual GOP bullshit.

I just watch movies at home now with a surround sound system and large OLED TV. I can pause when I want, or split a movie over two evenings.

The delay between a movie coming from a cinema release to 4K streaming services (and the accompanying pirate copy) is down to around 4-6 weeks now. Which is an acceptable wait for me.

Well I guess it depends how much free time you have each day. Books, meditation, exercise (or even just going for a walk), cooking your own meals, getting more sleep…those things fill a lot of time in the evenings if you’re working full time. If you have more time than that, consider volunteering at local organisations that need help. Or find new hobbies that don’t involve looking at a screen and involve spending time with other people.

Some of those categories of information (location, health, contacts for example) require the user to accept on an iOS prompt. The app won’t be given access otherwise. Apple are usually pretty strict about apps only asking for those permissions if there’s a valid reason. I’m curious to know what they would be though.

I still won’t be using the app.

Christopher Nolan is known for his love of film over digital.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/dark-knight-rises-chris-nolan-digital-335514/

Maybe he was the source of the “I can’t poop for 3 days” asklemmy post recently?

While almost 80 percent of Americans supported adding the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution in a 2020 Pew Research Center poll, there is little chance that the effort will draw the 60 votes necessary to overcome a Republican filibuster in the Senate.

Sums up the current GOP pretty well. 80% of the country want something? Too bad, they’ll block it.

Yeah mine is about the same. More than enough for what I need.

Call it a “tax cut for students” let the conservatives go nuts trying to justify stopping it.