onlooker

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[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wasn't this debunked as fake ages ago?

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm out of the loop. What did HF do to make you not take them seriously?

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

Check out mister Mainstream over here. The rest of us snooty OS connoisseurs use Collapse OS.

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ugh. Then I guess it's time to reconsider my registrar again.

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I'm on PorkBun now, but I've used Njalla for a few years and had no issues with them. The reason I switched was simply because I wanted to own the domain, because with Njalla the domain isn't actually yours, it's registered to Njalla. Note that this is by design, in the sense that when someone looks up the domain, they won't get your info, but Njalla's instead. After a while, I've gotten less comfortable with the idea of someone else owning the domain I paid for, so I switched.

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago

Okay yeah, true enough. Maybe it would be more accurate to say that people are now much less likely to go see a mediocre to bad superhero movies. To give an example, the first two Thors and Iron Man 3 weren't great, but they were still box office hits. I have to wonder if it would pan out the same way if they were released today.

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Soooo, would this be a riposte to a repost?

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Yes, that would be one heck of a twist... if they hadn't revealed Dr. Doom's identity at Comic-Con. And we don't even know what the movie will be called, I might add. I think that if Disney was confident in whatever movie it is they're making, they would have kept RDJ's involvement on the down-low, to surprise the audience. Instead, they made this big hullabaloo about RDJ coming back.

Far as I can tell, the casting can be explained in one of two ways:

  • This Dr. Doom is an alternate universe version of Tony Stark. But if this is true, why the heck would they spoil the reveal?
  • Second option is even worse: no alternate universe chicanery. This is MCU's version of Doom. But that's just lazy casting.
[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes, hello. I recently found out that wikipedia has a whole article about you and the, uh, challenges you have faced over the years. In light of this, have you considered renaming your mascot to Dicky Louse?

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 105 points 2 months ago (17 children)

I smell desperation. There's ten of thousands of actors out there and they decide to re-hire RDJ? It feels like they're counting on his star power to save their precious Marvel shows and/or movies. It won't help, of course, because bad casting isn't why people stopped watching. People are superhero'ed out and yet they're pumping out Marvel shit like there's no tomorrow. And I do mean shit, the quality of Marvel movies fell off sharply after Endgame. The talent just isn't there, man. Stop.

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I started playing the first Nioh. Send help.

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Can vouch for Posteo. I've been using them for years and I have no reason to switch anytime soon. They're privacy focused, the price is great, there's IMAP support and CalDAV too and a bunch of other things.

 

There are so many options out there, it's kind of dizzying.

I'm looking for a cheap solution that I could hook up to a TV and ethernet, so it could run a flavor of Linux (or BSD) and play videos at 1080p. Bonus points if it can handle 1080p@60 FPS. Other than that, it would be used for light web browsing.

I was looking at Raspberry Pi 4, but is there anything else you would suggest?

 

I'll be honest, this is as much a question as it is a vent.

Specifically, how do you deal with people you meet everyday like family, coworkers, etc. who just revel in conspiracy theories?

I have a coworker who is dead certain 5G somehow produces the coronavirus, despite easily verifiable facts in microbiology and physics showing otherwise. He's a nice guy in general with a degree in electronics, but dear lord, when he starts with this tin-foil hat bullshit it ruins my day.

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