ElderWendigo

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Qualified experts of Lemmy, do people believe you when you answer questions in your field?

The internet has made a lot of people armchair experts happy to offer their perspective with a degree of certainty, without doing the work to identify gaps in their knowledge. Often the mark of genuine expertise is knowing the limitations of your knowledge....

ElderWendigo,

LMAO. No. You can’t convince an overconfident idiot with facts and experience.

ElderWendigo,

That’s a lot of mental gymnastics to blame the victim. Not cool.

‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services (www.theguardian.com)

*What rights do you have to the digital movies, TV shows and music you buy online? That question was on the minds of Telstra TV Box Office customers this month after the company announced it would shut down the service in June. Customers were told that unless they moved over to another service, Fetch, they would no longer be...

ElderWendigo,

I think the more nuanced take is that we should be making “piracy” legal by expanding and protecting fair use and rights to make personal copies. There are lots of things that are called piracy now that really shouldn’t be. Making “piracy” legal still leaves plenty of room for artists to get paid.

ElderWendigo,

Like every system? What’s the actual distinction you’re trying to point out?

ElderWendigo,

Not originally, but this does sound like the kind of boundary pushing puny joke they’d make to make the straights slightly uncomfortable.

[No no no. Finger Prints.

I don’t think so.](youtu.be/lY2kC5fZG64?si=uPoB4wzgMdvy6e-J)

ElderWendigo,

The fence is there to keep people from crossing the road at the end of that brick sidewalk. The desire path exists because people want to cross the road and are blocked by the fence. You can also see the utilities for the crosswalk to the left of the image at the end of the desire path.

ElderWendigo,

Many restaurants have started adding a “service charge” that is not a tip in addition to menu prices. It’s super fucking shady. There is rarely an signage indicating the charge, relying of the hostesses to inform you. It isn’t always clear on the itemized bill they hand you, since it’s grouped down with the tax. It’s not the standard gratuity added for large groups. There is a restaurant near me that suddenly started adding this kind of charge. They did not notify me when I sat down and I didn’t see any indication of it on the itemized bill and only noticed when calculating the tip, after they’d run my card. I made a huge stink about it because it’s a fucking scam and they did discount my bill, but they refused to remove the service charge. I liked their food, but that was the last time I visited and I stopped recommending them.

ElderWendigo,

Are you implying that we should be counting atlanteans, cetaceans, the nightmare corpse-city of R’lyeh, and the mole people? I don’t think they much care about being left out.

ElderWendigo,

I’m just curious how much RAM you think that is.

ElderWendigo,

This sounds remarkably similar to the attitude of that homophobic uncle crying about the gays shoving their lifestyle in his face by just existing. Maybe reevaluate your hang-ups.

ElderWendigo,

However, the issue is that I have to use sudo when using these commands and as a result after mounting I cannot make changes to my files in the drive(s) without using sudo.

This isn’t because you’re using sudo to mount, that is the way to do it. This is because you’re mounting to a directory for which your regular user does not have write access. Create a directory owned by your user and make sure you have write access with sudo first. Or make it owned by a group that your user is a member (I use media) and give that group write access. Then mount the drive to that directory in the usual way (I prefer to clutter up my fstab with entries I rarely use). You should now have access without sudo.

9 out of 10 times new users are struggling with access, it’s not a problem with the software, but a problem with permissions.

ElderWendigo,

Remember when courts declared Microsoft was a monopoly because they bundled their own browser, Internet Explorer, with the operating system? And they did it in a way that made it impossible to completely remove from the OS. Did they learn their lesson? I think they did, just not the lesson we wanted them to learn. Go ahead and try to uninstall Edge from Windows 10 or 11. Dive into the task manager sometime too and you’ll see Edge sub-processes running under a surprising number of other apps. There is no Windows operating system any more, it’s just Internet Explore refactored and rebranded as Edge all the way down. (Obvious hyperbole) At least Chromebooks were up front about it.

ElderWendigo,

Yes. Windows is as much a browser based OS these days as Chromebooks are.

ElderWendigo,

Docker compose is just a setting file for a container. It’s the same advantage you get using an ssh config file instead of typing out and specifying a user, IP, port, and private key to use each time. What’s the advantage to putting all my containers into one compose file? It’s not like I’m running docker commands from the terminal manually to start and stop them unless something goes wrong, I let systemd handle that. And I’d much rather the systemd be able to individually start, stop, and monitor individual containers rather than have to bring them all down if one fails.

ElderWendigo,

because most Linux systems don’t even use DHCP

This is the dumbest thing I’ve heard all day.

ElderWendigo,

“I will not accept soulless robotic machine-generated typescript being sold as a book. I just won’t.” -Some hipster arguing against the printing press

Not denying audiobook performers don’t have real valuable talent (and should be fairly paid for it), but when was the last time you paid a premium for a handwritten novel?

ElderWendigo,

Strong aging Facebook user vibes from that kind of tag on all their posts.

ElderWendigo, (edited )

This is only a plot hole because you forgot part of the movie.

Inigo’s quest is to kill the six fingered man. He saves the man in black only to get his help towards this goal. ~~But, there is exactly the kind of explanation line in the movie by Fezzik, who has not been in a drunken stupor for a month and has in fact gotten a job working closely with the castle’s security forces, explaining his insight on the topic. Fezzik has this line, interrupting Inigo talking about how he needs the skills of the Man in Black to execute his revenge:

“the rumors are that he was the Princess’ true love”. ~~

That bit was in the book and the script, but the line as filmed in the movie was paraphrased by Inigo and not uttered by Fezzik. Doesn’t really matter to the plot anyway though because Inigo sought the man in black to help plot his revenge because the man in black had defeated Vizzini. A confusing line because we were never explicitly shown how Inigo learned about the man in black’s true love of Buttercup, but not exactly a plot hole.

ElderWendigo, (edited )

The line does appear in the film, though on review it does appear that Inigo takes the line from Frezik. Probably that was because Andre the giant didn’t actually speak English very well. Forgive my confusion, since I’d more recently read the book than watched the movie and the scene in question is only changed slightly. So in point of fact, it was still a throwaway line and it was still in the movie.

Never the less, Inigo was seeking the Man in Black to aid his own revenge, not because of Wesley’s true love for Buttercup, so where and when he learned of the man in black’s love for Buttercup is mostly irrelevant to the plot. Moreover, Wesley declares “True Love” to Max before Inigo says anything about love to Max.

This is all especially amusing, since we are debating a single line in a movie, based on a book, that is itself a self declared abridged version of another book.

ElderWendigo,

Yes, that’s basically what I said. I know there is no unabridged version of the book, because I’m not a dunce. That was the joke, but you’re so worried about being right and getting the last word you missed it.

I’ve seen the movie damn near a thousand times. I’ve read the book (didn’t I already make this clear). We’re both fans.

It’s not a plot hole. It’s a single stepped on line that does not matter to the plot and major motivations of the characters.

ElderWendigo,

I did a rewatch after your first comment. The line is there. Inigo says it, when Fezzik should have. But, you were right in that it doesn’t make sense for Inigo to say it because we were never shown when he learned of Wesley’s love of Buttercup. But Inigo wasn’t looking for the Man in Black to assist true love, he just wanted whomever bested Vizzini to help in his revenge plot.

ElderWendigo,

A Venn diagram is not a pie chart, they’re all circles.

ElderWendigo,

Yeah, and we might use a ratio to describe that overlap, not degrees.

What foods from the shows would you like to try if you could?

There’s a few for me. Yamok sauce. Various synthohols. The desserts Troi’s always eating (or being). But most especially gagh. I wouldn’t let the fact it’s some kind of living worm distract me from the way all the cool people describe it. If Riker likes it, I think I would too and I certainly wouldn’t want to look like...

ElderWendigo,

My take is that the food is just a little too perfectly middle of the road preference wise. As if the foods were cooked with perfect heat so that no piece is burned a little more cooked a little less. Sure it tastes fine, but it doesn’t taste authentic. Because authentic food isn’t about perfection, it’s a dynamic balance of happy accidents. Maybe also because replicated food is designed to be safe. Sometimes the best food isn’t strictly safe. BBQ for instance would not taste the same is you removed all the carbonized carcinogenic bits. Coincidentally broccoli and cauliflower also taste fucking amazing if you add those crispy burnt bits by following a cold sear recipe. (America’s Test Kitchen has a good short video on the process if you’re feeling adventurous.)

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