Or am I doing it wrong? My expectation is that when I block a community it will stop showing up in my feed including “all”. This is not happening. Blocked communities are still showing up. Can anyone help? Thanks!
Okay so for context: I’ve never really downloaded movies right after release, the movies that I’ve downloaded were all released at least few months before the time of download, so I don’t know how movies releases work....
On rare occasions a high quality copy gets leaked early. But most of the time, all you’ll get is CAMs until the movie is released on a streaming service, then that will get ripped in full quality. This typically takes around 6 weeks these days. After that you wait another 6+ months for the Bluray release which is higher quality still.
I found that Bluray rips can come earlier than the release date, but I assume that’s because of the time required to get the whole product supply chain up and running. And insiders can a copy of the physical disc early in that process. But for streaming, yeah same time as the rest of us.
Hi there, sorry if this information has already been shared, I had a look in the megathread and wiki and could not find something specific to children programmes. Is there a good tracker for them? Preferably a public one. I’m particularly interested in any kind of star wars content (like Lego) but I’m not finding much. Any...
Recently I attended a lecture series. Those lectures were shared on Microsoft 365 sharepoint. There was no way to download those videos for offline viewing. Then after lot of searching got this. So I am sharing this here as my first post on this instance.
I’m talking here about their hardware (MacBook, iPhone, iPad, iWatch) and software (iCloud, Apple One, mail, passwords, wallet, other apps), in terms of owning all of that....
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.
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”.
Solar panels can generate plenty of power. My house basically runs off Solar 8-12 hours a day (8kw system). Air conditioning, laundry, and all the electronics. My stove is gas though.
The expensive part is battery storage. My system for example can generate 20-40kwh excess power each day. But buying a 10kwh battery to keep things running overnight costs more than my whole solar system already.
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.
Officers working for Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security initiative have been ordered to push small children and nursing babies back into the Rio Grande, and have been told not to give water to asylum seekers even in extreme heat, according to an email from a Department of Public Safety trooper who described the actions as...
Now you can find the same 4K video from few GBs to a hundred GBs, and I am wondering: where to stop? With music there is a similar phenomenon by which after a certain bitrate it becomes an esoteric art to detect improvements. So, what is your “very good enough” bitrate for 4K videos?
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.
I just got into usenet and some of the files downloaded are ISOs. I’m trying to figure out the best way to convert them to mp4s so that I can play them through plex. I’m running on a headless arch server (Manjaro), and I’d prefer to keep the conversion there if possible....
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.
Movies have been getting longer for a few years or so but they are especially long this year. Look at the biggest films this year and see how they are about 20-30min longer than they would be in the past....
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.
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.
As part of my endless and possibly futile quest to be a less pathetic version of myself, I’ve embarked on a campaign to stop watching TV and movies. For me it’s low hanging fruit - some people really love movies, but I honestly can’t remember the last time I watched something that I truly enjoyed. It’s just something to...
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.
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.
I’ll start. Did you know you can run a headless version of JD2 on a raspberry pi? It’s not the greatest thing in the world, but sometimes its nice to throw a bunch of links in there and go to sleep.
Block community function doesnt work?
Or am I doing it wrong? My expectation is that when I block a community it will stop showing up in my feed including “all”. This is not happening. Blocked communities are still showing up. Can anyone help? Thanks!
Noob question about newly released movies...
Okay so for context: I’ve never really downloaded movies right after release, the movies that I’ve downloaded were all released at least few months before the time of download, so I don’t know how movies releases work....
Trackers for children programmes?
Hi there, sorry if this information has already been shared, I had a look in the megathread and wiki and could not find something specific to children programmes. Is there a good tracker for them? Preferably a public one. I’m particularly interested in any kind of star wars content (like Lego) but I’m not finding much. Any...
Downloading Microsoft Sharepoint Videos (vball.fun)
Recently I attended a lecture series. Those lectures were shared on Microsoft 365 sharepoint. There was no way to download those videos for offline viewing. Then after lot of searching got this. So I am sharing this here as my first post on this instance.
Amid talk of rebooting his campaign, DeSantis pivots to attacking Bud Light instead of Disney (www.dailykos.com)
Is it ok to go "all in" into Apple ecosystem?
I’m talking here about their hardware (MacBook, iPhone, iPad, iWatch) and software (iCloud, Apple One, mail, passwords, wallet, other apps), in terms of owning all of that....
in Australia, when we pay taxes, we get a receipt. The receipt shows what our taxes were spent on (lemmy.world)
I assume “Other purposes” is govt kickbacks to mining and gas companies 😬
Questions raised about 'overly generous' power price rises amid tumbling wholesale costs (www.abc.net.au)
Need to get off the grid fast. Is a gas or diesel generator my best option? (fedia.io)
The energy suppliers in my area all have contracts I do not agree with. My gas & electric service may be cut in a couple weeks....
Reddit Tries to Get Users to Pay by Making App Icon Ugly (9to5mac.com)
Michigan Republicans charged in 'false elector' scheme to overturn Trump loss (www.reuters.com)
Texas troopers told to push children into Rio Grande, deny water to migrants, records say (www.houstonchronicle.com)
Officers working for Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security initiative have been ordered to push small children and nursing babies back into the Rio Grande, and have been told not to give water to asylum seekers even in extreme heat, according to an email from a Department of Public Safety trooper who described the actions as...
What is a very good bitrate for 4K video files above which it does not make sense to go?
Now you can find the same 4K video from few GBs to a hundred GBs, and I am wondering: where to stop? With music there is a similar phenomenon by which after a certain bitrate it becomes an esoteric art to detect improvements. So, what is your “very good enough” bitrate for 4K videos?
What to do with ISOs?
I just got into usenet and some of the files downloaded are ISOs. I’m trying to figure out the best way to convert them to mp4s so that I can play them through plex. I’m running on a headless arch server (Manjaro), and I’d prefer to keep the conversion there if possible....
Have you noticed how movies are getting longer?
Movies have been getting longer for a few years or so but they are especially long this year. Look at the biggest films this year and see how they are about 20-30min longer than they would be in the past....
Antony Blinken to press Senate to move forward on dozens of blocked State Department employees (www.cnn.com)
What can a person replace tv shows, movies, and other zombie-brain entertainment with? How can attention span be improved?
As part of my endless and possibly futile quest to be a less pathetic version of myself, I’ve embarked on a campaign to stop watching TV and movies. For me it’s low hanging fruit - some people really love movies, but I honestly can’t remember the last time I watched something that I truly enjoyed. It’s just something to...
Memmy Poll - Gauging Community Feedback on Rebranding - Give Us Suggestions!
Edit: Want to make this a sugestion thread, so please let us know your ideas on themes or names below....
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The 11-mile long, 600 lbs IMAX print of ‘OPPENHEIMER’ (i.imgur.com)
‘I’m Not a No. 2 Guy’: DeSantis Says He Wouldn’t Run as Trump’s Vice President (web.archive.org)
It is far too soon to speculate about who will be the Republican nominee for vice president, but a Trump-DeSantis ticket seems highly unlikely.
This is a quietly big year for the Apple TV and tvOS (www.theverge.com)
Democrats Try a Novel Tactic to Revive the Equal Rights Amendment (www.nytimes.com)
Advanced pirates, whats a tip others might not know?
I’ll start. Did you know you can run a headless version of JD2 on a raspberry pi? It’s not the greatest thing in the world, but sometimes its nice to throw a bunch of links in there and go to sleep.