I’ve been a good boy for 5 years or so but the seas call to me. Are streaming sites the way to go now or is torrenting still a better bet for mainstream movies and tv? I’d imagine all of my accounts have been deleted on those sites so I’d be starting over.
Jellfyfin is the reason why I do this. I went from spending 30 minutes dumpster diving through terrible movies in one of the streaming platforms to now spending 30 minutes trying to choose from a selection of movies that I actually want to watch.
Which is 5TB of movies I think I should watch, 1.5TB of stuff I already watched and think I would watch again and the rest of stuff I actually want to watch.
There were shenanigans then as well, remember Ecco the dolphin? Well it was made extra difficult so you couldn't beat it in a weekend (as it was usual for rentals).
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....
One of the things that irated me most from Reddit was the fact that if someone's response came quickly enough, upvotes will ensure everyone believe it and downvoting it was like peeing on a wildfire.
I like that kbin shows both upvotes and downvotes which tells me when something is controversial enough to give it some thought rather than believe it blindly.
Long, long ago the DOS acronym meant Disk Operating system, however iirc MS-DOS came from Tim Paterson's QDOS (also known as Quick and Dirty Operative System).
At the time, Bill Gates' mom got him in contact with IBM's CEO John Opel, and ask him for something compatible with the dominating OS at the time, CP/M.
Gates solved this with an easy trick of buying QDOS (sold as 86-DOS) for 50 Grand, then licensing it to everyone and their dog as MS-DOS, which allegedly meant MicroSoft Disk Operating System.
However, I want to think MS-DOS still stands for Microsoft Dirty Operating System, if we're to follow the initial developer's wishes ;)
Funny enough, neither excel, nor powerpoint where made by MS and it will be stretching the truth, saying that OS/2 development didn't influence Windows 1.0, which was mostly a frontend manager sitting on top of MS-DOS.
Neither Xenix, Microsoft's original OS, was that original, as it is said by their creators it was "very close to the original Unix version 7 source".
I think at that age, only MS Word came from Microsoft when they hired the primary developer of their competition's GUI Word Processor.
Not only that, but the risks of snowballing because of major ecological breakdowns like the Amazon, in massive forest fires like in Canada and the chance that the methane stored in permafrost could escape once it melts, means that we might be talking of going from 3C to 4C.
Donald Trump removes video on Truth Social with ‘unified reich’ reference (www.theguardian.com)
Trump campaign said video using Nazi-era language was posted by staffer who didn’t see wording, yet it stayed up for 15 hours...
A Hidden Variable in the Presidential Race: Fears of ‘Trump Forever’ | Undecided voters are concerned that if Donald Trump returns to the White House, he’ll never leave. (www.bloomberg.com)
It’s almost like Trump tried a coup to avoid leaving office the last time around.
EU's Green Deal improved its climate performance: a 1.5°C pathway is close (climateactiontracker.org)
Ask HN: Can we create a new internet where search engines are irrelevant? (news.ycombinator.com)
has black mesa made a statement? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Billionaires. (lemm.ee)
streaming or torrenting today vs. 5 years ago
I’ve been a good boy for 5 years or so but the seas call to me. Are streaming sites the way to go now or is torrenting still a better bet for mainstream movies and tv? I’d imagine all of my accounts have been deleted on those sites so I’d be starting over.
New Player - what classes do you like to make everyone? [no spoilers]
What classes do you like to build for everyone?...
Rudy Giuliani served indictment after belting ‘New York, New York’ at birthday party (www.independent.co.uk)
Cool tied-arch (lemmy.world)
Not many wood bridges around these days, happy to see this one in small town USA
EA SPORTS WRC is adding EA anticheat, breaking another game on Steam Deck / Linux (www.gamingonlinux.com)
New Teslas might lose Steam (www.theverge.com)
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....
MS-DOS has been Open-Sourced! (www.youtube.com)
Bleak (aussie.zone)
Stormy Daniels wore a bulletproof vest to Trump’s hush money trial, attorney says (www.independent.co.uk)
Earlier this year, porn star said she accepted hush money so Donald Trump could not have her killed...
new copy pasta dropped (lemmy.ml)
Nearly all major car companies are sabotaging EV transition, and Japan is worst, study finds (thedriven.io)
Can confirm. I saw one of the plots and the plot looked at me. (lemmy.world)