[-] funchords@lemmy.sdf.org 26 points 3 months ago

Fighting with Windows 11 introduced me to Linux Mint, which works perfectly! I'm not an OS geek, so I really don't care about the OS -- it's just the thing I deal with on the way to Firefox.

[-] funchords@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 8 months ago

My 76 y/o spouse loves Linux Mint. The 2017-bought desktop was deemed insufficient for Windows 11 and now runs Mint.

[-] funchords@lemmy.sdf.org 46 points 1 year ago

This video has 7.6M views and was posted 2 years ago

[-] funchords@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A lot of the comments so far are trying to stay with the negative connotation to exploitation. You exploit your comfortable shoes to walk further each day. You exploit the microwave oven's ability to more quickly warm your coffee than the stove.

This is the same with discrimination. You choose the raspberry danish over the cheese danish. This is you practicing discrimination, and it's fine.

Any evil in it comes from abuse or impact to yourself with respect to others, that second definition of exploitation in the OP.

[-] funchords@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 year ago

I don't know that I fit any of those label, neatly, but I've always been skeptical of the idea that the president is not in charge of everything under the Executive Branch.

Keep in mind I'm not in charge of anything and I'm not right about anything! I'm nobody here.

If Congress wants an independent agency, they need to create it and put it under themselves, not under the executive branch (so it seems to me). So even if Trump does not get into office (and let's make sure that he doesn't) Project 2025 is still going to be out there and it may be legally right in some important respects. Not paying attention to this reality is how we lost something like Roe v Wade ... What the Supreme Court can give, it can take away. There is no such thing as "never going to happen".

Please defeat Trump and Trumpism, but take this concept of Project 2025 seriously beyond Trump.

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Susan Oliver was playing a green-skinned Orion slave girl, but I had to test her makeup because she was too expensive and I was under contract already; I was cheap, they had to pay me anyway. The makeup they put on me was green as green can be, but they kept on sending out the rushes and we would get it back for the next day, and there I was just as pink and rosy as could possibly be. This went on for three days until they finally called the lab and said, “What do we do? We’re trying to get it green.” And they said, “You want that? We’ve been color-correcting.”

Excerpt from: The Fifty-Year Mission: The First 25 Years

[-] funchords@lemmy.sdf.org 28 points 1 year ago

Yes. When somebody else has a better take and I want it to be the top comment, I will downvote mine.

[-] funchords@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 1 year ago

The result of about half of recent lander missions from Earth is failure.

The USA hasn't tried one recently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_the_Moon

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Infinity (1996) (www.youtube.com)

I recommend this. I found this rather unknown flick looking for something to watch with my YouTube Premium subscription. Rotten Tomatoes had it on their list.

Infinity was directed and starred Matthew Broderick and was written by his mother, Patricia Broderick. With a $5 million budget, it earned less than $200,000 at the box office.

The younger years of Nobel Prize-winning genius Richard Feynman is the background to this underrated love story.

I don't know how these things work, but the ending credits make it look like a Broderick family indie project. Despite being formatted for a 4:3 TV, some of the New Mexico exteriors are lovely!

Free on YouTube Premium or with ads

Rotten Tomatoes 63%

IMDb 6.1/10

[-] funchords@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately, I'm finding Lemmy 2023 just as shallow as Reddit 2023.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/1422052

We enjoy the Voila! Three Cheese Chicken from Birds Eye $6.49 But we add our own additional frozen vegetables (plain, 1 pound, Italian blend) and cubed boneless skinless chicken (marinated for a day, then cooked and cubed) to make it come out to about $2.25 per serving (4) and about 300 Calories.

For $2.50 in the added ingredients, double the yield and improves the carbs, sodium, and protein. The calories are virtually identical.

The 21 ounce Birds-Eye package says that it serves three, but in practice we find that it serves two. Add your own generic frozen veggies and cubed cooked chicken and you serve four.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/1422052

We enjoy the Voila! Three Cheese Chicken from Birds Eye $6.49 But we add our own additional frozen vegetables (plain, 1 pound, Italian blend) and cubed boneless skinless chicken (marinated for a day, then cooked and cubed) to make it come out to about $2.25 per serving (4) and about 300 Calories.

For $2.50 in the added ingredients, double the yield and improves the carbs, sodium, and protein. The calories are virtually identical.

The 21 ounce Birds-Eye package says that it serves three, but in practice we find that it serves two. Add your own generic frozen veggies and cubed cooked chicken and you serve four.

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Local Hero (1983) (www.youtube.com)

This enchanting comedy takes place in Scotland and America, and is full of character quirks that are engaging and charming. The humor is infectious. It was nearly two hours well spent with people who were fascinating and made you smile and laugh, and appreciate a life different than your own.

Burt Lancaster has a supporting role in this in a character unlike any I've ever seen from him. To say that it is out there a bit is to foreshadow, and I won't spoil it (and the role didn't spoil it, either).

I subscribe to You-Tube Premium and this was one of the free movies that came with the deal. There have been two DVD releases of this title so your local library probably has it too. On Rotten Tomatoes, the Critics universally loved this movie and the Audience Score agreed 87%.

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The Nice Guys (2016) (lemmy.sdf.org)

Currently on Netflix. The movie got nearly universal positive professional reviews and scored a 79% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

This movie stars Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe as investigators of the disappearance of somebody named Amelia (Margaret Qualley).

It is very hard to care about anybody in this film as they all pretty much are terrible people. It is practically a farce parade and I kept waiting for someone to care about and any reason to care. Finally after about 60 minutes, I asked my spouse if he was getting into this at all. After about five more minutes he also was in the same space: enough is enough, turn it off.

[-] funchords@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 1 year ago

As an audio enthusiast, it sucks that I can’t upgrade my stereo/audio system.

Exactly! I can have the system I want but having it somehow means no heated seats in the winter.

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Last night, I watched The Four Feathers movie starring Heath Ledger, Wes Bentley, Djimon Hounsou and Kate Hudson. This is one of those movies that the critics were lukewarm about but the audience seemed to love better than that. Count me among those lovers.

It is an exquisitely done period piece based on a novel. Not only is the photography stunning, but the story is well told.

The feathers in the title are from an old tradition of shaming cowardice by handing the purported coward a white feather. To say anymore would be moving into spoiler territory.

The movie is a little more than two hours, well spent in my opinion.

In the USA, I found this on Paramount Plus.

[-] funchords@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 year ago

When Google added an account switcher to its apps way back in 2019, they made it possible to switch between your Google accounts by swiping up or down on your avatar.

Wow, look at that! I had no idea. It works!

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The purchased flight was from Gainesville, Florida to New York City with a layover in Charlotte. The plan was for the teen to get off the plane in Charlotte where he lives. [... more in the article ...]

I fly rarely these days but skiplagging has always been tempting. Has anyone here done it?

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I hung on to the Pixel 3 for a very long time because I was very turned off by the thought of carrying any larger of a phone. There simply was nothing on the current market smaller or the same size as the Pixel 3.

After I simply had no choice, I did it. I'm pleased to report that the 6a does a good job as a replacement for the 3.

It is a little bigger by every dimension:

  • Pixel 3: 5.73 x 2.69 x 0.31 inches (145.6 x 68.2 x 7.9 mm)
  • Pixel 6a: 5.99 x 2.83 x 0.35 inches (152.2 x 71.8 x 8.9mm)

The pocket feel is the same and I'm quickly used to it. The battery life is amazing compared to the Pixel 3 (2915 mAh vs 4410 mAh).

One of the best things, though, was the upgrade path was so easy. Within the hour, everything was synced and in their right places on my screen. There were only a few "Save to Home Screen" Firefox browser shortcuts that I had to recreate.

I'm hoping to have this another 2-3 years when I'll buy another Pixel, again hoping for one that is small and comfortable in my pocket.

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Back in 2015, I was in the hospital for two weeks, trying not to die (again), and I couldn't have a laptop but I had my phone. Reddit was possible due to RiF.

Thanks so much for it.

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