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FourPacketsOfPeanuts

@ FourPacketsOfPeanuts @lemmy.world

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  • EU law mandating universal chargers for devices comes into force

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  • Coming soon on an Amazon: Apple USB-C cable $20.99

  • I'm building a FOSS calorie tracker!

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  • This is a great idea, I'll definitely give it a go. How do you want to receive feature requests/bug reports?

  • What successful or popular movie that many loved you just HATE?

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  • I'll watch it again at some point so my review is under review

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  • Practise by accompanying your favourite music. That way you don't get hung up on the strumming pattern and focus on enjoying, which is what keeps you coming back for practice.

    There are abundant beginner videos on YouTube that teach strumming. I think the important thing is to mix learning technique with just enjoying making music by any means.

    (Source, self taught playing 20 years)

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  • The irony is the matrix has always been "meta". Repeatedly breaking out of each paradigm to show you the last one was an illusion. So in a weird way it is a proper sequel, just not in a way that anyone's going to like.

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  • Fargo - fantastic

    Oh Brother Where Are Thou - not very memorable

    Burn After Reading - funny and entertaining but not very memorable

    No Country For Old Men - one of the best films of the 21st century

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  • It makes me feel snobbish to say you have to be literally juvenile to enjoy it. I just don't get it. There's no suspense at all, no surprise in anything. They're all boring, intelligent characters. Even as films aimed at kids they're bad, but I'm eternally surprised at the traction they get with 20s-30s..

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  • The Big Lebowski

    Interminably dull. Watching it made sense of why the people bigging it up were stoned..

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  • Exactly this. You can't hype up an audience to that degree and make them sit through 3 hours without showing them something theyve never seen before. And at this point you can't just Nolan your way out by making the blast larger than life, because I think by now we possibly all imagine it bigger than it actually was. But what you can do is some sort of trippy shit where the blast goes on for ages, where it ripping things apart is shown in some sort of artistic and novel way, perhaps something emphasising an old world is being torn apart and this is a new nuclear age. ANYTHING. except a half hearted blast that looked and felt like half hearted CG. And the irony is the production team went out of their way to avoid using CG. It was just immensely unsatisfying and rushed and all the momentum of the film was lost. It just didn't feel momentus enough.

    If they'd been bolder they've have culminated with the bombing of Hiroshima and shown the horror in some new terrifying light..

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  • Ironically if you accept it's a "fuck you" film, like you've been invited round to the wachowskis to watch one of the their random side projects it becomes enjoyable again

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  • Do you mean just the first one or the trilogy as a whole?

    I thought the first one stood up far far better on its own rather, many things left unsaid, rather than the rest which tried to fill out the story, and not too well

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  • I upvoted you because it's my favourite star wars film and I've never heard anyone dislike it

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    What key qualities should the best ebook writing service have to stand out in the UK?

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  • Not being AI slop would be a good start..

  • A coworker asks what you're bringing to the potluck. What's the worst response?

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  • Chlamydia

  • What is the point of Windows recall?

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  • At the meeting:

    "The AI could just crawl documents etc?"

    "Don't be silly.. most people's documents are cloud based now.. and not necessarily with us"

    "We could scan the text while they Edge?"

    "I've told you about saying that that way.."

    "Ok. we could scan the text while they use Edge to browse?"

    "Use Edge? What planet are you on. Even I use Firefox. Simple truth is we have no visibility of what used spend 90% of their time doing "

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    "You know.. we could just take a screenshot at regular intervals?"

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    "You know that's such a ridiculously shit idea it might just work.."

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  • who just wiggle their mouse every so often to keep the monitor on or whatever people do to pretend to be busy

    Just use powershell to make a down cursor keypress every few minutes and put the screen on a long work-related webpage article like a normal programmer under surveillance...

  • I never knew that USB-C extensions are not allowed for a reason

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  • Soon on Amazon..

    1m USB-C CABLE HEATER!! 0.99c

    ($5.99 shipping)

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  • Two friends of mine met getting in opposite sides of the same taxi during the chaos of the 2005 London tube bombings. They decided to share the ride and it was love at first site. Got married etc.

    Don't know anyone else where it happened like in a movie like that.

    Closest is one other friend, having just met and spoken to a girl for about twenty minutes, was just astonished at her take on life and general outlook and said (only half joking) to her "are you my wife?". He later told friends "I just met my wife". It was kinda funny because she was a very intelligent and sorted go getter and he was a bit of a bum. But he sorted himself out over the next 3 years and they did in fact end up getting married. Sorry I guess that is kinda like a movie lol..

  • Even Apple wasn’t able to make VR headsets mainstream in 2024

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  • This is just the early versions we'll look back on and laugh at even when the successful versions have taken over EVERYTHING.

    so VR equipment is getting lightweight and powerful enough for high realism. AI is just about generating compelling reality on the fly. Augmented realty is just about working smoothly thanks to modern hardware.

    Now give everything another 10 years development.

    We'll be tapping up compelling 3d 'personal shoppers' and 'personal customer service agents' that feel more like butlers and servants because they ARE. And they'll be 100% generated and pretty easy to talk to, especially compared to waiting on the phone or trying to type chat.

    Perhaps Zucks metaverse dream will be located in there somewhere. What if in that time we nail 3d video chat - perhaps a dose of AI and VR 'learning you' so it gives you realistic micro gestures without having to scan your face aggressively.

    I can see it all becoming a lot more believable. And chatting to company AI services like you would a person becoming the norm.

    And someone will be like "ha, remember the 'metaverse' back in 2023/4?" and someone else will point out all the technology they're using right then and there is owned by meta. In fact I bet there'll be a TIL post about it in 2035...