cerebralhawks

Microsoft sold the acquisition as good for consumers. Now they're doubling the price of GamePass.

Cue Jack's lack of surprise, or however the Fight Club meme goes.

I cautiously agree, I feel like I'd be fine with Ubuntu... but I'm also tech savvy. So I have to be cautious I do not assume my expertise is shared by others. What might be a speed bump for me might be a show stopper for someone else.

I work with people who don't understand why my iPhone has features theirs don't, looks differently from theirs. Like I'm some kind of hacker. Um, no, I just installed the Liquid Ass update last month. I mean that's when it was publicly released. I've been in the public beta since July. But users have had access to it for nearly a month. But just doing a system update is beyond some people. They gotta be walked through it.

I'd want to know, in Option 1, if the killings were random or focused. Because my first thought was Dexter Morgan, a generally if not genuinely good person who has an addiction to murder, and who has chosen to focus that addiction on people who deserve to die. Those who have harmed others and gotten away with it.

The other commenter's question about snitching doesn't fully cover the concern. If you snitch on them, that's one thing, but if they're caught, you're still forever alone. So maybe the stipulation should be that they won't ever get caught unless you rat them out. I'd say option 1 is appealing in certain conditions. If innocent people are being killed though, especially women and most especially children, that is 100% a no go. Dexter Morgan situation though? I could be convinced.

Smarter men than me have said that it's better to let ten men go free who are guilty of the same thing the one innocent man is not guilty of, rather than imprisoning the one innocent man. So I'll go with just the one being set free.

Option 1 does not preclude the decisions, actions, or efforts of others to stop this killer. If I had the option of capturing him, surely others will as well.

Arguably, the question is poorly worded as Option 2 does not define what will happen to the guilty man. Will he be executed, or sent to jail? That is to ask: what does killing the innocent man gain us? Is it a question of "both must die, or neither"?

There is an implied third option here. If the only requirement of the second man be that he is innocent of the crime, assuming the person answering is as well, the third option is to make your choice — condemn the innocent man — and then switch places with him.

Honestly, tell them to get a Mac. It runs certified UNIX. You get to think it's cool, they get to get by not caring what that means. The M4 Mac is like $500 and it kicks the tar outta PCs that aren't meant for gaming. Even still, it can run Cyberpunk. But it's not a gaming machine and shouldn't be viewed as one.

In my experience, while Linux has never been hard for me to use, the problem you're going to run into in telling your friend or family member to install this cool free hacker OS or whatever it is you try to sell it as, the second they run into a problem, they're going to come to you to fix it.

That said, I'd tell them to install Ubuntu if I wanted to take on that level of responsibility. By telling them to just get a Mac, I'm doing a few things. One, I'm getting someone out from under Microsoft's thumb. Maybe you don't think Apple is much better, but they're a lot better. Maybe not the best, but a fine alternative to Microsoft. Two, I'm making them a customer of a company that has good tech support. "Call them, not me, you got a free year of AppleCare, use it!" Three, I'm turning them on to a good computer.

Someone who needs help installing Linux is not going to be a self sufficient Linux user who will contribute in any more a meaningful way other than metrics (which aren't tracked by a lot of distros). Someone who is those latter things won't really need your help installing it, but they may come to you for advice on which distro to go with.

I'm not saying Linux is only for computer geeks and scientists, though it does attract that sort. I'm not saying new people shouldn't be introduced to Linux, just that they shouldn't be pushed in the deep end and expected to swim. Because now you're either a lifeguard, or you've contributed to a bigger problem — helping them to navigate from Linux to something like Windows or macOS (and now they trust you less).

I think it depends on the ISP. There are a few small ones that do not GAF what you do. I've been told "we do not care what you download, we only care that you can." There are a few big ones that are too big to care what people do on their network.

That said, you should always take precautions. A VPN is a good place to start.

I can see it. They got caught in your use of from, which isn't even incorrect. Via would have been a better word, but from works here just as well.

They're reading it as you're talking about pirating content that is owned by (from) your ISP, not what you meant, which is talking about pirating content from behind or via or even using your ISP. I guess through would have worked, too.

But the difference between me and them is, while I realise another word would have worked better, I understood exactly what you meant and didn't think it was an issue. Though I admit I thought the first thing... at first. Hey, it's early.

YouTube is not doing good. I get flickering on Apple TV. On my Mac videos play without sound (computer isn’t muted) or they take way too long to load. Granted I don’t pay, but wow. Google is not doing so well.

Good, but I feel like they let PG&E off with a slap on the wrist. I'm not 100% sure they were 100% responsible for that fire, but I do believe they were more negligent than they were fined for. Nothing "personal" against PG&E or anything like that but I feel like they could have had better safety regulations that may or may not have prevented that one big fire a few years back.

I know people who know nothing about Demon Slayer who went to see it.

Meanwhile I feel like I can't see it because I haven't seen the latest season.

And to think 10 years ago I would have had to drive 8 hours each way to see my favorite film, 君の名は。 (your name.) A year or two after it came out, the Tokyo Ghoul live-action movie (not anime, but Japanese, and based on manga) played 2 hours away — we drove to that. Then 天気の子 (Weathering With You, same director as 君の名は。 , Makoto Shinkai) was also 2 hours away and we went to that. Suzume (his latest film — I don't have the original title handy) played right in town. That was 2021 or 2022, maybe 2023? It's wild.

There are AI tools that can do that.

Look up the YouTuber "There I Ruined It." They do stuff like what you're talking about. Partly with AI. Partly with just mixing multitracks.

I really hate your idea, but damn, if I can help you pull it off... well, that's what I know. Best of luck to you. And my condolences to your enemies you will smite with this creation.

I'm old school, I just get the subs and integrate them with MkvToolNix. I was always super picky about my files, so I'd go in there and change around what the active/enabled/default streams were, give the streams better names (e.g. Stereo, Surround 5.1, whatever was appropriate — I never included the language, since the tag handled that). I'd even use en-us or en-gb if it was specifically one or the other (e.g. James Bond, Harry Potter for the latter). I even insisted my subtitles be in English for English movies, and American English for American English movies. So like, the word "honor" in a Harry Potter movie would not fly with me, it must say "honour" because... that's what the English specifically say. (Speaking of Harry Potter, no "Sorcerer's Stone" bullshit in my library, I have the "Philosopher's Stone" version because, of course I do. The first one was the only one with a regional title.)

So because of that, I can use Jellyfin and the subs work just fine.

I am familiar with Plex's auto sub downloader. Despite owning a lifetime Plex Pass, it would put ads in the subtitles. That may be on the site's end though, not Plex's.

Still a Plex user, and I'm on a Mac, but all this shit works whether you're a Windows user or a Mac user. Probably Linux, too. I tried Jellyfin recently. It's fine if your clients are running Android, but they are just not there on Apple devices yet. My computer (M2 Pro) is plenty powerful enough to run both servers (servers use very little resources when not serving) but I just don't see a need for Jellyfin in my rotation. I do root for the project though, I want it to succeed, so I'll try it every year or so.