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- Comment on In the future, it will be considered unbelievable that repairing a product used to be more expensive than buying a new one 2 days ago:
You don’t always need to replace the part with something the manufacturer offers as a replacement. Something like a screen board might be hard/ impossible to find an alternative for, but things like buttons or sensors inside of mice are rarely something made specifically by the mouse manufacturer. They can almost always be replaced by an equivalent generic part. Hell, my 3D printer motherboard took a shit on me a couple years ago, and I bought an aftermarket board and installed 3rd party firmware on it to get it up and running again.
Like you said it’d be great if it were just easy for everyone to do these things, but as devices get more advanced they’re gonna require more advanced knowledge to work on, and not everyone has the time, interest, or resources to learn how to diagnose and repair stuff.
- Comment on A hacker with thigh-high striped socks should take one for the team and really unredact all the names (and I mean *all of them*) in the Epstein Files. 2 days ago:
lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/61798865
They have a specific aesthetic in mind it seems.
- Comment on BASED? 2 days ago:
In the shitpost community no less!
- Comment on We could build a solar lazer with a ton of mirrors 1 week ago:
It is one of my favorite quotes from the entire series. Never before has a man painted a picture of himself as vivid as Jamie did when he delivered this line.
- Comment on We could build a solar lazer with a ton of mirrors 1 week ago:
My bad, I forgot there were two episodes on this, I think maybe you only saw the first one or parts of it. There was a huge wooden structure with hundreds of mirrors arranged in a concave shape that almost perfectly aligned all mirrors’ reflections into one spot and absolutely nothing happened. Even with perfect mirrors and modern construction tools and techniques we couldn’t recreate it.
- Comment on We could build a solar lazer with a ton of mirrors 1 week ago:
Look up “mythbusters solar death ray” I think you’ll enjoy it
- Comment on Complete protection when driving - jesus, hula girl, and dice 1 week ago:
What you need is Hula Jesus wearing a dice necklace
- Comment on ...is this retro? 1 week ago:
So the Xbox 720 is twice as good as the one before it, but the 900 only gives you a 25% increase? Who’d buy that garbage?
- Comment on It was as if it was taunting me 1 week ago:
Is this a Mickey7-Stamets crossover episode?
- Comment on Please, my son... He's sick... 2 weeks ago:
That’s what I thought when I took the picture months ago. I just saw it in my phone again and decided to post it, glad it’s making some people laugh
- Comment on Please, my son... He's sick... 2 weeks ago:
Never understood this. It seems like more of an insurance risk for a company to say, “no no, we provide our own certificate training here”. Now when someone fucks up they can say “I was operating the lift following Wal-Mart’s training protocols” and they have to show their shit is proper rather than just pointing the finger at OSHA or whoever.
- Comment on Please, my son... He's sick... 2 weeks ago:
Funnily enough, the jack was on the lift because we needed to unload a 16 wheeler with crates in the back.
- Comment on Why would anyone do this? 2 weeks ago:
Facebook was originally literally just a database of pictures of people from the school Zuck went to and a bunch of people deciding if they were, in fact, hot or not.
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- Comment on The Lord of the Rings spinoff the world needs right now isn’t Rings of Power or the Hunt for Gollum—it’s a film-length version of the Scouring of the Shire. 2 weeks ago:
The Tolkien Estate (namely Christopher) is incredibly protective of J. R. R.'s works and their integrity. Anything that is produced, they want produced true to his image. That being said they were very much not fans of the theatrical LotR films we know and love by New Line Cinema. Also worth noting that when J. R. R. sold the movie rights back in the 60s, he only sold the movie rights to the LotR trilogy and the Hobbit, but there was an additional clause that stated that if the Silmarillion were to be sold, the company that bought the rights to the LotR/Hobbit would get first dibs on it. So, if they want a Silmarillion movie, they have to offer it to the parent company of New Line Cinema, meaning they’d likely purchase it and produce the movies, which the Tolkien Estate does not want. So, the chances of the rights being sold, at least while New Line Cinema and it’s affiliates exist, are practically zero.
So, why not make it themselves? Very much for the same reason. I don’t know your familiarity with the Silmarillion, but… it’s very heavy reading. Not to say that it isn’t a good read, or that the story isn’t there, but the first section of the book is a bunch of shapeless angels singing songs about life and accidentally creating the universe, and the remainder of the book has 500 characters with a total of 17 different names that get altered, swapped, and outright changed halfway through the story. A true 1:1 adaption of the book would probably be longer than the original extended trilogy, but be way harder to follow for the average audience. So, major changes would be needed to make it financially viable, which are the exact things the Tolkien Estate does not want New Line Cinema making them.
TL;DR: The Tolkien Estate has to sell the Silmarillion rights to New Line Cinema before anyone else can buy it, and the Estate didn’t like the other movies so they aren’t going to sell it to them (and thus to anyone). They didn’t like the movies because the movies made too many changes to get the books to work for film, so they certainly will not be the ones to make the major changes that would be necessary to turn J. R. R.'s Bible fanfic into a Hollywood blockbuster.
- Comment on The Lord of the Rings spinoff the world needs right now isn’t Rings of Power or the Hunt for Gollum—it’s a film-length version of the Scouring of the Shire. 2 weeks ago:
I’m a huge LotR fan (probably going to go see Two Towers in theatre tonight!) and am very much not looking forward to this movie, lol. I was reading Fellowship a few months ago and go to the part of the book that talks about what the plot of Hunt for Gollum is about… Aragorn pretty much summarizes the entire thing in less than a paragraph. It’s pretty wild.
- Comment on The Lord of the Rings spinoff the world needs right now isn’t Rings of Power or the Hunt for Gollum—it’s a film-length version of the Scouring of the Shire. 2 weeks ago:
Viggo is playing Aragorn!
Viggo is now older than Ian McKellen was when he first played gandalf…!
- Comment on The Lord of the Rings spinoff the world needs right now isn’t Rings of Power or the Hunt for Gollum—it’s a film-length version of the Scouring of the Shire. 2 weeks ago:
Nobody is allowed to make content based off the Silmarillion. The Tolkien Estate has exclusive publishing rights for everything 1st and 2nd Age. That’s why Rings of Power is so bad, they’re basically trying to rewrite the lore to tell the same story and set everything up the way it already is without being and to use any source material.
It’s like, just tell a different story at that point bro.
- Comment on Learning the origin of a phrase 2 weeks ago:
I’m so angry after seeing this post (which is OBVIOUSLY full of FALSE information 😠) that I’m gonna look up sources and cite them in the shit posting community so everyone knows I’m smarter than them and totally understand what’s happening
- Comment on Designed a simple photo frame on FreeCad. Why are some layers peeling in my print? 2 weeks ago:
The corner is laying down. The would be no supports in either case, and the fillet avoids hard turns while the chamfer still has two (less sharp) angles.
Like 99% of things in 3D printing, “Xs are to be preferred over Ys” is an entirely circumstantial statement that is never going to be true all of the time.
- Comment on I'm not gonna be part of your system 2 weeks ago:
“threw it on the ground” - Lonely Island
- Comment on I'm not gonna be part of your system 2 weeks ago:
You can’t buy me, HOT DOG MAN
- Comment on Grinch 2 weeks ago:
Humans of different races can look pretty different from one another and only a problematic few would have trouble thinking we’re the same species.
Starting to sound like a Who Supremacist to me /s
- Comment on Designed a simple photo frame on FreeCad. Why are some layers peeling in my print? 2 weeks ago:
You might try adding a small fillet or chamfer to the inside corners of the model. 3D printers don’t like making sharp, pointed turns; rounded edges (or wider angled turns) tend to print much better.
The rounded (fillet) corners will probably be less visible, and will prevent the start / stopping point where the problem is occurring
- Comment on Grinch 2 weeks ago:
I don’t see any reference to two distinct species in that page…
- Comment on I'm not gonna be part of your system 2 weeks ago:
I came here to make the exact same reference, afraid it would be too far a stretch for anyone to make the connection.
- Comment on My friends are by my side 3 weeks ago:
All these comments about eye floaters and I’m wondering who has floaters in the form of sacred geometry
- Comment on My friends are by my side 3 weeks ago:
once you know there their
You’re mocking us, aren’t you
- Comment on Pros and cons 4 weeks ago:
My job involves a lot of travel.
Guy that got hired on with me with, largely because he missed his family so much when he was out of town.
Guy that replaced him non-stop complains about his wife and kid, always wants to work OT and out of town to get away from them.
Guess that’s what the company is after.
- Comment on Gen Z’s Tony Hawk is Tony Hawk 4 weeks ago:
“your tactics” is still like, several notches above a sane take on what OP actually posted. This is not a remotely problematic post.
