cerebralhawks

You’ve fallen for the fallacy that everyone who doesn’t agree with you 100% is 100% wrong. Ergo, you can never be right, and no one wants you on their side because you’re trying to chase away their allies.

Cool thing is, it’s pretty easy to notice here.

If you don’t care about GTA VI, next time regular games go up in price, be sure to thank someone who preordered GTA VI for voting for gaming price increases.

No disc makes sense since the game is $100 and would be more expensive if they had to give you 3 Blu-rays with each purchase (what it would take to house the 212 or 216GB of data, at minimum).

No disc isn’t the problem, it’s the price tag. Digital was supposed to make games cheaper since they wouldn’t have to ship them or pay truckers or retailers.

Not a Mac

I love using Macs, but I cannot get my desktop to not sleep, and when it sleeps, it disconnects its external hard drive (which is not bus powered, it has a dedicated power supply). The bus-powered SSD (Samsung T7) is fine though. I don’t know if it’s an Apple thing or an ARM64 thing, but I’m looking for a low-end 8th-gen Intel box that’s limited to Win10 to put headless Linux on it, and terminal in from my Mac for server/homelab stuff. Macs are good for Unix type stuff since that’s what they’re based on (since OS X) but they don’t seem too good as servers.

Could be PEBCAK but I dunno.

Stephen King wrote a book about this. His answer was the 1960s. The book is 11/22/63, which is the date of the John F. Kennedy assassination, as in, his main character is ultimately going back not just to prevent it, but to see if Oswald acted alone. But the way he writes about the time period tells me King really just wanted to revisit the decade of his youth. Born in 1948, King would have been 10 in 1958, the year his character travels to, and he would have been about 15 when Kennedy was assassinated. (Highly recommend the book. One of my favourites of his. And it’s not horror. It’s Americana, nostalgia, with a side of fantasy (the time travel bit).)

So when I say, my gut reaction is the mid-to-late 80s, to early 90s, I guess he and I have a similar idea, but King had way loftier ambitions.

Just finished Heavenly Delusion yesterday. What a ride, and way to not answer any questions, really. It’s set up like a more ambitious Promised Neverland, which is awesome, but it just kinda drops off without really solving anything. At least with The Promised Neverland, the escape arc was mostly self-contained, so it’s fine to stop after one season.

Also, had a friend try to tell me to bring tissues to a TV series’ season finale. (Not Six Feet Under. I am very familiar with that one.) He was appalled that I didn’t cry. I had to remind him I watch anime, and anime doesn’t mess around when it comes to tear jerkers. You could go with Angel Beats!, Clannad, Anohana, Your Lie in April, or if you really wanna throw someone for a loop… Sword Art Online. Specifically the end of the second season. The girl in purple who never lost a fight, until she did. (And, I’m sure people here can name a ton of others.)

Microsoft is already planning on Project Helix (the next Xbox) being available without a disc drive. That’s why they’re letting you unlock digital entitlements on discs except where the publisher (e.g. Square Enix, Namco Bandai) has opted out. You can even unlock a Series disc in an XB1 (it just won’t play the game — unless you also have GamePass Ultimate, in which case you can stream it). So if you buy a Helix without a disc drive and Helix discs are available, you will (in theory) be able to pop the disc in a Series or XB1 and unlock the entitlement, then download it to the Helix.

This is possible because since XB1, every game disc has been uniquely coded.

Nintendo… not sure. They do cart and digital. I don’t think they have any new games that are cart only. Plenty that are digital only.

RADWIMPS - 君の名は。 and 天気の子. (Your Name and Weathering With You)

Yep. Specifically the bathtub scene.

Inuyashiki. That isn’t a typo — I’m not talking about the canine ninja dude, I’m talking about the old man and the young man who get replaced with killer androids. That second episode…

Fair. But, in your/their world, how does one seek the information? If they aren’t allowed to ask, should they then just ask AI, or read an article otherwise written from Reddit/forum posts?

To ask it another way: How do you justify a person being curious and asking in good faith if an AI could just farm the post later? I think, but I’m not sure, that Lemmy has some kinds of safeguards against that? I know with Reddit it was wide open. I used it for the better part of a decade, wrote long-winded posts full of information; I know AI was trained in part based on my posts (among millions of others).

Thanks. The more I see, the more I realise I should just leave the AI stuff out. AI and gaming were outlier possibilities anyway, though I’m way more interested in gaming than AI. Right there with you on AI ethics. I don’t like seeing them steal art and rip off artists, but they can be good at tracking down solutions on various forums. At least, they do it faster. But it sounds like running one might be outside my budget, so I’m more interested in running services, and light/classic gaming, since I have an Xbox (Series X).

If I was looking for content for a blog or a video, would it be such a bad thing? Getting a lot of good information. Not sure what’s wrong with that.

Thanks. I took note the first time I read that, but I appreciate the emphasis.

Heard good things about proxmox. What do you mean it’s Debian? It’s an OS? I thought it was some kind of VPN thing that gets your services out onto the web so you can access them remotely or something like that.

I’m inclined to agree I don’t need a DE (desktop environment, though I suppose I’m the only one who had to think about that for a second as the new guy) but I was also interested in checking out some Steam games. Would that be something I could spin up separately (Steam via Proton) or would that be better as its own project with its own goals?

14th gen is kind of a price jump, but if I’m only targeting 16GB RAM (per another reply), it might be doable. Having my Mac just convert the AV1 to HEVC (or just avoiding AV1 entirely) sounds like it would make more sense. I’m seeing a lot of refurb deals on 11th gen i5s and that’s what I was thinking.

What are LXCs?

I vaguely understand what docker is. I’ve tried to set it up on my Mac and had no luck getting it going. My understanding is that if you want to move your jellyfin install to another machine, it’s easy to just grab the whole container rather than hunting down jellyfin’s settings spread throughout the disk. I’ve moved a Plex installation and it’s not fun. It’s not hard but it’s not fun. So yes, it would be beneficial to be able to just move a container from machine to machine if need be.

I’m not new, but I shouldn’t consider myself any more advanced than a new/beginner level user. I remember liking Red Hat back when that was a home user distro. I didn’t much like Fedora. I have used Mint and I like it well enough. I also like Ubuntu. Heard good things about one called Cachy.

Mac user, but hey, as long as it can rip to a raw, uncompressed file, I’m just gonna do my compression with fre:ac. It’s on Mac and Windows, so maybe it’s on Linux too? If not, I’m sure you know of an encoder you love (I mean ffmpeg can be used in the command line, don’t Linux guys love the command line? I love using the terminal on my Mac. Using it to write this post. Kidding, but I do use homebrew.)

Reverse? Gotta be Ouran High School Host Club. Regular? Sword Art Online because real ones know it isn’t one at all. Kirito is just a ladies man. There’s his fiancé, her best friend, his sister, his friend who he sees as a sister and an equal, and his AI daughter. Then there’s his best friend, and his boyfriend.

Are we talking the OPs or like, the score?

For the former, Bungo Stray Dogs and Sword Art Online are easy picks, though they both only used a couple/few artists. Fullmetal Alchemist (both of them) had more variety and a good range. My Hero Academia, too.

I consider it double dipping to charge 2026 prices on 2019 performance. They’re saving the money not using performant parts and they’re still charging full price. The old Nexus phones were the same way, except they were cheaper than flagships.

Used is a thing but it’s kind of sketchy. And an older phone isn’t going to be supported as long.

I never said I needed the latest phone, and I’m not going to argue a point I don’t believe in. I have a 7 year old Android phone that still rocks. I also have a 2 year old iPhone. Guess which one has better typing? And a few other things better?

All newer phones are good for is AI.

Linux, yes. GrapheneOS requires you to pay the piper. You have to buy a Google phone (i.e. pay iPhone 17 Pro money for an iPhone 11-powered phone), so Google already double dipped. You’re just preventing them from triple dipping by selling your data. You still have to contribute to their bullshit.

They are coming out with Motorola phones that run GrapheneOS. Word is, they won’t be cheap.

I’m curious about Linux. I’m hearing you can install it on any Android phone without root, but I fear I may be seeing AI slop in my YouTube feed. I don’t trust it.

And yet still, PlayStation loyalists will say “never Xbox” even as Sony continues to stab them in their backs.

Just like Android users who say they want to get away from Google, all the while shouting “never Apple” despite Apple claiming to stand for privacy while Google does not hide the fact that they sell your data to the highest bidder.

Some people really are their own worst enemies.

Not that “the other company” is always better. But still, it’s fine to switch sides when the company you’re with does you dirty. I was a PlayStation guy. I’m with Xbox now because Xbox had the All Access programme that let me get an Xbox for $35 a month (with GamePass). Yes I paid like $900 and was locked into GamePass for 2 years, but I was “locked in” at the original price when month-to-month payers were paying twice what I was paying. And I ultimately saved $20 overall. I would have a PS5 if Sony offered the same deal. At times I thought I was going PS6 next gen. Microsoft got my business this generation. I was willing to switch. I also switched to iPhone when Android phones all sucked one year and I needed one because the one I had needed to be factory reset every couple weeks. The carrier told me not to do it, that people stick with one or the other for a reason. I said nah, fuck that, look at my choices and tell me what you’d do. Right, the iPhone. No regrets. If I needed a phone right now, I’d grab a Fairphone 6+. Actually kind of want it, but I don’t need one right now (and can’t afford one right now either).

Don’t be loyal to one camp when the other is doing better. Be willing to switch sides. But not just that. These companies have to know people are willing to switch. That they aren’t locked in. That they have a choice and have the stones to make it.

I always wondered what GKIDS stands for. Apparently it’s, according to Wikipedia, Guerrilla — it stands for Guerrilla Kids International Distribution Syndicate.

That’s weird AF. I also hate the implication that anime is for kids. It’s not, even if GKIDS sticks to PG material (I’m not sure they do, but I’m also not sure they don’t).

Then again, a lot of names don’t really mean much. I mean, I’m not a hawk, let alone a plural of hawks, so do I have any room to speak?

I’d say Your Lie in April qualifies. Yes, they telegraph the ending from very early on. You know it’s gonna happen. They swerve a couple times. You think maybe it won’t. Then it does. “Ah, that sucks, but I called it from the very beginning,” you say. Then the story keeps going, and just when you think “oh yeah what’s with the title? It never made any sense,” they explain the title.

Angel Beats! is another good one. It’s about a purgatory school. They tell you the girl called “Angel” is trying to get people to move on. She kind of is, and eventually those opposing her realise that’s the right move, but there’s a lot more to it than that. Ask yourself why she’s trying to help others when everyone else is just out for themselves.

Then there’s Sword Art Online II (the second season). The first part, with the gun game, kind of has a twist — how a guy in a video game that should be harmless is killing people IRL by shooting them in a video game. It’s pretty lame, though. The second part, the last seven episodes, if it were a standalone anime, it would be my favourite anime. The adaptation of book 7, Mother’s Rosary. The secret behind the undefeated duelist.

Yes but more like Fallout Shelter (which is like FTL but from the side).

I get why you went to FTL, because it’s in space and you’re on a ship. Maybe Fallout Shelter was inspired by FTL?

But nah, this is more like Fallout Shelter in space, maybe with some elements of FTL because rather than having a base where characters are added and must go out for resources, the base moves and can’t really get new characters (or maybe it can, Neelix, Seven, and Kes came from the Delta Quadrant, so ostensibly they could get more) but still sends people out on missions.

Because the point was the moral question.