Pre-ordered the Shiftphone 8. While it’s promising I am unhappy with their constant delays and communication.

How much did you pay?

They didn’t vote. There was an overview somewhere on lemmy

The recent events show why we need encryption. Fascism is on the rise, it won’t take long until they search your messages for anything that goes against their will. That’s how they get rid of opponents. Back in the days it was checking letters and depending on neighbors to rat you out either by manipulating them believing that you are the enemy and dangerous for the country or by punishing people that knew what you said against the government etc.

Do you have some movie recommendations? I’m also happy to hear about older movies (60s 70s 80s)

The quality contrast between blu ray and DVDs is massive if done properly. As I said I only encountered it two times so far and I guess this was simply a cheap money grab and taken from the DVD or even worse sources yeah. Mostly noticable if they out multiple movies onto a single disc, but with all the other stuff blu ray is way more crisp than dvd. Maybe your tv is just better in upscaling. I guess especially for animes it’s easy to do so

I got tired of blu rays somehow:

• trailers at the beginning (skippable)
• copyright and and piracy warning (non skippabale)
• usually no english subs for blu rays bought in germany (original english sound though)
• got one with really bad quality and other versions on the internet looked way better (original the hills have eyes)
• wanted to lend a friend without a blu ray player a few by giving him my old laptop with a blu ray drive. No proper software to play it without fiddeling under linux
• resources and plastic cases (started buying used - but then if it’s a really good movie the studio won’t receive any support for it)
• players will need updates to be able to handle new encryption keys (never ran into it though bc I keep my PS updated)

Pros:

• the collection looks nice in the shelf
• picking up a movie is usually easier for me than on netflix
• I watched the bonus material after the movie which was often interesting

I know that feeling and you’re not alone. It’s terrifying and I don’t know how others handle it or if everyone just keeps quiet about it or live in ignorance about that fact. Also doesn’t help that I don’t believe in an afterlive.

Thank you!

Thank you very much. I should finally watch that show.

What movie/series is this template from?

Atleastforme I’d like to have a directory watcher syncing updated/new files automatically similar to the camera syncing. I’ll look for a custome solution (syncing it first to my raspberry pi and then to proton drive) once I have my new phone.

Gothic 3 - Vista Point

All that being said, I do think there is a place for chat GPT in simple queries like asking about syntax for a language you don’t know.

I am also weary regarding AI and coding but this is actually the first time I used ChatGpt to programm something for a small home project in python, since I never used it. I was positively surprised in how much it could help me getting started. I also learned quite a bit since I always asked for comparison with Java, which I know, and for reasonings why it is that way. I simply also wanted to understand what it puts out. I also only asked for single lines of code rather than generating a whole method, e.g. I want to move a file from X to Y.

The thought of people blindly copying the produced code scares me.

This. I have an LG Oled TV that can nearly trascode everything so I didn’t allow my user to use transcoding and forcing it to do direct play (there is also a plugin for it). Works like a charm. The only thing not supported are VobSubs but otherwise I had no issues.

Just came here to say this. Played it a while back and daaamn it blew my mind, such an awsme, underrated game.

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