cerebralhawks

How do you mean "where is it going?"

The most recent iteration of "derpy" I've heard was in the Kpop Demon Hunters fandom. That's what fans call the tiger-spirit-thing. I don't know what its real name is, or if it has one, and I've seen the movie three times. At this point I don't care, its name is Derpy.

If you're not familiar, it's a tiger spirit (apparently this is a thing in Korean folklore) and it appears to one of the demon hunter girls, and after initially appearing scary, it knocks over a planter, and proceeds to try to right the planter before proceeding. After several failed attempts, the girl intervenes and sets the planter right... only for the tiger to knock it over again and again attempt to right it. (It's not a scary scene. Everyone loves the tiger.)

The Dark Tower. Good movie in its own right, especially if you like Idris Elba.

First, they took 8 Stephen King books, some of which were like 2" thick, and decided to turn it into a 90-minute PG-13 film. A single film.

Second, because the racist element was so offensive (a Black woman taken out of the 1970s, who has personally experienced racism toward her, is taken to a foreign world, an alternate reality, where she basically is led by an old white man (modeled after Clint Eastwood) and naturally she feels a certain type of way about that) they decided they were going to change it up. Make her white, and him Black. Hence casting Idris Elba as a guy based on Clint Eastwood. Then they dropped her character entirely. I will argue that Elba made a hell of a Gunslinger, but the reason they cast him was because they wanted to turn the whole racism plot on its head. For no good reason. It was fine in the books (this would be The Drawing of the Three, and The Waste Lands, the second and third books).

But for all that, it was an entertaining action flick with a bunch of Stephen King references. I quite like it. As a reader of the books and a fan of Stephen King, I shouldn't, but the movie itself was good.

Honestly that the movie exists at all is the worst change, though.

Also worth noting: the people they’re scamming don’t know a Galaxy from an iPhone, let alone a Galaxy from one photoshopped with a gold back and T1 on it.

I don’t think they care, either. If they know it’s a Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra and they’re being charged double for one but it has a Trump case and they think buying it will fund violence against dark skinned/LGBTQ+ people, they’re not really being scammed. They’re putting their money where their mouth is.

IANAP but it seems like it would be trivial for a client app to do. Look at the combined vote weight (e.g. -8 + 4 = -4) and if it's below user inputted threshold, don't display it.

That said, Lemmy isn't Reddit. When I see a post with a negative score, I can sometimes see why it's not popular, but it's seldom straight up garbage, and I can still vote accordingly. Never used the feature on Reddit because I've been brigaded by entire communities for acknowledging that their favorite show's latest season exists (it's not Game of Thrones, but similar energy), and I don't think people should have the right to censor others; I believe each person should have the right to choose what they see.

There isn't a phone. They're just photoshopping other phones into photoshops of gold cases.

There isn't a phone. All there is, is a grift.

Delivery isn’t worth it a lot of the time. Even eating out costs too much. I can cook, so I’d rather just do it myself. If restaurants start to fold, I will have no sympathy. They priced out the working man, and if the rich man doesn’t support them, well, they gotta lay in the bed they made.

Making a burger was easy before. Air fryers mean anyone can make a burger that beats any fast food place and most sit down restaurants. What separates a burger made by a pro chef from mine is, the pro chef uses better meat, that is freshly sourced and ground that day. They also mix two or more kinds and grind them together. They use American cheese and pickles for chemistry reasons and they’re good enough for most people. I use pepper jack because it’s higher quality and tastes better.

I’m working on my taco game. Tacos are so hard to get right, but when you do, when you get on par with local Mexican places with Mexicans cooking it, it’s so rewarding. (Getting over Taco Bell is child’s play.) I will not say I’ve done better than authentic. I’ve gotten close to their level though. A local taqueria is hard to beat!

Pasta is too easy. There are a couple tips. Learn al dente and stop cooking pasta just before that stage. Drain but leave a little of the starchy water. With pasta sauce, check the ingredients for sugar! If they’ve included it, fine. If not, add some! So tomatoes are super acidic. They will upset your stomach. Sugar counters that. I also add crushed red pepper, cayenne powder, Abe either Texas Pete or Tabasco — basically a red hot sauce. Frank’s is another one. So basically I make something called arrabiata — that’s Italian for angry pasta. Not too hot but a bit of a kick. With meatballs and penne pasta.

Pretty sure we watched The Outsiders in school. Good movie. Great book.

As someone who’s only used Telegram to chat with real people, this headline confuses me. I keep hearing about Telegram channels but all I find are scams.

It’s going to be plagiarism so yes, it is.

I’ve asked Copilot at work for word help. I’ll ask out something like, what’s a good word that sounds more professional than some other word? And it’ll give me a few choices and I’ll pick one. But that’s about it.

They’re useful, but I won’t let them do my work for me, or give them anything they can use (we have a corporate policy against that, and yet IT leaves Copilot installed/doesn’t switch to something like Linux).

Yes, I love using Firefox on my Galaxy S10. iOS has uBlock Origin Lite and it’s fine in Safari but there’s just no point in using Firefox on iOS. And that’s sad.

For ad free YouTube it kinda works but I’m sure it’s more reliable on Android.

I used to root, and if you do that you can edit the HOSTS file or have something like AdAway do it for you. Unrooted Android is like iOS: DNS filtering. Though I don’t even do that on my S10, I just use Firefox and uBlock Origin.

I should note, I don’t do tablets. My portable computer is a MacBook Air, and that runs Firefox with uBlock Origin just like Windows does, and Android. Wife doesn’t need all of a laptop, so she’s happy with the iPad. I don’t think I’ll ever get one, but if they made iPhone Mini Pro, I’d consider getting one and then getting an iPad Mini. 4” phone, 8” tablet, 15” laptop, 27” desktop monitor. But for now with a 7” phone I don’t need a tablet.

Not an online gamer, but I heard a similar sentiment from a boss about 20 years ago. He told me "if you make a mistake one time, I got your back, but we'll speak in private and I'll counsel you. Make the mistake again, I'll let my pen do the talking. Make it a third time, you're off the team."

It escalates quickly, but his management style helped us learn from the mistakes. Sometimes the second time happened. But everyone was willing to go to war with this guy. I mean, proverbially. This was also a guy who would bring his grill to work and cook for everyone one weekend a month. Companies that say you're family, big red flag. A boss who walks the walk as well as talks the talk? Huge green flag.

Just because Google has doesn't mean that Samsung and other Android OEMs have. They're still pumping them out.

Honestly though? What are the good Android tablets? How do you know?

My wife only uses Android phones, and we went through 2-3 Android tablets. They all crapped out after like a year. Ones we thought were good. She never even considered the iPad, until I bought her one. Now it's been like four years? It was new when we got it. Fourth-generation Air. Still runs good as new. Sure, it doesn't run Android apps, you can't put Nova Prime on it, and if that's what you're used to, well, the home screen kind of sucks. It's good enough to get you into the apps though, which is where the iPad pulls ahead. And you get the benefit of the 'other' app ecosystem.

For most people, the base level iPad is good enough. The Air and Mini offer premium upgrades over the base, and personally I think the Pro is overkill, but it's also the biggest one, and some artists like that expanded canvas.

Sometimes it's good to use different tech. Android tablets have never been great. iPads have never been less than "good enough." There may have been a couple Android tablets that were better than the base iPad, but they'd be few and far between and you wouldn't really know until it had been out a few years.