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John Cho was solid, the writing was terrible and tried too hard to make it have light hearted jokes, a la Marvel. Like the “Shower bath shower” scene was out of character for both Spike and Faye and didn’t land under the circumstances.

Cpu is a ryzen 2600, it doesn’t have an iGPU.

MakeMKV (at least in windows) lets you rip a remuxed mkv without having to rip everything. So you can just select the titles, audio, and subtitle tracks you want without ripping all the other stuff. You don’t need to make a full backup and then pull all that out.

I game at 3440x1440 ultrawide, and upgraded from a 3090 to 4090. 4090 is significantly faster and smoother. And DLSS3 frame interpolation is no joke- in Hogwarts Legacy with every setting cranked up and max ray tracing, turning on DLSS3 jumped me from around 80fps with noticeable 1% low stutters and now pegs it at the 144fps limiter I set in game. Smooth as butter.

Also I mess around with some AI things like stable diffusion, and it’s much faster for that as well. As much as I hate the term “future proof”, the 4090 is more worth it in that regards, IMO.

Microsoft’s Gamepass gives you a discounted price on games, so if you see that something is going to fall out of their subscription catalog you can purchase it for less. It’s only like 20% off but it’s nice that they offer it.

That’s why I never fly southwest. Had to do it a couple of times because of fight availability, and it’s just a stress-inducing system. I like to pick the seat I want and have it locked in in advance.

• Noise cancelling headphones
• If you have a tablet, bring that for entertainment. Or you can use your phone. All of the bigger subscription services (Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video, HBO Max, Disney+) have a download option for movies and shows, so download an array of things you’re interested in to your phone or tablet ahead of time. And some airlines have their own library of media for free on their wifi, without having to pay the outside internet fee. Make sure you have the airline’s app downloaded.
• The best seats on a plane (outside of 1st class, obviously) are the 2nd exit row seats, if your plane has 2 rows of exit. Most leg-space anywhere, but the 1st row seats can’t recline so they won’t block the 2nd exit row.
• I can sleep on planes, so I purposefully only get 5-6 hours of sleep the night before and use the plane time to catch back up on sleep.
• Your armrest can fold up, there’s a little button underneath it towards the back. Push that in and push up the armrest. Good for when you have an aisle seat for getting in/out, or if you don’t have someone sitting next to you.
• If you’re in the US and have to fly a few times a year at least, TSA precheck is very much worth it. Even longer Precheck security lines go pretty quick. Your job may even pay the fee for you, or some airlines you can pay for it with miles.

Word is Lemmy and kbin are working to make the process more automated, so if you click a link to a community/magazine your instance want aware of it’ll start aggregation without having to manually do the search. Downside of going with a free, open source, decentralized solution is there aren’t a bunch of devs dedicated to updating the platforms for a living, so features will roll out slower.

Kbin is newer, so it has less traffic on its magazines than communities on Lemmy do, at least at the moment. Just like in Lemmy or other fediverse instances, to see kbin magazines someone has had to search for them on your Lemmy instance before they’ll show up on your instance. So more people searching for Lemmy communities in your insurance rather than kbin’s magazines means less will show up on your feed. That’s what they have in common.

Kbin itself is a different software backend to access the fediverse. It supports viewing/subscibing/posting to Lemmy communities in other fediverse instances, but also has microblogging support (basically like random Twitter posts) that supports mastodon (fediverse Twitter). It also has a lot of customization options if you go into your kbin settings. Plus I read kbin doesn’t rely on Javascript like Lemmy does, so that’s a nice security bonus.

Kbin is much newer but I like the direction it’s going. They do need to simplify link aggregation to make it a bit easier to view communities, but it’s a work in progress that has a lot of potential.

Oh yeah, as soon as reddit fixes the accessibility on their app, all 3rd party ones that exceed their “free tier” API usage are gonna be nixed. And Redreader being called out as a white listed alternative means people will flock to it in the meantime, giving Reddit an easy out once they get their shit in order.

Damn, HBO really needs to pick up Half Life as a live action show.

Can it be called c/GameOfThronesSeasons1-5.5?

Yeah that kind of came out of nowhere since they never marketed like that. But after sitting there for what felt like the full 2 hours and they’re opening new plot points I kind of figured it was heading towards a cliffhanger. Not too mad though, it’s well written enough that I’m glad they’re talking their time instead of trying to cut it into one movie.

Try out kbin, it’s geared for Lemmy and mastodon in one place.

Well, at least Cyan has announced a Riven remake!

Eh, Steve!

I think this popped up on my Spotify weekly playlist once, and I added it to my “Random findings” playlist. Takes me back to putting on shows for local bands back in the early 00’s.

Easier way for Kbin seems to be dropping the “!” and putting it after Kbin.social/m/

So /m/cats@midwest.social should take you there.