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@ RetroEvolute @lemmy.world

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  • The Flash (2023) VFX

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  • I know I'm an outlier here, but I really enjoyed the movie. The CGI wasn't perfect, but I don't care. There's so much CGI in the movie, some was bound to be shite. It's WB after all, what haven't they fucked up in recent years? I think the bigger problem is the association with Ezra Miller and this version of Flash being pretty childish and weird.

    But I love a good Flashpoint story, and I'm excited about Gunn's DC.

  • What Reddit client did you use before the API changes?

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  • Relay. And I still miss it. Better than any of the other apps I've tried for reddit or lemmy. Very smart design and UX that made it far more usable and enjoyable.

  • Nothing crazy, but I love it here

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  • Thanks! Those are birchwood butcher block countertops (bought from Home Depot). I cut them to size (including the one by the window lengthwise to be slimmer), sanded, stained, and finished them, then attached some legs and risers I bought from various places on the web. Pretty hefty which keeps shaking/vibrations to a minimum. 👌

  • What was your first videogame that made you say "Ok, I need to play this game properly: I need to upgrade my specs"?

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  • Yeah, I saw that e3 demo with the pachinko barrels, water physics, and wood breaking, and I just knew had I to play it with no compromises. Spent my life savings at the age of 14 to build my first computer. Paid a friend's older brother to teach me how. 😅

  • Evergrande: Crisis-hit Chinese property giant reveals $81bn loss

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  • 81 BILLION dollars is a lot of motherfucking money.

  • Using cheap SSDs in RAID to increase speed/reliability?

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  • Gotcha. If the m.2 is cheaper (and consider additional HBAs or Adapters or chassis you'd need), then I'd go m.2 still. Just figured SATA might be a little more straightforward and is typically cheaper. Seems reasonable enough.

  • Using cheap SSDs in RAID to increase speed/reliability?

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  • Never tried a build withe M.2 drives, but unless you have a workload that actually needs that kind of speed, SATA SSDs might be better bang for the buck (especially if those m.2 drives aren't nvme). If you're just storing media or something, hard drives are probably still the way to go.

  • The 11-mile long, 600 lbs IMAX print of ‘OPPENHEIMER’

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  • Well, kind of. Nolan does shoot on film, including all of Oppenheimer, but they almost definitely brought it into some digital format for editing before pressing it back onto film in this case.

  • One of Reddit’s biggest communities is suggesting users move to Discord

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  • I didn't know about Forum channels, thanks for the heads-up. Are they crawled by search engines, though? I feel like with people deleting their reddit posts and moving to discord, it's already becoming a lot harder to find information online.

  • plex or Jellyfin?

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  • The $160 is a lifetime pass... I pay $20/mo for Netflix. That's $240/year. So, if you think it's worth it for even one year, compared to something like Netflix, then it's a pretty solid value proposition.

    I bought the lifetime pass in 2014 when it was $75. Been more than happy with that decision.

  • BattleBit Remastered - Update 1.7.2: Optimizations, Bug Fixes, UI updates

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  • I played some of this last week with some friends. I really want to like it as an OG battlefield player, but we all felt like it was just way too easy to die. There's just no time to react to anything. Hoping it gets better!

  • Nothing crazy, but I love it here

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  • They're wireless receivers, one for my mouse and one for my wireless modmic.

    Both would probably work okay hidden out of sight, but I had issues with the mic (that turned out to be a part of a recall, so not a problem anymore) so I've had the dongle out here for a while, and it is nice to be able to visually see if I'm hardware muted. The mouse is similar - nice to be able to unplug the dongle and have a wired mouse temporarily to charge it.

  • You Can't Look at Porn on Any Reddit Third-Party App Now

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  • Honestly, it seems what Reddit has been doing lately is far worse than anything Digg ever did. 🤷‍♂️ Digg basically just made a bunch of bad design decisions primarily but not entirely to please investors, and the majority of changes were not welcomed by the community.

    Reddit is straight up disrespecting their userbase and telling them to suck a fat one and deal with it, holding to their miserable decisions while openly suggesting their userbase is too weak to go anywhere else... And also doing so primarily to please misguided investors.

  • Mantis phone Detected on network

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  • I don't know much about the Mantis malware, but it does seem probable that it's related or another form of malware.

    You might be able to get into your router admin panel to view what connection the"mantis" device is connecting through to narrow things down. If it's on Wi-Fi or not, for example.

    Maybe shut down your current desktop and use a less frequently used machine to do the checks. No offense, but if you have custom skins in Windows, you probably don't have many hesitations over using miscellaneous applications from the web, and some malware may have come along with one of them.

    Once resolved, you'll want to update passwords.

  • What's a true fact that is so misleading it's borderline misinformation?

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  • Light roasted coffee has more caffeine than dark roasted coffee.

    Technically, per bean, more of the caffeine is cooked out of the dark roast. However, other things are also roasted out of a dark roast to the point that the individual beans are also lighter and smaller. When brewing coffee, usually you either weigh your dose of beans out, or you use a scoop for some consistency. Either method will result in more dark roast beans ultimately making it into the brew than would with a (larger, heavier) light roast.

    Typically, this more than cancels out the reduced caffeine content per bean, so a brew of dark roast coffee still typically has more caffeine in it.

  • Nothing crazy, but I love it here

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  • Just realized your username is HiddenRetro and I'm Retro. I have the side window and you don't. 😂

  • What can the 'average Joe' start hosting, that will change their life?

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  • Any reason to use PiHole over something like Adguard DNS?

  • Monarch Butterfly I found outside today

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  • Confirmed, not a Viceroy!

  • Nothing crazy, but I love it here

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  • Sure! It's a pretty middle of the line budget ultrawide: Nixeus EDG 34" (Bought back iin 2019 - I'd probably go QD-OLED these days, although I'll wait and see how burn-in goes for folks who bought some of these first gen monitors)

    I installed a monitor arm for it, but it looks like the specific one I bought is no longer available: HUANUO Single Arm Monitor Stand

  • What way did the Titan submersible implode?

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  • Did some math based on that number since it seemed pretty insane. That would mean that each side of the outer hull would have been moving inward at about 425mph by my estimate. Seems slower than I would expect by that number, but 4ms is hella fast.