[-] funchords@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 3 months ago

My 76 y/o spouse loves Linux Mint. The 2017-bought desktop was deemed insufficient for Windows 11 and now runs Mint.

[-] funchords@lemmy.sdf.org 46 points 10 months ago

This video has 7.6M views and was posted 2 years ago

[-] funchords@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

A lot of the comments so far are trying to stay with the negative connotation to exploitation. You exploit your comfortable shoes to walk further each day. You exploit the microwave oven's ability to more quickly warm your coffee than the stove.

This is the same with discrimination. You choose the raspberry danish over the cheese danish. This is you practicing discrimination, and it's fine.

Any evil in it comes from abuse or impact to yourself with respect to others, that second definition of exploitation in the OP.

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Our (spouse and I) are in a few of these funds. Is there a retirement calculator that figures out projections of these always-adjusting funds?

The Fidelity "Monte Carlo" simulation seems to not adjust with them even though these funds do.

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Susan Oliver was playing a green-skinned Orion slave girl, but I had to test her makeup because she was too expensive and I was under contract already; I was cheap, they had to pay me anyway. The makeup they put on me was green as green can be, but they kept on sending out the rushes and we would get it back for the next day, and there I was just as pink and rosy as could possibly be. This went on for three days until they finally called the lab and said, “What do we do? We’re trying to get it green.” And they said, “You want that? We’ve been color-correcting.”

Excerpt from: The Fifty-Year Mission: The First 25 Years

[-] funchords@lemmy.sdf.org 28 points 10 months ago

Yes. When somebody else has a better take and I want it to be the top comment, I will downvote mine.

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(Recorded before the pandemic lockdowns.) Peter Hollens in a Greatest Showman cover with a chorus of 300.

The joy in these faces! Great voices! Well done.

[-] funchords@lemmy.sdf.org 27 points 10 months ago

I (age 60) remember buying my condo in 1991 or so, interest rates about 7% with a VA-guaranteed loan. My parent's first mortgage was 2% or 3% but my mom, a Realtor, said those days were permanently gone. (They weren't. I had that in the house I bought in 2010.) But it felt forever at the time, and she thought it would be forever.

Nothing is forever. It may crash, but something else we can't imagine might happen too. I think we all agree the present situation is unsustainable.

[-] funchords@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 10 months ago

I use a credit card because our laws in the USA protect credit-card purchases better than they do debit-card and other electronic purchases.

Although I use a credit card with revolving credit, I always pay the full balance each month. In this way, it acts as a debit card, but I get the benefits of a credit card. I have to remember to pay it on time, but I can set up autopay even for that.

My credit union (a kind of non-profit bank owned by its members) is the issuer of the card, and it gives a 2% cash award for credit-card usage.

[-] funchords@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 10 months ago

The result of about half of recent lander missions from Earth is failure.

The USA hasn't tried one recently.

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

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Infinity (1996) (www.youtube.com)

I recommend this. I found this rather unknown flick looking for something to watch with my YouTube Premium subscription. Rotten Tomatoes had it on their list.

Infinity was directed and starred Matthew Broderick and was written by his mother, Patricia Broderick. With a $5 million budget, it earned less than $200,000 at the box office.

The younger years of Nobel Prize-winning genius Richard Feynman is the background to this underrated love story.

I don't know how these things work, but the ending credits make it look like a Broderick family indie project. Despite being formatted for a 4:3 TV, some of the New Mexico exteriors are lovely!

Free on YouTube Premium or with ads

Rotten Tomatoes 63%

IMDb 6.1/10

[-] funchords@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 10 months ago

Unfortunately, I'm finding Lemmy 2023 just as shallow as Reddit 2023.

[-] funchords@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'm keeping to my policy of only subscribing to two things at one time, and rotating so that I get to see the seasons of the things that I really want to see.

I've never been much of a pirate, mainly because I do believe in supporting those that produce the art that I love. That said, I am a big user of the library. And when there's some FOSS product that I like, I support it. And while I could and can buy commercially now, I remember the days when I couldn't and I survived on FOSS and the library.

With that said, let me say that I think that the content industry shoots itself in the foot when it creates these higher prices, obscene length of copyright terms, polluting their own products with commercial ads ,and fake scarcity. They deserve all the piracy that their own behavior generates!

I think Mike Masnick has it right. The best defense against piracy is to compete against it with superior offerings.

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This song is like a musical hug!

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submitted 11 months ago by funchords@lemmy.sdf.org to c/thrifty@lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/1422052

We enjoy the Voila! Three Cheese Chicken from Birds Eye $6.49 But we add our own additional frozen vegetables (plain, 1 pound, Italian blend) and cubed boneless skinless chicken (marinated for a day, then cooked and cubed) to make it come out to about $2.25 per serving (4) and about 300 Calories.

For $2.50 in the added ingredients, double the yield and improves the carbs, sodium, and protein. The calories are virtually identical.

The 21 ounce Birds-Eye package says that it serves three, but in practice we find that it serves two. Add your own generic frozen veggies and cubed cooked chicken and you serve four.

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submitted 11 months ago by funchords@lemmy.sdf.org to c/frugal@lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/1422052

We enjoy the Voila! Three Cheese Chicken from Birds Eye $6.49 But we add our own additional frozen vegetables (plain, 1 pound, Italian blend) and cubed boneless skinless chicken (marinated for a day, then cooked and cubed) to make it come out to about $2.25 per serving (4) and about 300 Calories.

For $2.50 in the added ingredients, double the yield and improves the carbs, sodium, and protein. The calories are virtually identical.

The 21 ounce Birds-Eye package says that it serves three, but in practice we find that it serves two. Add your own generic frozen veggies and cubed cooked chicken and you serve four.

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Local Hero (1983) (www.youtube.com)

This enchanting comedy takes place in Scotland and America, and is full of character quirks that are engaging and charming. The humor is infectious. It was nearly two hours well spent with people who were fascinating and made you smile and laugh, and appreciate a life different than your own.

Burt Lancaster has a supporting role in this in a character unlike any I've ever seen from him. To say that it is out there a bit is to foreshadow, and I won't spoil it (and the role didn't spoil it, either).

I subscribe to You-Tube Premium and this was one of the free movies that came with the deal. There have been two DVD releases of this title so your local library probably has it too. On Rotten Tomatoes, the Critics universally loved this movie and the Audience Score agreed 87%.

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The song Kentucky Babe on that page is an awesome song and easy to learn.

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The Nice Guys (2016) (lemmy.sdf.org)

Currently on Netflix. The movie got nearly universal positive professional reviews and scored a 79% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

This movie stars Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe as investigators of the disappearance of somebody named Amelia (Margaret Qualley).

It is very hard to care about anybody in this film as they all pretty much are terrible people. It is practically a farce parade and I kept waiting for someone to care about and any reason to care. Finally after about 60 minutes, I asked my spouse if he was getting into this at all. After about five more minutes he also was in the same space: enough is enough, turn it off.

[-] funchords@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 11 months ago

As an audio enthusiast, it sucks that I can’t upgrade my stereo/audio system.

Exactly! I can have the system I want but having it somehow means no heated seats in the winter.

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Last night, I watched The Four Feathers movie starring Heath Ledger, Wes Bentley, Djimon Hounsou and Kate Hudson. This is one of those movies that the critics were lukewarm about but the audience seemed to love better than that. Count me among those lovers.

It is an exquisitely done period piece based on a novel. Not only is the photography stunning, but the story is well told.

The feathers in the title are from an old tradition of shaming cowardice by handing the purported coward a white feather. To say anymore would be moving into spoiler territory.

The movie is a little more than two hours, well spent in my opinion.

In the USA, I found this on Paramount Plus.

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Home Free's version of Blake Shelton's Hillbilly Bone

This Acappella group has made me love country music!

[-] funchords@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 year ago

It's not about money. They do have a particular take on running their instance than most open general-use instances. You can read about that and their rationale and decisions and decide whether it is for you.

Informed by that, you might then decide if beehaw is for you or not. If beehaw is for you, talk about why you are joining in particular regards to gelling with their particular philosophy.

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