tias

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[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Sure, some of the choreography wasn't up to par with modern standards. But the script was actually interesting, whereas the prequels are just an illogical, boring mess.

Check out Red Letter Media's review for tons of arguments for how bad the prequels are. I agree with pretty much all of their points. And while the original movies also have problems, they aren't anywhere near this many or this bad.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

And the dance!

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 16 hours ago

Yes but you only get the subsidy if you buy Melania's book

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Except the old movies are much better when compared side by side to the new ones, nostalgia or not.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 days ago (4 children)

If the phone saves its state before rebooting, why would that help? It will still be accessible after the reboot. What's the attack vector?

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Hideo Kojima is 61 years old. How old is that picture!?

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As if the best people won't leave once the layoffs start

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Kagi has good search results and they are presented well. It also has some useful features like forbidding certain sites and prioritizing others. I like that by paying I'm the customer and not the product. And their "small web" initiative is commendable.

That said, I've been a customer for nine months on an annual subscription, and I will not be renewing. The first reason is that I find them just too expensive for what they do. The second is that, even being that expensive, they're not breaking even. That undermines my trust in their future as a search engine and makes me less interested in paying a little extra for a good cause.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, won't work well with multiplayer games though since they typically have anticheats that don't play well with Linux.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's wild that they are not breaking even with these prices. I've had an annual subscription since January and made nearly 5000 searches. Extrapolating to a year, I will have been paying about $0.17 per search. If that would go to the electricity bill then it corresponds to about 1 kWh of energy per search, enough to run a 50-watt laptop PC for 20 hours.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I own my PC. The annoying thing is that I might have to pay a subscription for the gaming OS that I dual-boot to sometimes. Might just make me buy a console instead. OTOH, Sony already charges exorbitant subscription prices for the ability to play online.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 61 points 2 weeks ago (20 children)

It's a school activity, why isn't the school paying for the materials

 
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