tabris @ tabris @lemmy.world

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Deleted my Plex account as soon as I got this email, using the account link in said email, so hopefully they see the connection.

The Evil Dead trilogy.

A younger friend of mine had started playing the Evil Dead game with some of his friends but had never seen the movies. I'd not watched them in years, so I invited him over to marathon them one weekend. We drank, ate pizza and did the whole trilogy, and we had an absolute blast. He loved how different each movie was, especially Heart of Darkness. How each one gets sillier than the last.

A few months later, Evil Dead Rise came out in the cinema, so we had to go see it. While this was much more a straight up horror movie (with a small amount of the Evil Dead silliness), I still enjoyed it (I find horror movies quite funny, like an emotional rollercoaster), but he was hiding behind his coat the whole time, terrified of what was happening on screen. That made it even funnier for me.

Pooh Bear energy.

Family values are those values that don't include a woman's right to her own body, that don't include our queer bretheren, our trans siblings, our immigrant neighbours in a world of immigrants.

Isn't it funny how family values exclude so much of real families?

Yang chas Solo chone Wookiee!

Nah, he'll be put in charge of women's health and reproductive rights.

The tax isn't the point. The point is to crash the economy so that the rich can buy up as much as possible as cheaply as possible, once more consolidating more wealth into their hands and robbing it from the rest of us. They don't care if the price of eggs, or iPhones, or any other goods are going to increase, they have the funds to wait that out, but when the cost of ownership of land, property or corporations goes down, they can buy them up and control that wealth once it recovers.

They don't care that you suffer. They just want to own all the stuff.

Edit: wow, 8 hours later and I'm already proven right: https://lemmy.nz/post/21369385

"Rollers, owners, dealers, stoners" was the order I was taught.

DNSNet, it's a FOSS app on F-Droid, works on pretty much all apps, as it acts like a vpn but runs entirely locally.

It's been nice being on GrapheneOS for the last couple of months. Nothing trying to listen to me, or be helpful in obtrusive ways, just a phone being a phone.

It should be a requirement to not "set aside the controversy" when taking about ZA/UM.

This annoys me to an unreasonable degree. We're watching Shameless (US) and they are constantly gesticulating with empty coffee cups and I get mad every time.

Google are killing it recently, broken installers, bricked chromecasts, ai slop masquerading as search results. Absolutely killing it.

I use Qobuz, and I like it a lot. You can easily download music for offline listening, there's a lot of high def on there, and from what information is known about how much streaming services pay back to record labels, Qobuz appears to be the biggest payer per stream.

The app is no frills, they only added auto generated playlists a year or so ago. Their recommendations are less tailored, but high quality if you're wanting to explore outside your usual tastes.

Plus, it's just music. No podcasts, no audiobooks, no games, no generative ai for some reason.

Any character voiced by Tony Jay becomes hot by the velvety nature of his voice.

Fuck yes!

So glad I made the switch to GrapheneOS, and hurridly pulling my data out of Google's services. It may take me another month or two before I'm just down to migrating the rest of my email from gmail (reckon that might take me all year) but these articles just spur me on more.

Starmer is such a weak centrist cuck.

Just finished Red Shirts by Jon Scalzi, a Star Trek satire about the disposability of side characters in sci-fi. Not a bad book, by any regards, but had a very simplistic writing style that got tedious at times. The best part of the book was when the narrative finished 75% of the way through the novel, then it spent three chapters exploring three of the minor characters from the narrative and the repercussions the plot had on them. This made the book worth reading, but I still felt a little unsatisfied at the end.

I'm now reading Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky. I'm only two chapters in, but so far, this looks much more up my street. Earth has become a fascist technocracy that sends its political prisoners to far off planets to endure forced labour. The descriptions of acceptable losses in the first chapter made the tense descent of the main character to his new prison planet all the more so. Interested to see where this one goes.

I just recently set up a private NextCloud instance and had OnlyOffice integrated for document editing, until I tested it on my phone and saw you needed to pay for a license to edit documents on mobile. Went with Collabora instead, which is working nicely. Dodged a bullet there.