DrinkMonkey

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I had strong love for the brilliance of the first 2 episodes as directed by Ridley Scott, and the absolute batshit craziness of the ones directed by his son, Luke. It was pretty clear they ran out of SFX budget for S1 during that scene though…

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Truly. Allison Janney doing it would have also been swell.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fastmail with a custom domain. It’s great, and has a nice migration tool for moving everything over from Gmail. Also integrates nicely with 1Password for personalized email addresses for each service I sign up for, which I can nuke as needed if needed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Read the book when I was childless. Sat down to watch the film after I had children. Lasted about 5 minutes. Had to turn it off and do something else.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I was very satisfied with their pricing for offsite backups, and the ease of setup. Definitely worth a look.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

You absolutely CAN take too much, and it being fat soluble is part of the reason for that. Water soluble vitamins just give you expensive pee when you take too much.

The good news is that you really have to try to overdose. Like, roughly entire bottle of vitamin D, every day, for more than one month.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

This all makes sense to me if there is a server side component to the app. But with Infuse, there isn’t, and I can’t figure out where the QR code is taking me to “authenticate” on my own, locally hosted SMB server? Not a biggie - typically only need to do this once per server, and the Remote app works fine for me.

For arbitrary text input id ask you to point at any other remote / UI that handles this limitation better.

I think you think you’re talking to someone else? I agree with you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I don’t see how an app developer could really work around this, if I’m inputting a server address and password for an SMB share. For everything else, sure. I agree that the Remote app’s copy/paste functionality for these elements is literally the best possible solution.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (4 children)

99% of apps on Apple TV have the same kind of login option. If they don’t, it’s on the app developer to implement.

The exception to this that I run into regularly is connecting to a local media server, say through Infuse (seems to handle some codecs better than Plex, and has few if any audio sync issues, though I recommend pointing Infuse at a Jellyfin instance so your library’s metadata doesn’t get cleared and need to be re-indexed on the Apple TV somewhat regularly).

Maybe you ought to take the stance of not talking about something you’re unfamiliar with. Every thing you’ve pointed at has been wrong.

On the internet?? 🙃

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (8 children)

I've never used the atv

We can tell, because…

Why doesn't the remote have T9-like keys, or voice input?

It absolutely has voice input.

For passwords, copying and pasting my long, unique, complex passwords from my phone is way easier than any T9 input would ever be.

I have used numerous smart TVs native systems, Google TV boxes, and the NVIDIA Shield. I could not tolerate the UI paradigms or THE FUCKING ADVERTISEMENTS on literally every other system. It is repulsive.

Bonus points to the NVIDIA Shield for being alone it it’s ability to do Atmos from my own media files, though...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Adding to this to say you MUST get it in physical form. DO NOT read it on an e-reader. There are important reasons for this.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The origin is he was called a “short fingered vulgarian” in a print article in Spy (which called Kissinger a socialite war criminal). It means that he is cheap (short fingers don’t reach deep into pockets to get at money) which he took literally to mean having small hands. Dude just slid right past the actual insult and moved on to a different one that he either preferred to argue against or substituted because he didn’t understand the original.

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