agnomeunknown

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[–] agnomeunknown 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fellow dinosaur here. Member legend of the red dragon? I member

[–] agnomeunknown 1 points 5 days ago

Magnolia by Paul Thomas Anderson. The whole movie is pretty emotional but the scene where Tom Cruise's character confronts his absentee father on his death bed absolutely destroys me.

One of my all time favorite movies, but I gotta be ready to full on cry if I want to watch it.

[–] agnomeunknown 3 points 1 month ago

Oh cool I've been slowly catching up on btb for a while now, I just haven't made it to that one yet. It's a great podcast in general so I'll look forward to getting the dirt on him. I remember Degas from an art appreciation class but I don't immediately recognize any of the works on the image search.

[–] agnomeunknown 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Very cool, and good to know considering the points another poster made about his art being a driving force behind the nostalgia for a Better (read: whiter) past that has ruined so many American minds over the years.

[–] agnomeunknown 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Really interesting insights, and good point about the nostalgia for a past that never existed. The work of his predecessors is very nice aesthetically, and Mucha's seems much more like what that professor would have gladly called art. A lot more stylization at least. I've always held kincade's work in disdain because it struck me as the dullest pablum imaginable, but I hadn't heard he was also evil. The invidious link didn't work for me (I'm a filthy yt premium user) but I'll look up more about that for sure.

[–] agnomeunknown 171 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (31 children)

When I was in college I had a professor who made the argument that Norman Rockwell's work was best described as illustration rather than art. I think it was partly due to the realism and the focus on "normal" American life with a lack of interpretation or symbolism. But looking at this now I can't help but think he was totally wrong. The look on the girl's face that says "you should see the other guy," the concerned adults having a conversation in the principal's office, there is a whole story being told here in a single frame. To say this isn't art seems crazy to me.

[–] agnomeunknown 1 points 1 month ago

You don't care so much you deleted your post, very cool

[–] agnomeunknown 10 points 1 month ago (4 children)

No you see he is like Job in the Bible!!! He's so righteous God is testing him with demons!!!!

-his fans probably

[–] agnomeunknown 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As an atheist, I cringe at nearly every post I see from that community. Makes me want to punch teenage neckbeard me in the face

[–] agnomeunknown 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I can vouch for mint, I picked it up recently after not touching Linux for almost 20 years and it was very intuitive and Windows-like. Haven't dug very deep into it yet but it was at least easy to setup and get the necessities working

[–] agnomeunknown 9 points 3 months ago

No you're right they're super sad about funding the genocide

[–] agnomeunknown 4 points 5 months ago

To be fair, (spoilers for the show) it was the bad place where you couldn't swear

 

I only recently set up a Plex server to share movies and TV with friends. It was a painless setup process. I have all my media in the same downloads folder, and Plex was pretty good at parsing which things were movies and which were TV. A few things confused it (one web based TV series showed up as 13 different movies for example) but overall very good results.

Then the news broke about Plex sharing people's porn viewing habits and even though I am not sharing any in my server, I had second thoughts. I'm not much of a power user these days but I do care about digital privacy and take measures to protect it, so I found jellyfin and gave it a shot.

The media detection is embarrassingly bad. It cannot tell the difference between movies and TV at all. The movie aliens was identified as the TV show ancient aliens. The Barbie movie was identified as some direct to streaming kids show. And so on.

The only solution I've found digging around in the app is to edit the metadata of every file that it got wrong. It's time consuming and frustrating. I would prefer to just have a bare bones directory structure but I cannot find any way to make it work that way. Even just the ability to remove files from a category would be good enough but all I can seem to do is delete the media entirely.

I would prefer not to reorganize my directory structure into distinct categories of movies and TV because it is also where I seed my torrents. Is there a convenient way around this? Is this purely a skill issue? Am I dumb?

I have been getting drawn back into the FOSS world with the growing trend of enshittification but my hazy memories of horrible UX and endless annoying tweaks and workarounds from the brief time I switched to Linux (over 15 years ago at this point) are resurfacing and I'm recalling why I gave up on it back then. Furthermore my friends with whom I'm trying to share things are less tech savvy than me and I dread having to troubleshoot their Roku apps remotely. Should I just give it up and stick to Plex or is there a way around all of this that doesn't require annoying micromanagement?

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