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Top 50 TV Shows Of All Time Ranked by the most known sources of ratings like IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic etc. Agree? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

That description certainly doesn't sound right, when talking about putting it up with the greatest series of all time.

Top 50 TV Shows Of All Time Ranked by the most known sources of ratings like IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic etc. Agree? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'd call an enjoyable show good, but that is just semantics. However regardless I would call house a good show, even if I acknowledge that I am a bit biased.

It does have it's flaws, which is why I wouldn't put it up for debate as objectively one of the best shows of all time (just subjectively rank it high).

The one case per episode format of course doesn't quite lend itself to high cinema. And it also doesn't have the realism as something like the pitt, to take a recent example. Plus I guess final seasons weren't quite as strong with a weaker team (that admittedly also didnt have the time for us to get to know them as well) and Lisa Edelstein didn't return for the final season due to failed salary negotiations.

But imo the series has a lot of strong points: Hugh Laurie as House did an outstanding job, and imo some of the others such as Robert Sean Leonard as Wilson as well. Despite the episodic format it had some imo good character arcs. And episodes like "House's head"/"Wilson's heart", "three stories", "three stories" or "one day, one room" are outstanding cinema that certainly put it in the "good show" category.

It Might Be Time to Admit the Great VR Experiment Has Failed in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I find it's at least theoretically in the right spot for mass adoption. Something like a valve index or bigscreen vr paired with a strong gaming PC would of course offer a much better experience. But thats just not realistic for the masses.

Also Apple failed with their expensive premium device (although I guess it was always kind of a dev device sold to the masses).

It Might Be Time to Admit the Great VR Experiment Has Failed in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

It's certainly debatable, but at least for the price it offers a lot imo.

The quest exclusives are of course frustrating, but it makes a lot of sense from a business perspective, considering Meta is trying to position themselves as the VR platform (similar to say android with smartphones).

Top 50 TV Shows Of All Time Ranked by the most known sources of ratings like IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic etc. Agree? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (8 children)

It's one of my personal favorites, but I am still a bit surprised to see House so high on the list.

Imo one notable absence from this list is "The good place", which imo is among the all time greats, managing to stay consistently good from start to finish.

Also I actually haven't seen the other true detective seasons, but heard they aren't even close to as good as the first one. So i assume the rating is heavily carried by it?

It Might Be Time to Admit the Great VR Experiment Has Failed in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (5 children)

If you don't mind Meta/Facebook, then the oculus quest headsets are also very affordable hardware and deliver a good experience. I think the issue lies with content.

Smartphones or handhelds like the steam deck with flat screens could use plenty of already existing content made for screens. With VR you want different content that is made specifically for it. There is a decent amount of games (but still much fewer than for other devices), but honestly not that much more.

Additionally it also can only really be used at home, where most already have other devices.

It's a chicken and egg problem. But imo if there were more genuine unique productivity tasks and experiences available through VR, we would see more adoption.

PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Tell that to everyone playing games like path of exile (which i admittedly have also played too much of in the past).

Disney+ Adds New “The Simpson” 24/7 Stream – What's On Disney Plus in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

I mean this doesn't take away your option to select a season/episode, it just adds another feature.

Sometimes not having to make a choice is better than having to think. Especially if you just want some mindless background entertainment.

That said i'd say this is not quite linear TV, but closer to just another playback mode to choose from, like random shuffle. Because this is lacking any form of curation or variety.

What movies have you watched this week? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Watched Gattaca (1997) the other day and really enjoyed it. Sci-fi movie that imo aged quite well and i somehow hadn't seen until now.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

TIL, thanks for letting me know!

Run Windows 11 on Raspberry Pi 5 with Botspot Virtual Machine ["don’t expect to be playing triple A games here. Older games (like 10-15 years ago) and web games should work ok."] in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Mini PCs with a n100 or used office PCs are probably not that much more expensive and a much better alternative, if your goal is to run windows on them and you don't already have the Raspberry Pi lying around.

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David Lynch, visionary filmmaker behind 'Twin Peaks' and 'Mulholland Drive,' dies at 78 (apnews.com)
 

David Lynch, the filmmaker celebrated for his uniquely dark vision in such movies as “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and the TV series “Twin Peaks,” has died just days before his 79th birthday.

His family announced the death in a Facebook post on Thursday. The cause of death and location was not immediately available, but Lynch had been public about his emphysema.

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Qualcomm processors properly licensed from Arm, US jury finds (finance.yahoo.com)
 

Arm Holdings' lawsuit against Qualcomm ended on Friday with a jury delivering a mixed verdict that found for Qualcomm on a crucial issue, saying Qualcomm had properly licensed its central processor chips.

Arm's shares were down 1.9% in extended trading after the news, and Qualcomm's shares were up 2.3%.

Major loss for Arm, who started this whole thing, and now have nothing to show for, while also pissing off their customers (Qualcomm obviously, but probably also many others).

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Intel Announces Retirement of CEO Pat Gelsinger (www.intc.com)
 

David Zinsner and Michelle Johnston Holthaus named interim Co-CEOs. Holthaus also appointed to the newly created position of CEO of Intel Products. Frank Yeary named interim executive chair.

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Cold weather gear recommendations (lemm.ee)
 

With it getting colder and colder outside i find myself wanting to upgrade my running wardrobe. Maybe you guys find yourself in a similar situation, or have already found your endgame and can give some recommendations.

Right now for example i am looking to upgrade some of my cheap decathlon longsleeved tops, that i am not particularly happy with, and maybe add a jacket/vest.

What are you wearing when it is X°C outside? When do you start using multiple layers and what's your strategy?

What are your favorite pieces of running gear for when it gets cold outside? Feel free to name specific models.

Or maybe you aren't as hung up about a specific brand, but have certain features/materials/technologies that you really like/dislike in your winter gear.

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Intel postpones Magdeburg fab until 2029 to 2030 — German subsidies to Intel could go back to the federal budget (www.tomshardware.com)
 

Not great for either party, but imo a particularly bad look for Intel. If they actually end up missing out on those subsidies (and imo it looks that way), then to me that puts a very big questionmark behind their whole fab business.

Even if Germany doesn't offer the ideal conditions, getting 1/3 of a fab for free looks like a good deal to me. Advanced nodes are getting more and more capital intensive.

TSMC has a huge customer base (particularly Apple) to fund R&D. And the more capacity you have (assuming you can untilize it) the more you can spread out those investment costs.

Intel so far has to shoulder those costs all by themselves. I know they are opening up to outside customers, but those still have to be aquired first and also convinced that there is no conflict of interest. So willingly leaving such a huge chunk on money on the wayside in their situation looks like a bad move. Unless ofc they simply can't afford the rest, but that would be even worse.

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[GN] Fixing GPU & CPU Benchmarks: Introducing Animation Error | Engineering Discussion (www.youtube.com)
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It's always great to learn directly from engineers about their own work, and I found this to be a very informative and entertaining discussion. Tom Petersen really is a great communicator.

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Thinking about switching away from TrueNAS scale to OMV (lemm.ee)
 

As the title says i am currently considering switching away from TrueNAS Scale.

My system has a Celeron N3160, 16gb ram, 2x18tb HDD as a zfs mirror and ssd storage for os

My usecase is mostly just as a local storage and media server with *arr stack and jellyfin.

Some of the reasons why i want to switch:

  • Truenas claims a full drive for the OS, no way to partition off something

  • no automatic updates (i get why it might make sense for stability, but as a basic user i probably value the convenience higher)

  • there've been issues with truecharts breaking the ability to update and the solution seemed to be to just reinstall the applications

  • applications sometimes don't show up on start and i have to restart

Overall i think TrueNAS Scale might be excellent for some, but i am just not quite the target audience. So i just want something simple that works.

Now that Unraid supports ZFS that would be a consideration, but i don't really feel like paying (however i am not completely opposed, if its the best option).

My first idea was Proxmox, but thinking about it a bit more i probably don't need the flexibility and it just adds more levers that need adjusting.

So the current frontrunner would be OpenMediaVault for a simple NAS setup that doesn't need as much flexibility and is low maintainance. I assume the setup would be pretty straight forward and i can just import my truenas zfs pool and install whatever docker applications i want.

My questions would be:

  • Is OpenMediaVault a good choice for me? Or is there anything better?

  • Any up/downsides compared to e.g. something like a simple ubuntu server?

  • Is there anything major that i would miss out on by not going with proxmox?

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