[-] gwildors_gill_slits@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago

Her cousin is Ben Shapiro, which is kind of wild. God he sucks.

[-] gwildors_gill_slits@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 months ago

"...while vowing economic opportunity as a path to reconciliation."

I'm guessing this means making deals with first nations groups to grant corporations the right to strip mine natural resources without federal oversight while paying relatively tiny subsidies to indigenous owners.

[-] gwildors_gill_slits@lemmy.ca 9 points 7 months ago

I know it's not "real" Turkish delight but Fry's Turkish Delight is delicious.

[-] gwildors_gill_slits@lemmy.ca 12 points 8 months ago

Commodore 64, probably around '86 or so. It had a tape drive and games would take like 20 minutes to load. Crazy to think about now.

Later on (probably around 1989 or 1990) I got an Amstrad 8086 PC. IIRC it had maybe 1mb ram (pretty large for the time) and a massive 20mb hard drive. I remember playing games like bubble Bobble, the Sierra adventure games and so on. A few years later I got a 386 DX PC and played a lot of wing Commander and privateer, dune 2, LucasArts games and so on.

Ahhh, memories!

[-] gwildors_gill_slits@lemmy.ca 9 points 9 months ago

The Dark Knight has fucking terrible editing and a lot of bad, hammy acting. The opening bank heist is just bad, with really on-the-nose dialogue delivered pretty badly...even William Fichtner seems like he's trying a little too hard, and he's an otherwise good actor.

I know the editing has been covered in some YouTube essay that made the rounds a number of years ago so maybe that's not such an unpopular opinion, but it really sticks out to me like a sore thumb.

Before anyone gets totally mad at me, I still enjoy the overall story, a lot of the action, and I think both Ledger and Bale (dumb batman voice aside) are great. Also, Morgan Freeman, Michal Caine and whatshisname who plays Harvey Dent are also very good too.

[-] gwildors_gill_slits@lemmy.ca 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Let's not forget the time they installed a piece of wood from home depot in a new car's engine bay.

[-] gwildors_gill_slits@lemmy.ca 12 points 10 months ago

I had this happen on a 17 or so hour flight from Canada to Australia. I wasn't even paying attention and only realised I still had the entire middle row free as the plane started taxiing. It was glorious.

[-] gwildors_gill_slits@lemmy.ca 11 points 11 months ago

It's always seemed kind of crazy to me that this was a spin off of Happy Days

[-] gwildors_gill_slits@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

I don't think it's super obscure, but I home brew beer and it's a hobby where you can really go deep into the technicalities of tweaking recipes, building equipment, and just the overall process in a way that would probably bore the average non-brewer to death.

[-] gwildors_gill_slits@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Other people have mentioned Tutanota; as a user myself I can point out a few pros and cons:

Pro:

  • Extremely privacy focused - everything is encrypted and even they don't have access to your email content.
  • Pretty cheap for a pro subscription (although they recently changed prices and I'm not sure exactly what the new ones are like).
  • Pro subscription you can use custom domains and set up a few aliases.
  • Generally works fine.

Con:

  • Can only use their custom mail clients (in addition to the webmail interface), because they use their own encryption algorithm.
  • Tutanota is so extremely hardcore about security that it seems like a detriment to their user experience. I used to follow the Tutanota community on Reddit and there were so many posts from people who tried to sign up or access their email and were blocked, and they had to go through quite a process to get unblocked. I myself went through a period where I kept being unable to access my account on my phone and it turned out to be that they were blocking me because of "too many IPS connecting to my account from the same IP". I have 2 devices connecting - my PC and my phone, so apparently 2 devices is too dangerous for them. That happened 2 or 3 times for a few days to a week each time, but I haven't experienced it for a while now, though.
  • The user interface is not for everyone. I don't mind it myself, but I've seen a good number of people complain that it's too sparse and/or ugly.
  • Search is annoying - because everything is encrypted, emails can't be searched on the server side so the clients have to do the searching locally which requires building an index. If you happen to clear your storage you have to reindex everything again. It's also pretty slow and annoying to index further back than a few months.
  • You don't get much storage (like, only 1gb or something) and you have to pay to get more.

Overall, if privacy and control over your own email is important to you then Tutanota is a great choice. Just be aware that usability can be kind of a hassle.

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