£ says: “The fuck they are, mate!”

Just noticed the the text colour I chose is the same as that of his teeth. :D

Maybe nominate it for #Monsterdon and show it to dozens/hundreds of people at once. (Live cast on https://miru.miyaku.media/ )

Looking here, it doesn’t seem to have been shown yet.

• https://monsterdon-replay.gerlach.dev/

Thanks. Step 1 seems to make sense to me, but…(excuse me if this seems a silly question) this means I need a sound loudness measuring tool in order to use my phone as a sound loudness measuring tool? At least to do the calibration?

EDIT: Doh, re-reading, I see you already addressed that, thanks.

I like it rather than love it, but wow! 16%!

Lost River (2015)

I went into it with zero knowledge or expectation and was held by it from beginning to end (even when I knew it was blatantly emulating David Lynch etc, I didn’t care, I was gripped). Only to look it up online afterwards and find out that critics and viewers kind of hate it.

• IMDb: 5.6
• RT tomatometer: 30%
• RT popcornmeter: 38%

Thanks. I’ve installed it and looking at it now.

The experiment I need would be… Acoustic Amplitude, right?

And the steps would be? (sorry, I’m not very scientific)

“Calibrate” tab > “Calibrate”: do this when there is no/little noise?
“Calibrate” tab > “Offset”: no idea what to do here.
“Amplitude” tab > when there is noise I want to measure, press the play button?
“Amplitude” tab > after a bit, press the pause button?
Then, other? 3-dot menu > “Export data” or “Share screenshot”?

Thanks. I’ve installed it and looking at it now.

The experiment I need would be… Acoustic Amplitude, right?

And the steps would be? (sorry, I’m not very scientific)

1. “Calibrate” tab > “Calibrate”: do this when there is no/little noise?
2. “Calibrate” tab > “Offset”: no idea what to do here.
3. “Amplitude” tab > when there is noise I want to measure, press the play button?
4. “Amplitude” tab > after a bit, press the pause button?
5. Then, other? 3-dot menu > “Export data” or “Share screenshot”?

Thanks for the info.

So, imperfect but perhaps one might help at least for comparing noise levels, e.g. the noise they’re making now compared to last night.

:)

Saw that whole special a few year ago. Love him.

Ricky Gervais.

Liked him ~ The Office, Extras, podcast period, even some of his Golden Globes hosting, but now I find his “edginess” and mugging grating.

or

• USS Dan White
• USS Jim Jones
• USS Ashli Babbit

grab 'em by the Donbas

Used computers at school (BBC B), uni and work (beige PCs); and had video game consoles (Intellivision, NES, Atari Jaguar, 3DO, Philips CD-i, etc) but didn’t my own first home computer until relatively late, bought in 2000.

A Dell Inspiron 7500 “desktop-replacement” laptop, with:

• 15-inch 1400x1050 screen (shit hot back then, still higher resolution than many laptops today),
• 6GB HDD
• Intel Mobile Pentium CPU (can’t remember exact specs)
• 128MB RAM (a significantly expensive extra back then)
• ATI Rage Mobility M graphics
• Windows 98 SE (I tried out BeOS R5 PE on it, so much more stable but the only available graphics driver could only give 800x640)

And I’ve been cleaning out my mum’s shoddily built shed and just found it in this sorry state!

The hinge was always super stiff, and after 4-5 years snapped. I kept it alive for a while by rigging up some brackets to hold the screen. Eventually I put it away, and after a few moves it ended up stored at my mum’s. Now wIth a fair bit of opossum crap on and around it, and rainwater from the leaky shed roof.

I wonder if there are still any episodes of The Sopranos downloaded from Dalnet IRC on it.

TIML

“Today I .ml-ed”

You’re welcome.

Re Peertube, I believe you can start watching without setting anything up.

Re setting up an account and choosing an instance, I’m not a content creator and just went with peertube.wtf when I saw it promoted by its admin here on Lemmy.

• https://lemmy.wtf/post/15733096

Handy post on Peertube instances here:

• https://lemmy.wtf/post/17976076

Others have already made good suggestions for older movies (libraries, Kanopy, Hoopla, Tubi, Archive.org etc). Also try buying second-hand physical media (DVDs, BDs).

Specifically re an old Kurosawa movie, there are a couple of channels on Peertube with old movies they say are in the public domain (I am not a lawyer).

A couple of such channels

• ClassX https://peertube.wtf/c/classx@blurt.media/videos
• Achives https://peertube.wtf/c/archives@vod.newellijay.tv/videos

And ClassX has Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai

• https://peertube.wtf/w/u6DzMDxEhMa8d1HrnucEYV

There are also YouTube channels that claim to have public domain or licensed movies. I recently found an “all-in-one” site that collates movies from many such channels.

• Cinetimes https://cinetimes.org/

If you don’t want to go via a third-party site like Cinetimes, you can try some supposedly-legally-free channels directly on YouTube:

• DDF: Reel Films https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTjxrujNCF9JSQzXE3th21A
• Filmix https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0igugFRsUPMvGLrv86DIog
• The Archive (nothing to do with The Internet Archive) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCunMgh6zlbhjYLOoU5zKTAA (also you can watch on their own website https://www.thearchive.tv/ )

Warning: the movies on the channels are free, but not necessarily any good :) A lot of dross and only a few gems, unless you love trashy B-movies.

A couple of possibly decent films (in my watchlist, haven’t seen them yet)

• Sorcerer https://youtu.be/LXwfcdkhmE8
• Eight Million Ways to Die https://youtu.be/2G6hJJFzKxo

All the ones I’ve given above are for video on demand (VOD), i.e. you pick what you want, press play and it starts.

There are also linear channels, i.e. like old fashioned TV where things are shown according to a schedule and you see whatever’s on when you tune in. Nowadays sometimes called “live TV”, even when watching stuff made years ago. ( TheArchive.tv does both: VOD and one linear channel.)

A lot of free linear channels (including some with old movies and TV shows) are available through different ways:

• channels / apps on streaming devices like Roku, Firestick, Smart TVs etc
• an app on your phone (currently, I use Televizo on Android)
• an app on your computer (currently, I use Hypnotix on Linux)
• websites

For apps on your phone or computer, you might need to add a “playlist”: a big list of channels that you can pick from to watch. Currently, I use the English language playlist from iptv-org (over 2,000 channels from around the world).

• https://github.com/iptv-org/iptv
• https://iptv-org.github.io/iptv/languages/eng.m3u

There is also the IOTV app for Roku, which I think uses the all languages playlist from iptv-org.

Warning: using these playlists can mean a bunch of the included channels won’t work for you, e.g. because they are geoblocked to a specific country.

Some example channels with older stuff:

• Pluto TV has some channels with older stuff
• TVS https://watchyour.tv/
• Cinevault
• FilmRise Classic

I think there was just a post on Lemmy (maybe !SelfHosted) saying that Plex have just changed their terms to allow them to sell users’ data to third parties.

IIRC, Firedragon is Floorp with the best of Librewolf.

I was using it until a couple of months ago, when an update not only wiped all my open pages but also all the workspaces I’d created.