Vittelius

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[–] Vittelius@feddit.de 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've just tried building Thunder for desktop and it works fine so far without any tweaks nessesary. In fact I'm writing this comment using this very build.

If there's interest I might be looking into turning this into a proper flatpak.

[–] Vittelius@feddit.de 3 points 6 months ago

I haven't tried it myself but the StarLite is a surface style convertible designed to run Linux, even shipping with the distribution of your choice right out of the box. And apparently it supports MPP pens. It's not in the official specs but StarLabs is selling an active pen that's "exclusively designed for the StarLite Mk V"

https://starlabs.systems/pages/starlite?shpxid=8d568063-b691-4a60-928b-f2a82c820093

[–] Vittelius@feddit.de 29 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Actually that's from the parade in Düsseldorf

[–] Vittelius@feddit.de 127 points 8 months ago (4 children)

That's a common misconception. German law actually allows the public display of swastikas in certain, so called socially adequate (that's an actual legal term), situations. Satire is one of those. If anyone can see that you are making fun of Nazis it's allowed. Another of those adequate uses is in art. The use in video games used to be prohibited for reasons that are to complicated to explain in this comment (involving an actual Nazi and a pirated copy of the game Wolfenstein 3D) but now they are counted as art as well so it's fine there as well.

[–] Vittelius@feddit.de 1 points 9 months ago

Neo store has had that feature for some time as well

[–] Vittelius@feddit.de 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's not just a YouTube downloader, it also allows you to download videos from, as the official website says, "a few more sites". Those include social media sites such as twitch or twitter but also the online platforms of TV networks. If you live in the US, you can for example download full episodes from the big broadcasting networks (ABC, NBC, CBS) and PBS. If you're British you can download stuff from the BBC. Germans find their public broadcasters supported as well. Likewise for a bunch of other European countries and Australia.

And with a good VPN you have access to all of the above.

[–] Vittelius@feddit.de 11 points 9 months ago

The Eurovision Song Contest is organized by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) an organization set up to regulate TV tech. In short they exist to make sure a TV bought in Spain also works in Sweden. As such the EBU also grants full membership to countries that are not part of Europe but have strong economic ties with the continent and therefore are part of the European Broadcasting Area. That's how we got Israel in the contest. Australia also competes because (a) they are an associate member (b) they have an long history of airing the contest even before they competed (c) they spend a large sum of money every year to make the EBU forget where exactly Australia is located.

The US doesn't participate but a couple of years ago NBC bought the rights and tried to mount an "American Song Contest". It didn't work all that well because it was hamstrung by the rigid structure of American network TV. The ESC works (in part) because it is three nights only and they tried to make an entire season of television.

[–] Vittelius@feddit.de 10 points 9 months ago
[–] Vittelius@feddit.de 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ach das ist die Brandmauer, von der immer alle reden

[–] Vittelius@feddit.de 7 points 9 months ago
[–] Vittelius@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you are using emby or jellyfin you can append the tmdb id to your foldername like this: Doctor Who (2023) [tmdbid-239770] The server software will pick it up correctly

[–] Vittelius@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago

Oh the episodes have been $1 million a piece for a while. One million for an episode of a sci-fi show is a bargain. That's baseline. For reference: An episode of "Superman and Lois", the CW show, allegedly costs roughly 1.5 million dollar. As much as I dislike a lot of the visual decisions made by Chibnall it's clear the BBC spend money on his run. An episode in series 11-13 cost reportedly roughly 3.5 million

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