But FCP X is amazing. It’s the one thing I really miss having a Mac for and it’s so disappointing that nobody else has even attempted to replicate it. It’s leaps and bounds ahead of everybody else. Calling it a “rebranded iMovie” shows either a complete lack of awareness of literally anything about it, or an incredible intellectual dishonesty that doesn’t even seen to serve a practical purpose.

It’s also…not subscription based. Or wasn’t in 2018 when I last had a Mac.

Aww I still wanted to see yours!

Simple asexuals are mutants

What about complex asexuals?

“Constantine, like clementine”

But…that can be pronounced two ways? Isn’t that the point?

Hey, she wasn’t just in Thor. She was also in Thor: The Dark World and Thor: Love and Thunder!

Does Thor count as an action flick? Or Star Wars?

I never saw the movie, but the 2014 TV show was awesome and I wish it had gotten another season. Having the same actor make a few lame crossovers with the Arrowverse did not suffice.

I love that I clicked on highsignal, a “low-meme” feed, and the first picture was some Maccas chips.

Oh yeah, the “run headless” tip too was great! I would never have used a desktop environment, and would in effect have been using it headless. But had you and others not specifically suggested running it as headless it would probably not have occurred to me that that’s a setting change I’d need to make while installing it.

Absolutely!

Tux’s right eye being occluded by the guy’s black hair, and his left eye being partly shaded into a more angular shape makes it look like he’s giving an evil smirk.

!vampires@lemmy.zip

!bun_alert_system@lemmy.sdf.org

!ankmemes@sh.itjust.works

!nominativedeterminism@feddit.uk

!rpgmemes@ttrpg.network

!pathfinder@ttrpg.network

And I’ll also second @squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi’s recommendation of !dailygames@lemmy.zip. I finally got the bot I run for that community up and running on a computer that isn’t my desktop, so make sure you haven’t disabled bot accounts!

Thanks! I genuinely wasn’t sure how much RAM would be necessary, and would have probably seriously considered 8 GB enough if I hadn’t gotten the feedback.

I’ve no comments on RISC-V, but I agree that a move towards ARM in the Windows & Linux worlds would seem sensible. I would guess it hasn’t happened for the same reason IPv6 hasn’t taken over. Too much momentum. Too many developers still working in an x86 world, too many legacy apps that won’t easily run on ARM, too many hardware manufacturers each making the individual choice to keep making the current-popular option. Apple could transition because they’re the single gatekeeper. They make the decision, and everybody else who wants to use a Mac has to follow along. I’m going to guess that the control they have over the hardware and the software also means Rosetta 2 works a hell of a lot better than Microsoft’s Prism. (I can’t say for sure, having never used an ARM-based Windows machine or an ARM-based Mac.)

In terms of heat, what kind of room do you have it in? Somewhere with good natural airflow, or away in a closet somewhere?

I guess I have the same question for you as I did for curbstickle. What’s the advantage of doing things that way with VMs, vs running Docker containers? How does it end up working?

Interesting. I’ve never really played around with that style of VM-based server architecture before. I’ve always either used Docker (& Kubernetes) or ran things on bare metal.

If you’re willing to talk a bit more about how it works, advantages of it, etc., I’d love to hear. But I sincerely don’t want to put any pressure and won’t be at all offended if you don’t have the time or effort.

I’m not sure I agree with your definition of walled garden. I’d say it’s a place that’s designed to be nice and easy to use within the bounds designed for you (the garden), but which protects the user from doing something that might harm them, even if that “protection” comes at the cost of being able to do other things they want to do, in a kind of paternalistic way (the wall). The classic example would be iOS, where the only apps you can install are the ones Apple has approved for you. Getting apps from the open web the way you would on Windows, macOS, or Linux could be dangerous!

Your description of:

you may run into roadblocks doing things that way, yes. You are pretty much limited to what’s on their (vast) catalog

Makes it sound very much a walled garden to me. Not as high-walled as iOS of course, but it’s a spectrum.

But anyway, it’s basically semantics. Not that important what you call it.

Not at all. It’s completely open source

Being open source doesn’t necessarily preclude being a walled garden. If (and I fully admit I could be completely wrong about this) it makes it easy to do certain things through a friendly UI, but it becomes much harder or more awkward (or impossible) to do things that aren’t explicitly supported, as part of a deliberate design decision/tradeoff for that usability.

Anyway, thanks a heap for answering all my questions. Has been very helpful.