True. In the grand tradition of the internet I only responded to the headline.

More users that aren’t Americans talking about their politics would be nice.

If you can figure out the automation then you’re a better person than I.

I’ve installed the thing on my old Linux MacBook, but I’m fucked if I can figure out how to actually get it to work.

Honestly, I couldn’t give tuppenny fuck about background play, or any of the other shit they bundle in. I literally just want to be able to watch YT on my Apple TV without having to suffer through unending adverts, but I’m not prepared to pay those ratfucking shit heads £20+ for the family plan just to be able to do that.

I was happy as shit using my Ukrainian YT Premium account, paying £4 a month to watch videos. It was great. Never used YT Music because I didn’t fucking want to, never had videos playing in the background because I didn’t fucking need to. Then they were all like “Errr, we don’t think you’re in Ukraine so you have to pay us more”. And fuck that noise.

So now I watch the odd video on my laptop on Freetube and have been researching how to run the thing that automatically downloads my subs and adds them to Plex. I’m a dumb shit though, so can’t figure it out.

Have you thought about using Arch?

I use Arch, btw.

I was born in 1980, so was far too young for that when it originally aired, then never got around to it until a few weeks ago.

And fuck me, there is nothing cheerful about that film in the slightest. Nothing. It’s a great piece though.

The first half of Life is Beautiful is perfectly named.

The second half…

Ok, I’ll take back the bit about your cunt kids.

Cinema Paradiso is such a beautiful thing. First time I watched it I wanted to start it all over again.

Damn it feels good to be a gangsta.

Firstly, Fury Road is a masterpiece. I just wanted to agree with you.

Secondly; have you ever played Ghost of Tsushima? It has a Kurosawa mode that’s really beautiful. You can play the whole game in a rich, moody black and white. It’s a gimmick, sure, but a nice one.

I’m bona fide!

I saw Grave of the Fireflies once.

Once.

Could never bring myself to go through it again, despite how utterly beautiful it is.

But my favourite thing about it is that it was originally a double bill with My Neighbour Totoro. Imagine seeing those two back to back. You’d get some serious emotional whiplash.

As much as I enjoyed Banshees, it didn’t have the snappiness and immediacy of In Bruges.

That movie is damn near perfect.

In a way I’m glad we didn’t get a sequel, because the execs would have diluted it down to a PG rating in order to maximise the merch sales.

I get that most people are just listing their favourite movies, and that’s fair, but I feel like a lot of them are already well watched.

My suggestion is The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.

Everything about it is a stunning piece of cinema that got massively overlooked at the time, and I don’t really know why. It stars Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck, has a score by Nick Cave (who has a cameo) and Warren Ellis, and has cinematography by the mighty Roger Deakins.

On the cinematography; you could pause it at almost any point, take a screengrab, and print it out for display. It’s a stunningly well shot movie.

Nothing about the movie is fast. Everything takes place as it needs to, in its own time, all creeping glacially towards what you know is going to happen.

I adore this movie. I showed it to my kid a couple of years ago, fearful that he would hate it. Turned out he loved it as much as I do. It’s the best western I’ve ever seen, but to call it a western does it a disservice.

Meanwhile, my Blue Yeti has a fucked mini USB socket, though in fairness that’s because Blue, in their infinite wisdom, positioned it right next to the mounting insert. It’s remarkably easy to knock the cable against the mount when moving it about.

I have two relatively new microphones that have mini USB, and honestly, I think it’s against the Geneva convention.

Lamborghini started out making tractors

They still do.

Born in late ‘80, I’m borderline. A Xennial, I guess.

Just yesterday I was groping on Mastodon that so much of Linux is done via the command line, which messes me up because I’ve only ever really used OSs with a GUI. Sure, we had a family C64, but my brother would load the games for me. Then we got a ‘proper’ Windows PC, where I stayed until I got my first Mac in ‘07.

I’m not unfamiliar with doing stuff in Terminal, but all I really do is follow instructions I find online.