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agnomeunknown

It don't matter. None of this matters.

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  • Fellow dinosaur here. Member legend of the red dragon? I member

  • Magnolia by Paul Thomas Anderson. The whole movie is pretty emotional but the scene where Tom Cruise's character confronts his absentee father on his death bed absolutely destroys me.

    One of my all time favorite movies, but I gotta be ready to full on cry if I want to watch it.

  • Oh cool I've been slowly catching up on btb for a while now, I just haven't made it to that one yet. It's a great podcast in general so I'll look forward to getting the dirt on him. I remember Degas from an art appreciation class but I don't immediately recognize any of the works on the image search.

  • Very cool, and good to know considering the points another poster made about his art being a driving force behind the nostalgia for a Better (read: whiter) past that has ruined so many American minds over the years.

  • Really interesting insights, and good point about the nostalgia for a past that never existed. The work of his predecessors is very nice aesthetically, and Mucha's seems much more like what that professor would have gladly called art. A lot more stylization at least. I've always held kincade's work in disdain because it struck me as the dullest pablum imaginable, but I hadn't heard he was also evil. The invidious link didn't work for me (I'm a filthy yt premium user) but I'll look up more about that for sure.

  • When I was in college I had a professor who made the argument that Norman Rockwell's work was best described as illustration rather than art. I think it was partly due to the realism and the focus on "normal" American life with a lack of interpretation or symbolism. But looking at this now I can't help but think he was totally wrong. The look on the girl's face that says "you should see the other guy," the concerned adults having a conversation in the principal's office, there is a whole story being told here in a single frame. To say this isn't art seems crazy to me.

  • You don't care so much you deleted your post, very cool

  • No you see he is like Job in the Bible!!! He's so righteous God is testing him with demons!!!!

    -his fans probably

  • As an atheist, I cringe at nearly every post I see from that community. Makes me want to punch teenage neckbeard me in the face

  • I can vouch for mint, I picked it up recently after not touching Linux for almost 20 years and it was very intuitive and Windows-like. Haven't dug very deep into it yet but it was at least easy to setup and get the necessities working

  • No you're right they're super sad about funding the genocide

  • That is not relevant to the subject at hand, because the cost of living and social support systems vary so widely between the US and the rest of the world. Without knowing anything else about your locale, I can only speculate that your restaurant industry is either far more exploitative than the US and keeps prices low by underpaying workers, or the people who profit from the businesses are slightly less greedy and allow a more generous portion of the budget to be allotted for pay.

  • Different things are different, I'm talking about the United States

  • Tips may have been that way a hundred years ago but I've been in the restaurant industry in the US for over 15 years, and for the duration tips have been used as a means to offload labor costs to the customer. They are not optional for the majority of people who work for tips, they are the difference between paying bills and not.

    The practice is antiquated and should be completely removed as the standard way to compensate restaurant workers. But the thing that anti tippers always seem to miss is that the labor costs will still be there and the owners are not going to take it out of their cut. The menu prices will per force go up when companies get rid of tips. The same people will be complaining about that just as loudly, I'm willing to bet.

    As I said in another comment, it's a bad system, but if you don't tip, you're a bad person.

  • It's a bad system but you are a bad person if you don't tip.

  • It's a borrowed word because we don't have a translation, though. Tamales are tamales. Also we say tamale for singular but it's tamal in Spanish. It's a loan word in every way.

  • Thanks for mentioning trash guides. As I mentioned in my other reply, it helped me get everything set up easily.

  • Thanks for this! I didn't know about symlinks so with the help of the trash guides site the other poster mentioned I was able to get it set up.

    It's not perfect and it'll be a minor chore to refresh the libraries but it's better than it was.

    Also, in the process I discovered that I am dumb, and I overlooked the "mixed movies and TV" option when adding my library before. I just added the same one twice, once as movies and once as TV. It worked for Plex but obviously caused issues in jellyfin. Doing it the correct way also gave me the no frills directory structure style that I was looking for. I'm using the symlinks for now but if I get tired of the upkeep my friends will just have to deal with the slightly less aesthetic version.

  • Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System @lemmy.ml
    agnomeunknown @lemmy.world

    trying to switch from Plex to jf, looking for pro tips

    I only recently set up a Plex server to share movies and TV with friends. It was a painless setup process. I have all my media in the same downloads folder, and Plex was pretty good at parsing which things were movies and which were TV. A few things confused it (one web based TV series showed up as 13 different movies for example) but overall very good results.

    Then the news broke about Plex sharing people's porn viewing habits and even though I am not sharing any in my server, I had second thoughts. I'm not much of a power user these days but I do care about digital privacy and take measures to protect it, so I found jellyfin and gave it a shot.

    The media detection is embarrassingly bad. It cannot tell the difference between movies and TV at all. The movie aliens was identified as the TV show ancient aliens. The Barbie movie was identified as some direct to streaming kids show. And so on.

    The only solution I've found digging around in the app is to edit the metadata of every file

  • I'm pretty sure the person in the photo is doing the dance from the Wednesday show.