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/

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%

:)

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.

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.

When your junk smells so strong that dogs bark at it and the fuzz stop you…

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/[email protected]/videos
• Achives https://peertube.wtf/c/[email protected]/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.

Over the last two and half years (since I quit Windows and Vivaldi and went FLOSS only), bouncing around between Firefox, Floorp, Zen, Firedragon and Falkon as my principal browser, while also checking out Pale Moon, Servo, Dillo, Netsurf, Agregore, Kristall. Also “special purpose browsers” like Station, Ferdium and FreeTube. (Is FreeTube a browser? I think it’s an Electron app, which is basically a Blink/Chromium browser, used to browse just one website in this case.)

Currently on my laptop:

• Fully-loaded Zen (multiple extensions and a couple of Zen mods) as my main browser
• Fairly minimal Firefox (just uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger) for streaming music (e.g Spotify without ads)
• Ferdium for email and IM
• FreeTube for YouTube (LibRedirect extension in Zen sends YT links to FreeTube automatically)
• Ungoogled Chromium as a backup in case some site just won’t work with a non-Blink browser. Haven’t used it in months.

For anyone unfamiliar with the source:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_TV
• https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/press-tv/

TV in the UK has a substantially different regulatory framework and environment to the US and some other countries.

That’s why even when Sky News (UK) was Murdoch-owned, it was a respected news source; it was the prestige loss leader he used to help get the rest of Sky regulator-approval. Compare to Sky News Australia; same name but full-on swivel-eyed Fox News-style bollocks.

At least for now, I believe it’s easier to keep this sort of thing in check (on TV; the papers, oof!) in the UK. But people have to stay vigilant and make sure regulators know folks are keeping an eye on both them and the likes of GB News.

“Next time I’ve got a hot date I’m gonna hit that pounded yam early. I’m a skinny guy – I need that power in my back.” Tim Westwood, yam-mad and horny.

Stop using AI to replace humans who can do the job!

https://www.cameo.com/search?q=donald+trump

Thanks for explaining that, now I can eventually see the OP.

I want more like the second picture by default (although I wish the tap would take me direct to the OP instead of to the reply and then I have to scroll up).

I don’t want to see a main feed full of replies I don’t understand because there’s no context and have to decide whether it’s worth tapping and scrolling up dozens (hundreds?) of times a day to find out what it’s about.

I want by default to see the OP with replies underneath (perhaps the replies collapsed or collapsible). Then I can decide based on the OP, not guess by the reply, if I want to read through that thread or scroll past to the next.

Maybe it’s cuz I’m new and all the content is new. Once I’m in, perhaps I’ll want to see unaccompanied replies. But for now, I want to see OPs first, then replies once I’ve read the OP.

Good idea. I wanted to search their Github Issues to see if they already have a request for this but then I realized I don’t know the correct technical terms to describe this. “Show OP with replies below directly in timeline”? Or “feed”? Or “home page”? Whatever is the porper Mastodon term for what it shows me when I load the main page.

• https://github.com/cheeaun/phanpy/issues

Thanks for the in-depth info.

I’m kind of amazed they released a system that shows replies but not necessarily the OP! But presumably there’s all kinds of technical reasons over my head.

I’ve installed Subsitoot and am browsing regular Mastodon (not phanpy) with it… and I can’t tell yet if it’s making a difference. I’m still thrown by the bass-ackwards layout.

OK, I think I get what I have to do now to see the OP of seemingly orphaned replies, and also to see all replies to an OP, below the OP.

1. Click on a reply (just any random area of the reply text, not on a specific button, took me a while to work that out)
2. Scroll up (again, took me a few goes to work that out, as it often places that reply at the top of the screen)
3. Click on the top post (again, random area, not a specific button)

That finally shows me both the OP, at top, and all replies, below.

So, a bit of a palaver but doable. Thanks! Hopefully, future versions of Mastodon will make getting posts and displaying them properly grouped in the main timeline easier.