Blackmist ,

Sad that Android TV boxes have better playback than PCs costing 20 times as much.

Rikj000 ,
@Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Android TV is not free though.

You pay with yourself,
your interests / watch habits,
all being collected and sold to the best bidder for "personalized ads"..

Blackmist ,

Depends on the launcher you use.

Illecors ,
@Illecors@lemmy.cafe avatar

That's... Not at all how it works.

Don't worry, you're one of today's lucky 10000!

Launcher on android is just that - an app to launch other apps. Other apps can and do run in the background, without ever being explicitly launched. Think play services, location provider, wifi connection manager, etc. Since google runs its stuff at the highest level - nothing can hide from it. Other apps, like netflix, utilise internal telemetry. Assholes like facebook push the boundaries to the limit and collect literally every input of every sensor to have as much data about your environment as possible.

TL;DR - custom launcher cool, but no cure.

brbposting ,

[Some apps] push the boundaries to the limit and collect literally every input of every sensor to have as much data about your environment as possible.

Scary. Recommend any further reading?

Rikj000 ,
@Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Take a look for yourself with a rooted phone.

Blocker will show you all the recievers/services/activities/providers the app uses,
and will allow you to block them.

https://github.com/lihenggui/blocker

Apps often still work correctly with about 80-90% of their recievers/services/providers blocked, since they're spyware, which doesn't add functionality to the app.

XPrivacyLua will allow you to lie to apps when they request sensitive data.

Aditionally it will show you timestamps of what it lied about, to which apps, reveiling what they try to collect on you.

https://github.com/M66B/XPrivacyLua

ClassyShark3xodus allows you to decompile and scan apps on the fly,
to check which well known trackers are embedded into it.

https://bitbucket.org/oF2pks/fdroid-classyshark3xodus

Idk if these apps still do it,
since I have not used them for years,
but that's how I learned about many things like:

  • 9GAG contained a face detector service at some point.
  • Facebook Messenger requests access to your microphone, even when you are not calling with it.
OpenStars ,
@OpenStars@startrek.website avatar

I mean... I might tho, if I felt like it, as a means to support the creation of new shows:-D

the_post_of_tom_joad ,

Tell ya what, i bet if every production company magically disappeared tomorrow we would still have new shows. It'd start out like the early days of youtube (my favorite btw) but in my (perhaps unusual) opinion Netflix, disney, sony, et al are more a barrier to quality content than a benefit.

I mean, how many really really good things did you watch last year? What interesting, unusual things might we have seen this year if marvel 25 and spidweman 15 etc weren't taking up all the air?

starman2112 ,
@starman2112@sh.itjust.works avatar

I mean, how many really really good things did you watch last year?

We talking movies and TV shows in general, or only ones that came out in 2023? If the latter, then Dungeons and Dragons was the only good thing I watched last year

Most of the good shows I watched last year were animes that came out around the turn of the century

the_post_of_tom_joad ,

or only ones that came out in 2023?

You got it! i dug into my anime backlog last year too, but I've not seen of early 2000s stuff. Will you tell me what your liked?

starman2112 ,
@starman2112@sh.itjust.works avatar

Hope you're ready for a wall of text!

Early 2000's anime has definitely aged. In my opinion the aesthetic of it has aged extremely well, but I understand that the relatively poor animation and picture quality are enough to turn some people off to it. If you like the aesthetic as much as I do, then I have a whole list. I'm not much of a shonen guy, so a lot of these are calmer, less action-packed shows.

My personal favorite anime is Haibane Renmei, from 2002. The story seems like a mystery at first, but the show never answers most of the questions it raises–it's not about finding answers, it's about the characters, and how they act and react both towards each other and towards the world they live in. The setting is what really pulled me in–it has the same timeless, liminal feel that Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, and The Last Guardian have.

Cowboy Bebop and Trigun are staples. Both 1998 shows. It's hard to believe that Cowboy Bebop was made in the 20th century. Both shows have good plotlines, lovable characters, well-made action sequences. It's hard to write anything about them that hasn't been written before. Watch em!

Witch Hunter Robin from 2002 was pretty good, imo. It's a mystery series about a team of witch hunters. It starts out as a sort of monster (or witch, as it were) of the week show before pivoting into a longer story arc about the characters discovering a conspiracy. The show looks drab and gloomy at first, but really it's absolutely dripping with character, and Amon is the only person in the show that never really seems happy. The action sequences are largely made up of characters just sort of standing and staring at each other, but the camera work and visual effects make it look really good in my opinion.

Fullmetal Alchemist '03 was the first FMA I watched when I was a kid, but never got around to finishing until last year. It's really good. Brotherhood and '03 are largely similar (with minor differences) up until the 5th Laboratory, where they diverge severely. Personally I felt like '03 had a more concise, well-told story. Having fewer characters worked in its favor, because it gave the characters that it does have more time to develop. It also takes itself a lot more seriously than Brotherhood–it feels more like a seinen than a shonen.

Planetes (also from 2003) is the hardest sci-fi that I think I've ever seen. It's about team of orbital debris haulers in the 2070s. At first it's a slice of life show about their day to day activities, and partway through it becomes something of a political drama/action show. It's cool. The main character is a little bit annoyingly idealistic in the first few episodes, but after that it's a solid 10/10 from me.

Last Exile (also 2003) is one of my favorite shows. It's very confusing at first, it feels like there's a couple of episodes worth of exposition missing in the middle, but all in all I absolutely adored it. It never gives you any more information than you need to know, and it never wastes time explaining how its universe works. How do vanships fly? Because of claudia. What is claudia? It's the fuel that makes vanships fly. You never even find out what Exile means until like 23 episodes in. The show is extremely aware of its own aesthetic, in a way that the sequel series from 2011 kind of wasn't. Still worth watching both series IMO, because the sequel finds its own footing in time.

Mushishi (2005) is another calm one. Probably the calmest one. Watching it is like meditating. It follows a sort of travelling doctor who tries to help people when their interactions with the ethereal mushi (they are explicitly living things, but for the sake of storytelling, you can think of them as spirits) turn harmful. Every episode is a new place, a new mushi, a new story. It's masterfully crafted, and the slow pace ensures that not a single frame goes to waste. The early 2000's aesthetic works heavily in its favor, making it fit right in with Studio Ghibli's works, even though it was an Artland joint.

Baccano was 2007, so a bit late to call it "turn of the century," but it has the same sort of aesthetic and vibe that most of these shows have. The story has a wide variety of characters, each with their own fully fleshed out stories, all intertwining like a spider's web as they meet and influence each other. It's really good. Watch the dub!

Right now I'm nearing the end of Noir (2002). I couldn't tell you if it's worth watching until I finish it (just in case it ends badly), but so far I'm liking it. It's about a pair of assassins, one of whom has amnesia and only knows that she's somehow connected to the other, and the other who is trying to find out who killed her family and why. If I have one gripe with the series, it's that they don't ever show any blood on screen. They aren't afraid of showing people die on screen, a lot of people die in every episode, but aside from holes appearing in people's clothing, there doesn't appear to be any actual violence.

the_post_of_tom_joad ,

Ok i need to check some of these out since our tastes appear similar. Thank you for sharing, and with a little write up for each too! Appreciate the "wall of text"

I want to reciprocate, but like i said i haven't seen many from that era. An exception is wolfs rain from 2003. Its probably my fav anime of all time actually, so if yu haven't seen it, it might be right up your alley.

starman2112 ,
@starman2112@sh.itjust.works avatar

Took me a few months to get back to you, but it totally was! My car's been blaring Stray more than any other song for the last couple months

the_post_of_tom_joad ,

Oh hooray! I had wondered if I'd hear from you again! What did you think? I would love to hear it

starman2112 ,
@starman2112@sh.itjust.works avatar

It was awesome! It gave me strong Last Exile vibes, despite the two series being nothing alike. Out of the anime I listed in that comment, it's the one I'd recommend the most based on Wolf's Rain

AnneBonny ,

The only platform not yet supported is the Mac Pro, although there probably isn’t much left to do. No, not the “MacBook Pro”, but the “Mac Pro” – the one that looks like a cheese grater and costs thrice as much.

I've always wondered what sort of look they were going for.

Octopus1348 ,
@Octopus1348@lemy.lol avatar

I remember seeing it and thinking "No, this can't be real. No way Apple actually did this."

https://lemy.lol/pictrs/image/cd0210a3-d1b7-414c-bef8-0f94debfadf6.jpeg

Edit: I just checked and if you apply all upgrades, the total hardware cost is $12,348. That's 3.5th the price of the future  Vision Pro

p03locke ,
@p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Have fun with your seven thousand dollar cheese grater.

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