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  1. I have two ethernet hard wires coming out of the wall in my office, one to the work laptop, the other to this Surly shit talk-dedicated desktop.  Ethernet connection to the laptop works fine.  Unplug that same cord from the laptop and plug in to the desktop and no internet.  The ethernet icon on the homescreen flashes a few time then stops.  Desktop has two ethernet ports, and no joy on either.

    But wifi on the desktop works fine.  Maybe a little slow (80 mps each way) but unnoticeable IRL.  So I have wired internet to the desktop, but it won't take it in.  Why?

  2. 3 hours ago, Derka said:

    two honest questions from someone who hasn’t been to the theater in over a decade:

    1)how do you sit through 3+ hours of previews + a movie?

    2)why don’t they have intermissions?

    90% of the movies i watch at home are from the 90’s, back when keeping it a tight 90-100 minutes was SOP. movies have been so goddamn long in run time since that titanic movie that i just can’t even get up to spend 4-5 hours of my life + an exorbitant amount of money to go watch a 3 hour movie that absolutely does not need to be 3 hours long. seriously- how do y’all do it?

    OK Boomer

  3. 1 hour ago, Laxtonto said:

    This has devolved into a bloody static war that will grind on and on. Ukraine is running out of troops. That is math. Russia is already deep into its reserves regarding equipment and has decimated their NCO and young officer core. Russia is almost to the point that they are going to have to make hard decisions regarding the North Caucasus's and the other far-flung satellite states. They cannot "govern" by force in these outlying regions while also heavily conscripting from there for the front lines. Russia is trying to balance not conscripting heavily from the "ethnic Russians", which is unpopular, while not upsetting the satellites by wiping out an entire generation of men as fodder. This is a recipe for political unrest and Russia knows this. They have "access" to manpower, but each year the political cost becomes that much greater, and they are one misstep from having another Chechen War-style headache far from Moscow.

    With China and Iran not able/no longer willing to provide drones and high-tech munitions, and most of the Arab world not wanting to get involved with "Russia's war" after the fall of Syria and Iran, Russia has limited options other than the continued slow grind on the ground. If Ukraine can begin the target deep behind the Russian lines again with advanced ordnance (and more importantly US intelligence), even the current slow grind by Russia is impossible. So then it becomes, much like the static lines of WWI, where inertia and pointless loss of life were commonplace. Both sides will then need come to the realization that true gains are unlikely and a continued, never-ending drain of political capital is the likely outcome.

    This announcement should not be a shock after we saw reports of a HIMARS strike to kill the command staff of the 155th brigade in Kursk a few days ago. The only way HIMARS works is if the US allows the systems to target. That is only done with US "supervision" and with full US knowledge and blessing. I would also bet that the intel used to select and find this target was US-generated as well.  When was the last time there was a well-publicized HIMARS strike? One in June, hitting a troop convoy, and one in March hitting some helicopters on the ground. This is a whole different level of target and intel needed. This US public proclamation of wanting to send "defensive" weapons goes along with the implied threat from the HIMARS decapitation strikes, and both are there to try to get Putin to get back to the negotiating table. Expect to hear discussions regarding additional sanctions regarding Russia coming from the US State Department as well, if Russia does not "get the hint" to apply even more internal political pressure.

     

     

     

    Kinda reads like wish casting, but I'm down for it.  Let's fucking go.

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  4. Thing is up to like $300MM in earnings and I'm glad.  I want Kosinski to keep getting good projects and good budgets.

    ETA
    And remember he may/may not be involved in the Miami Vice reboot.

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  5. 16 minutes ago, Hellraiser97 said:

    It also restarted the whole Zombie genre.  There hadn't been anything, at least mainstream, since the 70's.  I didn't see it when it came out, only watched it a few weeks ago.  Agree the lo-fi was a bit tough, but still enjoyed it.

    I neither love nor hate 28 years later.  I was ok with the heavy human drama aspect, but the more out there stuff the director did (which I know is his style) and the tone shift at the end, didn't sit well with me.

    The Zach Snyder Dawn of the Dead is excellent.  When he dials back the Snyderisms, he's a great director.

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  6. On 7/3/2025 at 2:54 PM, Parliament said:

    Changed jobs and I can get rid of the god damn iPhone.  New Samsung Xcover Pro 7 setting up as I type this.  Damn, it feels good to be a gangsta.

    So I switched my plan (keeping my number) but have the old shitbox still running on wifi.  Rando people's texts still go there (and not to my new Android.)  Two guys have completely deleted my my contact in their phones and re-entered w/just my number.  No joy.

    Do I need to fry my Apple account?  What's the deal here.

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