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[–] aleph@lemm.ee 19 points 2 years ago

Perhaps the Big Three deserve destruction; after all, they hooked us on S.U.V.s in the first place and then fell behind in the E.V. race.

☝️☝️☝️

After years of persuading Americans to buy oversized SUVs and pickups instead of sedans, it comes back to bite them in the ass.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think he did a pretty good job of walking the tightrope between levity/seriousness about Gaza for what is after all a light current affairs show.

I actually think the follow up discussion with an American journalist representing each faction was more impressive, and contained a decent amount of nuance regarding the practicalities of how the region might find its way out of this mess.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, you need to be ready to pay full attention, but it's worth it.

The sound design is amazing, so get the best audio setup you can muster.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Agreed. The 6 was too boxy and too big.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Gotye. He made two great albums then faded into obscurity.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'd say it's more like a cousin/sibling of Exynos rather than being a straight rebrand. They share very similar clock management and power management architecture, although there are enough differences to set them apart.

It could well be that certain apps are optimized more towards Qualcomm's Snapdragon architecture over Tensor, which would account for why the Nothing Phone appears to perform better in certain apps than Pixels do, or it could be that the SoC's thermal management or clock profiling is leading to inefficiencies in performance.

Could be a little from column A and a little from column B, so to speak.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Ah, shame - I'd heard mixed reports over whether Graphene manages to fix some of the performance issues of the stock ROM, but that's one more data point in the Nope column.

I guess Tensor still has some fundamental issues that have yet to be ironed out.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

For your use case, I'd go with LosslessCut as opposed Shotcut, Openshot, etc.

The reason being that it is much simpler and faster to use, and generally results in smaller filesizes because you aren't having to re-encode from scratch.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 21 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Man that side-by-side of the scrolling lag was super obvious. That would drive me up the wall.

It's such a shame that Google still can't get their act together and offer as smooth and consistent an experience as their rivals because otherwise they do have a lot going for them

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Just got done watching The Zone of Interest, which was brilliant. Never will you see a more mundane Holocaust movie, and I mean that as a compliment. Truly brings to mind the phrase "the banality of evil".

Also loved Anatomy of a Fall, which was amazing. Great writing, great performances. Excellent movie, all round.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Agree 💯

IMO His best movies (like Grand Budapest or Moonrise Kingdom) have an emotional core that counteracts the arch, one-eyebrow-raised-ness, but Asteroid City was just completely self-indulgent, overly convoluted, and emotionally inert.

I found it insufferable and nearly didn't finish it.

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