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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I looked up the supported bands and it appears that the Fairphone 5 is compatible with T-Mobile's 5G network, barring mmwave. So if you're not fussed by >6GHz connection speeds in built-up areas, you'll be fine.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

Technically, Endeavour does have its own repos but they only contain a relatively small number of non-essential packages. But yeah, other than that it's basically pre-configured Arch with great defaults.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Having said that, yes, the description does seem like the dystopian tellyscreens in nineteen-eighty-four. But they were mandatory for everyone, which is the main difference.

This is actually closer to Brave New World than Nineteen Eighty-Four. In the former, citizens voluntarily buy huge TVs to adorn their living room walls because their whole society is built around pleasure-seeking and entertainment. These displays are then used by the powers that be to distract and pacify the population, prevent critical thinking and reduce political unrest.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Lol omg. I tried long pressing everywhere except the page number icon, which I only tapped, and nothing happened. I'm clearly having one of those days.

That's cool, though. I haven't been able to find any FOSS app that has this feature before.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Thanks, that does look nifty, but unfortunately I was thinking specifically for Android.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah, I know. I was disappointed that certain key scenes that I loved in the books were either cut or dramatically cut down, but I understand why they did it.

My guess is that going into this series, the producers/director were not confident that they could get three movies out of it and keep the studio happy and so decided to squeeze it into two. Remember that while most critics and sci-fi fans loved Blade Runner 2049, it was considered a commercial flop and many accused it of being "too slow" . Perhaps it was felt that three Dune movies would have suffered the same fate?

Personally, I would have vastly preferred it had they gone the Lord of the Rings route and released 3hr30 minute extended editions of Dune Part One and Two, but apparently that's not the way they wanted to do things. Either way, under the circumstances, I think they did a decent job with the constraints they had.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I just figured that out, thanks!

From what I can see, there's no way to rearrange the order of pages, though, right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I've read the books several times over, so I think I know exactly what you're referring to. While I agree that you could potentially stretch Dune to three movies, I don't think you necessarily need to for the sake of a movie franchise.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (9 children)

Darn, for a minute there I thought this app might allow you to add pages to rearrange pages in existing documents like Notebloc. So few scanner apps offer this, but it's super useful.

Edit: BTW I was talking about Android, plus if you read the comment chain below, this one does! Just long press the page number icon and drag to move.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

I do agree that the weakness of Part Two was that it was rushed, but i don't agree that it was incoherent. What it really needed was key scenes and events to be more fleshed out - say another 30-40 minutes?

It certainly didn't need to be split into two separate movies, though.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

She is, but there are a few things you can do to avoid having to getting into melee:

  • sneak attack (use doorways, pillars, grass) as much as possible
  • snipe from behind tall grass (you can scope out enemy locations, hide behind grass and then shoot enemies with the bow even if you can't see them, which makes every shot a sneak attack)
  • Use seeds for crowd control
  • Use thrown weapons/wands as much as possible

This usually keeps me going until I find a good tier 3 or 4 weapon in the prison.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

OP is clearly not that if their use case involves a homelab and docker containers. Arch is a perfectly valid suggestion here.

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