cerebralhawks

I have an answer, but I don't covet it — I found it somewhere.

In Japan, there is an awesome trailer for Makoto Shinkai's 天気の子 (Tenki no Ko; Weathering With You), a 2019 film. The trailer starts with an ultrawide montage of all Shinkai's previous films, showing that, essentially, he's been making the same movie for years. Characters having their names said to each other. Characters being thanked or apologised to. And some other stuff — I don't understand most Japanese. Just a few dozen words. I know arigatou is "thank you" and sayonara is "farewell." I also don't know the Japanese words, but when the voice actors from his last film before 天気の子 say "Nothing more or less than a breathtaking view," I know they're saying it because it's from 君の名は。(Kimi no Na wa.; your name.) because that's the best film I've seen, and I've seen it enough, including in Japanese without subs, to know what they're saying. Anyway, it's this montage of his previous films. Then a short teaser for 天気の子, THEN the trailer. The whole thing is like 5-6 minutes long. There's a crappy copy on YouTube, it's like 360p. I have it in 1080p. It's awesome to watch. It's in Japanese with no subtitles. I don't care. Still love it. And 天気の子 is not half the film 君の名は。 is, but I don't care. (君の名は。 has its own version of this trailer, but it's not as long and it's not as good. I have that too!)

Adopt the kid, gets around the moral issue of bringing a child into the world. The kid is already in the world, you just provide for them.

Different reasons, but I don't really get the point of it either. It only works on Pixel devices, which means you gotta pay iPhone prices and reward Google's bad behavior. If you're fine paying that, you're probably not too far against Google's behavior and thus, why are you using Graphene? If you're against Google's boorish privacy practices, get an iPhone. Apple is sort of trying to take a stand against privacy invasion (at least to Google's scaling; they aren't perfect) but the fact remains, a lot of people don't care about privacy. Pixel+Graphene is objectively better for privacy than iOS, sure, but there are tradeoffs and people who love Graphene are willing to accept them.

The biggest problem with iOS is, it's closed source and we don't know what Apple will do tomorrow. As a Mac guy I don't have a problem with Apple vis a vis my Macs. However the iPhone is kinda silly for a few reasons, but I still prefer it to the alternative because I don't want to be playing around with custom firmware. That's a younger man's game. It was my game when I was a younger man and I don't want to be in that scene anymore. My choice. I know it's a good choice for others. Android isn't really open source either, though. AOSP is — but forks of it, like the Android on Pixels, like OneUI (I still wanna call it TouchWiz), HTC Sense, and all the others, are not. Of course, if you're running Graphene, or Oxygen (again, I still wanna call it Cyanogen), or something like that (I used to be sweet on an AOKP fork called LiquidSmooth), you're playing with open source so you do have that. But you also give up a lot.

I do think it's a bit weird Graphene is only on Pixel. But I guess by keeping the device list small, they can focus on what they want to do, which isn't support every phone, it's supporting ones they know they can.

At the end of the day, Graphene is a better option for privacy than iOS, which is better than any commercial Android OS by default due to not having Google Play Services.

I'd say you have to really assess what kind of privacy you need. Maybe iOS is enough. If it's not, Graphene is a good bet. I don't need Graphene. Heck, I'd be fine with Pixel Android, but I have an iPhone so I can afford to claim the high road in privacy. Just not the highest road. I know where I stand. But I know where I need to be and I'm standing pretty close to it. If someone needs to be in another place, what works for me may not work for them.

Lemmy-Status says it's back up but it's back to that bug where the content warning never goes away when you hit the green button. Sometimes it works and you can clear it, other times you can't.

There may be a way around it but pretty much every time I check, no luck. Is there a better way to access it?

There's a community here on Lemmy that I used to follow, something like "share anime art." It's all AI generated. Or at least, the user who is keeping it going is just posting that. They are not being disingenuous; while they don't tag it as AI (that I have seen), they DO include the prompt, which is pretty transparent in my book. Nothing against that user at all.

In fact, the art looks pretty official. That said... it maybe looks too perfect? Official art usually has copyright tags in the lower right corner. The prompt specifically avoids any kind of copyright or artist tags. Fan art typically does have tags of some kind.

If someone were trying to fool me, they probably could. AI art has gotten to that point. But at this point, my old ass just doesn't trust anything without verifying. I was among the first on the Web and we didn't trust it then. There was a time when we grew to trust the Web. Now we can't trust it again and that's fine with me. I've always tried to be genuine, but I also wouldn't recommend anyone blindly trust me, either. Just take everything with a grain of salt and it's fine.

I feel like this question is invalid with anime not being explicitly included or excluded.

Included, it's simply not fair to anything not anime. I could take the ten, hell, the 25 best anime openings, exclude them, and still be able to post examples that utterly destroy any TV series you could name. It's not hard.

Excluded, it's a lot more fair.

Say what you want about anime animation, but the animators put their best work into the opening. And the music? Anime is to Japanese pop and rock what MTV was to American pop and rock in the 1980s, the hit maker. These songs are reaching international audiences and getting people to check out the rest of their music. Some Japanese bands refuse to use anime for exposure, but a lot of them live and die from it. I think ONE OK ROCK finally relented just to shut people up (and they went with a children's programme, Beyblade X), but a lot of other bands are known because of the anime series people first heard them in.

It's been 16 years, but one of anime's top-rated series still has an outstanding first opening. Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood OP 1 "Again" by YUI

I have something like that on my iPhone, except it's like 150GB of media (it's a 512GB phone).

I have a lot more on my Plex server. But, sometimes I'm without Internet and it's nice to be able to queue up a favorite video or movie without worrying about my network connection.

If you only have 10GB, any phone should work. A newer one will have faster data rates than a flash drive. iPhones are guaranteed to. Good Android phones use UFS 3.0 or better which is only slower than what's in an iPhone on paper. In real usage you won't really see a difference. Plus, you have a screen on it so you can watch whenever. I mean the cheap phones now start at like 64GB, iPhones and probably Android flagships start at 128GB, even from a few years ago. So it's plenty of space and it's also emulators and books and whatever else you wanna throw on it. Oh yeah, music too.

"FromSoftware is based AF, Bethesda you could learn something from them" or something like that.

Um, please no. If Elder Scrolls VI is a Souls-like, I won't play it. But with regard to IP law, yeah, that's all fine. But Bethesda is part of Microsoft now, and they were bad enough before with Fallout 76 and Elder Scrolls Online and the mod storefronts for Skyrim, Fallout 4, and Starfield... so yeah, probably gonna get a lot worse.

The first episode sucked, though. And most of the old ones were not that good. White Bear and White Christmas being the exceptions. Maybe one or two others.

I liked them, they had charm, but the added budget definitely helped, and that brought us to San Junipero.

The last few seasons were not that good, but the latest one is better than the couple that came before it.

There's also the Amazing Stories reboot, but that sucks too. The one Jordan Peele produced. I watched the first 2-3 episodes and it wasn't any good, so I stopped. Same idea though. Amazing Stories started all this, I think, the comic book. That comic was out long before Twilight Zone, which was the first anthology series on TV in the 1960s. Spielberg's Amazing Stories came out in the 80s, but the comic books are from like the 1930s. You also have Night Gallery from TZ creator Rod Serling if you're looking for more. Another obscure one is Blue Literature, which is animated and in Japanese (subtitles are available but it's not fully translated). What makes that one stand out is, each of its stories are based on a work of Japanese literature.

That's 2 different questions.

I believe VLC can open m3u links (playlists). Not sure about m3u8.

As far as downloading videos from an app, good luck with that. Or if you mean using an app (say, to download from a website), you could probably do it with Firefox?

If you have access to a computer, jdownloader2 is super easy to download from most websites.

I got Macs and an iPhone and I can download stuff so I know you can with Android. (I can also send videos easily between Android and iPhone.)

Thoughtcrime issues? You have thoughts about harming someone, you get punished for it even if you don't take action?

I suppose the upshot is it could be used to detect and diagnose mental illnesses?

Furthermore, going into the future, it could ostensibly be used to control parts of the body that are damaged or otherwise not working, or emulate their function. For example, someone with damaged vocal cords could use it to speak through connected speakers. Someone who is paralysed could use it to walk with a mechanical exoskeleton.

The problem with something like that is, it would have to be privacy focused. Samsung, one of the most popular smartphone makers, updated their Health app a year or two ago to where you had to agree to allow them to sell or give away your medical information if you want to continue to use Samsung Health. And that's a Korean company. Apple Health is still private, but Apple is an American company, so the question is begged, "but for how long?".

So, the question is, are the powers that be/fascists in charge going to use it to weed out LGBTQ+ and put them in concentration camps, or what?

Yes. When I used to mod Android phones, we used AdAway to fix the HOSTS file.

The HOSTS file exists on pretty much everything. iPhone, Android, Switch, PlayStation, Xbox, Mac, PC. Most of those don't let you edit it, though.

And on Android without root, just like on an iPhone, it's down to DNS filtering. You need root to edit the HOSTS file.

For platforms you can't edit the HOSTS file on, you can run your own DNS server (I have no experience doing this, but, it can be done) and block ads there, and route your locked-down machines through that. I think a Pi-Hole does that (Raspberry Pi computer running custom router software for blocking ads/trackers).