Remember when we “couldn’t” help Puerto Rico after Maria because Puerto Rico is an island, surrounded by big water, ocean water?

Trump on Friday said the disaster relief effort in Puerto Rico is complicated because it is “surrounded by water.” “This is an island, surrounded by water. Big water. Ocean water,” the president said during a speech in Washington on his tax plan.

[Hits bong] Over water, a boat going too fast becomes a plane and a plane going too slow becomes a boat.

I don’t even like the few phones I had with the headphone jack on the top.

This would be a good post for !unpopularopinion@lemmy.world as long as you expand on why you think that.

Bombadil was referred to as “The Hermit” before they revealed his identity when GrandElf (aka Gandalf née The Stranger) crosses paths with him.

Someone said if you forget it’s LOTR and just treat it as its own thing it’s not half bad.

Basically. I don’t forget it’s LOTR but I do keep in mind it’s not the Peter Jackson trilogy nor a 1:1 from the books.

I was really really hoping it was going to be about the fall of Numenor.

It is, but it’s slow burn and a something of an overall B-plot to the titular Rings of Power in the second season and the creation of Mordor in the first.

The main online gripe that I can agree with how the characters “fast travel” as plot demands. I just accept that as necessary to condense things down to a suitable runtime for a TV series.

He’s in Rings of Power which I guess counts as a derivative. I don’t want to start a flame war since a lot of people hate that adaptation, but I enjoy it for what it is.

Quite reliably, yeah. The only limitation is I can’t root my current device, so the mapped keys can only work when the screen is on. But the volume keys will wake the screen up, so I just hit it once normally then hold to mute or change tracks or whatever.

You can do that with KeyMapper, and I have a lot of custom actions set up with it.

https://f-droid.org/packages/io.github.sds100.keymapper/

I have double-press volume down set to toggle mute, though, since I’m already using long press of vol up and down to do next/prev track for my music player.

Regardless, I cannot recommend KeyMapper enough. It’s pretty fantastic.

I haven’t had time to build out or promote the community, so there’s only one post right now, but this would be perfect for !totallylookslike@dubvee.org if you had a side-by-side image.

Dude! Awesome! On all fronts, awesome.

Agree. Which is why I get so irrationally annoyed when sharing a good piece of journalism that’s not catering to ad-clicks and the peanut gallery here grabs their torches and pitchforks while shouting “PaYwALL!” despite me posting the gist of the article in the post body (enough to get the gist but not the full article for copyright reasons). It’s one of several reasons why I don’t even bother anymore.

Like, good journalism costs money. That money’s gotta come from somewhere if you want good journalists to be able to eat and keep doing what they do.

Orphan Black: Live

I prefer sans-serif fonts visually but prefer serif for readability. So I use Atkinson Hyperlegible which is a mish-mash of both.

And bonus meme:

It kinda can but not as easily.

Back when I just downloaded everything under the sun on Napster/Limewire, I’d make highly curated CDs of known-hits as well as ones where I sprinkle in some random songs that were in my downloads that I’d never heard before. Not exactly the same, but I’ve definitely listened to a CD I made and been like “what’s that song?! I love it!”.

Plus, for road trips, everyone would usually burn a CD or two of their own to swap in (a precursor to “pass the aux cord”) so there was some novelty/variety.

Nothing hits better on a drive than a good mixed CD. Even making a playlist on your phone, which is basically the same thing, is totally not the same.

Yeah, I think it was changed in Win 10 (or maybe 8/8.1?)

Finally, I’m not the only one noticing this.

I’ve long said that the moment “My Computer” changed to “This PC”, it showed how MS really thought of your computer as theirs that they so graciously allow you to use once in a while.

Maybe AI should be more like a parent and simply say “I don’t know. Go read a book, find out, and let me know”.

Pretty sure my mom did know the answer but I learned more by reading a book and telling her what I learned.

We already have robotic peeping Toms, so yeah, robotic house burglars tracks.