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  • Franchises and ensemble casts really skew those results. So in the end it basically just comes down to “who was part of one or more large franchises” (primarily marvel), which to me is not that interesting.

    For me it would be much more interesting which actors brought the most “value” to a variety of unconnected movies, which would probably boost someone like Leonardo DiCaprio much higher, and in return throw out a bunch of actors from the MCU. For example Don Cheadle, who is on the list because he replaced Terrence Howard as War Machine. Which might have been the right call and an improvement, but imo don’t do the recast and you could swap those names on the list, because i don’t think he majorly shifted the franchise (unlike somone such as RDJ). Recast Leo and who knows how his movies would have performed with someone else in the lead.

    Not sure how an alternative ranking should work, but maybe take either the first/average/highest grossing movie of a movie series instead of adding all up.




  • Inherent factors could explain different ratios of conservativ vs liberal views in men vs women of that age group, but not drastic changes to such a gap. I’d also rule out brain development as a factor simply based on differences between countries. Human populations do have variances, but not to such a degree when it concerns something this fundamental.

    This may have affected my younger brain’s susceptibility to extremist views

    Or for a positive spin “openness to new or different ideas and values”





  • I think you’ll need to give some more information to receive good advice:

    • What’s your budget

    • What’s your use case? Just web browsing, light office work or something more demanding like gaming or editing?

    • What form factor? Want a larger screen or something lighter and more compact? Touch screen/convertible yes or no?

    I’m nowhere near tech-savvy so it has to be easy to use,

    Easy to use or easy to repair? As far as use goes pretty much every windows laptop will be feel the same to use, same as with apple. I mean it is the same operating system, just depends on what you are used to, but neither are complicated. It’s only Linux where you have a larger variety of variants, some easier to use, others geared more towards advanced users. Bur you haven’t indicated that you specifically want to run Linux.

    I want something that is built to last, as opposed to certain (looking at you, Apple) devices that are desinged to become unusable within a next couple of years.

    Generally laptops aimed at businesses are more durable than consumer lines. Don’t go too cheap unless you are buying used business laptops. And if something is heavilu leaning towards thin and light, then usually it is at the expense of some durability.

    Apple is actually decently durable and I’ve seen quite a few MacBooks running for over a decade while still being ok. Where they fall short is repairability, when something does break and their lowest specs paired with no real way to upgrade later (especially with the newer models that don’t even have SSDs that can be swapped) is bad for future proofing, if demands change. And they make you pay through your nose for reasonable configurations.





  • I think it definitely has something to do with monetary factors.

    Rising ticket prices mean that the audience expects a cinematic event for their money. Like if you are spending as much as $100 as a group for tickets and snacks/drinks, would you be satisfied with a short 90min film or would you rather have a spectacle like avatar?

    And from the studio side there are all the factors that also lead to the death of the mid-budget movies. You are already spending a ton of money on marketing and for the general audience it’s probably a “winner takes all” scenario. The mid-budget movie with its similar sized marketing campaign can’t compete with something like a Deadpool 3. And if you are spending big on marketing you might as well spend more to make sure you hit. And stuff like good CGI that is expected nowadays is also not cheap

    Additionally larger overall budget+returns give you growth. the amount of days in a year is fixed, so there is only so many release windows that make sense without movies cannibalizing each others returns. Even if you can only dream of the margins of some low budget horror movies.

    Not a horror fan myself, so I actually don’t know if that’s the case, but I could imagine that niche genres that don’t need that much marketing campaign (and don’t have a potential audience large to support a larger one) will still have shorter run times.




  • golli@lemm.eetoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldNAS OS with a web UI
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    6 months ago

    openmediavault is ok for raid, but the containers aren’t one click wonder like in other NAS OSes

    Since OMV also uses docker compose with a build in GUI to manage them, I don’t assume this would be what OP is looking for either? Unless trueNAS also comes with some repository of preconfigured compose files.


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    6 months ago

    I am currently using Openmediavault for my NAS and can confirm that with an official plugin so far I havent had any issue with my ZFS pool (that I migrated from trueNAS scale since I didn’t like their kubernetes use and truecharts, but as someone mentions they seem to switch to docker).

    Otherwise I am happy as well, but I am far from a poweruser.


  • golli@lemm.eetoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldNextcloud Hub 8 is now available
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    9 months ago

    Bloat and bad performance aside, you don’t see a benefit in having a all-in-one solution that in a way acts as a drop in replacement for people wanting to switch away from the likes of Google/Apple? I certainly do.

    Yes, having a dedicated app selected for each use case will likely give better results. But it also means more management. And many users don’t actually need more than basic functionality.

    But yes looking at the complaints, they should look at polishing existing features first.