[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Having a mental block here, who is the Germany 1990 player who has died?

EDIT - found it, it's Andreas Brehme.

[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Can't help with an answer, but you could also try posting this over on !Tipofmytongue@lemmy.world, might get a bite.

[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Could well be this. That scene ends with Charlie saying "checkmate", although I must admit I never noticed exactly what he did.

[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Plus, nobody tells a Middle Earth eagle what to do.

[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Only subjectively though. I love many sports and find many others pretty boring. Fans of those would disagree, of course.

[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Not sure if I'd say they hit hard, but for readability it's hard to beat Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe books. Some of the best murder mysteries I've ever read, so much fun.

[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The Hitchhiker’s Guide, you likely won’t be able to finish each of the 5 books in the trilogy in a day but it’s something you can read a hundred times and find a new witty joke somewhere

After which you can listen to the radio show, watch the TV show, play the text adventure and maybe watch the movie depending on how much more you can take :-)

[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

My favourite example of this is in Grosse Point Blank, when the GNR cover of Live and Let Die is playing non-diagetically, right until the moment Martin walks into the store, and suddenly a cheesy muzak version of it is playing over the shop radio. It's beautifully done :-)

[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago
[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago

┬──┬ ノ( ゜-゜ノ)

[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 26 points 6 days ago

That's really cool, I love stuff like this. Movie making in the time before CGI, fabulous.

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submitted 4 weeks ago by sanguinepar@lemmy.world to c/pics@lemmy.world

Or at least that's what Google says they are... :-)

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by sanguinepar@lemmy.world to c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world

Already getting sick of seeing 'AI' results at the top of a search when all you want is a link to a site?

I just discovered this article showing a way to not see it (although it doesn't disable it altogether).

TLDR:

  • In Chrome open settings menu, choose Search engine on left menu and scroll down to site search
  • Click Add button and choose a name (eg Old Google, Google Web or whatever)
  • Add a shortcut word (eg web, og, or whatever)
  • Add this URL string: https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14
  • Save that, and now if you search for something and use the shortcut word you set you'll just get proper results, no 'AI' shown
  • Or, if you don't want to have to add a shortcut word, you just make that search your default (use the 3 dot menu next to the name you set) and all searches will show that way, no shortcut word needed.

EDIT - meant to add that there are detailed instructions for Edge, Firefox and Safari in the article if you don't use Chrome

Hope that helps someone - I really don't like all that extra nonsense when I just want a link to a site that I know exists!

[Obligatory - "or don't use Chrome/Google...", I know - but people do, so this might be useful]

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by sanguinepar@lemmy.world to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

Just wondering if anyone knows of a way to do this?

Here's my use case in more detail

I have a laptop and a PC, with the laptop connecting to one of my 2 monitors via an HDMI splitter. This allows me to use my PC on both screens most of the time, but then quickly switch one monitor to show the laptop, when required.

Only thing is that doing that causes all PC windows* on Screen 2 to jump to Screen 1, while Screen 2 now shows the laptop's windows. That's fine, and I get why it does that (effectively the PC thinks I've disconnected Screen 2).

* (usually it's a bunch of Chrome windows, 5-7 of them - for work/multi-client reasons this works best for me and my PC handles it fine)

When I switch the HDMI splitter back, all PC windows remain on Screen 1, while Screen 2 is once again showing my PC desktop, but with no windows. Ideally all windows would flip back to where they were before, but I don't think there's a way to do this, and again, that's fine.

My next preferred option is to be able to able to move all Chrome windows over from Screen 1 to Screen 2 quickly - and this is what I'm looking for advice on. I can't seem to find a way to "select" all/multiple Chrome windows and shift them to Screen 2, but it feels like there must be a way?

Any help greatly appreciated :-)

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Sorry Norway. Our jammy win in Oslo robbed you of a chance to experience a major tournament. Instead, your place went to a badly organised rabble, with no urgency, no ambition and not even basic ball control.

You should have been in this tournament, and that disgraceful excuse for a Scotland team should have been languishing in 3rd or 4th. How in god's name did we beat Spain?

Sorry Norway, you deserved better.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by sanguinepar@lemmy.world to c/football@lemmy.world

Of limited interest, I'm sure, but I spent a bit of time working all this out, and wanted to post it before Scotland go 2 down after 5 minutes tomorrow and render it all moot...

So.

If Scotland lose to Hungary, we're out. No ifs, buts, or maybes.

If we draw then we need at least 2 out of 3 scenarios to happen in order to sneak through:

  • Spain beat Albania AND Italy beat Croatia
  • Turkey beat Czechia AND Portugal beat Georgia
  • Denmark beat Georgia AND England beat Slovenia by 5 or more (I think)

If Scotland win against Hungary then any 2 (or more) of these scenarios gets us through

  • Spain avoid defeat to Albania (Scotland would finish better than Albania and also better than one of Croatia or Italy, regardless of their result)

  • Netherlands beat Austria (Scotland would be ahead of both Austria and Poland)

  • England avoid defeat to Slovenia (Scotland would be ahead of Slovenia and also at least one of Denmark or Serbia).

  • There's also the possibility that Slovenia hammer England (Scotland could finish better than England on goal difference and also would be ahead of at least one of Denmark or Serbia)

  • Portugal avoid defeat to Georgia (Scotland would be ahead of Georgia and also ahead of one of Turkey or Czechia)

  • Even if Georgia did win, we could beat them on GD, but we'd have to thrash Hungary, so not likely.

  • No draws on match day 3 in group E. Doesn't matter who wins, as long as two teams do.

  • Or, if there are 1 or 2 draws in group E then it comes down to goal difference, so we would have to hammer Hungary, see above.

And yes, I made a spreadsheet to work all this out... :-)

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submitted 4 months ago by sanguinepar@lemmy.world to c/pics@lemmy.world
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Great timing. Unless they're thinking they might get a new manager bounce without actually appointing a new manager?

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Oh please, oh please, oh please, oh please... 🤞🤞🤞

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FFS, not this bullshit again... Hopefully fan pressure can fight it off just like last time.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by sanguinepar@lemmy.world to c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world

Example post: https://lemmy.world/post/14058825

I've no idea if this is technically possible at all, but on posts like the one above, where multiple images have been added, it would be really handy to be able to swipe between them as if they were in a gallery. At present it's a case of open one, close it, open the next, etc...

Same for comments, not sure if that would be different than posts.

Thanks :-)

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How fucking great was that??

If you're going tomorrow night, you're in for a treat, what a set!

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Great news! So glad to see the Filmhouse reopening :-)

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