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Why are so many people downloading the movie Paul all of a sudden? (lemm.ee)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Movie Paul from 2011 is getting so many downloads for some reason 480.73.

Anyone have an explantion as to why?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I usually watch the movie on my PC and my setup is plain stereo with a non-FullHD monitor, so... not much point in downloading 1080p 🤷.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

😯non full HD in 2023? How do you handle such low res?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Meeh, doesn't really bother me 🤷. I usually just use the default settings in whatever DE in Linux (I usually use xfce, but I've switched when I felt like it, if I'm getting bored and wanna try something new 😂), or change a few font sizes here and there and all is good 🤷. Regarding Windows (I dual boot), I don't really care that much to be honest, I rarely use it the past few years. I only use it for work and only when I have to do some things from home or when I need to use some obscure piece of software that just doesn't work in Wine.

So.. no, I don't really see a reason to buy a bigger monitor. Actually, I haven't bought a monitor for ages, like probably 20 years 😂, all of the ones I currently use are salvaged from one person or another - they wanna trade up, they give me their old monitor 😂. I don't complain, they're still usable for me 🤷.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I appreciate you for preventing eWaste by reusing 🤩 that is awesome! I myself use the old macbookpro and iMacs from my father running Linux :D it’s great to live in a time where one can get such powerful computing devices for free 😇 But for watching movies and series, I really appreciate higher resolution and don’t feel satisfied if it is less than 1080 (more if we talking 25" plus)

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

To be honest, I just love reusing old stuff and giving it new meaning ☺️. And fixing stuff too. Sure, they will eventually be worthless, but I try and extend their life as much as possible ☺️.

Regarding the movies thing, each to his own 🤷 😉. I don't judge. Hell, even I sonetimes download 1080p and watch that on my TV, but it's mostly a special case scenario, like some good movie I've wanted to watch for a long time, but never got around to it, or something like.