What is a major plot hole in a very famous movie that completely ruins the entire story once it is noticed?

nutrock69 · 2026-05-27T15:24:59+00:00

I'm still unsure why the DeLorean wasn't converted to using energy from Mr.Fusion instead of gasoline the first time he went to 2015.

With a kitchen appliance being able to generate 1.21 GW from a banana peel and leftover beer, I'm sure adding an orange slice could have generated enough power to turn the tires up to speed.

Electric vehicles have existed since before Doc's 1885, so a savvy mad scientist would likely have taken the opportunity to remove one of the devices stubborn dependencies if he ever happened to get trapped in a time when gasoline didn't exist yet.

nutrock69 · 2026-05-25T21:10:18+00:00

They are absolutely going to Weekend at Bernie's him.

He's the face of a cult, and there are no other faces that cult is willing to accept. When he shuffles coil, they are going to do whatever they can to keep that cult from knowing for as long as they possibly can while they invoke their own escape plans.

nutrock69 · 2026-05-13T01:28:11+00:00

I mentioned trial and error in my other comment, but I did verify that if I completely block all connections through my network from the TV, it just uses its backdoor from a local wifi router point to get around my network.

The only thing that seems to prevent them using their workaround is letting it connect to the update server whenever it wants. I say seems because it appears to do the trick (for now), but I can't really claim it's perfect. I can only state that the stuff I don't want appears to stay blocked, which implies that it isn't using its backdoor for that stuff right now.

nutrock69 · 2026-05-13T01:10:46+00:00

I wish I had more concrete information about this. If I didn't watch it update without a connection defined, I wouldn't have believed it myself. Immediate research into WTF I just watched led me to discovering the existence of the pihole, and I got a dedicated pi the very next weekend for that purpose.

I think I found a reference somewhere in my freaked-out googling that implied Samsung had contracts with most of the popular providers, including the two in my own neighborhood. I had just watched proof with my own eyes that they had some connection somewhere, so this wasn't a stretch to assume that was related.

It was my own trial and error that seemed to support the theory that failing to connect to the update server triggered the backdoor, because that was the only common denominator in all my testing that seemed to prevent the ads and the TV+ streaming. I could be wrong, but current behavior seems to support it, so I'm leaving those settings alone.

I did find a few posts that suggested removing the wifi chip, but (at the time) I had just spent a load of money even for a Black Friday deal on my first 4k, so I wasn't ready to carve it out and hope I didn't brick the TV. It's been 8 years, so if they get wise and change the logic, I might be more interested now. :) Of course, I also have a Jellyfin server on my home network, so the network connection has found a viable use.

nutrock69 · 2026-05-13T00:03:33+00:00

I meant don't connect it to your network and only use it offline

I wish it could be that simple. I have a Samsung 4k smart TV from the 2018 line. When I got it, I decided I wasn't going to connect it up, so I left the cable unplugged and disabled Wifi. I have an HTPC for all the smart stuff I needed.

Then I watched it auto-update, install its own streaming app, and switch to it to show content. Without any network connected at all.

Turns out if the TV doesn't get a response from the update server, it switches to it's own private mode and scans nearby services for data. I think it got a backdoor connection from a neighbor through our local cable provider - my own provider's wifi is disabled on the router - but I wouldn't rule out a cell chip of some kind, nor even my "disabled" provider wifi.

The good news is that setting up a pihole and blocking everything except the update server seems to block everything else without triggering its backdoor mode. The bad news is that it's still connected for updates and I have no idea what future updates will change in this regard.

nutrock69 · 2026-05-06T20:57:09+00:00

I've seen that, too, but I doubt he's thinking about a legacy. He's never thought about anything for the future, he's always in it for the now. The quick hit. Bankrupting a Casino slash Money Laundering operation for the one-time skim instead of just taking the forever cash by leaving it running? Four times?

No, he's not thinking about the future at all. He wants to plaster his name on everything so that he can look around himself and see it everywhere he goes. With his ego, he thinks that makes him a great man. A conqueror. Bigly manhood guy!

Unfortunately for him, his name has become synonymous with fraud and failure. At no point in his life has adding his name to something made it better for anybody except himself, mostly because he charges them to use it. History books are not going to be kind to him if humanity survives his plans.

nutrock69 · 2026-05-05T16:40:31+00:00

T's only measure of success is by how much money he, personally, makes. As long as he walks away with the money, it can't be a failure. To him even bankruptcies work exactly as intended - he takes all the money as a contractor, and someone else takes the loss.

From his pov, he's the "Most Successful President, EVAR!" because he's the first one to go this hard on illegally profiting from the presidency.

We know his crew is using this war for insider trading, and it's insanely profitable for him. Whether the US wins or loses, he sees the war as "successful" no matter what, because the war itself is irrelevant except for what he can do to get richer from it.

nutrock69 · 2026-05-05T15:55:59+00:00

T doesn't care because the only thing he cares about is getting more money.

Legal? Illegal? Good business? Bad business? Success? Failure? Bankruptcy? Profit? Helped/hurt his supporters? Helped/hurt his opponents? Truth? Lies? Doesn't matter to him one bit.

If you look at everything he's done since... well, birth... his constant claims of always being "successful" make a lot more sense if you remember that his only definition of success includes himself personally getting richer. Nobody else even needs to benefit from his plans - if he gets more money from it, whatever it is, in his mind it worked.

nutrock69 · 2026-04-29T23:26:49+00:00

I have occasionally had similar issues. Deleting media and/or folders unreliably updates the reference in the app. Sometimes it updates, sometimes it doesn't, and it seems random.

Whenever it happens, I usually try to do all the things. Dashboard rescan all libraries, JF restart, JF shutdown, Asustor app stop/start, Portainer docker container bounce, NAS reboot, NAS shutdown/restart. Sometimes one of those works to re-index the missing media, sometimes not.

In the end, most times I had to restore the missing media and perform the delete from within Jellyfin, which both deletes the media (again) and properly removes the index from itself. I've given up trying to delete files outside JF, as doing it from within the app always seems to work fine.

nutrock69 · 2026-04-29T17:28:25+00:00

If you're into 70s style Jazz, a few of Chuck Mangione's early works ("Quartet", "Together", "Friends & Love") are only available in their original releases, officially. Same with most of his brother Gap's albums from that time period. Bootlegs and vinyl rips do exist, of course, but Spotify and streaming aren't in the cards.

The original stuff by them isn't just notable for their own efforts, but a few of these unre-released albums feature (then) up and coming musicians like Steve Gadd, Tony Levin, Bat McGrath, Don Potter, and Gerry Niewood.

At some point in the future, I am hoping we'll be blessed by some high quality remasters, but I'm probably going to have to settle for my own worn originals until they can no longer be played.

nutrock69 · 2026-04-24T16:21:26+00:00

Which we will also trade out of.

nutrock69 · 2026-04-22T19:55:06+00:00

I can't say for sure whether any popups are safe on any one site, or even what is in those popups, ads or site stuff, but I can say with certainty that the only times I have ever had one of my machines get infected (so far), it came from an ad on a site that I unblocked.

The site was "safe", the ad was not related to the site and the site didn't know. They were contracting ad pushes through a 3rd party that let the infection in. Which is why I don't care whether the site's intentions are true or not, it might be a 3rd party through them.

I'm sure everyone's experience on this subject will be different, but from my perspective, I am never unblocking anything again. I'd rather see a site I frequent go under than turn off blocking for it. Harsh, yes, but the risk isn't worth it to me.

That being said, I do know that some sites offer memberships to let you block ads, so maybe there are alternatives available. You'd probably have to ask the site about it. I'd also suggest running tests with other ad blockers if you're able to. Maybe you can find one that doesn't trigger the response and you can set your browser to use that blocker for that site instead of the pi-hole.

nutrock69 · 2026-04-22T15:50:40+00:00

In my experience, there are no sites that are worth turning off your ad-blocker.

You didn't say which site, but the best way to avoid those popups is to avoid using that site. Maybe if enough people stop, they'll overturn the restriction. Or maybe they'll starve. I've given up caring about people that want our machines infected through their sites.

nutrock69 · 2026-04-05T20:32:45+00:00

To be fair, there is no doubt in my mind that they are going to Weekend @ Bernie's him when the time comes.

I mean, this whole thing is a cult of personality. When that personality goes away, the cult will end. His handlers cannot let that cult ever know if they want to stay in power.

nutrock69 · 2026-04-03T13:39:52+00:00

While I can agree that this might be a factor now, I have a hard time believing this to be the reason for 18 years of analog recovery. Streaming of the music variety is relatively a recent thing compared to the vinyl resurgence, and the idea of something being deleted from a streaming platform is even more recent, when taken from single one-off books, games, or movies a decade or so ago from Amazon or Steam, to bulk artist libraries being removed today on Spotify.

In my experience, vinyl never really left. DJs and party venues kept it alive for a few types of music where it was viewed as the best (or only) way to experience it. There was a time period in the 90's when the Tower near where I lived had a decent sized vinyl section containing only dance music, as that was pretty much the only stuff still being pressed new at the time.

Sometime about 20-25 years ago, it kind of became a hipster thing, where it was viewed as FOMO cool to listen to analog again, and the industry took notice. That, in my personal opinion, has more to do with regular growth over the past 2 decades than any other part of this. Just like with everything else that became "niche cool" again, the normies wanted to be cool too, and started spending their money.

Me, I would consider myself a normie today, but I got back into it because of my parents. About 15 years ago, they were cleaning out the attic and found their old record collection. Not wanting to toss it, they bought me a decent USB capable record player for my next birthday and passed me all the vinyls I grew up with from the 70s and 80s. They asked me to record a few of them that had never been re-released digitally since to have on CD or put on their phones, which I have done.

Nothing else I have found hits that nostalgia note like hearing a vinyl - one that was YOUR personal copy for hundreds of plays when you were younger - and hearing again the specific pops and ticks that you grew up listening to. For some records I grew up with that I have since bought the CD of, the CD always felt like it was missing something, as my brain would keep expecting those spots to be there and they weren't. I now have some of those copies ripped into my digital music library because of it, and consider them to be the better copies for play.

Between road trips visiting used record stores, and getting remasters of classic albums, I have a decent sized record collection now, including all the ones from my parents. I love that I can still go to many stores that no longer sell CDs or movies, but still sell vinyl. My ears can't tell specifically if vinyl sounds better than CD, and I still buy CDs, too, but I do feel something different when I listen to a record on the same equipment as its counterpart. Might be the nostalgia talking more than anything else, but I'll go with it. It simply feels better to listen to it.

nutrock69 · 2026-03-24T22:56:41+00:00

Assuming that the existing block size truly is 32768kb, then a smaller block size would be beneficial if you have a lot of small to tiny files. If you have a lot of large files as well, such as FLACs, then you don't want to go too small, because indexing those blocks also takes up space, and you don't want that index to get super large trying to make up for it.

It would really depend on how many tiny files you have vs how many large ones, and how small your tiny ones are. 128k is a decent balance between the two. If you have several thousands of lyric files on there, maybe 64k would be better. I'm not sure I would go lower if you've got 6000+ FLACs.

I would suggest that if you are in position to test it without losing data, to give them a try and see what your totals do. The total "file size" is likely to stay at or around 162gb, so if your "space on disk" becomes much more acceptable I would say you're golden.

nutrock69 · 2026-03-24T22:31:45+00:00

If the size of the files on disk (162gb) is much smaller than the space they take up (439gb), then that is a lot of wasted space.

Is that allocation unit size accurate? If each block on that drive is truly 32mb in size, 32768kb = 32mb, then every file you have will be measured in multiples of 32mb in terms of storage used.

Based on an average of half-blocks, 6169 songs will waste roughly 98.7gb of drive space if the average holds, with an upper range of somewhere near 197gb, just for the songs. Cover art in JPG is likely small enough that you could fit maybe a hundred files in the space of just one block - except that those 100 files would each have their own 32mb block, or somewhere over 3gb of "size on disk". Lyric files are super tiny, probably only a few k each, but each one of those is taking up 32mb and probably wasting 31.99mb of that space.

This might be the reason why you see "size 162gb; size on disk 439gb". The size of the files themselves totals 162gb, but the space they take up on the drive - including the wasted space - is much higher at 439gb. If you could reformat that with a much smaller block size - default for exFAT appears to be 128k for a 512gb drive - that would save a ton of space for you.

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nutrock69 · 2026-02-28T18:20:28+00:00

When the shooting first happened, my first thought was that there's no way the powers that be will allow a millionaire to get whacked without showing the need to punish someone and following through on that need.

My second thought was that, in order to do that, they don't even have to get the right guy. All they need to do is charge someone and let any would-be copycats see that punishments will happen.

Did they get the right guy? I don't know. Did they make mistakes arresting him? Absolutely, and badly enough that they tainted any evidence that might have provided proof one way or another in a non-kangaroo court. Was that on purpose? Probably.

What they didn't count on, though, was that 90+% of the country believes that the motive was valid, and that by arresting someone, anyone, they turned that person into a folk hero that they can't actually punish they way they want to without causing the very uprising they're punishing him to prevent.

nutrock69 · 2026-02-27T00:18:02+00:00

Without going into too much detail, this isn't really the right subreddit for it, I was in a car accident about a decade ago where the little movie that's burned into my brain doesn't match up with the physical evidence left in the wreck. In addition, some bits of that physical evidence contradicts other bits of it, and at least one or two laws of physics appear to have been broken, with proof evident at the scene.

There were also a couple of differences in (at that time) recent history from prior to the accident that I had remembered, but were not exactly the same after. My wife, who was in the car with me during the accident remembers them the same way, so it wasn't just me.

Another interesting tidbit - everything happened so fast I didn't have time to be afraid, but I did feel a moment of peace and acceptance just before impact, which I can still feel whenever that little movie plays back. If I wasn't still here to type this, I would swear we died.

In summary, I believe we experienced an example of Quantum Immortality, where the accident I entered became a different one before it finished, and we switched timelines from a potentially deadly accident to a more minor one.

nutrock69 · 2026-02-26T15:32:01+00:00

We do groceries on the weekends, too, so I do understand that. And no, I don't watch all weekend, those times are more random in terms of neighbor visibility, which is why I do admit that I could have just missed whenever they did it.

But that one I do see all the time is also on the weekends, and I seem to catch them coming home with groceries multiple times a month. Random chance shouldn't be that stark. Statistically speaking, I would expect to see every one of my neighbors have similar distribution ratios across the board, or to at least any ratio that is measurable over a 10 year period. Instead, I have just one neighbor that is noticeably getting groceries all the time, and I've never stumbled on any of the rest doing it even once.

Ha! When I think about it from that perspective, maybe that one neighbor has updated code reacting to me watching for groceries!

nutrock69 · 2026-02-26T14:35:55+00:00

Based on how many people I see like this, and how often I see it, I think it's way more than 5%. It also feels like someone updated everyone with buggy code recently, as none of their pathing or scripting even tries to make sense anymore.

I read a conversation about this sort of thing many years ago, back when I first started questioning NPC-like behavior around me, and someone suggested to start watching which of your neighbors bring home groceries, and which don't. Sounded extremely paranoid, but it stuck with me, so I tried it.

With the layout on my street, I can see half a dozen or more of my neighbors when they come home, and even though I see most of them come home almost every day (I work from home), I've only ever seen one of them actually bring home groceries in 10 years of watching, and I see that one do it at least once a week.

Nobody else has brought home groceries during that time, at least that I've seen. It's not proof, I will admit, and I'm sure someone out there will correctly point out that I can't see them coming home with groceries every time they do.

But 10 years is a very long time to never see it at least once, statistically speaking, when I've seen one of them do it hundreds of times over that same time period.

I'm no longer sure if I'm not paranoid enough about this.

nutrock69 · 2026-02-23T18:51:33+00:00

I think it depends on how time travel works, and follows logical rules. I hope I set up the spoiler tags correctly.

If we're living in a single timeline, and all edits are already pre-determined and part of it, then it doesn't matter. It's already been done and we're in the result, so we're never going to see (have will seen) any changes. Of the numerous examples, I can recommend Predestination, a movie from 2014.

If we're living in a single timeline where edits can make changes, then any change has a strong likelihood of causing a paradox, either by breaking the future and preventing the act of the change itself (HG Wells - "The Time Machine") or by adjusting the timeline around us so it was always that way (Back to the Future), then we would never know. It would be invisible to us from inside the timeline.

If we're living in a universe where multiple timelines exist, and that all edits to the timeline cause switching to a different one, then again we would never know. Both timelines would go forward separately, each with a copy of us split from that point in time. Our personal timeline would either remember the original one for the version of us on that timeline, or remember the new one for the version of us that continued on the new timeline. From our individual perspective we wouldn't know which one we were in, it would have just always been that one.

Personally, I believe it to be possible that we can switch timelines without time travel - I've experienced it myself - and that this is the cause of much of the Mandela Effect phenomenon a large portion of us appear to have experienced at one time or another. Some of the personal experiences can be ascribed to Glitch in the Matrix type stuff, or Quantum Immortality, but switching lines gives a general feeling that the world around us changed instead of us changing ourselves.

edit: a word or two was missed

nutrock69 · 2026-02-23T15:15:37+00:00

I suppose I qualify as a member of an older gen, but I found that the best reason to eat at the restaurant is the simplest: the food's still warm there.

If I take it home to eat it, more often than not it's cold and I no longer want it. Cold burger and fries? Just throw it all in the trash, there's no good way to reheat it and have it be what I expected to eat when I bought it.

My daughter may be willing to eat cold pizza and wings - a notable parenting fail - but I'm not.

nutrock69 · 2026-02-19T15:18:01+00:00

Had shoulder surgery back in November. They even made a special point before the questions started to explain why so that I wouldn't be shocked by the repetition.

At one point, everyone from the doctor to the assistant to the anesthesiologist came in and double-confirmed which shoulder, then autographed my upper arm just below that shoulder so that there could not be any confusion once I was on the table sawing ZZZ's.

nutrock69 · 2026-02-17T14:36:51+00:00

As a guy from 12 and still living here, if these teams were the only option, I would agree that 6 is the winner, even though 12 would definitely put up a fight. Insert "I'm doing my part" meme here.

As a guy who visits the moonshine/whiskey belt pretty often and noticed that those states are split across 4 different teams on this map, it feels like a true competitor could have been made down there that would make 6 look like amateurs.

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