oh wow, that sounds unpleasant!

do you live in a shipping container?

thanks, I still have a hotkey for it from before I got the tray icon that’s a single click, but after the simplicity and reliability of the brightness and gamma applet automation, I really want to find another automatic solution.

I came across those and also found the two part extension installation kind of weird, and I couldn’t figure out how to get it to work correctly anyway.

I think at this point I’ve looked up every solution available via DDG, haha.

if you don’t use the standard night light in Linux Mint at all, you might want to look into it, it’s super convenient late at night and relaxing on the eyes.

nope, not that. thanks though.

I think it’s an included feature, with a little tray icon to turn it on and off easily. just search “night” in the LM search bar.

Night Light disables blue light according to a schedule or automatically according to your time zone.

I haven’t checked the manual, how do I check the package name? nightlight@cinnamon.org, is that ut?

you finding out something for the first time doesn’t mean everybody else just has, but hey - golf clap for you catching up.

I understand you are excited to parrot information we already talked about and pretend you provided it first, but your “hidden knowledge” routine is completely buffoonish.

In case you really are this far gone: no, you should not become a “rapist”.

Again, gas stores are not a secret and it’s weird you’re pretending they are some hidden market that only you have access to.

It’s fine that you’re ignorant about gas stores, i was too, it’s why iask questions. You don’t have to answer questions you don’t know anything about.

There are secret gas stores you claim you “could name” but are choosing not to? wtf are you talking about?

Gas stores are on google maps! they are stores selling compressed gases for refill, exchange or purchase.

Ffs, i understand these stores are not common knowledge, it’s why i asked for basic clarification, but i don’t need an ancient aliens hypothesis about helium storage.

You don’t know. It’s fine. Nobody else here did either.

Name a few! How is that unethical?

okay thanks

the local gas store? specifically for different types of gases? I’m unfamiliar.

Exactly, making $100 million profit on stop-motion is like feverishly, lovingly crafting a bespoke hot air balloon with a thousand discarded model airplane kits and then realizing you’ve somehow survived landing on the moon.

no, classifying a picture that makes an $80 million dollar profit as a “failure” is factually incorrect, albeit a useful tactic for studios and headline writers.

making an 80% profit is a success in any business, and a triumph in most businesses; that’s how budgets wotk.

I don’t think that table is formatted correctly, I can’t imagine it was $60 million for all four movies. yea, the budget for each is listed around $60 million.

That’s what studios publicly lament about without going into detail. Between streaming, retail and merchandising alone, they’re making their money back.

Marketing campaigns are not bankrupting movie profits.

If a studio makes 180 box office on a 100 million dollar production and they say they’ve lost 80 mil through marketing, they are pulling your leg.

“ah yeah, first quarter my team only made 23 points, oh well, thats the game.”

No, there are three other quarters that the studio isn’t talking about because it reduces their future negotiating leverage.

Of course studios want more money, but studios aren’t losing money on movies that get close but don’t tip the magic number of “double the budget”

I also didn’t hear about it until last year, and I don’t I have any memory of seeing previews or promotion for the film.

That’s very cool to hear, cross-generational appreciation.

It’s pretty different from live action according to creators and producers, it’s such a small market and stop motion is so difficult to explain and get off the ground and promote that financial expectations are much more realistic.

You’re right that if a live-action movie costs $100 million to make grosses $180 million, the producers are upset, but that’s a greedy, ego-driven convention of the modern studio system, they are still making tens of millions of dollars before everything on the back end is added in.

The stop-motion world has a more realistic perspective on production and the artists love every single piece of art they create, so also making $40 million as evidence that their art style can succeed in mainstream culture is the cherry on top of any project that even gets to be fully produced.