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cross-posted from !action_movies@piefed.social : https://lemmy.ca/post/54992982

Promos

• Youtube - Promo 1
• Youtube - Promo 2
• Youtube - Promo 3
• Youtube - Promo 4

Full Show

• Tubi - Acapulco H.E.A.T. - Season 1

Show Info

• Wikipedia
• IMDb

Comments

Plumbing the depths of Tubi, among its Recently Added section I spotted this US/France action-adventure series.

A multinational team of spies (the Hemisphere Emergency Action Team, a.k.a. H.E.A.T.) fight global terrorism by... working undercover as a swimwear company in Puerto Vallarta (I mean, not even Acapulco 😁) which is, like, totally not a thinly-veiled excuse for regularly parading scantily-clad young hotties on screen.

The team's led by Catherine Oxenberg from Dynasty as a feisty aristo formerly of MI6, and CIA guy Brendan Kelly, who brings all the interesting character traits of a cube of plain tofu.

The team is rounded out by assorted real-life models (including an actual Playboy Playmate) and they take orders over video calls from "C5" boss John Vernon, barely bothering to pretend he's not just reading off cue cards.

Bonus: mononymous 90s romance model Fabio shows up (!) as manager of the luxury resort hotel that their swimwear company works out of and under which they have an ancient Mayan Batcave for their anti-terrorism operations. ("Mayans? ... In Puerto Vallarta???")

And which is, like, totally not a thinly-veiled promotional exercise for the resort, like the movie Day of the Assassin (the #MondayActionMovie on 11th August).

The team take on missions to defeat terrorist plots in exotic locations throughout the Americas which all somehow look like Mexico with set dressing, full of Mexicans wearing other countries' "national costumes".

They do also set much of the action in Mexico itself, leading to great lines like "There's a bomb in one of those piñatas!" 🤣

And, although not great, we do get action: chases, shootouts, explosions, some hand-to-hand, and even individually-targeted mini-rockets!

I've only seen the two-part-premiere so far, and it's fine if you're fine with watching some mindless action and PYTs in swimsuits on a lazy afternoon.

Tubi Mexico has only Season 1 ATM, but IMDb seems to indicate Tubi US has also the second season, which was retooled & recast for a lower budget. (Never a good sign.)

The video quality is poor, 360p, and the sound mixing at times terrible.

(Episodes also available on Youtube.)

Screenshots

Obligatory shirtless hai-yah! moment

Fabio! (No seagull)

Even the assassins are scantily-clad

Mayan Batcave Zoom call. Even Brendan Kelly nods off when Brendan Kelly's on screen

The only line John Vernon delivered right to camera instead of looking at the cue cards

No 90s action scene is complete without a Playmate on rollerblades chasing down a baddie in a Caddie

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/1127010

Everything else involving the internet, including updating other packages, works fine.

But updating Firefox always fails, with the following error:

Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/pool/upstream/f/firefox/firefox_141.0.2%%2blinuxmint1%%2bxia_amd64.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 208.77.20.19 80]

Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/pool/upstream/f/firefox/firefox-locale-en_141.0.2%%2blinuxmint1%%2bxia_amd64.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 208.77.20.19 80]

Any ideas how to fix this?

Turns out it was as simple as

sudo apt update

and then runnning Mint Update again. Now Firefox and whole system up to date.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/48317083

1. Type of key?

The brand is Phillips but they make various types. The type here is (not sure of the correct jargon) without vertical ridges and notches. And both sides of the key are identical.

I've looked at some diagrams of key types and I'm not sure exactly. Is it a "dimple key"? Something else?

2. How to remove broken part from lock?

Location: Door between bedroom and garden.

Situation:

• Someone bent the key a little, and it was stuck, couldn't get it out. On the inside of the door. At that point still able to lock and unlock from the inside only. Using other key from the outside does nothing, doesn't even turn.

• I tried gently straightening it but it immediately snapped.

• Now: can still open and close the door using the handle. Can still, with difficulty, lock and unlock the door (from inside only) by carefully pressing the head of the key against what is in the lock and turning.

A lot of info online for removing broken key blades from locks are for the "traditional" kind of key with vertical ridges and notches.

I have a screwdriver that fits all the screws and I can access all sides of the lock (inside, outside, edge), but I'm not sure if that's relevant. I've tried tweezers but it's too snug.

If I need more tools or equipment, I'll get them tomorrow.

I think I might have found one possible source of inspiration for the Kickpuncher franchise: Future Kick (1991), starring Don "The Dragon" Wilson.

• https://lemmy.ca/post/46999890

The Community wiki page on Kickpuncher says CyberTracker (a different Don Wilson movie which I haven't seen yet).

Previously, I always assumed the inspiration was Albert Pyun movies like Cyborg and Nemesis.

What do you folks think?

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/22634958

President Donald Trump said on Friday, June 27, that he is calling off trade negotiations with Canada in retaliation for taxes impacting US tech firms, adding that Ottawa will learn of their new tariff rate within a week.

Trump was referring to Canada's digital services tax, which was enacted last year and forecast to bring in Can$5.9 billion (US4.2 billion) over five years. While the measure is not new, US service providers will be "on the hook for a multi-billion dollar payment in Canada" come June 30, noted the Computer & Communications Industry Association recently.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/40299521

I have a problem with noisy neighbours and want an app to measure and record the volume of their noise for possible legal action.

I prefer free-libre from F-Droid, but they don't have one.

Google Play has... hundreds of apps (one at US$100!). No idea which to choose, hopefully a free one without ads and data surveillance.

Web search results filled with sites I don't know/trust, and obvious SEO or AI slop.

So I'm asking folks here: anyone have any experience of a decibel meter app that's:

• preferably free-libre
• free-gratis (I might pay for a reasonably-priced pro version after I've tried out the free one)
• zero or tolerable ads
• zero or minial data surveillance

Thanks.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/45444769

The Public Domain Review's article about it, with embedded Internet Archive viewer of the book

• https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/conjectural-observations/

Directly on Archive.org

• https://archive.org/details/conjecturalobser00davy

About the Public Domain Review:

Founded in 2011, The Public Domain Review is an online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas.

The articles are usually (but not always) about things available on the Internet Archive.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/45444769

The Public Domain Review's article about the book, with embedded Internet Archive viewer of the book

• https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/conjectural-observations/

Directly on Archive.org

• https://archive.org/details/conjecturalobser00davy

About the Public Domain Review:

Founded in 2011, The Public Domain Review is an online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas.

The articles are usually (but not always) about things available on the Internet Archive.