I’m starting to wonder if the real reason the push for bigger screens caught on wasn’t just because of the basic psychology of “bigger = better” but so they could shove more ads on screen, and now it’s more processing power so those ads won’t lock up the browser for a whole second while loading some bullshit questionnaire like “are you adult, child or gamer on iOS”
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applepie@kbin.social 6 months agoYeah weird hardware power at this point into tech cycle is clowniney... short of ML/AI work loads for GPUs, we have enough power for every day shit.
We need better software products to utilize them but all we got is fucking ad laden trash and spyware with every app.
Big tech lost their fucking minds.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
applepie@kbin.social 6 months ago
i would not put it past them, de-googling saves so much battery. that alone is benefit any tech enjoyer can get behind you would think, privacy is just a cherry.
but more broadly speaking it is amazing how they think they can run all these malicious code on people's devices because of some ToS EULA NDA X 69 Arbitration bullshit.
But nothing will change until people take their digital sovereignty back, literally only thing stopping the solution for most of this shit is poorly educated and complacent gen pop too busy jerking the feed to generate training data for some depraved AI girlfriend.
just take me to the farm already
SharkAttak@kbin.social 6 months ago
Ok, new strategy: go back to 4:3.
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
4:3 is objectively better than 16:9 for anything but watching movies.
I love 5:4 though.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
16:10 has always been superior to both but I quite like my second 4:3 monitor. Also I was referring to mobile devices obviously (where most internet traffic comes from), and 4:3 isn’t a size measurement.
SharkAttak@kbin.social 6 months ago
Uh.. I don't know if it sounded snarky, but mine was a joke. "If the extra space of 16:9 is going to be occupied by ads, better go back to 4:3 aspect ratio."
FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 6 months ago
100%… for example… they used Diablo Immortal as the example for the new ray tracing capabilities LOL
Common iPadOS L
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Raytracing is cool, only why have it in games is beyond me.
Making wallpapers with POV-Ray - yes.
narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 6 months ago
…because it tends to enhance visuals?
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
That’s nice, and it’s cool to see correct lighting and reflections in games, but that’s if those are not broken by fuckload of shaders used incorrectly (that would be most modern games).