mechoman444
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- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 8 hours ago:
No. No they’re not.
The reason vinyl is vinyl is because the format requires very careful mastering of the source audio since the format is very sensitive to such things. This is why people say vinyl can sound better than a compressor digital file like an mp3 or a mass produced MP3.
Nothing about a DVD precludes any additional mastery of the media. If anything it is simply cheap to buy DVDs from second hand sources or even places like eBay.
With the way the world is now I understand why people want physical media like disks so as to own their movies which could explain a resurgence of dvd sales.
But they’re not the next vinyl. They still make vinyl.
No is putting hd video on dvd disks.
- Comment on Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform 22 hours ago:
I love how corporations work. “Hey, we completely fucked this up. We mishandled it, made decisions our customers hate, and now we’re scrapping it because we might lose money.” “Could we fix it? Sure. But that would mean changing the business model that made us money 20 years ago, and that’s terrifying. There’s a risk we might lose money.” “And sure, the board won’t lose a dime personally. But the stockholders, basically meerkats who scatter at the first loud noise might panic. And we can’t have that. We might lose money.”
- Comment on Floating turbine towers above — the S1500 hovers to harvest wind at 131 feet 1 day ago:
Is anyone else getting aeon flux vibs?
- Comment on shut uppp 6 days ago:
I don’t agree. But not for the reason you might think.
The regular search results on Google are so bad that sometimes the AI overview yields better results.
Lately though, I’ve been using Bing.
- Comment on Borrowing money against their stuff to get more stuff to borrow money... 1 week ago:
I was being concise so as to keep the comment short. But I recommend you look into it. It’s a very real thing and it’s completely legal.
- Comment on Borrowing money against their stuff to get more stuff to borrow money... 1 week ago:
Buy borrow die is a very real economic strategy.
Acquire assets, never sell them, use them as collateral for bank loans, use that capital as collateral for further bank loans. Never sell, no capital gains tax.
Bank loans aren’t considered income therefore not subject to being taxed.
Die rich, your kids inherit the money Scott free.
- Comment on Rage for the machine? 1 week ago:
RATM were anarchists. They didn’t like the left as much at the right.
- Comment on The U.S. Is Launching a Regulatory Assault on Drone Users | New restrictions try to shield ICE from being watched from above. 1 week ago:
Yeah that pretty much sums it up right there…
- Comment on The U.S. Is Launching a Regulatory Assault on Drone Users | New restrictions try to shield ICE from being watched from above. 1 week ago:
Huh… Sounds like the National Socialist German Workers’ Party Right before the Nuremberg trials.
- Comment on "I am going to punch you" WHAT A BOSS! 1 week ago:
Then you’re going to get in trouble
Ok
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- Comment on The Only Solution Capitalism Has Is to Sell Us More Useless Junk: Ad makers will never say the quiet part loud, but they increasingly know that we're unhappy and looking for solutions. 1 week ago:
Marketers are seeing a trend in people disliking billionaires and they are capitalizing on it.
There are three prime evils in the world: creditors, banks, and insurance companies.
Above them all is marketing.
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 2 weeks ago:
Definitely uninstalling discord. I hardly use it anyway.
- Comment on halal paintball 2 weeks ago:
You die.
You ascend to the pearly gates. Saint Peter stands there, or the Islamic equivalent, whatever, holding a book with your record. He flips through it.
“Let’s see. Beat his wife and kids, no problem. Stole massive amounts of money, okay. Generally racist, shouldn’t be an issue. Killed a man in cold blood. It was a Jew, so no great loss. Wait. You used pork paintballs? Are you fucking kidding me?”
A hole opens beneath you. You fall straight to hell.
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 2 weeks ago:
Can you prove your citizenship?
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 2 weeks ago:
I live in America.
If you don’t take your shoes off I bmu house my wife will scatter your dismembered body across the hillside for the animals to feed on.
- Comment on Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder 2 weeks ago:
I think people are using the world wide web less now and much differently. Most people don’t browse websites like going to ESPN.com or newgrounds or something. Problem use apps now and only a select few for that matter.
My wife can’t even find her safari browser in her iPhone which she’s glued to most of the day. For her is 90% email and 10% tiktok.
- Comment on I used an original iPod Nano in 2026, and it worked surprisingly well 3 weeks ago:
The iPod is probably the single greatest thing Apple has ever made. I have an old iPod that still works great. The battery needs to be replaced. It’s the best music player I have.
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 3 weeks ago:
This isn’t Iran.
If they could have done all that by now they would have.
It would be fairly difficult to convince any military branch or even police force to open fire on its own protesting citizens. There is a reason why we have three branches of government and Congress and a Senate.
That’s not to say I’m not downplaying it. It’s still really bad out there.
Ice is the new age Gestapo.
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 3 weeks ago:
Short of sending an M1 Abrams, they’ve thrown everything at us along with the kitchen sink.
We’re way past Tank Man. Also, they already sent in the tanks. The police have riot vehicles which are typically repurposed military tanks.
I don’t think you understand how bad it is in the US right now.
There has never been anything like this in this country since WWII and even then the Japanese labor camps were leaps better than alligator alcatraz.
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 3 weeks ago:
We’re rounding people up into interment camps. We’re way past tank man.
- Comment on DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI 4 weeks ago:
Okay, so that’s not what the article says. It says that 90% of respondents don’t want AI search.
Moreover, the article goes into detail about how DuckDuckGo is still going to implement AI anyway.
Seriously, titles in subs like this need better moderation.
The title was clearly engineered to generate clicks and drive engagement. That is not how journalism should function.
- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 4 weeks ago:
I’ve always considered iTunes to be one of the worst pieces of software ever written, but WhatsApp is a very close second.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Just in case because this is the internet at the end of the day. Fahrenheit is not linked to a percentage of anything. It’s mostly arbitrary in terms of assigning a number scale to temperature and it’s linked to brine solutions and human body temperature.
- Comment on What next, power supply shortages? 5 weeks ago:
I keep saying that I’m going to upgrade my 5600x and 3070ti. Lol.
- Comment on YSK that no form of United States ID, no matter how valid, guarantees protection when ICE decides you look like an immigrant. 5 weeks ago:
That would be a really easy way to identify them. Yes.
/S
- Comment on Jensen Huang says relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has "done a lot of damage" 1 month ago:
Indeed, I don’t use AI for anything complex. It can’t physically fix an appliance, aside from providing technical data. It can tell me the ohm range for a thermistor or the microfarad rating a capacitor should have. Surprisingly, it does this far more reliably than Google or other search engines. Ironically, AI is better at delivering accurate data in this domain precisely because traditional searches are increasingly cluttered with low-quality AI-generated content.
- Comment on Jensen Huang says relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has "done a lot of damage" 1 month ago:
I use it primarily as a text editor for grammar checking and for analyzing confusing or poorly structured text. I also use it as a search engine quite frequently. I can ask direct questions and receive the information I want, presented in a way that suits my needs. I have used it to help construct responses to inquiries from several companies I work with. It is particularly effective at generating corporate-style responses that appeal to middle management, which has been genuinely useful over the past couple of years. I no longer have to sit and overanalyze how to phrase emails. What used to take a significant amount of time and mental effort is now handled efficiently. In that regard, it has been extremely helpful.
At the end of the day it’s just a tool and a tool is only as good as its user. I work in the repair industry and I utilize very expensive high quality tools and I also have some very very cheap ones because they have some unique use cases only they are suited for.
I also use OCR on my phone every single day. It’s really great for copying and pasting model and serial numbers and doing very quick basic searches. Although I find this to be more of a convenience than anything else.
Where AI features have failed specifically on my phone is the text-to-speech and the autocorrect for typing, especially on the Google keyboard it oftentimes tries to guess what the best words would be and it fails miserably most of the time.
- Comment on Jensen Huang says relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has "done a lot of damage" 1 month ago:
On a personal level, I like AI. I use it regularly as a tool to handle mundane tasks. I also have friends who use it successfully as an artistic tool. I’m aware that this platform tends to dislike that kind of usage, and that’s fine.
Bandwagon behavior is a serious issue on platforms like Reddit and Lemmy, and that comes with the territory.
However, the claim that this negativity has meaningfully harmed AI adoption is nonsensical. If this person genuinely believes that AI has been hurt, even slightly, by negative online discourse, then he is clearly out of touch with reality. All available data points indicate the opposite.
- Comment on A generation taught not to think: AI in the classroom 1 month ago:
So you’re not going to address anything that I’ve said at all aside from you don’t like it.
Good day to you sir.
- Comment on A generation taught not to think: AI in the classroom 1 month ago:
I agree that Lemmy isn’t a venue for peer reviewed position papers, and I’m not asking for one. But “it’s a rant” doesn’t exempt an argument from basic clarity. Informal discussion still benefits from naming what you’re actually worried about.
Calling this an “experiment” on the next generation is fair. Saying it’s “scary as hell” is also fair. What’s missing and what people are reacting to is why and how. Is the concern skill atrophy, academic integrity, surveillance, equity, or something else entirely? Those distinctions matter if the goal is discussion rather than venting.
Also, “no one has anything but an opinion” isn’t quite true. We don’t have long-term outcome data, but we do have analogs: calculators, spellcheck, search engines, LMS tools, and early AI pilots. That context doesn’t settle the debate, but it does constrain it.
I’m not dismissing fear or uncertainty. I’m pushing back on the idea that vagueness is a virtue. If nuance is welcome in the comments, as you say it is, then the original framing should at least give people something concrete to engage with. Otherwise, the discussion predictably devolves into vibes and outrage, which helps no one.