brillotti
@brillotti@lemmy.world
- Comment on Someone out there in front of his screen after watching his mom's VHS tape titled "My little adventures" 4 days ago:
Happened to me at the end of my parents’ wedding tape. Guess I got to know where I come from 🥲
- Comment on What's the deal with people liking old devices? 5 days ago:
Last year I bought 20 old iPod gen 5s marked as trash on eBay and kitbashed together 12 of them in perfect working condition. Slapped a new battery in 11 of them and sold them for a nice profit. I saved one for myself which I then modded with a large battery, a little 256GB M.2 SSD, replaced the tweeter with a taptic engine from an old iPhone, and installed Rockbox on it. Now it’s connecting to my PC like a flash disk and I can copy-paste music to it without syncing with iTunes, and it supports FLAC. It changed my relationship with music, and it’s a purpose-made device that takes no calls and has no interruptions. Unlike my phone, which I can pick up to change a song and check a notification, then dwelve into doomscrolling on IG.
I also bought a fully mechanical (no batteries) film camera made in '75 that really got me into photography. Yes, film is expensive, and I have to pay a lab to develop and print my photos, but they feel real. Before this, I would take photos with my phone that got lost in a sea of thousands of other images in my phone gallery and I wouldn’t really appreciate them. My friends hate waiting sometimes up to a month to get the prints, but once they have them they really treasure those photos and memories.
Old tech was slow and clunky compared to today’s smartphones which are able to do everything, but smartphones lack the physical and emotional connections that came with the old ways of doing things.
- Comment on Might a well bring it full circle 5 days ago:
You can pay for prostitutes, which means the situation is dire. Doctors can probably be bargained with in this scenario if you have the beans to pay.
- Comment on The Danger Behind Meta Killing End-to-End Encryption for Instagram DMs 6 days ago:
Nobody even had it enabled it the first place because it was opt-it. It’s dark patterns like these that companies use to maximize profits by exploiting the users as much as possible.
- Comment on Break privacy to make privacy? Age verification isn’t the answer 1 week ago:
I heard Facebook has been lobbying for age verification in order to solve the problem of serving ads to real people, as there’s too many bot traffic online to make good profits from ads nowadays.
- Comment on Lenovo USB-C PSU for laptops powers a Rasberry Pi, but cannot simply charge bicycle lights. WTF? 1 week ago:
This is correct. I made my own USB C to 30 pin adaptors for old iPods and this is precisely how I had to build them.
- Comment on Valve reconfirm the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller are due in 2026 3 weeks ago:
The supply for RAM and SSDs is really tight these days. I hope Valve can make these products happen in spite of these setbacks.
- Comment on Sony Pulls Back From PlayStation Games on PC 3 weeks ago:
They would make so much money if they ported Bloodborne.
- Comment on US Government Deploys Elon Musk's Grok as Nutrition Bot, Where It Immediately Gives Advice for Rectal Use of Vegetables 1 month ago:
So that’s why they were watering their plants with gatorade in Idiocracy.
- Comment on Discord is about to require age verification for everyone 1 month ago:
That’s on you for joining sus groups.
- Comment on Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks 3 months ago:
What might be the goal behind this move? There has to be a catch
- Comment on Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog 3 months ago:
I’m tired boss. This governmental fight against privacy all over the world is wearing down my willingness to be on the internet at all.
- Comment on Mozilla Names New CEO, Firefox To Evolve Into A "Modern AI Browser" 3 months ago:
To the CEO: Please don’t.
- Comment on New Tomb Raider Games Recast Lara Croft With A Gaming Veteran 3 months ago:
She’s great, I’m happy for her!
On a similar note, I find it strange that nowadays (voice) actors are cast as videogame characters in their own likeness. This practice was all over the trailers announced at the video game awards.
What happened to designing cool characters for the art of it like back in the day? Is using photorealistic graphics and celebrities the way forward for the big game development studios?
- Comment on There are first person shooters and third person shooters, but what about second person shooters? 3 months ago:
I don’t know about shooters, but there’s second person driving. youtu.be/mC8QoRa8y_Q
- Comment on Long-time iOS user considering switch to Android - Need advice on $1000 flagships 4 months ago:
I agree that Graphene OS is the best alternative far privacy and security, but we’re giving advice to an iPhone user who probably expects their phone to just work. The OS can always be flashed later if the phone is a Google Pixel.
- Comment on Long-time iOS user considering switch to Android - Need advice on $1000 flagships 4 months ago:
If good multiple cameras is what you look for in a phone, you can’t go wrong with a Google Pixel. It comes with a clean OS as well. Don’t listen to the others who say to flash a custom ROM, as doing that will gimp the phone’s experience and potentially stop some of the apps from running.
- Comment on Who was your first childhood videogame crush? 4 months ago:
I used Steam’s Proton to run it and it’s great. You can even add the installer as a non-steam game to set it up, then add the game executable into Steam that same way once it’s installed.
- Comment on Who was your first childhood videogame crush? 4 months ago:
It was Led from Septerra Core.
- Comment on Biased source 5 months ago:
Is this a Jojo part 7 meme?
- Comment on this level is amazing 5 months ago:
I thought that was a hunter from Destiny for a minute. Took me a while to see Batman.
- Comment on OK what is your Roman name? 5 months ago:
White Monsterus
- Comment on Xi and Putin overheard talking about organ transplants and immortality 6 months ago:
These positions are pursued by these kinds of people specifically because they reward those kinds of behaviours. I’d even argue it’s required to seek power, money, and status in order to climb the political ladder.
- Comment on Prints appear to be lifting in one corner. 8 months ago:
Try raising the bed temperature a little, and maybe add brims to your prints for better bed adhesion. Another thing to try if the above doesn’t work is glue.
- Comment on Blue Archive from NEXON arrives on Steam and works on Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck 8 months ago:
Too bad it’s region locked and inaccessible in parts of Europe on Steam as well.
- Comment on Hold on 11 months ago:
Mushoku Tensei and Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End Both are wonderful shows.
Frieren in treated with so much love and care from the entire production team and I love them for that
- Comment on A crate for puppy 1 year ago:
Why do you choose to keep your dog in a cage?
- Comment on We're not going to terraform Mars, but we're doing a good job of venusforming Earth. 1 year ago:
Aurora Borealis will be more visible because of the weakened magnetosphere. Poles flip about every 11,000 years, but I don’t know what implications this will have on the world in practice.
You can watch this video for some more information: youtu.be/1sDZiCLUW8I
- Comment on We're not going to terraform Mars, but we're doing a good job of venusforming Earth. 1 year ago:
The magnetosphere has been weakening in strength due to the ongoing pole shift over the past 30 years, which will peak in the 2040s. I pray there will be no coronal mass elections in the direction of earth during the pole shift, otherwise most of unshielded electric equipment will get fried, including infrastructure.
