Halcyon
@Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 1 day ago:
I can’t note anything sound ‘stupid’ there.
Experiences AND memories do vanish. That’s a fact, it’s completely natural and fine and it’s not a general necessity to fight against that. I found that it is possible to accept transience.
Guess what, we can have new experiences any moment.
Spending much time and money to preserve all the present experiences without gaps and to combat the fleeting nature of all things and to capture every moment of my life for the future seems wasteful. I did this too in the past but the older I get the more I find that I’d rather spend my time in the present moment.
Not having so much, being more. The more we collect and accumulate, the more that holds us back.
But hey, I don’t want to discourage anyone and I can understand the approach.
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 1 day ago:
You deteriorate. We all deteriorate. What’s the point of that illusion of having a perfect eternal storage medium for data? It’s the experience that matters.
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 1 day ago:
Maybe pay the artists?
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 1 week ago:
As I said, that appeals to the masses.
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 1 week ago:
I described it somewhat metaphorically. I also get goosebumps repeatedly and again.
I simply noticed during customer interactions at the hi-fi shop that some people seem to be looking for idealistic audio experiences with a fixed idea of how it should be and believe that’s a technical problem. As if a certain cable or amplifier could solve that.
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 1 week ago:
I had a salesperson who said that with This more expensive HDMI cable, the picture almost looks three-dimensional!
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 1 week ago:
Even the shielding technologies are way overdone and overpriced in the high end audio market. They act as if they’re running their cables through microwave ovens or magnet resonance machines. If you have strong electromagnetic fields around your audio equipment then somethings wrong in the room.
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 1 week ago:
Some of them even improve their rooms accordingly but are never satisfied.
Some search for the listening experience they had when they were in their twenties and discovered their special music for the first time. They think if they just spend enough money on improving the equipment, the goosebumps of the days of yore will come back automatically.
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 1 week ago:
Bose is famous for unnatural sound boosting. This appeals to the masses and fits to modern listening habits.
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 1 week ago:
But don’t forget the quality of the fiber optic cable used is also absolutely crucial. Most important factor here is preventing light scattering along the cable run. So that the zeroes and ones don’t get irritated and upset. You don’t want the amplifier’s error correction to get in a bad mood. So better buy that pure diamond cable that was produced on a full moon night. Moon light can can soothe the negative effects of scattered light.
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 1 week ago:
It’s not about sound quality, it’s about wasting money and showing off. Maybe some placebo effect, too.
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 1 week ago:
Yep, there are a few things that matter in terms of signal transmission and audio quality and others don’t. But in the audio market, every product is marketed as sound-critical, even if it is physically impossible from a scientific point of view. They come up with the most absurd justifications for their “innovations”.
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 1 week ago:
I worked at an online shop for high end audio equipment. It was always both amusing and painful when customers asked about the sound characteristics of various power cables in the price range between $100 and $10,000 that we carried, or the same with USB and optical digital cables. Some came with the firm belief that they needed better power cables to enhance the bass of their setup. They even bought gold plated “audiophile fuses”.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 5 weeks ago:
The products and services around ‘AI’ are deficient and dangerous, that’s what the market says. There’s no demand for bullshit products. It is the ignorance and unwillingness to understand of the tech bros that is revealed here. They don’t listen to the market, aka. the people.
- Comment on What’s Hiding Inside Haribo’s Power Bank and Headphones? 2 months ago:
Get shot by an armed Samsung robot…
- Comment on Russia’s first AI-powered humanoid robot AIDOL collapses during its onstage debut 3 months ago:
Even Yeltsin was better on stage
- Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin 3 months ago:
As far as I can see MS is planning the agent not to stay in the background as you described but to be an active means to control the operating system and software functions, so that many tasks can be instructed in natural language.
- Comment on Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation 3 months ago:
I highly suggest to listen to this podcast with Damien P. Williams and Paris Marx:
“No, we don’t live in a f—ing simulation”
- Comment on OpenAI moves to allow “mature apps” on its platforms 3 months ago:
There’s loads of hi-res ultra HD 4k porn available. If someone professional wants to train on that it’s not hard to find. If someone wants to play a leading role in the field of AI training, then of course they invest the necessary money and don’t use the shady material from the peer-to-peer network.
- Comment on OpenAI moves to allow “mature apps” on its platforms 3 months ago:
As if we didn’t already have more than enough pornographic material on all the hard drives worldwide for training. There’s nothing new to come in the image material from this industry, porn is infinite repetitions.
- Comment on Aldi just launched its own £16.99 rival to Ring's battery video doorbell – and it's completely subscription-free | TechRadar 3 months ago:
“Doorbell with a subscription” is something so utterly stupid, an absolute misdevelopment.
- Comment on OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly 3 months ago:
But imagine the chances for your own business! Absolutely no one will steal your ideas before you can monetize them.
- Comment on Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With 3 months ago:
Jobs like air traffic controllers for example?
- Comment on Hundreds of public figures, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Virgin’s Richard Branson urge AI ‘superintelligence’ ban 4 months ago:
Another fear campaign that ultimately aims only at marketing.
The AI bubble will burst, and it won’t end well for the US economy.
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 5 months ago:
Don’t worry, Samsung already produces fully automatable tanks and AI controlled robot guns. Everything will be taken care of.
- Comment on Mastodon is bringing quote posts to the fediverse 5 months ago:
Many quote posts should just have been a reply comment in my opinion.
- Comment on Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation 5 months ago:
Do you get consent before every recording?
- Comment on 'We're done with Teams': German state hits uninstall on Microsoft 8 months ago:
This process started in 2021 already.
They will use GNU/Linux, LibreOffice, Nextcloud, Open Xchange/Thunderbird and Univention AD-Connector.
- Comment on Google Shared My Phone Number! 8 months ago:
Isn’t it a function of Google Maps that anybody can submit changes to the business informations of a company listed there?
It’s like a wiki where all registered uses can suggest contributions.
- Comment on Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year 8 months ago:
Last time I checked, the “brain implants” looked like this:
Zombie from Half Life with a headcrab slipped over it’s head
