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- Comment on McDonald’s CEO’s awkward taste test sparks mocking online: ‘His aura screams kale salad’ 6 hours ago:
Don’t like parasocial corporate social media accounts but these were pretty funny.
- Comment on Secret message in the cemetery 1 day ago:
Reported! 🫵🏽🤨👎🏽
- Comment on Elegoo Centauri Carbon questions 1 day ago:
To give another perspective, I had a main board go out on my Neptune 3 right after a year of owning it, and they sent me a new one for free 🤷🏽♂️ the resin printer I have from them has seen much less use but has been rock solid every time I’ve used it.
- Comment on <3 <3 <3 1 day ago:
Historians: “wow they were so poignant even back then 🥺”
- Comment on 390TB video game archive being taken offline due to skyrocketing RAM, SSD, and hard drive prices — AI-driven supply squeeze results in closure of one of the largest online video game archives 2 days ago:
I’m sorry but this is bullshit.
- Comment on method acting 4 days ago:
Is he not very good at basketball anymore or something
- Comment on Stop downvoting and accusing 4 days ago:
I’m a simple man, I see AI posing as anything but, I downvote. NEXT!
- Comment on straight down to business pls 1 week ago:
Tests often have more than one variable, but if you change more than one between tests, you don’t know which variable is responsible for the change.
- Comment on My phone, iPad, and laptop finally all use the same USB-C charger. The galaxy is at peace. 1 week ago:
When did anyone say the EU created USB-C? They passed legislature that required the mass adoption of it and are the reason Apple had to switch from that stupid lightning connector, but I don’t see anyone claiming the EU created it.
- Comment on My phone, iPad, and laptop finally all use the same USB-C charger. The galaxy is at peace. 1 week ago:
I know why we have the EU to thank .
If Apple and the Americans had their way, each of those would use a different proprietary connector.
Americans don’t want proprietary connectors. We’re happy to get USB-C, too.
- Comment on My phone, iPad, and laptop finally all use the same USB-C charger. The galaxy is at peace. 1 week ago:
Yes, Americans famously love having dozens of different chargers and cables to manage
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- Comment on Open-sourcing CORE One CAD Files Under the New Open Community License (OCL) 2 weeks ago:
Like I said, I’m not the most knowledgeable person on the subject, so I don’t know if there was more to the outrage than just “it’s an Israeli company”. I’m not currently in the market for a prusa printer, so I’m not particularly invested in their politics, just speaking on things that I have seen in this community
- Comment on Bro caught slippin 2 weeks ago:
There’s a tag people use
- Comment on Open-sourcing CORE One CAD Files Under the New Open Community License (OCL) 2 weeks ago:
I’m far from the most knowledgeable on the subject, but I remember hearing something about one of their prospective printers not being listed as open source, and that they partnered with some Israeli company.
- Comment on TV remotes should have an easy-to-find by touch "volume" toggle button that toggles between two volume settings. 2 weeks ago:
You may be underestimating Granny Gertrude’s powers. She will change a setting in a menu you didn’t even know existed. /s
In my opinion, most modern movies and the like sound perfectly fine, like you said, when in a theater setting. I have a pretty decent home audio setup, and I enjoy going out to the movies for ones that I think will be fun or interesting. I usually do not have much of a problem hearing dialogue (well, I’m hard at hearing, so at least not more issues than I have hearing real world dialogue) and the only times things seem uncomfortably loud is when it seems to be done artistically.
The problem comes from the fact that most people don’t have a “theater setting” at home, and since media is premixed for theatre setups with no way to adjust it, you’re left with the worst of both worlds. I think that, rather than passing the buck onto the inexperienced user who might not know how or want to fiddle with audio track settings, studios need to start taking people’s actual equipment into consideration when putting out home releases. Most media players give you the option for surround and stereo, but that does not help when the original media file has bad audio mixing from the get-go. If the actual audio tracks were mixed for “theatre” and “home”, I think we’d be in a much better place.
- Comment on TV remotes should have an easy-to-find by touch "volume" toggle button that toggles between two volume settings. 2 weeks ago:
How loud specific things are in comparison to other sounds is one of the things that a director dictates to set the mood for their movie. We all agree that it’s gone a bit far with most things nowadays, but having something be piercingly loud or eerily quiet can be used really well, and if everyone from Tommy Teenager to Granny Gertrude can alter these settings with a TV remote and zero knowledge on maybe what they’re even doing (“I thought I was changing the volume and now the people don’t talk anymore!”) it would greatly diminish the director’s ability to control that.
- Comment on In the future, it will be considered unbelievable that repairing a product used to be more expensive than buying a new one 3 weeks ago:
You don’t always need to replace the part with something the manufacturer offers as a replacement. Something like a screen board might be hard/ impossible to find an alternative for, but things like buttons or sensors inside of mice are rarely something made specifically by the mouse manufacturer. They can almost always be replaced by an equivalent generic part. Hell, my 3D printer motherboard took a shit on me a couple years ago, and I bought an aftermarket board and installed 3rd party firmware on it to get it up and running again.
Like you said it’d be great if it were just easy for everyone to do these things, but as devices get more advanced they’re gonna require more advanced knowledge to work on, and not everyone has the time, interest, or resources to learn how to diagnose and repair stuff.
- Comment on A hacker with thigh-high striped socks should take one for the team and really unredact all the names (and I mean *all of them*) in the Epstein Files. 3 weeks ago:
lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/61798865
They have a specific aesthetic in mind it seems.
- Comment on BASED? 3 weeks ago:
In the shitpost community no less!
- Comment on We could build a solar lazer with a ton of mirrors 4 weeks ago:
It is one of my favorite quotes from the entire series. Never before has a man painted a picture of himself as vivid as Jamie did when he delivered this line.
- Comment on We could build a solar lazer with a ton of mirrors 4 weeks ago:
My bad, I forgot there were two episodes on this, I think maybe you only saw the first one or parts of it. There was a huge wooden structure with hundreds of mirrors arranged in a concave shape that almost perfectly aligned all mirrors’ reflections into one spot and absolutely nothing happened. Even with perfect mirrors and modern construction tools and techniques we couldn’t recreate it.
- Comment on We could build a solar lazer with a ton of mirrors 4 weeks ago:
Look up “mythbusters solar death ray” I think you’ll enjoy it
- Comment on Complete protection when driving - jesus, hula girl, and dice 4 weeks ago:
What you need is Hula Jesus wearing a dice necklace
- Comment on ...is this retro? 4 weeks ago:
So the Xbox 720 is twice as good as the one before it, but the 900 only gives you a 25% increase? Who’d buy that garbage?
- Comment on It was as if it was taunting me 4 weeks ago:
Is this a Mickey7-Stamets crossover episode?
- Comment on Please, my son... He's sick... 5 weeks ago:
That’s what I thought when I took the picture months ago. I just saw it in my phone again and decided to post it, glad it’s making some people laugh
- Comment on Please, my son... He's sick... 5 weeks ago:
Never understood this. It seems like more of an insurance risk for a company to say, “no no, we provide our own certificate training here”. Now when someone fucks up they can say “I was operating the lift following Wal-Mart’s training protocols” and they have to show their shit is proper rather than just pointing the finger at OSHA or whoever.
- Comment on Please, my son... He's sick... 5 weeks ago:
Funnily enough, the jack was on the lift because we needed to unload a 16 wheeler with crates in the back.
- Comment on Why would anyone do this? 5 weeks ago:
Facebook was originally literally just a database of pictures of people from the school Zuck went to and a bunch of people deciding if they were, in fact, hot or not.
