papalonian

@papalonian@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨crazy stuff⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of people have no idea their meat comes from dead animals.

  I’d like to meet these a lot of people

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gotta Philip soon?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This way, even those who don’t drive still pay for oil! Capitalism!

  Yet when we suggest doing the same for healthcare it’s “socialism” and a bad thing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Normal⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That means she must gotta weiner vag

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a nice blue and black dress.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I always saw it as black and blue, until I was scrolling Reddit (as was the style back then) and saw a thumbnail for a meme that had the image of the dress in it. I didn’t pay attention to the thumbnail before opening it, so I only noticed a vaguely light colored object. But when the image loaded full size, the dress was the distinct black and blue I’d seen before. I backed out and took a second look at the thumbnail, and again it looked white and gold.

  Now that I’m thinking about it, it could have been the surrounding colors of the screen that effected how I perceived the dress. After discovering this I recreated the effect by taking a screenshot of the dress while zoomed out really far (to essentially turn it in to a thumbnail on its own), but both that and the Reddit thumbnail had a dark background that may have made the dress seem lighter in comparison.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a nice blue and black dress.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always been able to see both colors of the dress by changing the size of the image, so the phenomenon “made sense” to me, but I legitimately have no idea how that image is supposed to explain it lol. There’s two different colored dresses with seemingly random parts highlighted with different colored boxes… are they supposed to look the same in the highlighted area or something?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fixed it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, the examples shown imo were 50/50 improvements vs downgrades. First few were good, couple looked really bad, then a few good ones again. I suppose it’s subjective. As long as it’s just an option that can be turned off I don’t think it’s that bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A fun anti-monopoly law and anti-enshitification measure would be that once you hit 50% of market share you are forced to link to alternatives on your page⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s actually super interesting. Any info on US based similarities (ie Ford/ Lincoln)? Are they for similar purposes or just following suit?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PCSX2 Online Split Screen play, possible?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not super familiar with current emulation software, but I’m not seeing where OP said anything about retroarch? They mentioned trying a different plugin called “remoteplay whatever” but unless they’re related don’t see anything about what the guy you’re getting snippy with (twice, for some reason, connection issues happen) is suggesting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Can You Paint Yourself This Colour" Tier List⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If I’m already one of the browns, can I paint myself a different brown?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Airport Delays⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I fly a lot for work. Last month, I was landing on the air strip as my next flight began boarding. Managed to make the flight but fuck I wasn’t happy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Airport Delays⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The best is when you have a string of connecting flights that get pushed further and further back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Streaming services have made music both better and worse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Early walkmans were quite unwieldy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Streaming services have made music both better and worse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nobody but burglars can limit my access to my music collection.

  Or anything that forces you to leave home

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨McDonald’s CEO’s awkward taste test sparks mocking online: ‘His aura screams kale salad’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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  Don’t like parasocial corporate social media accounts but these were pretty funny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Secret message in the cemetery⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Reported! 🫵🏽🤨👎🏽

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elegoo Centauri Carbon questions⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry but this is bullshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨method acting⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is he not very good at basketball anymore or something

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop downvoting and accusing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a simple man, I see AI posing as anything but, I downvote. NEXT!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a tag people use

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open-sourcing CORE One CAD Files Under the New Open Community License (OCL)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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.