spyd3r
@spyd3r@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on How to make an EV tire that won’t pollute the environment 6 days ago:
Make tires out of ground up bureaucrats, they’re organic and biodegradable, and there’s an endless supply of them.
- Comment on Neo-Nazis Are All-In on AI 1 week ago:
I’d be more worried about finding which foreign governments and or intelligence agencies are using these extremist groups as proxies to sow dissent and division in the west, and cutting them off.
- Comment on Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs 1 month ago:
Rip all the computer shit out of your car and slap a carburetor on it, problem solved.
- Comment on Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs 1 month ago:
Go ahead and walk, no one is stopping you.
- Comment on What's your favourite era for video games? 1 month ago:
For PC I’d say 1999-2010 was absolutely amazing time to be a gamer. PC parts were dirt cheap, you could overclock the hell out of your hardware, and micro-transactions and pay-to-win didn’t exist.
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 1 month ago:
Roads are critical infrastructure, a luxury vehicle is not.
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 1 month ago:
Good, the taxpayers shouldn’t be subsidizing rich peoples tech toys.
- Comment on Tractor-trailers with no one aboard? The future is near for self-driving trucks on US roads 1 month ago:
Don’t forget 70mph winds blowing across the highway in the Plains states too.
- Comment on What is Windows 11 'AI Explorer'? Everything you need to know about Microsoft's upcoming defining AI PC feature (including it always watching you) 1 month ago:
pfff… I’m going back to Windows XP Pro x64 Edition.
- Comment on Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone 1 month ago:
Stop using biometrics period.
- Comment on Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time? 1 month ago:
It worked great on Blackberry and earlier Samsung Galaxy S devices… How did they make it worse?
- Comment on ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US 2 months ago:
Never happen, why would the government shut down one of its favorite surveillance tools.
- Comment on Windows 11 will reportedly display a watermark if your PC does not support AI requirements. 2 months ago:
PSA: Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC doesn’t have any of this shit and won’t bother you.
- Comment on [DS9] Runabout Entering The Gamma Quadrant | 4K 2 months ago:
Exiting the wormhole into the Gamma quadrant for the first time, to be exact.
- Comment on [DS9] Runabout Entering The Gamma Quadrant | 4K 2 months ago:
That little detail was memory holed before the episode was even over.
- Submitted 2 months ago to startrek@startrek.website | 7 comments
- Comment on Microsoft reveals costs of Windows 10 end of life security update — and it might be more than you'd expect 2 months ago:
And then those updates have a tendency to break shit, in a way that forces you to spend hours fixing it.
- Comment on Star Trek DS9: Quark's Root Beer Analogy (LaserDisc) [4K] 2 months ago:
It’s insidious!
- Comment on Star Trek DS9: Quark's Root Beer Analogy (LaserDisc) [4K] 2 months ago:
- Submitted 2 months ago to startrek@startrek.website | 10 comments
- Comment on “You don’t grab power, you accumulate it quietly, without anyone noticing.” – Grand Nagus Zek 3 months ago:
Thanks, I’ve got an early proof of concept as well, if you guys are interested:
mega.nz/file/UCVgDJTY#Rn2dyxHgTg67kg2EwQpehVej7KX…
It was deliberately left as unprocessed as possible, so it’s more of a demonstration of what’s there to work with, not what is possible with full reconstruction, and I have since enlisted the help of someone far more masterful than me to take over in that department so any final results will blow this away. One thing I will say is unfortunately the LDs are still plagued with the same source media issues that the DVDs are, so it’s not a perfect solution, but the digital compression is non-existent, YAY!
As for Voyager LD’s I have about 75% of them, they are incredibly rare and only available from Japan.
- Comment on “You don’t grab power, you accumulate it quietly, without anyone noticing.” – Grand Nagus Zek 3 months ago:
see this comment
- Comment on “You don’t grab power, you accumulate it quietly, without anyone noticing.” – Grand Nagus Zek 3 months ago:
This is being researched and experimented with at this very moment. A couple episodes are currently in the testing phase.
Normally a DVD would win a matchup for PQ, except in rare instances, but there are a lot of problems with the ST DVD releases which evens the playing field.
Paramount jamming 4x45 minute episodes plus extras onto a single layer 4.7gb disc is a major one. This adds in a ton of lossy compression artifacts and degrades the image substantially. By comparison, the LD has 1 episode per disc and there is no compression because its analog (Not without its own downsides though).
- Comment on “You don’t grab power, you accumulate it quietly, without anyone noticing.” – Grand Nagus Zek 3 months ago:
I should note that this image is not really representative of LD technology in it’s natural state. I am using a special device (Domesday Duplicator) that captures the raw signal from the laser sensor and dumps it to a disk for software decoding, thereby bypassing all the video circuitry.
This is the raw output from the decoder:
- “You don’t grab power, you accumulate it quietly, without anyone noticing.” – Grand Nagus Zeksh.itjust.works ↗Submitted 3 months ago to startrek@startrek.website | 13 comments
- Comment on Is TV Dead? Global TV Shipments Hit a Decade Low in 2023 3 months ago:
If you’ve got disposable income and use the latest tech devices as a status symbol, absolutely.
If you’re going the projector route, I’d say definitely. New laser projectors and screen tech is waaaaaay beyond what it used to be.
If you’re a gamer (or using a TV as a PC monitor) I’d say yes, the tech here has advanced quite a bit, and 4K gaming looks really good if your hardware can support it.
If you’ve got a home theater setup, and are a movie buff, I’d say maybe, depending on how big of screen you want, how much money you want to spend, and how satisfied you are with your current gear. For me I don’t think the latest tech improvements justify the thousands of dollars of new gear I’d have to re-buy just to get 4K/HDR and ATMOS support when most of the movies I watch don’t even have good 5.1 tracks and are still on 480i or 1080p based media.
If you’re a casual viewer of movies, streaming content, and TV shows, absolutely not. Any LED 1080p capable TV that isn’t trash tier is fine.
- Comment on IRS has launched its free tax filing service, Direct File, in 12 states 3 months ago:
Would be better if people would vote for candidates that would work to eliminate income taxes entirely.
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 3 months ago:
There are multiple distros with live-cd (or usb drive) where you can boot to a desktop environment without installing anything if you want to try them.
- Comment on Microsoft to end its Android apps on Windows 11 subsystem in 2025 3 months ago:
Should just end Windows 11 entirely.
- Submitted 4 months ago to startrek@startrek.website | 6 comments