jqubed
@jqubed@lemmy.world
- Comment on 😋🔫 2 days ago:
I think I only ever needed a white shirt and tie. My younger brother was in band but when they performed with the string orchestra to give more of a symphony I think they actually did have some sort of suit, maybe tuxedo-like. That was all arranged by the school at the very start, of course.
- Comment on misleading cover 3 days ago:
This seems to be garnering a lot of attention. Maybe he knew exactly what he was doing.
- Comment on deez nutz save lives 4 days ago:
A swallow, carrying a coconut?
- Comment on 😋🔫 4 days ago:
Orchestra
- Comment on Piracy communities remain blocked on lemmy.world despite "Unremoval of Piracy Communities" announcement 4 days ago:
IIRC when it was implemented in the first place, it seemed like lemmy.world had actually been contacted by some stakeholder with a DMCA-style request, even though the community was not actually originating on lemmy.world. Explaining how federation worked to lawyers didn’t matter much and with .world at the time becoming one of the larger and more visible instances that seemed like the best way to avoid the headaches. Initially they defederated with dbzer0 entirely before developing a way to block just the community.
- Comment on Now hit mute and you are all set 5 days ago:
- Comment on For that special someone on Valentine's Day 1 week ago:
What are the red things in the top photos?
- Comment on ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering 1 week ago:
I hate this, +1
- Comment on ai;dr | (ai; didn't read) 1 week ago:
I’ve worked a number of jobs in TV, most behind the scenes. I’ve long said most of those jobs people at home wouldn’t know exist unless I make a mistake. That does not mean they were simple jobs.
Many people do not understand the amount of work that goes into other jobs they have never done, nor do they understand what makes someone good at that job.
- Comment on Do you ever feel guilty for trying to sign up for government assistance programs? 1 week ago:
As The Clash say in “Know Your Rights”:
You have the right to food money
Provided of course
You don’t mind a little
Investigation
Humiliation
And if you cross your fingers
Rehabilitation - Comment on Why ‘deleted’ doesn’t mean gone: How police recovered Nancy Guthrie’s doorbell footage 1 week ago:
As someone who hasn’t paid a lot of attention to this case other than general curiosity out of how odd it is. I had wondered why the family hadn’t been able to give the police the security footage sooner.
When Nancy Guthrie went missing, officials said she had a doorbell camera, but that it had been forcibly removed, and she did not have a subscription.
- Comment on Video cable for Dreamcast 1 week ago:
I haven’t played the Dreamcast since they were an active system, but if you already have the cables to get S-video into your monitor you’re probably fine with that. Technically component would be better, but I don’t know how noticeable the improvement would be. The main improvement would be in color, but S-video wasn’t bad. I would have to doublecheck if S-video supports progressive scan, but if you’re at SD resolution on a CRT I wouldn’t expect you to notice a difference between interlaced or progressive video. Interlaced video was made for CRTs and wasn’t actually bad there, never mind how we appreciate and prefer progressive video on modern flat screens.
- Comment on America Isn’t Ready for What AI Will Do to Jobs 1 week ago:
I’ve found that to be the case more and more with The Atlantic in recent years: long articles that might sound impressive but don’t actually say much or could’ve said things much more succinctly. I usually don’t read their articles anymore.
- Comment on The Realest Shitpost Out Here In A While.. 1 week ago:
Did they cause the poopsplosion as an excuse to buy you dinner?
- Comment on The bushes were people 🤯 1 week ago:
I kept expecting them to dance and was shocked it never happened
- Comment on Valentines 2 weeks ago:
Is this something where people pay this group to make a dance video greeting?
I have no idea who Melanie Martinez is
- Comment on The first goal of advertising is make it unique enough so people will want to read it 2 weeks ago:
It seems their degree is in colorectal surgery, aka proctology
- Comment on Best retro-styled/Frutiger Aero/Y2K/Aqua clients? 2 weeks ago:
Someone posted about a read-only Linux client they made that looked like it came straight out of Windows 7/Vista. It was probably at least a year ago and I’m not finding it so far.
- Comment on $69 in 2026 Gets You a Tool to Rejuvenate Old Computers 2 weeks ago:
The CD audio output even works with mixed-mode discs that have redbook audio tracks, which software emulators can’t handle, they add.
Why can’t emulators handle them?
- Comment on Interesting 2 weeks ago:
I remember people said it was bad for the VCRs, but never knew why!
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 3 weeks ago:
You don’t even need IMAX for 4K; ordinary 35mm film can normal scan to a nice 4K video. Films shot on the 65mm IMAX cameras would probably make good 8K content, but most of that was educational films, not what most people apparently want to watch all the time.
The digital IMAX projections were actually a step backwards in resolution.
- Comment on In a future that will hold robotic police there will surely be robotic house burglars. 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Linux Gaming Developers Join Forces To Form the Open Gaming Collective 3 weeks ago:
I’m surprised Valve isn’t a member either
- Comment on Newegg stock falls 17.7% after owner is detained by anti-corruption authorities in China 3 weeks ago:
I didn’t know it was owned by a Chinese company, nor publicly traded
Newegg was established in California by Fred Chang in 2001, but Lianluo acquired a majority stake in the privately held company in 2016. By 2021, it had merged with Beijing-based Lianluo Smart Limited, with the company being renamed Newegg Commerce, Inc., finally taking it public. At the moment, Lianluo currently owns 54.5% of Newegg.
- Comment on Is history about to repeat itself? 3 weeks ago:
No, this year’s storm hit on a weekend, and didn’t really get going in Raleigh until nighttime. Most people stayed home. That year’s storm arrived pretty much as forecast but a lot of people ignored the forecast because a storm forecast a couple weeks earlier had fizzled out. It was around lunchtime on a weekday and everyone thought they could still stay at work and drive home and it wouldn’t be a big deal. Then the snow came quick and heavy and everyone panicked and tried to go home at the same time, unleashing rush hour traffic on bad road conditions with traffic jams blocking the plows from treating the roads.
- Comment on Cronch 3 weeks ago:
Gummy vitamins, felt something crunch. It was one of my fillings and it got jammed into my gum at a point where it was wider than the gap in my teeth and my dentist had to send me to a periodontist. Needed oral surgery afterwards because of the damage.
- Comment on Remember when buying shoes came off as some kind of science. The shoe sales person was always considered right 4 weeks ago:
Back in the early days of x-ray technology some shoe stores would x-ray customers’ feet to make sure the shoes fit right
- Comment on Real and True 4 weeks ago:
When I was in college I worked a data entry job at an investment advisor firm. One of the financial planners had #8 as their setup.
- Comment on Good question tbh 4 weeks ago:
Letting the days go by
- Comment on Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI 4 weeks ago:
Exactly
