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- Comment on Interesting 2 hours 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 1 day 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. 2 days ago:
- Comment on Linux Gaming Developers Join Forces To Form the Open Gaming Collective 3 days 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 6 days 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? 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
Letting the days go by
- Comment on Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI 1 week ago:
Exactly
- Comment on xkcd #3196: Aurora Coolness 1 week ago:
Unfortunately I’m about 13° latitude farther south, so it’s much harder to see them normally
- Comment on Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI 1 week ago:
If that was their concern they’d be advising less AI investment, but reading the article they’re pushing for industry to do more investment, that only major investment and adoption shows benefits.
- Comment on xkcd #3196: Aurora Coolness 1 week ago:
I really hope to see them sometime. Whenever we’re in Quebec and there’s a good geomagnetic storm the weather is cloudy.
- Comment on "The reviews got lower and lower": Dev says his puzzle game is suffering on Steam because young people "don't know how to write emails anymore" 1 week ago:
For physical letters I only put a subject on business correspondence, but that’s not something I expect kids to be familiar with
- Comment on Recommend some games for PCem 1 week ago:
I have never heard of this project and it might suck up a lot of my time. How does this differ from making a virtual machine from old versions of Windows?
I believe I first played RollerCoaster Tycoon on Windows 98. I also got SimCity 2000 from GoG but it’s the DOS version and I feel like the Windows version looked better.
For things that actually used the 3D card, I used to enjoy Midtown Madness 2, Motocross Madness, and Need for Speed III, but that all might’ve been in my Windows 2000 days.
- Comment on "The reviews got lower and lower": Dev says his puzzle game is suffering on Steam because young people "don't know how to write emails anymore" 2 weeks ago:
It turns out, an NPC named Sarah, who is able to receive real-life emails from players crucial to advancement of the story, held all the answers.
Malmehed looked in Sarah’s email inbox and found thousands of emails from 2025 alone. Concerningly, he also saw that “about a third of them” didn’t have anything in the main body - everything was crammed into the subject line, which was preventing the in-game system from identifying the keywords necessary to respond.
“That’s something I’ve noticed a lot of young people are doing these days,” he told Polygon. “So I believe the users are in general pretty young.”
“No form of modern communication requires a subject and a body — it’s easy to see how people [who are] not familiar with email aren’t filling out both fields.”
- Comment on How do I properly and safely clean smartphone? 2 weeks ago:
The best option is to look at the manufacturer for your phone. They should have instructions for your model. These iPhone instructions are a good general guide, but there might be specific recommendations for whatever model you’re cleaning.
- Comment on we need more users 3 weeks ago:
Is this strictly Lemmy or does it include related platforms like PieFed and Mbin? Because it seems like there has been some shift to PieFed
- Comment on Wats the legal test for consumation? 3 weeks ago:
In Scotland, although marriage was formed by simple consent and required no formalities or consummation, the bedding rituals were widespread but unstructured; a couple simply wanted someone to see them in bed together. A couple could also be pressured into marriage in this way: a person stumbling upon an unmarried couple in bed could pronounce them man and wife on the spot.
- Comment on As long as the temperature stays in a very narrow optimal range for me, it's over for you bitches! 3 weeks ago:
All we have to do to stop her is put different shapes in the square hole
- Comment on The Issue With Wii U Gamepads And How To Clone Them 3 weeks ago:
Mario Chase in Nintendoland was always a popular one when we had parties, and not something that could be easily recreated on other systems.
- Comment on Blackboards were the OG dark mode 3 weeks ago:
I’m cringing just reading this
- Comment on Microlandia is a "brutally honest" scion of SimCity that thinks of cities as "beautiful but insane machines" 3 weeks ago:
1.4 change log: “A city is a beautiful, but insane machine that survives always in homeostasis and always in chaos. In 1.4 you get a little less narrative, a little more reality, the structures of everyday life exposed, greed companies, economy that doesn’t forgive, even the broke. The night mode is a pleasant anesthesia; use it, but do not confuse ambience with robustness.”
- Comment on xkcd #3191: Superstition 3 weeks ago:
Writing’s on the wall
- Comment on This EV Was Already Cheap, Then Dacia Knocked Off Nearly $6,000 3 weeks ago:
300 km out of 24 kWh?
Press X to doubt.
- Comment on We used to have TV repairmen who would come if dad couldn't fix it with the tube from the grocery store kiosk. Weird. 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, most of the cost of the TV is the panel. If you’re buying a replacement panel the part would cost basically the same as a new TV (or maybe even more).
By contrast, my parents had a TV that started boot looping the morning after a thunderstorm and they’d had at least one lightning strike very close by. They got a local TV repairman out and he was able to get a replacement mainboard and the TV worked perfectly after that. I think the board was $100 or $150 and his time and labor was $100, coming to their house to do the work. If I remember correctly we could see scorch marks on the bad board near the Ethernet port.
Getting the new board was a bit of a hassle; that manufacturer didn’t sell parts directly and I think it took him 3 tries to get the right board. It seems like they have the same board in a lot of models but they flash them for different screens, so even though they were labeled as being for my parents’ TV it took a few tries to get the right one in. I feel like that’s a problem that would’ve been easier if the manufacturer supported repairs better.
- Comment on OpenTTD 15 is now out and ready for you to play! 4 weeks ago:
Does this allow rotating the screen? I played RCT first and was used to being allowed to rotate the screen so when I tried OpenTTD I couldn’t figure out how to rotate the screen and when I asked online I was told the original TTD couldn’t rotate so OpenTTD also didn’t rotate. I later tried Locomotion and liked it much better in part because I could rotate the view. Seemed like Chris Sawyer pulled a lot of “lessons learned” from RCT into that.
- Comment on Reverse Proxy: a single point of failure in my lab 4 weeks ago:
I remember a TV station I worked at, that had a lot of good redundancies with 3 redundant UPSs that could keep a bunch of equipment on air until the big generator took over, one day had the UPS controller die and took all 3 UPSs out. I think it took the engineers a couple days to get everything back up and running.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
They can look a little odd on Lemmy, but not crazy. I don’t know how they look on PieFed, Mbin, Friendica, etc. Lemmy doesn’t use hashtags so having a lot of them looks odd, but I think PieFed and the others support them so they might work better there.
I don’t see Mastodon-originated posts often, mostly on the photography groups. They haven’t been a problem there. I don’t know how it works to get posts from a Lemmy/PieFed/Mbin community in Mastodon, so I don’t know if you get the full experience that way. You might get more by creating an account in one of the other services. But that’s the beauty of the Fediverse, you usually can access the content in the way that works best for you.