HopingForBetter
@HopingForBetter@lemmy.today
- Comment on All the ways streaming services are aggravating their subscribers this week 6 months ago:
Those poor multi-billion dollar…
Nope, I cannot even finish typing that sentence.
Fuck 'em.
- Comment on Medieval Doomsday Weapon 6 months ago:
My hands feel weird…
- Comment on My phone is just one big shitpost 6 months ago:
Spam, spam, spam, spam Spam, spam, spam, spam Lovely spam, wonderful spam
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 6 months ago:
I’ll agree that competition is not as robust.
However, it will be interesting to see how many “non-techy” people discover how easy it is to find content for free without ads.
- Comment on LEARN THE DIFFERENCE PEOPLE 👏👏👏 6 months ago:
Please? Please? Please, please!?
- Comment on Has anybody played music on their disc-based systems? 7 months ago:
The ps1 game discs often played OST music in regular cd players too. I remember walking around or riding in the car with a few game discs and my portable cd player. Good times.
- Comment on We don't really work 9 to 5 but still call our job 9-to-5 7 months ago:
I definitely would argue most people don’t ever work 8 hours a day.
Even when I was scheduled in a factory, I had 10-15min here, 30min there of downtime waiting on the line, going poo, being told to change posts, watching people drop pallets and then everyone scrambling to pick up the spill.
That’s why I’ll always advocate work from home. Get your shit done, and get on with life.
- Comment on Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV 7 months ago:
For my current use, (mostly screen sharing) I think it has to be connected.
Also, I think most smart tvs require regular updates or they “won’t work”.
It’s worth a shot though, I’ll have to look into it.
- Comment on Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV 7 months ago:
All I found in a cursory search were commercial displays. But I’ll keep looking.
I’ve got a 30"? VISIO that’s over 13 years old and doing just fine. I’d love to get another something of that quality; planned obsolescence sucks.
- Comment on Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV 7 months ago:
Unless you’re trying to achieve 4K on a projector, you definitely don’t need a $12k model.
Similarly, sound is dependent on the user. I’ve used many projectors that had decent speakers. Yes, speakers can be expensive, but not outlandish unless you’re going for an audiophile set, but then you’re going to drop money either way because most TVs don’t have movie theatre level speakers.
I’m just interested in having a big enough picture without paying a fortune or having unskippable ads while I play Horizon: Forbidden West.
An $80 projector works just fine for me.
I’m not trying to build a theatre or anything here.
- Comment on How do you play classic Mortal Kombat? 7 months ago:
This citizen kombats.
- Comment on Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV 7 months ago:
This is my thought, almost exactly.
Good enough laptops are about $200, and Linux is free.
Then there are fairly good projectors for like $80 or less that have hdmi, av, rgb, etc. with an led bulb.
So, grand total about $300 for a massive screen and zero ads.
- Comment on If hot air rises, why is it colder at the top of a mountain? 7 months ago:
Lemme c if I can xplan.
Hot air goes up.
Rocks ata top are also up.
So, more hot at the top makes the rocks hotter ad hotter, lika microwav, until they boil and melt tye tip of the mountain of, then, boom, volcano.
- Comment on Investigation launched after Boeing engine cover falls off during takeoff 7 months ago:
- Comment on Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV 7 months ago:
So, any recs. on good dumb tvs?
I’m upgrading to a projector soon, but also would love a few screens with actual buttons on the device incase of the inevitable remote loss.
- Comment on Home maintenance 7 months ago:
Gotta do something about that pesky morning breath.
- Comment on iPod with custom shell, new screen, 512gb SSD, and a 30 day battery 7 months ago:
I LOVE the idea. I’m slowly mutating into a wired earbud audiophile (not sure what they call themselves), and the sound is just so much cleaner; plus there’s nothing to charge.
4 hours of music on these ones!
Mine just plug in.
- Comment on Anybody have favorite Master System games? 7 months ago:
Altered Beast (side scrolling platformer/ beatemup with Godzilla style bosses)
Wise fwom youw gwave!
- Comment on iPod with custom shell, new screen, 512gb SSD, and a 30 day battery 7 months ago:
Is that a headphone jack!?
I like headphone jacks.
- Comment on We should name the moon. Most people don't call their pets "dog" or "cat". 7 months ago:
Pronounced Kyle