Dreaming_Novaling
@Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip
Heyo! Just another random who’s moving over from centralized social media to the Fediverse. Mastodon wasn’t too bad but I love anything like Reddit!
Games, anime, Japanese, food, and music are my loves. Fanfic beats food tho, I can read for hours instead!
- Comment on Okay, I won't 15 hours ago:
oh wow, Piefed has scheduled posts? I know Masto and Misskey do that. Not a feature I’d use, but neat, I see why people switch from Lemmy.
- Comment on China bans influencers from speaking on ‘serious’ topics like finance or health without university degree 1 day ago:
It wouldn’t, as having a degree doesn’t make you immune from idiocy and propaganda.
There were a concerning amount of Health professionals who believed in and spread anti-vax rhetoric, including a pharmacist who purposefully destroyed COVID vaccines during the pandemic.
Yes, we should strive to reduce and remove misinformation online, but restricting it to the few is not a good idea, as they can be just as questionable as a random on the street.
- Comment on Nintendo's Creature Capture Patent Dealt Blow Amid Palworld Lawsuit 2 days ago:
YES!
Even though I think some Palworld designs are questionable, I’m devastated by Pokemon’s wasted potential and Nintendo’s laziness surrounding the franchise. It sucks that they’re the only major catch-em-all game we’ve got, they don’t have to try because they have no competition. I tried Cassette Beasts, and while I think the fusion and type system is pretty good, the story and characters were lacking for me so I haven’t finished it. I have no desire for Yo-kai watch, and I don’t feel like playing Digimon.
Even if I’ll never play “Pokemon: Breath of the Fortnite” I still want Palworld to do well and flip Nintendo off for being an ass. That “riding is only allowed in our games” patent is total bullshit.
- Comment on OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly 2 days ago:
Man, I have to stop reading so I don’t continue a stream of tears in the middle of a lobby, but I felt every single word of that article in my bones.
I couldn’t ever imagine hanging myself or shooting myself, that shit sounds terrifying as hell. But for years now I’ve had those same exact “what if I just fell down the stairs and broke my neck” or “what if I got hit by a car and died on the site?” thoughts. And similarly, I think of how much of a hassle it’d be for my family, worrying about their wellbeing, my cats, the games and stories I’d never get to see, the places I want to go.
It’s hard. I went to therapy for a year and found it useful even if it didn’t do much or “fix” me, but I never admitted to her about these thoughts. I think the closest I got to it was talking about being tired often, and crying, but never just outright “I don’t want to wake up tomorrow.”
- Comment on Apple is reportedly getting ready to introduce ads to its Maps app 2 days ago:
If you don’t need traffic data, CoMaps (uses OpenStreet Map data).
If you do need traffic data (understandable) Magic Earth is what I use. It’s unfortunately not fully open source, only the map data is from OSM, but I find the navigation good 95% of the time, sometimes you have to make your own judgement for if a route might have bad traffic. At least it’s not Google or Apple, and no ads.
I don’t do car play, so I have no idea about how that works.
I wish we had better alternatives
or that cars all exploded and we went to public transport and walkable cities - Comment on Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House 4 days ago:
Very valid and true point, but that requires companies to openly admit that they’ve made their devices to not work if it can’t phone home, and no company is gonna do that. At best, they’ll tell you it needs internet access, but even then they’ll probably downplay it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Man, I tried so hard to understand what the joke was before I realized it was just transphobia/queerphobia
I can’t find the funny, where funny? :(
- Comment on Meet Mico, Microsoft’s AI version of Clippy 1 week ago:
Sorry Mico, you gotta go
- Comment on Catch of the day 1 week ago:
I’m pretty sure they’re talking about catching pubic lice (genital crabs) either due to sleeping around, or the Myrtle Beach area being kind of shady.
I went there with my family when I was a kid, and yeah… Our hotel was fine but the place was giving old, and I’ll never forget this mom who let her kids play in a nasty ass abandoned jacuzzi pool that was off-colored and had cigarette butts in it…
- Comment on Here we go again... 1 week ago:
Forgive me for being born after the 90s y’all, but sometimes it’s nice to have a reboot. Well. I could care less about movie/TV show reboots since so many places show the originals
or you could pirate, but when it comes to games, I appreciate being able to enjoy the same games my mom did but with slightly better graphics and on a console we own/PC. And yes, I could pirate the originals, but sometimes it’s nice to play it as it was intended, especially for hand held games.Yes reboots can be lazy and uninspired, and simply for money purposes, but other times it’s nice to see something come back to life and get a second chance. There’s so much stuff I wouldn’t have known about or enjoyed if it wasn’t for reboots.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 1 week ago:
Once I finish college I’m nuking my Windows partition. Won’t even boot into it on any future laptop, will just nuke it fully. I’m just waiting now cause I don’t wanna have to fight with teachers over online test software and shit, I like being able to do easy at home exams.
But I will relish the day I walk across the stage. It’ll be gone that night.
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 1 week ago:
So, in the US, a standalone, bare-minimum with ads included Disney+ subscription costs $9.99. Oops, actually we’re raising it to $11.99 TOMORROW! So after a paying for a year of Dinsey’s cheapest plan, you’d have paid $144.
But maybe Disney isn’t your thing? Well. Netflix costs $7.99 for the ad plan, and $17.99 for the no ads plan. But do note, even on the ad supported plan, you STILL can’t watch everything.
Ad-supported, all mobile games and most movies and TV shows are available. A lock icon will appear on unavailable titles.
Ranges $96-216 per year for ads or no ads.
Like anime? Crunchyroll offers a $7.99 plan, but it might not have all the content, so then there’s the $11.99 plan. So $96-144 per year. But their catalog doesn’t even have every fucking anime, and they’ve let dubbing go to the wayside after buying out their main competitor, Funimation (in which we lost several anime due to licensing).
Listen to music on top of that? Spotify for non-students ($5.99) costs $11.99, so $144 in a year. YT music is $10.99 for non-students, so $132
So say you listen to Spotify, like anime, and watch Netflix, you’re paying at minimum $336 per year, on the cheapest plans available, which usually have ads or missing features.
I’ve been looking at Optiplex and Lenovo ThinkCentres on ebay recently, and for my bare minimum standards of 1. Can support virtualization, 2. Can do Intel quick sync video and encode HEVC 10-bit (So about 10 year old devices) the prices range around $90-$150. Some 2TB HDDs would be about $100. You’d probably be pirating since most of the new shows on streaming services have no physical media to buy/no way of just owning a movie or TV box set. Even then, outright buying music and movies is cheaper in the long run. Anything you already own can be added to your library. You’ll never be told that “oops we didn’t pay to re-up our access to that movie, so it’s gone!” You’ll never have new ads, paywalled features, limited devices, or other bullshit. The server is up whenever you want it to be, provided you can handle being tech support.
So in the end, a home server + drives costs less than paying for several services where you own shit, and they can cut features or raise the price any day. But yes, we’re just being conceited assholes.
- Comment on Fediverse alternative to Facebook is what's really missing 1 week ago:
GroupMe (Microsoft) and Discord isn’t required for pure learning purposes, but 99% of clubs at my school use them, so I’d be unable to participate in a lot of shit if I dropped them.
Instead we just get stalked by Canvas for any assignment/classwork related purposes. Oh, and lockdown browser for online tests…
But I could totally believe teachers forcing students to use some shitty app to communicate with students and submit work.
- Comment on Loops Joins the Fediverse 2 weeks ago:
I donated sometime during the big fundraiser in January or so. It took a while but they did release server code a few months ago, and it’s nice to see that it’ll federate with other services soon.
- Comment on Just in time 2 weeks ago:
Nah, the past was filled with peasants dying of infections and dysentery. The future will just be the Pony Express crew from Mouthwashing. Honestly, I don’t even know what member I’d choose to be since they all went out horrifically.
- Comment on wish 2 weeks ago:
Watched a video before of kids from Whales doing an exchange with Korean students, and they were miserable. Like you said, they were getting back home late from clubs and cram tutoring at like 10pm, and would then get up for school around 6am or so.
This is just an unfortunately common thing in Asian countries, getting into the best schools is treated like a life-or-death thing for many.
- Comment on Topic or Community focused as a place where people can link to suspected AI video content and have folks more expert at spotting slip help? 2 weeks ago:
Slopornot sounds amazing, and I’d appreciate it. Hope someone starts that.
- Comment on Lasagnaius 2 weeks ago:
Appleius (+ donut and orange, but the apple was the final thing) from last night… as a pseudo dinner
If I actually would eat today it would’ve been Empanadius, but I’m still in bed…
- Comment on Some are too young to understand 2 weeks ago:
Well, people like to say “check their hard drives” when referring to pedos, so the word itself isn’t lost yet. But there might be some other Gen Z’s who don’t actually know what that is considering we were raised with Chromebooks…
- Comment on Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs 3 weeks ago:
Yeah no, sometimes you need screen sharing in the “chatting app”
A lot of university clubs are on Discord, and my cyber club does tutorials and labs on the weekends where the leader screen-shares. It’s nice because you can see the video in real time and ask questions whenever, rather than watching a pre-recorded video and having to hope you have no issues while following along.
I mean, this is literally why Zoom blew up so much during COVID. Real-time learning works more than asynchronous learning for a lot of people.
- Comment on Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets 4 weeks ago:
Considering Signal has been subpoenaed several times and proven in court the only thing they can give the feds is:
- Do you have an account with Signal? (Registered Phone #)
- When did you make the account?
- When did you last connect to the service?
I don’t think it’d be in their best interest to lie to the feds 6 times. You can quite literally read the subpoena for yourself, such as the most recent one in August 2024, which is only 2 pages long.
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 4 weeks ago:
Additional note: check if the VPN does DNS or not. If not then use something like NextDNS, or get a VPN (Proton, Mullvad) that does do DNS servers. Plus they usually include better ad-blocking.
- Comment on ICE tries to kidnap random food delivery driver off the street. He jukes them on a foldable bike. 4 weeks ago:
Okay if GTA is like this then I totally understand now. The way they turned around like pathetic NPCs 😂
- Comment on Spotify is finally taking steps to address its AI slop and clone problem 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, everyone has slapped AI on everything and it sucks. What’s unfortunate is Krypton’s v6 (2022) editions include some AI voicebanks that are apparently mid, they make stuff sound more natural but don’t help tuning that much. The singers were properly paid, but outsiders aren’t gonna know that and will assume, “oh it’s just like all the other techbro nonsense.”
Basically anything pre-2022 is fine historically, Krypton literally didn’t have AI voice banks anyway and everyone in the fandom already knew you had to put effort into making a song with a Vocaloid, as they’re literally synths. But now more and more people are discovering the fandom without knowing the history, and if the first thing they see is “Look, we have AI now!”, not realizing that it’s only for naturalization/minor tuning and not “make me a song”, they’ll just throw it in the same pile.
- Comment on Spotify is finally taking steps to address its AI slop and clone problem 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, I really wonder where Synth V created songs will fall under this rule, cause even though the VAs were paid and it still requires good tuning, they’re technically AI… Maybe the older songs and the new popular songs will be fine due to having recognition, but any new small time producers are gonna suffer if they’ve got boys doing the checking.
I don’t use Spotify, but I assume they do know Vocaloid (and Miku) exists right? At least YT music has a recommended playlist for vocaloid songs anyway.
- Comment on The horrors of aging 5 weeks ago:
I know I can’t judge very much with my post history, but… OP, are you good? You’ve got a lot of horny posting (the asklemmy NSFW posts) and boomer-esque “women ☕” posts going on.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 5 weeks ago:
G instead of D for me, because while I love Asian food, they also have a lot of spicy-sweet foods, and I hate spicy-sweet. Just do sweet, or just do spicy, but don’t mix them in one. I hate sweet heat, there’s few dishes that can make me like it. I also don’t love a lot of tropical fruits and Asian fruits, I’m a basic bitch. But Tex-Mex all day? I can live with that, plus some Creole and soul food? Set for life. I will miss Asian food though… Curry, ramen, Kung Pao, lumpia…
- Comment on LinkedIn will soon train AI models with data from European users 5 weeks ago:
I’m American, so we’re probably doing worse shit, but this shit is exactly why I hate how hard my professors push for us to be on LinkedIn. Besides it being Facebook but for hustle bros and shitty managers, the company itself doesn’t give a shit about it’s users and their privacy.
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 1 month ago:
Okay, not nearly the same, but I swear to god KH changes the fucking axis, target, and menu buttons each game, and my ass was fucking tired of it. So if a game changed inputs every save/startup I’d probably cry.
- Comment on Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus 1 month ago:
I laughed in actual horror before I realized it was The Onion. Like I would’ve fully believed it for a sec. Media literacy is important kiddos, read more than a headline!
