DJDarren
@DJDarren@sopuli.xyz
Just a guy standing in front of the internet asking it to please not
- Comment on I'll stop 1 day ago:
Or Alex Vance.
- Comment on I'll stop 1 day ago:
You mean JD Jones?
- Comment on You guys have to end it 3 days ago:
My Volkswagen flashes a message when I put the key in the ignition; “Depress clutch to start”
So I tell it that the majority of Yanks don’t know how to use it and it starts every time.
- Comment on Apple reveals M3 Ultra, taking Apple silicon to a new extreme 3 days ago:
Honestly, the base level M1 mini is still one hell of a computer. I’m typing this on one right now, complete with only 8gb RAM, and it hasn’t yet felt in any way underpowered.
Encoded some flac files to m4a with XLD this morning. 16 files totalling 450mb; it took 10 seconds to complete. With my work flows I can’t imagine needing much more power than that.
- Comment on Oscar-winning animated film 'Flow' created entirely with free and open-source software Blender 3 days ago:
it felt more like what you’d expect from a labor-of-love indie game
I thought that too. It was like a long cutscene and I loved it.
- Comment on I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better 4 days ago:
If only the goal of the tech firms was to make the world better while making enough money to achieve this, rather than their goal being to make as much shareholder value as possible while ekeing out improvements on a schedule that fits their need to maximise profits.
- Comment on I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better 4 days ago:
This past month has felt like two years.
- Comment on I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better 4 days ago:
I was thinking about this the other day, while loading music onto my modded iPod. If I could go back in time and stick a pin in tech growth, it would be 2006, before the iPhone came along. Don’t get me wrong, I think the explosion in smartphones that came after the first iPhone is broadly good and has the ability to be democratising. But that’s not really what shook out.
The world in 2006 had digital cameras and small, portable music players. We had SMS for easily staying in touch with each other, and we did have smartphones - just not as smart as they are now. From a communication perspective, we mostly had what we needed. Hell, by 2006 3G connections were pretty universal, so we could do video calling if we had a phone that supported it. Having a bunch of devices that all did specific things meant that we spread our reliance around a number of companies. Now, with our camera, MP3 player, computer, and communication device all being controlled by one company, if that company turns to shit we have to jump to a less shitty firm, but we have to abandon all of the conveniences to which we’ve grown accustomed.
As someone who recently jumped from 15 years of iOS to GrapheneOS, this last one is particularly painful.
And sure, everything has gotten a lot faster since then, but there’s a part of me that kind of enjoys the inconvenience of slower, finicky hardware that sometimes needs a nudge in the right direction.
- Comment on Big Tech Wants You Trapped. The Open Web Sets You Free 5 days ago:
I’ve been using Moshidon. One day I’ll find an app as good as Ivory on iOS, but in the meantime Moshidon is fine.
- Comment on Existential Comics promotes suicide 5 days ago:
If I can shoot rabbits Then I can shoot fascists
- Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company 5 days ago:
I have a Brother printer at work that’s old enough that I don’t have a single thumb drive small enough to work with it. Haven’t tried in a while, but iirc it tops out at 8gb and the smallest I have is 32gb.
But it works fine over the network, so I’ll just carry on ignoring the firmware update it’s been begging me to install for two years.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 1 week ago:
Safari + AdBlock + Vinegar makes for a great YouTube experience.
That said, Freetube on my Pixel is wonderful.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 1 week ago:
I had my 13 mini for two years, and in that time I never once felt like the battery was on the way out. At worst it would be around 20% when I went to bed.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 1 week ago:
I had a 13 mini until a month ago. It’s one hell of a phone, and honestly, I’d still be using it if iPhones didn’t keep their value so well and weren’t such a shit company.
- Comment on GARBAGEOLOGY 1 week ago:
As someone who lives slightly north of the island in the middle of the south coast of this particular garbage patch; yes.
- Comment on Really bad advice 1 week ago:
- Comment on Apple Pulls Encrypted iCloud Security Feature in UK Amid Government Backdoor Demands 1 week ago:
I didn’t.
I must admit, I don’t really know how it all works and am mostly just blindly picking my way through, appreciating what works at this moment in time.
- Comment on I am from a different millenia 1 week ago:
Marilyn Manson’s ‘Antichrist Superstar’ had 99 tracks. That confused the fuck out of me when I first put it in my player.
- Comment on I am from a different millenia 1 week ago:
I recently discovered Nicotine+. My iPod mini has never been happier.
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 1 week ago:
Yep, Lloyds.
- Comment on Who will be the next James Bond? Amazon's tough 007 decision 1 week ago:
If it’s not fuckin’ Idris Elba then I don’t give a fuck. Bitch.
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. My bank is one of the few UK banks whose app won’t work with Graphene, which is irritating. Also, the lack of Wallet access for payment cards is annoying.
But all in all everything else works fine.
- Comment on Apple Pulls Encrypted iCloud Security Feature in UK Amid Government Backdoor Demands 2 weeks ago:
In our defence, Boris Johnson is an idiot cunt.
- Comment on Apple Pulls Encrypted iCloud Security Feature in UK Amid Government Backdoor Demands 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, iOS/iPadOS isn’t great for that, so far as I can tell. I spent am unreasonable amount of time the other day trying to work out how to get the Obsidian vault on my iPad to sync with the vault in my SyncThing folder. Still not entirely happy with my setup. In fairness though, I’m running SyncThing on three computers, and two of them are Macs. So its solid on there.
But other than that, SyncThing isn’t a great replacement for iCloud Drive because you can’t choose what you download. So if I have 200gb in my ST folder I can’t sync it with my 128gb phone.
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 2 weeks ago:
SyncThing for me, but yeah.
- Comment on Microsoft announces quantum computing breakthrough with new Majorana 1 chip 2 weeks ago:
The engineers spun it up, and it asked if they wanted to back up their files to OneDrive.
- Comment on BlackBerry's iconic keyboard patent has expired 2 weeks ago:
I got an LG largely because the options were WebOS or shitty proprietary OS.
And yeah, LG haven’t been kind to it.
- Comment on Okay, this is getting out of hand 3 weeks ago:
Welcome to the Gulf of America. I love you.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
If you use Android, then [this app] (github.com/BobbyESP/Spowlo) uses spotdl. It’s really handy.
- Comment on The End of an Era: Exploring the Final Sony MiniDisc Walkman Models 3 weeks ago:
Hi-MD went up to 1gb. UMD, used in the PSP, went up to 1.8gb.