DJDarren
@DJDarren@sopuli.xyz
Just a guy standing in front of the internet asking it to please not
- Comment on A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy 2 hours ago:
Yeah, I’m in the process of shifting all of my workflows over to Linux/Android from all-Apple, but my Macs are a huge sticking point. My main computer is an M2 Macbook Air, which is ridiculously quick. I’m basically just waiting for Asahi to gain display port over USB, at which point I’ll ditch macOS. But until then…
- Comment on Movie reviews that had me laughing 7 hours ago:
I still miss Roger.
- Comment on Clean butt 6 days ago:
It’s as easy as using two shells.
- Comment on Clean butt 6 days ago:
We’ve got one of those ones that attaches to a regular toilet, and I gotta say that it’s fucking wonderful.
However. The water pressure in our house can be kinda weird. Mostly it’s normal, but sometimes it’s like a jet washer for a few seconds. And those few seconds after you’ve first opened the bidet are like getting reamed out by a Karcher.
- Comment on Millions of Britons brace for across-the-board bill rises in ‘awful April’ 1 week ago:
The providers like money and are able to keep asking us for more.
- Comment on Global foldable smartphone shipments increased by just 2.9% YoY in 2024, and shipments are expected to decline by about 4% YoY in 2025. 1 week ago:
Mr Mobile talked about this in his review of Oppo’s Find N5.
Essentially, while the product is great and folding phones are finding more utility, the price is still prohibitively high.
I upgraded to a Pixel 9 a few months ago because I specifically wanted to run GrapheneOS. I did considered a Pixel Fold, but really couldn’t justify the extra cost. Maybe next time though…
- Comment on ghibli posting 1 week ago:
(The original image absutely is art)
- Comment on ghibli posting 1 week ago:
Is the original image art? Who’s to say.
But turn that image into a meme and it does become art. And that’s wonderful.
- Comment on ghibli posting 1 week ago:
This is why Miyazaki is so against AI. Man can’t handle the junk in the trunk.
- Comment on In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows. 1 week ago:
Correct
- Comment on How You Doin? 1 week ago:
And the UK as a whole.
“Alright mate?”
“Yeah, you?”
"Yeah"
- fin.
- Comment on Dig this trench to protect your landlord's ability to gouge your decendants. 1 week ago:
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
- Comment on Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot 1 week ago:
Hungrambed
- Comment on In Warning Sign for Hollywood, Younger Consumers Are Choosing Creator Content Over Premium TV and Movies: Social Platforms are Becoming a Dominant Force in Media and Entertainment. 2 weeks ago:
The last Marvel offering I saw in a cinema was Avengers: Endgame.
Literally nothing since then has looked like it offered anything different or better, so at most I’ve watched a couple on D+, or torrented them. I just don’t give a shit about any of that stuff any more.
The last Marvel thing I watched was Agatha All Along, which I only finished for the sake of completion. The moment we learned the identity of the kid, I pretty much stopped giving a shit, because at that point it just dropped into being yet another MCU property being used as promotional material for whatever they’ve got coming next.
I really enjoyed S01 or Andor, but I can’t be sure I’ll bother with S02 because I don’t trust them to keep it self-contained, basically requiring me to watch 3 other series so I can have some idea of what’s going on. They pulled that shit with S03 of The Mandalorian, so I never finished it.
- Comment on Now that's an interesting question 2 weeks ago:
Go fuck yourself, San Diego.
- Comment on Enshittification 2 weeks ago:
You joke, but staring at the shitty LG LED TV I bought a year ago, I get mad at how much research we have to do these days just to make sure we get the best <PRODUCT> possible for the budget we have.
Not that long ago you could walk into a TV show room, pick the best one they had that you could afford and that was that. We’d have our brand preferences, but by and large we could buy a TV that would last us ten years.
Now, in order to stand a chance of getting five years out of a product we have to do weeks of research, scour a bunch of forums, mentally having to vet out replies that feel like they’re shill accounts. We have to become miniature experts in every field where we need to spend money, and it’s just fucking exhausting.
In my case, I was labouring under the belief that LG make really good TVs. Turns out they make really good OLED TVs, but their LED panels suck balls. So within nine months of buying this panel, the backlight has become patchy as shit, and now I’m having to go through the bullshit of returning it in order to get a better one.
- Comment on How I use Mastodon in 2025 - fredrocha.net 2 weeks ago:
See, I don’t understand why anyone would need to immediately follow that many randoms. And I don’t get the need to speedrun social media.
But hey, it takes all sorts.
- Comment on How I use Mastodon in 2025 - fredrocha.net 2 weeks ago:
I dunno. I joined Mastodon back in 2022 and just…followed people.
They weren’t the same people as on Twitter, but it didn’t really matter in the end. I now follow almost 600 people and never feel like my feed is empty.
One social media site doesn’t have to be better than another, it just has to be sufficient for your needs.
- Comment on Apple ordered by EU regulators to open up to rivals. 2 weeks ago:
As someone who has recently moved away from an iPhone, while still having much of the rest of the Apple ecosystem in place: for me it’s things like AirPlay and AirDrop. There are alternatives to AirDrop, but as I have an Apple TV, it would super handy to be able to AirPlay to it from my Pixel. As it stands, there appears to be literally no way to achieve this.
- Comment on You should know there's a font designed to make reading easier, especially for people with low vision. It's called Atkinson Hyperlegible Next. It's free for personal and commercial use. 2 weeks ago:
I tried to put this on my Kobo, but it just crashed it every time.
- Comment on I'll stop 4 weeks ago:
Or Alex Vance.
- Comment on I'll stop 4 weeks ago:
You mean JD Jones?
- Comment on You guys have to end it 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
This past month has felt like two years.
- Comment on I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better 5 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago:
If I can shoot rabbits Then I can shoot fascists