BarbecueCowboy
@BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Trakt Upcoming VIP Renewal Pricing Changes – Effective May 20, 2025 2 days ago:
I like Trakt as a concept, I’ve used it sporadically, but their pricing was always optimistic, even at $30 a year. It has worked for them overall so far because it’s a well made project and people like them, but the value proposition of paying $5 a month now for something like Trakt feels crazy. It’s hard to look at different types of services at that price point and come to the conclusion that Trakt is comparable. There are actual streaming services creating some of the shows that show up on Trakt that are very similar in price (Dropout as a good example).
Only rational thing I can think of with this recent decision is that they’re tired of running Trakt and hoping to sell it off or close it up.
- Comment on Fediverse.com is available for sale 1 week ago:
If every Lemmy user donated $1…
You still wouldn’t have enough, but you’d be close.
- Comment on OpenPin is an open-source project to revive Humane's dead Ai Pin - Liliputing 2 weeks ago:
It sounds like they’re trying to do whatever they can to replicate the previous functionality, but without the company who made it getting in the way, the hardware itself is kind of interesting. I hear the battery life sucks and nothing on it is exactly novel, but I’d be interested to see what people could do with it’s fancy display options combined with everything else.
- Comment on What's the next stop on the authoritarianism express? 3 weeks ago:
Burning still has too much of a negative connotation.
They’ll pressure to expand more on banning books in schools, public libraries, pull public funding and restrict government aid payouts for universities unless they follow suit. They’ll let states decide that they can ban books for sale unless the site forces an age check. They’ll give responsibility for the age check system to a corporation that is expected to do a lackluster job and wash their hands of it when there are complaints. Maybe some day they’ll step in to ‘fix’ it resulting in taking it down for maintenance and restructuring and then they just… never bring it back up.
- Comment on What’s the best way to fix these gaps? 3 weeks ago:
It won’t stay perfect, those will expand and contract at different rates, but if you want a cheap and quick fix, just get some caulk in roughly the same color. You could use joint compound as the other poster suggests, but caulk has some give, it’s likely to still separate again at some point, but you’ll have longer. The permanent solutions all kind of suck and/or are expensive.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
There will never be another quite like Ronnie James Dio.
- Comment on Skyblivion fan project lead reacts to Oblivion remake news with "all love and no hate" 4 weeks ago:
Hasn’t this Bethesda helmed Oblivion remake been in the rumors and ‘eventually’ stage since around 2021-2022? Feel like skyblivion team has had plenty of time to get used to it at this point, but has something changed recently to make the bethesda version more relevant?
- Comment on LunaSea is no longer being published and all related cloud services (including notifications) will be shut down in the near future 1 month ago:
Personal opinion, but for android at least, I always though nzb360 was dramatically better. May be a good alternative for anyone who will be missing LunaSea there.
Too bad about iOS though, the options there have always been sparse.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 2 months ago:
More than one company has gotten to the prototype stage. You don’t realize how much the form factor sucks until it’s real.
- Comment on It's infinitely worse to be the oldest you'll ever be than the youngest you'll ever be. 2 months ago:
Plus side, you won’t have to worry about it for long.
- Comment on [Weekly thread] How is everyone doing with their home improvements? 2 months ago:
Turn off the breaker before you work on anything, if you aren’t 100% positive that you’ve got the right breaker, turn off the main breaker, if you still aren’t sure, just stop. Always do a pull test after joining two wires and apply electrical tape liberally. Be wary of aluminum wiring and even more so for knob and tube if you ever see it. You’ll eventually hit a point where you realize you can get creative with the materials you use and the way you do things, don’t do that. This is also about the time you’ll start to feel confident in your skills as an electrician, this is when you’re going to skip something basic and electrocute yourself, it will probably be minor and you’ll be sore for a week and feel 10 years older. Sometimes though it’s not minor, it’s an electrician meme, but we all have the “Remember kids, Electricity will kill you” sticker.
If you remember all that, you’re probably good to install the basement outlet, you’ll probably have local building codes to adhere to, but they’re usually not a major burden to comply with. For your chime, do you know if you have a doorbell transformer at all (and are you sure it’s getting power if so) or where the wires on your doorbell go to?
- Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. 2 months ago:
Also, proof, the universe is flat.
- Comment on Why aren't all rooms holodecks? 2 months ago:
This is a fun thought experiment and I’m kind of surprised Discovery didn’t do something like this with holodeck tech in the “future” since the writers weren’t afraid to do other tech-taken-to-natural-conclusion like tiny phaser transporters (or whatever those were).
They kinda did, they just didn’t go into detail. There were ships that were made entirely of holodeck at the new federation headquarters in discovery season 3ish, we just never got beyond being mentioned briefly and people going ‘Oh, thats cool’.
- Comment on Why aren't all rooms holodecks? 2 months ago:
They didn’t go into depth at all, don’t believe we even have one with a name, but they talked about seeing federation ships made entirely of ‘holographic containment walls’ in Discovery Season 3. Pretty sure it was when they first arrived at federation headquarters in the future.
There was also that ship in insurrection where it was just one giant holodeck, but still existing inside a regular ship. The concept just hasn’t made it into something that’s broadly popular in the mainstream trek fandom.
- Comment on It is paying off for someone. That person just isn't me. (For now) 2 months ago:
You can afford new tires instead of just patching them endlessly?
Look at the big spender over here.
- Comment on 6/10 2 months ago:
I really wonder what animals we’re missing out on in terms of dairy now. Like could White Rhino Yogurt be the best yogurt known to man?
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 2 months ago:
If you have the money for it and really want to go hardcore into the scene, you might look into an FPGA like the Super-nt. They typically aren’t like all of those emulation boxes out there, compatible with real SNES cartridges and accessories but don’t have to worry about the issues with aging hardware and works mostly native with modern TVs/etc. It’s very expensive, but it’s also definitely very cool.
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 2 months ago:
Full text is ‘Below are some types of visual media that some might consider old or outdated. Which, if any, have you used in the past year?’ and that is an item on the list, it’s not an incredibly detailed survey.
I will say from the rest of the survey responses, the demographics they’ve selected seem to lean more technically competent and security focused than I’d expect.
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 2 months ago:
Source: timeextension.com/…/14-percent-of-north-americans…
References this site: consumerreports.org/…/holding-on-to-physical-medi…
Actual data here: …consumerreports.org/…/Consumer_Reports_AES_May_2…
Actual question references "Classic videogame systems that came out before 2000, like the NES or GameBoy " of which 14% responded yes out of a group of 2022 surveyed in North America (demographic details available in link).
- Comment on I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand 2 months ago:
When I upgraded from a Pixel 6a to a Pixel 8, I was really surprised to find out that not only was my phone slightly smaller, it also had a slightly larger screen. I’m not super happy with google, but the things they focus on with the Pixel line has me pretty bought in.
- Comment on New bird flu variant found in Nevada dairy cows has experts sounding alarms: ‘We have never been closer to a pandemic from this virus’ 2 months ago:
Has he closed the CDC yet? Is that for next week?