magic_smoke
@magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 6 hours ago:
Yeah I’m capable of telling my doctor I’m trans, and if I feel like my country isn’t safe enough that should be my decision, not my governments.
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 1 day ago:
Yeah but if you make it an open format other hobbyists could make their own hardware/software about it.
Mostly a fantasy medium, but if people start using it they start using it.
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 1 day ago:
No that’s the idea, it would be to make a piece of software which if thrown on a soc with a DVD drive becomes a player.
Which really isn’t too far off of DVD and most bluray players.
Though I wouldn’t be shocked if the super cheap DVD players have some sorta all-in-one integrated asic for most of the job.
- Comment on Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious' 2 days ago:
Was thinking you know its bad when Linus thinks you’re too toxic…
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 2 days ago:
I’ve always kinda thought about implementing a software and standard for 1080p av1 on DVD. Would be neat as a project, obviously no commercial use would exist.
Either way you can get some really impressive encodes out of av1, really neat tech.
- Comment on The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about 1 week ago:
Do you guys just not have homelabs?
- Comment on Trigger warning - This Epstein stuff is making me sick... 1 week ago:
This is a comment chain in a post about the Epstein files in which the top comment is about a 30 year old fucking someone in their late teens.
Its entirely on topic, fuck off with your bad faith arguments.
- Comment on We live in the future! 1 week ago:
Fake money for criminals because that also means diy hrt, recreational drugs, and piracy.
Its not all money laundering y’know! Sometimes its the good criminals!
- Comment on Trigger warning - This Epstein stuff is making me sick... 1 week ago:
Why should it matter to society what the difference between the two is, if the better of the two is still bad enough they should be hung by their toenails and beaten to death with a sack of hammers?
After a certain amount of bad, there’s not much you can do to punish it.
What reason do we have to discuss the difference, unless you think a 30 year old fucking a 17 year old is redeemable?
- Comment on Trigger warning - This Epstein stuff is making me sick... 1 week ago:
I swear to god if fedi starts defending “ephebophilia” as if its meaningfully different enough to matter I’m going to start cutting dicks off lmao.
- Comment on Trigger warning - This Epstein stuff is making me sick... 1 week ago:
Both deserve jail time, and the only people who really care that much are usually from the former group distancing themselves from the latter.
Both are fucking gross.
- Comment on Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy 1 week ago:
How much of that money goes into marketing, and executive pay checks?
- Comment on The most common bloatware we found on laptops and how to get rid of them 2 weeks ago:
Yes but enterprise LTSC (and others) isos can be harder to obtain legally.
Massgrave has mirrors of retail and OEM isos, and the other site I provided has checksums to verify their integrity.
- Comment on The most common bloatware we found on laptops and how to get rid of them 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on The most common bloatware we found on laptops and how to get rid of them 2 weeks ago:
*won’t
I very seriously doubt most people are physically or mentally incapable of taking a quarter of an afternoon once to teach themselves how to preform a basic maintenance task on a machine they use daily.
Just as car owners should know how to put on a spare tire or replace a headlight.
- Comment on The most common bloatware we found on laptops and how to get rid of them 2 weeks ago:
No you should install your own OS like a grownup.
- Comment on TV Execs Warn FCC: NextGen TV DRM Could Turn Free TV Into Gambling and Pay-TV Platforms 2 weeks ago:
Mostly the ones about the age of consent.
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 3 weeks ago:
No, my point was that people don’t need higher resolutions, they need good transcoded that don’t look like shit.
Streaming services run at bitrates/codecs that look like cookie compared to bd rips even on my shitty $100 sceptre 1080p Amazon special TV.
Who the fuck needs an 8K when no ones willing to conveniently provide content that looks good on it, especially legally?
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 3 weeks ago:
That’s because the answer isn’t higher resolutions, it was legally enforcing h.265 to be open source. Now the solution is AV1, but video codecs shouldn’t be locked down like that.
To act like that was ever in favor of “protecting the sciences” is a fucking joke.
- Comment on So disappointing 3 weeks ago:
AI slop
- Comment on Microsoft Gave FBI Keys to Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Pay for hosting with XMR and stop fucking re-using usernames.
Releasing software anonymously/pseudonymously isn’t that difficult…
- Comment on Steam Frame and Steam Machine will be another good boost for Flatpaks and desktop Linux overall too 1 month ago:
Once proton gitsgud at vr games, I’ll basically have no reason to have a win 10 ltsc VM anymore.
Pretty hyped XP
- Comment on Gen Z’s Tony Hawk is Tony Hawk 1 month ago:
I mean, what serious political action did the US have between the civil rights movement and occupy wall street?
My fault for not being more clear, I blame my countries national main character syndrome for that. Especially since it just hit me OP is technically from a Canadian instance, though I’m not sure the lived experience up there was THAT different.
- Comment on Gen Z’s Tony Hawk is Tony Hawk 1 month ago:
Once again Gen X is doing all the heavy cultural lifting.
Okay, I really don’t buy into the generations bullshit, but I think something needs to be said here:
Its apt gen X was the generation to invent the term poser because it applies so well. Say what you will about everything boomers did after they hit 30, they did some important shit when they where young. You don’t get a Kent State without pissing the right people off.
The MTV generation’s symbol of youthful rebellion was a cable TV channel owned and operated by Viacom with the express purpose of selling music which was pre-packaged by one of three major record labels.
It was a way for boomers to sell them fake rebellion because they remembered how bad for profit the real stuff from their youth was.
I mean, what serious political action did the US have between the civil rights movement and occupy wall street? The early 00’s anti-war movement? Arguably attributable to early millenials since those where their college years.
Gen X sat around “working in the shadows, doing their own thing”, which is code for sitting around, letting billionaires do what they want, and doing nothing about it since everything still kinda worked out alright for them up until now.
- Comment on World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles 1 month ago:
I think that last part hits it hardest. Especially when you consider most of the 360’s sales where US.
- Comment on World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles 1 month ago:
I’m actually shocked how low 360/ps3 are.
I felt like everyone I know has at least owned one, and they where more consoles where actually used as Netflix boxes back then out of necessity due to lack of good smart TVs or set top boxes.
Plus they had an extra 5 years of being around, not to count the fact most early adopters bought another twice, especially with the 360 due to RROD.
- Comment on World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles 1 month ago:
I’m actually shocked how low 360/ps3 are.
I felt like everyone I know has at least owned one, and they where more consoles where actually used as Netflix boxes back then out of necessity due to lack of good smart TVs or set top boxes.
Plus they had an extra 5 years of being around, not to count the fact most early adopters bought another twice, especially with the 360 due to RROD.
- Comment on China Is Banning Tesla-Style Retractable Door Handles Over Safety Concerns 1 month ago:
Yeah I’m not shocked major car company with the least amount of experience in mechanical engineering had that issue.
Give that to a team of 90’s Honda engineers and they’d have it done by lunch with a price tag a 1/3rd of the Tesla mechanism.
- Comment on China Is Banning Tesla-Style Retractable Door Handles Over Safety Concerns 1 month ago:
Is it really that hard to make one of those recessed handles buy with mechanical linkage instead of an electric one?
Seems like the real issue is the electric door latch itself, not the style of handle.
