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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prepare for HDD availability trouble as they're getting sold out too⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I should have bought a couple more Seagate external drives to shuck for my NAS. I knew HDD prices would jump so I bought a couple thanksgiving last year but couldn’t stomach spending more. I should have spent more then

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Acer and Asus ordered to halt PC sales in Germany after Nokia wins HEVC patent ruling⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I like the news not because I think Asus and Acer should be paying more royalties to the whichever ghoul in the patent web there is but because every-time something like this happens it’s another hit against support for hevc and its nearly 6 year old successor that’s gotten little to no relevant adoption in mobile or desktop hardware. AV2 will publish its final standard 6 years after VVC and pretty much not be behind at all because of how crappy the patent situation is for hevc and vvc

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨.hack//ZERO Reveal Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice. It’s been ao long since the last game

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nokia vs Asus and Acer: Regional Court Munich redefines FRAND rules⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s good that h265 hasn’t caught on like h264 and likely never will. H266 having been even slower than h265 to gain adoption

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DEAD OR ALIVE New Project - Teaser Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sweet. Favorite fighting game back on the OG Xbox. The only fighting game that I felt good button mashing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Checking the Steam forums, people say online required. There’s a to of ARPG these days recent and upcoming. Skipping

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone pile into matrix and the element client. Got to make it more popular

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blizzard reportedly partnering with Arc Raiders owner Nexon to revive StarCraft as a shooter⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People, myself included disliked the star crossed lover turn 2 went with following Brood War. Sharp shift from Raynor pledging to kill Karrigan to then being a depressed drunk wanting to save her. That added to the tone being way lighter. Protoss became maybe too high elfy

  Terrans, I feel like they flanderized around a basic cowboy western aesthetic rather than anything the confederacy or UED were like in Brood War. A lot more competitive politics for the Terrans in the first game. A bit off that the UED didn’t return.

  Zerg became a lot less interesting in my opinion. Kerrigan was redeemed. No overmind or cerebrate intrigue. I think many had way higher expectations for a hybrid/xel’naga faction

  I remember a lot of complaints about the first 2 games story being long treks to make kerrigan not Zerg and then Zerg again. I don’t mind the end or what the Xel Naga ended up being, just the journey not having the weight of the first game. A lack of anger. Faction politics didn’t match up the anger of the first game. Felt more high fantasy to me than sci-fi

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blizzard reportedly partnering with Arc Raiders owner Nexon to revive StarCraft as a shooter⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Question will be if there’s going to be a single player component. Back then StarCraft had a beloved universe and characters. Post StarCraft 2 - the universe and those beloved characters aren’t so beloved anymore. SC2 and expansions may have been worse than Veilguard in terms of universal disappointments over the story

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Nintendo Switch tops the DS to become the company's best-selling console of all time⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m hoping they can revive Star Fox Adventure. Next Zelda, I think it needs something new to it. I got tired of it way faster than Breath of the Wild. Too much of the same

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Civilization 7's big Test of Time update that'll bring back playing as one civ for the whole game is set to drop this spring⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Classic Civilization. Buy it when there’s been numerous expansions and it’s on sale for it with the most important early expansions for less than $20. I’m pretty certain I remembered first year people hating V, VI, and now VII. Another year or two and it’ll be good. I just started playing VI last year

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Nintendo Switch tops the DS to become the company's best-selling console of all time⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if Nintendo will manage 2 main Zelda games for the gen considering how long it took for Tears of the Kingdom and how recent that was. Mostly want to see how the next Xenoblade looks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Element application is solid now. Still I think it’d be a rough transition for most discord users. But more users probably means more potential for developer interest

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For movies, look up what Alexa Mini’s can do. The very recent past dominant Mini had a 3424x2202 resolution. So movies took a 16x9 or cinemascope crop on that. Most movies shot digitally (most in the last like 20 years) were shot at below 4k. Many had special effects done at 1080p. When movie theaters switched to digital projection, most used 2048x1080 projectors and the shift towards 4k projectors wasn’t that long ago.

  The Alexa Mini LF can do 4448x3096. Just a tad bit over 4k once it’s cropped. The Sony Venice 8k camera is a few years old only. There’s a huge amount of loyalty to Arri, particularly the lenses. Panasonic and Z-Cam have 8k cameras. But like Arri, I’d bet most filmmakers would choose the 4k/6k cameras

  Even the ones that opt for the 8k cameras, they’re very likely would be lower resolution cameras in use as well like the Alexa Mini or a 4k/6k Z-Cam or like a Sony FX3. Including most nature documentaries. Unless it’s just wide canvasrs, you’re not going to be mounting the 8k cinema cameras all over the place like you would cheaper small cameras like an FX3. Plus stuff like shooting at 240fps 12bit color for slow motion playback. I’m betting that none of the cinema cameras support that. So back down to probably 1080p. Don’t know the status of 4k120 out there. That’s a lot of bandwidth, storage, processing power, and cooling needed

  Then there’s 70mm filming. The vast majority of productions cannot do that. There’s a lot of unused footage that goes into filmmaking. If you look at the size of a roll of 70mm film used for projecting a feature length film, it’s huge. It’s boutique equipment. There’s not a ton of cinema 70mm cameras and lenses to rent. Camera operators. Labs to get them scanned for digital editing. 70mm will always be limited in adoption especially now that digital is the dominant form of cinematography

  So 8k will for many many years be the land of upscaling and for native, old video games. Videos, I guess two 8k60 cameras rigged together for VR will lead the way along with an occasional movie/documentary. No guarantees that the movie theater will show it in 8k though let alone. It’s taken a very long time for 4k projection to become standard for theaters

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same song and dance since at least Windows me. Overtime it keeps getting more bloated and focused on advertising. If you got to use Windows at work, it is what it is but at home, get over it and switch to Linux already

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Terribly need degoogled android to become popular and/or a normal Linux distribution phone to become popular so that normal Linux market share couldn’t be ignored

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mildly entertained how fast it went from a bill to give the executive power to designate applications as security threats and ban them to then it being abused. A lot of folks saying the EFF and ACLU were wrong this time and then the EFF and ACLU being right less than 2 years after the bill passing. And it’s not like TikTok has been around all that long. 2021 all the pearl clutching about China’s influence ruining the youth just look at the zoomers entering the workforce - the app was popular for like 2 years at that point. Everyone people were complaining about were raised on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter. Not only that, TikTok was about the only social media platform that leftist were pretty good at compared to right wingers. The ridiculous dichotomy of leftist supporting a bill to ban TikTok while TikTok was core to the lefts grassroots outreach and networking. So now TikTok is right wing owned and Instagram and YouTube are still the same kind of content that people blamed TikTok for and have had for much longer.

  That bill in 2024 was a Democratic Party self own especially when the bill wasn’t even TikTok specific. Somehow saw masked plain clothes federal agents kidnapping people in 2020 to pretty much no consequence and decided in 2024, the federal government won’t abuse this bill

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JPEG-XL Image Support Returns To Latest Chrome / Chromium Code⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It is pretty great for shrinking the filesize of my photos. It’s a part of the PDF standard now. It’ll get great support across the board eventually. Still pretty early in adoption

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The U.S. Government Just Followed Through on Its Ban of DJI Drones—and It’s So Much Worse Than We Thought⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I know people that work in documentary film making, will eventually be incredibly annoying/expensive to practice in the US though it is always possible to rent gear/hire an operator with their own gear in other countries when filming outside of the US

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  iPhones are too locked down for the hardware they have. I’m writing this on an iPhone 15 …

  The foldable I like the most I’ve seen are the Motorola razrs. That’s vertical. The best fat foldables are going to be Android because of all the video game emulators for Android

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HDD prices spike as AI infrastructure and China's PC push collide — hard drives record biggest price increase in eight quarters, suppliers warn pressure will continue⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As others, my basic home lab NAS plans are grounding to a stop because of worsening prices. Next up, phones are going to be even more expensive. Video game console price increases again

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I loved last.fm. Used it for like a decade until I stopped caring about logging every time I listened to something. Was real good at finding music I liked. I used to view it as a reflection of me and then I got older and stopped caring about public reflections of myself

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Larian publishing chief says "there aren't currently any plans for a new Divinity Original Sin 3 game" as trademarks matching The Game Awards tease point to Divinity revival⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  sequel to ego draconis

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After Black Ops 7's weaker launch, Call of Duty will no longer do back-to-back releases in the same series⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This year competition excuted well in the same launch window. Arc Raiders and Battlefield, I have played neither, people seem happy with. Looking at Steam charts, Delta Force looks popular too and CS is always popular. It’s taken like 15 years but the not Call of Duty and not sort of weird gunplay in modern times/military shooters compared to Counter Strike (I play counter strike and I know it’s gunplay and movement are weird and harsh for newcomers) are hitting their strides. Call of Duty is facing the best most suitable amount of competition since the first modern warfare

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Are New Appliances So Bad? [41:02]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From my memories, the price of appliances haven’t changed much in the last couple of decades. They maintain or increase margins with cheaper parts, less QA, looser performance tolerances while keeping the same sticker price. Whatever the quality sacrifice equivalent word for shrinkflation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most obvious thing to ever happen since ads being added to Instagram feeds. It’s a search engine replacement. It was going to end up with basic advertisments eventually. Then targeted advertisements. Then sponsored results as sneaky as they can be in the case of suggesting the best solution/product. Free open source models and stuff like proton and duckduckgo if you really want to use AI search engines

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paradox Takes the Blame for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Sales Flop, Announces $37 Million Write-Down⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Paradox has lately been really good at admitting fault and then mismanaging the next big game outside of their bread and butter grand strategy games. They need to shake up their management because it’s becoming clear they’re giving unrealistic timelines/budgets/demands for these games

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Practically everyone I’m friends with hates imperialism and colonialism but loves the benefits of visiting poor countries that were victims of imperialism/colonialism and feeling special because of the money they bring and the lack of developed domestic entertainment/art industries so that theirs and their countries artist/entertainers are way more competitive there

  Everyone’s pretty hypocritical. People that get mad at other people for working for Google are extra and easily ignored. Damn all those Boeing and Airbus employees for working for huge military contractors. When a company gets big enough, I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re lobbying for something terrible to benefit themselves.

  I’m continuously confused how these standards don’t seem to apply to bank tellers, finance in general, large chain retail, fast food, large agriculture companies, fashion industry, film industry, music industry, alcohol, pharmaceutical, … etc

  Some people fight the most inconsequential battles. If you work for JP Morgan Chase and someone gives you the cold shoulder or lectures you because so, ignore them. It’s such a small crowd that’s like that that it won’t change your lifestyle. It’s not like if you quit and struggled to find work and started to teeter on ruin that they’d be there for you. And someone like that probably fights so many small inconsequence battles that they’d be exhausting to be around anyways. And fighting such small inconsequential battles produces so little. Tagging, down with the oligarchy in a bathroom stall or sidewalk day to day. It’s small bubble activism