djdarren
@djdarren@piefed.social
- Comment on Lung identification course 18 hours ago:
the true lungs are the lungs we made along the way
- Comment on Lung identification course 21 hours ago:
thank you 🙏🏿
- Comment on Why PlayStation Graphics Wobble, Flicker And Twitch 21 hours ago:
This Noodle video on how old games were developed with CRT in mind was absolutely mind-blowing to me.
- Comment on Lung identification course 22 hours ago:
Is he limited to just those three types of lung, or are they just opening examples to prove his credentials?
- Comment on I used an original iPod Nano in 2026, and it worked surprisingly well 3 days ago:
To give a serious answer to this; I love using an iPod because it’s not a multipurpose device. I can put music on and not get distracted by notifications, or tempted to open any socials apps. It’s a far more zen experience.
- Comment on LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV market 3 days ago:
Not the current gen. Well, it can act as a trackpad, but that’s not the primary input method. The previous gen, however, did have a trackpad. Again, it could be clicked, but it was generally shittier. The current remote is actually pretty nice.
- Comment on LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV market 3 days ago:
We bought a 60” LG LCD first. It was too big for our living room, so when the backlight went faulty and we were offered a refund we chopped it in for the 55” OLED, which is basically perfect for our room.
Turns out 5” really can make a difference.
- Comment on LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV market 3 days ago:
Yeah, it’s not great.
Luckily, we do 99% of our viewing through an Apple TV, and we have a soundbar, so the ATV remote covers basically everything we need.
- Comment on LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV market 3 days ago:
My 55” 4K OLED LG is the single greatest TV panel I’ve ever looked at. I can’t determine any individual pixels, the blacks are black. I have no issues with it in the slightest. And I see absolutely no reason why any TV of that size should need 4x more pixel density (or whatever it is).
- Comment on I used an original iPod Nano in 2026, and it worked surprisingly well 4 days ago:
The clickwheel ribbon cable on my iPod mini broke a couple of weeks ago, so at the weekend a friend of me very kindly donated his own mini to me, so I’m back on my iPod bullshit.
iPod gang rise up.
Oh, and if you’re using Linux, or don’t want the hassle of installing iTunes, TunesReloaded seems to be a genuinely great tool.
I really should get around to refurbing the 5th and 7th gen Classics I have too. They’re more versatile than the mini. But the mini is by far and away the easiest to flashmod.
- Comment on A new quest appears... 5 days ago:
Meanwhile, I just have a big button on my Home Assistant home screen on my phone that turns off all my lights. It’s great.
- Comment on A new quest appears... 5 days ago:
My bedside wireless charger has a piercing bright blue light on the front. That was covered by a small bit of black electrical tape on the first night.
Which sadist designs this shit?
- Comment on A new quest appears... 5 days ago:
I have a Zigbee controller coming at some point this week, so I can set up a bunch of Zigbee sensors and products that a friend of mine no longer needs. Proper looking forward to seeing what I can do with it all in Home Assistant.
- Comment on A new quest appears... 5 days ago:
There are people who walk among us, people who can vote, and procreate, who will willingly sit in a room with just The Big Light on. It chills my blood to think about.
- Comment on Is there a word or phrase in your language to describe the situation when you wanted to fart but shit yourself? 6 days ago:
“A man of the cloth”, or “touching socks”
One is more disastrous than the other.
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 6 days ago:
My current Macbook (M2 Air from 2022) can sync with my 4th gen iPod over FireWire if I have the right adapters.
- Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"? 6 days ago:
I believe he does it with the full consent of his boss.
- Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"? 1 week ago:
Jellyfin still don’t have Apple TV Apps
I can heartily recommend Infuse for accessing both Plex and Jellyfin on Apple TV.
- Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"? 1 week ago:
I’ve ditched all streaming services in favour of a friend’s 40tb Plex server, running from the server room of the university where he works. It’s rock solid and has everything I want to watch.
Anything he can’t find, or that I personally want my own access to goes in my own Jellyfin server.
It’s great. Better than spending £50 a month on a couple of services.
- Comment on HAWK SHARK 1 week ago:
I’ve taken to using the same deodorant as my wife. It’s really lightly scented anyway, but most MAN deodorants are a sensory nightmare for her.
- Comment on Pornhub, YouPorn, and Redtube and other content sharing platforms will block New users in the UK starting next week(February 2) 1 week ago:
Even if paying for the infra was the most important thing, it isn’t needed anymore with broadband internet access available everywhere now.
Not everyone has fast internet. And in a world where internet access is not a public utility, but people can still receive TV and radio over the air, there is still a need for broadcasting infrastructure. The BBC was founded on the promise to educate, entertain, and inform, and has a mandate to be available to as many people as possible. As such, the maintenance of that infrastructure means that people in the most remote areas of the UK can still receive education, entertainment, and information over the airwaves, regardless of the profit motives of private companies.
I will grant that the BBC is not in the best of health currently, after 15 years of Tory misrule, and the positioning of conservative sympathisers in the highest positions. However, suggesting that private organisations would perform any better denies the existence of Fox News, for example. Private organisations are led by private ideals, and will almost always bend towards the greatest income. Which is understandable. The BBC is still able to speak truth to power. Currently.
The same government that will arrest you for a social media post for being deemed offensive by an unelected beaurocrat
I admit that I don’t know the context to this, but I will say that almost every example I can think of of people being arrested for social media posts is because they posted something inflammatory. The one exception off the top of my head was Paul Chambers, who was arrested for posting a joke about blowing up an airport. He was eventually found not guilty, but taken at face value even that could be (and was) considered inflammatory.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the UK would soon require a license to watch any live streams on the internet even without owning a TV just to make up the lost revenue.
This is pure speculation. There is no evidence to support this concern. That said, you do technically need a TV licence to watch programs on the iPlayer. But that’s all BBC content anyway, so it’s functionally no different than watching it via broadcast.
- Comment on Pornhub, YouPorn, and Redtube and other content sharing platforms will block New users in the UK starting next week(February 2) 1 week ago:
Given how you translated the cost into $, am I correct in assuming that you’re not British?
Because I am, and honestly, £14.50 a month for what the BBC actually offers is, if anything, not enough. Because it’s not just TV.
The income from the licence fee covers TV, radio, broadcasting infrastructure, and R&D into said infrastructure. It also covers a broad range of community initiatives (several orchestras receive much of their funding from the BBC). And let’s not forget the iPlayer. It may have since been surpassed in utility by some of the other streaming companies, but it was one of the first to offer that kind of service, and for a long time, pretty much the gold standard.
On top of that is the intangible benefits of having a state broadcaster that is, according to the rules by which it is bound, absolutely not allowed to run advertising for commercial products. Other broadcasters in the UK are held up in comparison to the BBC, which means that they have yet to fall to the diabolical levels that commercial broadcasters in places like the US have. If they did, people would switch off.
BBC News can piss up a rope though. Sometimes stories don’t need balance.
- Comment on Pornhub, YouPorn, and Redtube and other content sharing platforms will block New users in the UK starting next week(February 2) 1 week ago:
You need a TV licence because that’s the funding model for the BBC (and wider broadcasting infrastructure), not because the government want to keep tabs on who has a TV.
- Comment on Bo'le of wa'er 2 weeks ago:
you fukkin wot m8?!
swear on me mum…
- Comment on Bo'le of wa'er 2 weeks ago:
War Horse is all about war horse, like.
- Comment on Opera: A Legacy Browser Lost | Why the modern hollow shell of Opera has made it impossible for me to recommend a former favorite. 2 weeks ago:
I had the Java version of Opera on my Sony W800 back in 2006. Shit was amazing. I got the full internet on my little candybar phone, and iirc, it even formatted (some of) the pages to fit the smaller screen.
- Comment on I HAVE BEEN BANNED FROM SO MANY SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS FOR NOT BEING OKAY WITH FASCISM AND VIOLENCE! 2 weeks ago:
I was on ND for about a week, some 8 years ago. Absolute dog shit hellsite that somehow makes FB look reasonable by comparison. Ended up shit-canning it because I’d rather not have to know that I’m surrounded by shitcunts.
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 3 weeks ago:
The actual playout software is Mixxx on both, but the underlying MIDI controlling is slightly different. Enough that I’m not 100% on how it works on Linux.
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been using my M2 Air to broadcast a radio show for the past couple of years. It’s basically flawless, even using an iPad as a virtual MIDI controller for some of the faders.
I’m currently in the process of replicating the setup on my Linux PC, and fuck me, it’s proving an arsehole by comparison. I’m willing to accept that a good chunk is just me being far less familiar with the OS than with macOS, but it’s considerably less intuitive when it comes to things like hooking up virtual MIDI controllers and the like. I’ll get it sorted, but I won’t be truly happy that it’s broadcast solid for a few weeks yet, I don’t think.
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 3 weeks ago:
I ran Asahi on an 8/256GB M1 mini for a few months as my primary work machine. Worked perfectly fine, besides the lack of a second screen. Sounds like they’ve finally cracked that though, and are preparing to release the upgrade to general users.
Obviously, software is a little more patchy, but I didn’t truly struggle to fill my needs. Amusingly, I discovered that Mixxx, the DJ software works well on it.
Might put Asahi back on it and use it as my Home Assistant machine, freeing up some processing power from the poor 2014 Mac mini that I’m currently using (with Mint) as my general purpose home server.