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- Comment on Is it true that one of the reasons VHS beat Betamax was porn? 3 days ago:
well, I’ve also noticed that HD downscaled to SD looks a lot better than native SD.
- Comment on A new ‘solution’ to student homelessness: a parking lot where students can sleep safely in their cars 3 days ago:
Or, and hear me out, maybe spend that money on student housing instead of vast parking lot that has nobody.
These pieces of shit would rather see you live in your car than live in a home. All because they don’t wanna pay their taxes.
Garbage people create garbage solutions.
- Comment on Is it true that one of the reasons VHS beat Betamax was porn? 3 days ago:
Most could go to 576p, but it was rare for that to be broadcasted in the United States. It was mostly a Europe thing. And even when it was a thing, and only went on for a year or two.
- Comment on Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI, licenses 200 characters for AI video app Sora 3 days ago:
You will take it and you will like it
- Comment on Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI, licenses 200 characters for AI video app Sora 3 days ago:
Do you hear that popping sound? I hear it…
- Comment on Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI 3 days ago:
“Not only am I tiny, so is my dick!”
- Comment on Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content 3 days ago:
You don’t need to suck dick to be fabulous.
- Comment on Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content 3 days ago:
Oh, speaking as A Gay, I stepped away from Meta services many years ago.
We can be fabulous elsewhere.
We can be fabulous anywhere.
- Comment on Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux 4 days ago:
Compared to the top speed of USB 2.0, fire wire 400 wasn’t actually faster in that regard, but here’s where the true performance came in to play, and how thunderbolt also has this amazing feature:
When usb connections begin to data transfer, they started at 0 kg a bit, a second and then speed up to the maximum transfer rate. Then it slows down before completion. FireWire (and is successor, Thunderbolt) maintain a consistent data transfer speed. It begins at that transfer rate, and ends at that transfer rate. This is especially good if you’re moving around a large amount of small files.
Also, fire wire 400 already beat out USB 2.0 382 Mb per second transfer rate. Firework 800 more than doubled it, and thunderbolt one started at 1.5 GB a second. We’re at thunderbolt five now, and I stopped keeping track of the data rates because they were so blazingly fast.
One drawback, however, is that firewire cables, and subsequently thunderbolt cables, are both extremely expensive and not very durable. They contain a lot more twisted copper wires, and tend to wear out faster. USB cables are nearly indestructible.
Additionally, firewire (and thunderbolt) are also a networking protocol. You can create an ad-hoc LAN just with firewire or thunderbolt cable cables. This is natively built into macOS, but, on Linux, it requires some sorcery to make it work. With a Mac, and an emergency, you can boot your Mac with a damaged hard to drive remote remotely from another functional Mac just by using a thunderbolt cable (or a firewire cable). It’s a neat trick, and has saved my ass more times than I can count.
- Comment on Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux 4 days ago:
Leave it to me to only consider the male end of the connector 😜
- Comment on Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux 4 days ago:
Not their proprietary (what was the old iPod connector called?) or lightning BS.
This is what I was responding to.
And I’m in my 40s. I’m not a “youngin’”.
- Comment on Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux 4 days ago:
I have an old iMac that I use as a Plex server, and it has a fire wire 800 port and a thunderbolt, one port, both of which I use for a couple of very old external drive enclosures. Sure as hell beats USB 2.0.
- Comment on Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux 4 days ago:
You’re thinking of firewire, and that was not proprietary. Sony came up with that. I had a mini disc player with a firewire port. And thunderbolt, which is what they use now, is an evolution on firewire made by Apple, Sony, and Intel.
- Comment on When you get carried away with the corn 5 days ago:
Teeth strong enough to eat other teeth!
- Comment on Corn!👏 Corn!👏 Corn!👏 5 days ago:
🌽
- Comment on Luigi Mangione pre-trial hearing drawing by an artist 5 days ago:
He is so fucking hot
- Comment on Is this real life? 6 days ago:
Does it have a dick I can suck?
Alive
- Comment on Saw paintings are in again 6 days ago:
I can’t fuck him meme. But I can definitely fuck some dude’s junk bubble.
- Comment on Why do .ml users get a bad rep? 6 days ago:
It’s my philosophy that going around, uninformed and uninitiated, and even getting burned a few times is a great way, and possibly the best way, to discover where you really belong on Lemmy. I believe it to be a formative and even a necessary experience.
That’s really my advice for how to find the “correct instance for you”. Everyone here got there by trial and error, and I believe it is a formative enough experience that everyone should go through it. Joining Reddit was far too easy.
- Comment on Why do .ml users get a bad rep? 6 days ago:
OK, I apologize for my tone. I’m not here to criticize you. I am legitimately interested in helping:
All of those things you mentioned? Do all of that. Focus on your local feed, check out comments that originate from your instance. That’s how you will get a good fuel for those who subscribed to your instance.
And, as others have mentioned, you can sign up to any instance and still interact however, you like with the rest of Lemmy. Follow the rules of whatever community you’re commenting or posting in, sure, but, aside from the instances that are defeated, you can interact, post, comment, vote, whatever, regardless of your home instance. It’s just that a lot of people take particular care in choosing our home instance, and they choose a home instance that Socio politically aligns with their own views.
This is neither necessary, nor demanded from the vast majority of Lemmy users. It’s just how Lemmy was designed, and if you’re not interested in doing that, fine.
- Comment on Mozilla’s Betrayal of Open Source: Google’s Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla 6 days ago:
You may have misunderstood me: when I said “the rot has set in” I was referring to the end point. “The rot has set“ would refer to the beginning point.
It is a confusing way of speaking (which I only employed for style), and our collective confusion is a great example of why we don’t speak this way anymore. Lol.
- Comment on Why do .ml users get a bad rep? 6 days ago:
To clarify, the instance only matters if that instance is, itself, inherently political (many ARE). There are many other instances which are apolitical and don’t censor posts based on political bias, unless it is especially extreme, but those are exceptions that are explained when it occurs, which is rarely.
- Comment on Why do .ml users get a bad rep? 6 days ago:
After four days on that instance, have you not figured it out for yourself yet?
- Comment on Mozilla’s Betrayal of Open Source: Google’s Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla 6 days ago:
The rot has set in. There’s no getting it out, now.
- Comment on A Jamaican accent just makes me smile 1 week ago:
And so he also endured dozens of children, throwing tantrums, and his replied did not match their wishes.
See, I can make shit up too. Something tells me that I will at last you. Also, something tells me that you throwing tantrums or only make your loss more severe.
But please, take the time to approve me wrong. I enjoy a challenge…
- Comment on A Jamaican accent just makes me smile 1 week ago:
The only timeless eloquence here is how some people have so little self-control that they cannot help but to incessantly criticizing others, regardless of how little their input is desired.
- Comment on A Jamaican accent just makes me smile 1 week ago:
I’m pretty sure this means that we agree.
- Comment on A Jamaican accent just makes me smile 1 week ago:
I have had more entertaining butt plugs. Although,… This gives me an idea…
- Comment on A Jamaican accent just makes me smile 1 week ago:
I also find that pretty interesting. What’s your take away from this?
- Comment on A Jamaican accent just makes me smile 1 week ago:
Upvote for your cheerful and optimistic view. Perhaps you’re right, and that the benefit outweighs any drawback.