IronKrill
@IronKrill@lemmy.ca
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 3 days ago:
I fail to see where TV calibration comes in here tbh. If I can see blocky artifacts from low bitrate it will show up on any screen unless you turn the brightness down so far that nothing is visible.
- Comment on Discord Alternatives, Ranked 6 days ago:
Their loss. They have at least a month to migrate, probably more before most users get forced to verify, there is no rush. That and an ad-free hobby-run project like Stoat doesn’t gain anything from a massive user increase unless it correlates to an increase in devs or money.
- Comment on Discord Alternatives, Ranked 6 days ago:
Either they edited it to add Zulip or you missed it. Image
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 1 week ago:
One of my friends hit me with the “they already know everything about me” line on this one and literally said they’d give Discord “anything”, so I don’t think I’m gonna convince my group to move y’all. At least my best friend is educated enough at this point to be interested in moving so I’ll still be investigating options.
- Comment on Syncthing Backup w Raspberry Pi 1 week ago:
So no one else has to look it up, 120°F is 49°C
- Comment on The world is trying to log off U.S. tech 2 weeks ago:
Speaking as a canadian, I do believe our leaders will attempt to work with any new administration the US votes in. We are too inter-linked to not try. BUT, I think recent events have shown not just our government, but our general populace that we cannot rely on the USA. I don’t think everything will just “go back to normal” like you hope.
- Comment on Nova Launcher gets a new owner and... ads 4 weeks ago:
Seconded. Looks good and I’ve found browsing by letter is way faster than the traditional folders (although you can still use folders with premium). I bought the upgrade after a few months.
- Comment on Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 January 2026 Update Issues, Releases Fixes 4 weeks ago:
Another confirmed bug caused some systems to fail to shut down properly after installing the update. According to Microsoft, a separate fix has been issued to resolve the shutdown issue on certain Windows 11 builds.
So they fixed it a month ago after breaking it years ago and almost immediately break it again? lol
- Comment on Hytale is OUT NOW in early access! 5 weeks ago:
A little ironic to post this on a game inspired by Minecraft, the most prolific example of an early access model working out.
- Comment on we need more users 5 weeks ago:
The quality has held despite a drop in users.
I feel like I’m going mental over here because this has not been my experience. The quality has always been spotty, but the last few months I’ve noticed more and more posts linking to awful “news” rags or no source at all. Worse, I rarely see people questioning the lack of quality information, simply gobbling it up because it aligns with their world view. Plus 70% of the comments on this platform could be generated by a classic r/subredditsimulator style bot and nothing would change; the same 5 points about AI, capitalism, and Linux are made in every thread in the exact same style every day.
And yes I’m mostly talking about news communities because Linux comms are usually fine but repetitive and while I’d love to interact with non-news content there just… isn’t much being made.
- Comment on This EV Was Already Cheap, Then Dacia Knocked Off Nearly $6,000 5 weeks ago:
In North America, the point is to be your main method of ttansportation. Work, groceries, friends, all require cars to get there in a reasonable time frame. Yes there are longer trips, and personally I would not feel comfortable with a 200km max range, because the nearest large towns are upwards of that already. But for those that rarely leave their cities, you could make it work, especially if your spouse had a gas / longer range car. Seems fine for a city car.
- Comment on The 2025 Steam Awards Winners 1 month ago:
The top 4 picks aee decided by user nomination a ~month before.
- Comment on Does Lemmy need a fork or a rewrite due to its maintainers views? 1 month ago:
In this nazi analogy it would be less of buying chairs and more the nazis giving away chairs for free that come with blueprints so if the nazis started installing spikes in their chairs people can just build their own from the blueprints, they just choose not to because it’s a lot of work. Which is fine if you don’t want those chairs, but a lot of people are fine with those chairs as long as the nazis don’t start any camps.
- Comment on What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop? 1 month ago:
Best suggestion in this thread! Trackmania Forever slapped when I had a low powered machine.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Thank you for so bravely speaking on behalf of all artists.
- Comment on Are people buying refurb pcs just to strip out the DDR 4 ram with the current price hikes on new ram? 2 months ago:
Depends. The price of the same DDR4 kit I bought earlier this year are now 4x what they were.
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 2 months ago:
Let’s just skip to the point and make it 1 day
- Comment on 2 months ago:
All I can read this as is that 1 in 4 Americans are still delusional.
- Comment on Waymo Forced to Halt Overnight Operations As Punishment for Causing Nonstop Ruckus 2 months ago:
Ah yes, people slow down near cops for the love of the game, not because they’re afraid of a ticket or jail time.
- Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally? 2 months ago:
I think it would depend who you ask. I consider myself vegan and would have no major issue with someone using roadkill for parts. I mean, I would find it disgusting and could never myself, but if they want to and still call themselves vegan, I see no problem with it as the harm has already been done to the animal. Seems the same as harvesting bones from the forest - what’s dead is dead.
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 2 months ago:
I’m gonna take a safe guess that London has generally much smaller streets and cars than the majority of America, so it would be safer yes. Outside of the cities and a couple of streets downtown smaller town centres, most cars are likely to be going 50km/h or more down a road with spotty or missing sidewalks and there’s probably a 50% chance of it being an F150. Now I have had good luck with drivers here slowing for me, but it only takes one time to be permanently crippled… So is it “that” bad? Depends what your “that” is, but it is worse yes.
- Comment on What do they do with aborted fetuses? 3 months ago:
How do you think they make hot dogs?
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 3 months ago:
Sadly most of those older YouTube videos have been run through multiple re-comoressions and look so much worse than they did at upload. It’s a major bummer.
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 3 months ago:
Treasure it! Not looking forwards to when I have to give up my manual hatch for whatever is on the market when it dies. Although I haven’t test driven an EV yet, I can’t imagine it’s that engaging. Perhaps I’ll just have to get my kicks out of motorbikes at that point.
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 3 months ago:
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 3 months ago:
This must be a Honda Fit interior, right? I still wish I had managed to snag one of those, but they are probably double the price of other used hatches where I am. Ah well.
- Comment on Why does the GOP think “ANTIFA” is bad? 4 months ago:
I hung around anti-SJW groups in 2016 and I’m assuming not much has changed.
Basically ANTIFA is painted as a violent group that claims normal things as “fascist”, same as the “leftists” call “normal people” “nazis”. People in these right-leaning circles get shown videos of protests after they go violent and innocent people / property starts getting damaged and are told it’s ANTIFA (I don’t know how much actually is ANTIFA, I don’t follow this stuff anymore). The name of the organisation does not matter because the right does not believe the things they are protesting against to be fascist, thus ANTIFA becomes a lie in their mind.
Looking at it from a leftist perspective, think of tactics like all the bills named the “Protect Our Children” act (or some such) that tries to strip rights away under an innocent-sounding name. Right-wing sees ANTIFA the same as you would see these law names: a deception to calm the masses.
- Comment on What is it called when you believe the U.S. political parties shouldn’t exist? 5 months ago:
Common sense
- Comment on Spotify Add Lossless Audio(24-bit / 44.1 kHz FLAC) for Premium Subscribers 5 months ago:
Gotta say I’m surprised to see Spotify adding something people actually want. It must be getting rough for them.
- Comment on Spotify Add Lossless Audio(24-bit / 44.1 kHz FLAC) for Premium Subscribers 5 months ago:
Same table aligned to cents for easier reading.
Qobuz 2.2¢ Napster 2.0¢ Tidal 1.3¢ Apple Music 1.0¢ Deezer 0.640¢ Spotify 0.300¢ - 0.500¢ Amazon Music 0.402¢ SoundCloud 0.250¢ - 0.400¢ Pandora 0.133¢ YouTube Music 0.069¢ - 0.120¢
