acosmichippo
@acosmichippo@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 11 hours ago:
exactly, profit margin. people aren’t upgrading every year like they used to, so they have to make up (some of) that lost profit by increasing prices.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 11 hours ago:
obviously they did exist. why do you think phone manufacturers would stop making them if they were as profitable as the other sizes?
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 11 hours ago:
i don’t think it’s “too hard” to make small phones. but i bet it’s easier to sell bigger phones with more profit margin.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 11 hours ago:
it’s also when mobile media in general was available. tv, movies, YouTube, games, everything. not everything is about porn.
- Comment on A funny thing in Iran is how they repackage old PlayStation consoles 1 day ago:
gray, whatever.
beige, no. never again.
- Comment on How to escape from surveillance when watching television? 3 days ago:
in case you’re on the older side, in addition to what they said in the other comment OTA broadcasts are now digital HD.
- Comment on How to escape from surveillance when watching television? 4 days ago:
if you want a pragmatic answer, apple tv with emby works for me. not saying apple is perfect but at least their business model is not 100% dependent on monetizing your data and targeted ads.
- Comment on Life isn't easy if your last name is 'Null' as it still breaks database entries the world over 6 days ago:
any govt system.
- Comment on Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms 1 week ago:
i have accepted that most of the internet will be a vicious cycle of enshittification. go to cool new site, site gets too popular for its own good, monetization kicks in, site now sucks, rinse and repeat.
FOSS stuff like lemmy and mastodon just will never get past the first step, which is fine. they will just occupy a separate niche.
- Comment on Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms 1 week ago:
also mainstream professionals are going to bluesky, like press and corp PR. big step towards critical mass.
- Comment on Robot with 1,000 muscles twitches like human while dangling from ceiling 1 week ago:
if you want it to interact with a wide range of environments and objects that were designed for humans, then a humanoid robot may be the way to go.
- Comment on Robot with 1,000 muscles twitches like human while dangling from ceiling 1 week ago:
they could have gone so many different directions. nutcracker. river dance. yackety sax…
- Comment on Audiologists raise concern over headphone use in young people 1 week ago:
Someone with ADHD can better focus when they get the info simultaneously as text and audio? Unbelievable!
Or… maybe she really does have APD as her doctors says she does?
I don’t say that she has it but most neurodiverse will see lot’s of checked boxes.
…because APD has some similar symptoms to ADHD.
- Comment on Audiologists raise concern over headphone use in young people 1 week ago:
it’s not untestable, they just haven’t actually done it yet. In fact they say in the article research is needed.
- Comment on Audiologists raise concern over headphone use in young people 1 week ago:
eh, I don’t see a problem with this article specifically, and I don’t think your “cancer” hyperbole is a helpful comparison. If people feel like they are suffering from a similar listening/attention issue, there’s no real harm in trying to go without noise-cancelling for a while to see if the symptoms improve.
- Comment on Audiologists raise concern over headphone use in young people 1 week ago:
they did say she was able to pay attention just fine watching lecture videos with subtitles. Also she is just an example, they said this problem is on the rise in general.
- Comment on Audiologists raise concern over headphone use in young people 1 week ago:
She is just an example, they say this issue is on the rise in general.
Five NHS audiology departments have told the BBC that there has been an increase in the number of young people referred to them from GPs with hearing issues - only to find their hearing is normal when tested and it is their ability to process sound that is struggling.
APD is more common in neurodivergent people, those who have suffered from a brain injury or had a middle-ear infection as a child. However, more patients with APD are presenting outside of those categories, leaving audiologists to question if external factors, such as noise-cancelling headphones, are contributing.
- Comment on Audiologists raise concern over headphone use in young people 1 week ago:
it’s a hypothesis worth studying.
- Comment on Are Expensive TVs Actually Better? An Analysis of TV Prices and Review Scores 1 week ago:
you can opt out of all that stuff. They bury the options deep in the settings but you can do it and it works.
- Comment on Sky's the Limit - Russian Influence Operation Doppelgänger Expands to Bluesky - Alliance4Europe 1 week ago:
uh there’s plenty of Russian influence here already.
- Comment on Are Expensive TVs Actually Better? An Analysis of TV Prices and Review Scores 1 week ago:
that’s a perfectly reasonable, everyone will have a different cost/benefit calculation. But that’s a lot different than saying expensive TVs aren’t actually better.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
and it’s common practice on other services like Yelp with sponsored results.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I’m not happy about ads, but ads aren’t necessarily anti-privacy. If they are not targeted at you based on tracking data then I don’t see any privacy issue.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
they must see the writing on the wall for reduced hardware sales.
- Comment on Are Expensive TVs Actually Better? An Analysis of TV Prices and Review Scores 2 weeks ago:
disengaging from assholes, absolutely it does.
- Comment on Are Expensive TVs Actually Better? An Analysis of TV Prices and Review Scores 2 weeks ago:
fuck all the way off asshole.
- Comment on Are Expensive TVs Actually Better? An Analysis of TV Prices and Review Scores 2 weeks ago:
unnecessary disrespectful bullshit.
- Comment on Are Expensive TVs Actually Better? An Analysis of TV Prices and Review Scores 2 weeks ago:
maybe if they said “expensive TVs are not worth it for some people” but 1) that’s not what they said, and 2) that’s obvious and doesn’t need analysis anyway.
- Comment on Are Expensive TVs Actually Better? An Analysis of TV Prices and Review Scores 2 weeks ago:
sure, it was just an extreme example. the point is the article is nonsense.
- Comment on Are Expensive TVs Actually Better? An Analysis of TV Prices and Review Scores 2 weeks ago:
this is just pure speculation. if they design the boards to cool properly during the warranty period it’ll be fine after that too.