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- Comment on Cheap TVs’ incessant advertising reaches troubling new lows 2 days ago:
I picked up a projector on sale for $50 on Newegg, usually I think they’re like $80 or something. Only problem is, I don’t know how to get the dust out of the inside of the projector lens. I’ve tried spraying canned air into the cracks around it, but it didn’t work. I even took the thing apart intending to wipe it down myself, but I couldn’t figure out how to get to the back of the lens.
Still, for $50 it’s not too bad. The little bits of dust are kind of annoying, but they’re not in focus and it’s pretty alright for watching movies.
- Comment on Jon Lovitz Wants A Reboot Of ‘The Critic’ 5 days ago:
Do you think we’re past the point of reboots having to do cell phone jokes? I hope so. They stink.
- Comment on Hillary Clinton: How Much Dumber Will This Get? 6 days ago:
We literally would not be in this situation if it wasn’t for Hilary Clinton. Imagine what the timeline where Bernie Sanders just finished his second term must be like. I want to go there.
- Comment on Mozilla Foundation Calls on Tech Industry to Block ICE Contractor 1 week ago:
Mozilla seems to be doing fine to me. Most of the people complaining about them don’t give any indication that they themselves are doing anything particularly helpful either.
- Comment on Discord heightens ad focus by introducing video ads to mobile apps in June - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
In my experience discord literally feels like I’m in the room with someone. I use it constantly and it’s been great for me. Phones on the other hand are kinda garbage. The signal is consistently unreliable. Sometimes I literally get calls where one of us can’t hear the other. Sometimes several calls in a row. Occasionally calls just don’t even go through.
- Comment on Discord heightens ad focus by introducing video ads to mobile apps in June - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
Gimme push to talk.
- Comment on Discord heightens ad focus by introducing video ads to mobile apps in June - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
It depends on whether the server you’re on is boosted, also. But even a standard voice server is better quality than a phone. Phones may technically be able to play audio with a higher bitrate, but that’s limited by both cell service and speaker quality.
- Comment on Discord heightens ad focus by introducing video ads to mobile apps in June - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
More reliable too, honestly. Plus the video streaming is indispensable. Honestly, discord voice chat is a big part of the reason I haven’t made a serious attempt to use Matrix for much if anything. The lack of push to talk is a deal breaker. Also like, none of my friends are there.
- Comment on Discord heightens ad focus by introducing video ads to mobile apps in June - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
I would never engage in marketing… except for my own indie projects.
- Comment on AI Slop Is a Brute Force Attack on the Algorithms That Control Reality 2 weeks ago:
Being relatively a relatively unknown outlet that forces extra steps on anyone who wants to read their articles probably sets the bar pretty low. Especially when a lot of people will just share archive links.
- Comment on Elon Musk says X hit by 'massive cyber attack' as users unable to log in 3 weeks ago:
Heyyy, it’s chanology style anonymous. Nice.
- Comment on Christie's First-Ever AI Art Auction Earns $728,000, Plus Controversy 3 weeks ago:
In what world does it take two people to “make” a piece of malformed AI schlock?
- Comment on Trump’s Crypto Reserve Is Really Happening 3 weeks ago:
So he’s going to do the same thing he did to his fanboys to the government? Oh good. Can we impeach this guy yet?
- Comment on Pokémon games have become consistently ugly, and it's alright to wish they weren't 4 weeks ago:
To be fair, it’s almost infinitely cheaper to hire a bunch of people to post in threads muddying the waters of any discussion than it is to fix any given issue. If any public criticism devolves into bickering, it’s hard for outside observers to make enough sense of it to heavily impact sales.
Look how well it worked for the election. With a proof of concept that dramatic lying around, what money-grubbing executive wouldn’t want to follow the example?
- Comment on The Nightshade Family 4 weeks ago:
I remember hearing that but I’d forgotten the specifics! Thanks!
- Comment on The Nightshade Family 4 weeks ago:
Just be glad they didn’t turn into crabs or cats.
- Comment on The Nightshade Family 4 weeks ago:
Europeans used to think tomatoes were poisonous. They referred to them as poison apples.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 4 weeks ago:
You can. You just can’t have a small iPhone. Android phones are also a mainstream product, they’re just not popular with people who have thousands of dollars to blow on iPhones.
- Comment on Hundreds of your Warner Bros DVDs probably don't work anymore 4 weeks ago:
Damn shame there isn’t some distributed network of backups for nearly all media.
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 4 weeks ago:
Yeah. That’s certainly a possibility. Thinking about it won’t give me the answer, though. It could be that, it could also be something else. We don’t learn the truth of what’s going on in the world by just making up a good-sounding explanation.
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 4 weeks ago:
From the Mozilla forums.
I’m curious what “Without it, we couldn’t use information typed into Firefox to perform your searches, for example” means. Like, is that literally just the search I type into the browser bar, or are they talking about scraping data from my browser to improve my searches the way a lot of phone apps do?
I could see some government somewhere passing a data security bill of some kind that makes rules around collecting and using data that redefines what that means in a way that includes something Firefox is already doing. I could also see them using this as a sneaky foot in the door as they plan to ramp up data profiteering like so many companies already have.
It would be nice if they’d clarify their reasoning for doing this a bit more specifically.
- Comment on Catalyst 1 month ago:
You can wash your clothes, yes, but I’d still expect Mr Catalyst to have more than one outfit. Though to be fair maybe his closet is just full of the same plaid shirts.
- Comment on Catalyst 1 month ago:
Only the reactants ever change their clothes, and reactant 1 only changes after leaving the catalyst.
- Comment on ‘Mass theft’: Thousands of artists call for AI art auction to be cancelled 1 month ago:
Nah, inability to produce the actual image is the point. All the “artist” did was type in a box, so that’s all the purchaser gets.
- Comment on ‘Mass theft’: Thousands of artists call for AI art auction to be cancelled 1 month ago:
It would be kind of funny to offer AI schlock for sale and then give the buyer a framed copy of the prompt instead of the print itself
- Comment on Marvel Rivals Version 20250214 Patch Notes - Steam News (February 12, 2025) 1 month ago:
So… No one should ever give any feedback on what kinds of thread anyone else posts? Not sure I agree with that.
- Comment on Marvel Rivals Version 20250214 Patch Notes - Steam News (February 12, 2025) 1 month ago:
Because it’s populating my feed?
- Comment on Marvel Rivals Version 20250214 Patch Notes - Steam News (February 12, 2025) 1 month ago:
Agreed.
This is actually why I stopped using Startrek.website, though. One of their mods posts constant updates about STO. Honestly, I’m pretty sure he’s employed by STO.
- Comment on Marvel Rivals Version 20250214 Patch Notes - Steam News (February 12, 2025) 1 month ago:
To be fair, it is kind of odd to post patch notes. All sorts of games get new patches all the time. If people start making a habit of posting every set of patch notes for the games that they play, it’d very quickly become a substantial portion of the posts here.
Personally, if people were regularly spamming patch notes I’d probably eventually either block the community or block the poster.
- Comment on PeerTube, the YouTube Alternative has released version 7: complete UI overhaul based on User Experience Studies and Accessilibilty priorization (for impaired people) 1 month ago:
I would also like to know this. I’d rather not start making content only to realize I picked an instance with insufficient resources or that’s just going to disappear in a couple of months.
