comfydecal
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- Comment on Another hit to physical media as Target lays out plans to ditch in-store DVD and Blu-ray sales 6 months ago:
Totally! Good luck
- Comment on Another hit to physical media as Target lays out plans to ditch in-store DVD and Blu-ray sales 6 months ago:
So they have these cool machines that repair disks and if you can find a computer and videogame repair store you might be able to rent them for cheap
- Comment on Another hit to physical media as Target lays out plans to ditch in-store DVD and Blu-ray sales 6 months ago:
IMO garage sales and thrift stores will get you most of what you want. You’ll find stuff like the entire series of the Office for $2 per season or all the Starwars movies for $10 or some classic Western for $1. Cheaper than streaming and it’s yours. Pay cash and help your local economy out. And if you want some new, then spend the $30 for it or rent it from the library (most city libraries will have a large DVD, CD and audio book collection)
- Comment on Most dating apps sell and share users' personal data 6 months ago:
Such a bummer, a good chunk of users are catfish or bots and the platforms are also exploiting users. I’m not surprised, just kinda bored with the internet in general
- Comment on What even is a JSON number? 7 months ago:
Understandable, nice to have a global “world wide web” exposure
- Comment on My iPod is better than my phone: repair, new SSD, and managing songs with Linux 7 months ago:
Thanks for sharing! Their stuff is always good quality
- Comment on Best printer 2024, best printer for home use, office use, printing labels, printer for school, homework printer you are a printer we are all printers 7 months ago:
you are a printer we are all printers
- Comment on What even is a JSON number? 7 months ago:
It just me or are Lemmy linked URLs looking shadier and shadier?
- Comment on This is the way 7 months ago:
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid? 10 months ago:
So thinking on this more, there are many studies that are impossible to replicate, either due to time, money, or team size. Think about weather studies, no human lives long enough, so we have to push the belief back on the original data being accurate. Human studies that span millions of people are also hard for small teams or individuals to replicate. Also hard to have a particle accelerator for most people, so we have to trust the accelerators function properly, the data collected is not malformed and the interpretations are also correct (the last bit is what we could possibly double check if we had direct access)
I love the scientific method as well, but I think we still have some limits. Even if we had infinite time, but without infinite resources we might not be able to replicate everything “scientifically proven” (and even then, due to space time curvature, it might not be possible if infinite time and infinite resources had a fixed physical point, but that is probably Einsteinian philosophy)
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid? 11 months ago:
Totally agree that most of the tools are there, but how many trials have you personally duplicated? The average person?
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid? 11 months ago:
So our brains were crafted to intake “reality” at a specific speed and quality. We can’t see things at the atomic, much less quantum reality, nor understand the massive scale of the planet, much less the universe. Most “facts” are more beliefs from what others have suggested to be, than individually researched facts. Even our scientific method is a bit wanting in this area, since if we hear X, how can we prove X? We just need to take other’s word that they did the correct process, didn’t lie during any steps, didn’t have any bad data unknowingly, especially in a culture where reproducibility is not a high priority so most scientific papers are not thoroughly tested and retested
That’s roughly our skeletal social structure around “facts”, and we’re heading face first into a world of deep fakes and misinformation, to an extent never seen before in humanity. So maybe we should all extend each other a bit more patience and kindly help each other through these uncertain times
- Comment on Running Signal will soon cost $50M a year 1 year ago:
So they allow a fork and we can use our own servers?