ShepherdPie
@ShepherdPie@midwest.social
- Comment on How do I search for this part? 6 days ago:
I almost wonder if this is how it’s intended to be as I can’t imagine why someone would design a mount that only allows the camera to point at the sky.
- Comment on Why does the Music Industry allow Spotify/Apple to profit off of them? 1 week ago:
I suppose, but I think it’s a really nice visual that gets the point across just fine for this level of discussion.
- Comment on Why does the Music Industry allow Spotify/Apple to profit off of them? 1 week ago:
The total height represents sales of each format in relation to the others. The timeline isn’t the zero line like you might be thinking. $0 would be the bottom of the graph at any given time.
- Comment on Why does the Music Industry allow Spotify/Apple to profit off of them? 1 week ago:
Yeah the '90s was the big heyday for the music industry when they used to charge us $25 (in 1990s dollars, $48 today) for a CD with 2 good songs and a bunch of filler. That ended quickly as, like you said, Napster and the like came on scene. Then we got the iPod and iTunes and a slew of ‘ringtone companies’ where you could buy songs individually for a dollar or two until streaming took off.
They’ve never recovered to the level they were at back then because there are just too many options now and they don’t control them all.
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 4 weeks ago:
This isn’t something you’ll be able to determine in the moment. It will only be clear in hindsight.
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 4 weeks ago:
The true fight for our democracy by the working/middle class hasn’t even started yet.
Seems like we’ll need to form our own political party if we want any representation because we’re certainly not getting it from either one of these two dominate parties.
- Comment on What do you create? 4 weeks ago:
“AZ” in the username meaning they might work at one of the fabs in Phoenix
- Comment on If the democrats executed the same fake electors scheme trump tried to execute, wouldn't Republican opposition be admission of trumps guilt? 4 weeks ago:
It doesn’t matter because they will just spin it, ignore any relevance to their own actions, and repeat it enough that it becomes the narrative. This is the standard M.O.
- Comment on Where can I buy a mosquito laser system? 4 weeks ago:
It looks like it’s just using an SR04 ultrasonic sensor too which isn’t even that precise.
- Comment on Donald Trump Team Plans to Cancel Biden's $7,500 Tax Incentive On EVs 4 weeks ago:
Especially right after everyone began retooling factories to produce them and the rest of the world leaves us behind in development. America will be producing the Yugos of the 1980s in a few short years.
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 5 weeks ago:
Just use the TV as a display and try to dink around with some open source media player box if you want to create your own custom OS.
- Comment on Do gangs "jump in" new recruits? Or is that just for movies and tv shows? If so why do they do that kinda seems anti productive. 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Is there a 'ama' sub? 5 weeks ago:
What exactly do you find bizarre about it? Like how is it not identical to reddit with the exception of federation?
- Comment on Is there a 'ama' sub? 5 weeks ago:
And this place is designed to be a clone of reddit so it seems dumb to be bothered by someone using reddit terminology here.
- Comment on Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't? 1 month ago:
How would you know if it’s hidden?
- Comment on Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't? 1 month ago:
More recently, they throttled Netflix until they could extort them to pay for the traffic being used by their own customers, who were already paying Comcast for the very same data ussge.
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' Renewed for Season 2 1 month ago:
That’s true it was excellent and an outlier for the franchise.
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' Renewed for Season 2 1 month ago:
Hopefully nothing because every first season of a new ST series is a flop.
- Comment on Star Trek: Lower Decks Releases Homage Poster for Final Season Celebration 1 month ago:
Why are the ending the show after 5 seasons without any real replacement? Seems like it’s easy to keep an animated show going since you’re not limited on what’s ‘realistic’ like with live action
- Comment on Goodwill is out of control 2 months ago:
I do this too. Any junk that might be sellable but likely not goes to Goodwill so they can deal with it. The decent items go to a local thrift shop that actually helps the community.
- Comment on Goodwill is out of control 2 months ago:
The jobs training program where they hire people with disabilities and then pay them below minimum wage because of a loophole in the law?
- Comment on Did the concept of 9-5 included a 30 minute lunch and two 15 minute breaks? 2 months ago:
Typically no but my current employer pays us for 1/2 of our 1 hour lunch.
- Comment on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour 2 months ago:
It’s not just the bandwidth that’s the issue it’s the amount of data as many people have datacaps.
The article says:
official Microsoft bandwidth recommendation for that game was 50 Mb/s.
which comes out to 23GB/hr. That can add up quick. 10 hours in a month equates to 20% of my cap with Comcast.
This also neglects people who live in rural areas that might not even have 50Mbps available and can’t play because MS streams half the game to you rather than include it in the install files.
Also *Mb/s not MB/s
- Comment on What do sister communities refer to? 2 months ago:
On the lemmynsfw instance, are they referred to as step-sister communities?
- Comment on What does a federal ban on price gouging look like? 2 months ago:
My cynical view is that this is a campaign promise that even if passed, won’t lead to anything of benefit for the average citizen. My solidly blue state has price gouging laws and yet businesses were permitted to price gouge water, charging as much as $60 for a 12 pack of bottles, when we had a toxic algae bloom in our water supply and couldn’t drink it a few years ago. Hundreds of complaints were filed and the governor went on the news said they couldn’t substantiate any of it, even with photo evidence, and none of the companies were punished or at most were sent a letter to “knock it off” even though residents were still having to pay these insane prices if they weren’t able to drive hours away to find normally priced bottled water.
I think if we had an actual left-wing party, I’d have a different view, but instead, we have right-wing and diet-right-wing
- Comment on "incel" 2 months ago:
There is a lot of very unusual things in their post history.
- Comment on Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda and DLCs of all time 2 months ago:
For the fourteenth time, it’s completely irrelevant to the discussion.
You talk about conveniently ignoring things while you’re ignoring the whole topic so you can keep talking about some updates to Fallout '76 as if that has any bearing on Bethesda trending toward doing worse and worse with each new release. You’re making a completely separate argument to the rest of us.
- Comment on Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda and DLCs of all time 2 months ago:
Is that my “line of thinking” when I never said anything of the sort? I don’t think so.
I’ve never played Cyberpunk 2077 nor No Man’s Sky and have zero opinion on them, but you bringing them up out of nowhere as some sort of ‘gotcha’ screams “my argument is based on emotion and not fact.”
- Comment on Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda and DLCs of all time 2 months ago:
So Bethesda is good because Starfield might be worth playing 10 years after it was released? You’re obviously not understanding the point here.
It doesn’t matter that they improved '76 after the fact. It matters that they keep releasing top dollar garbage that needs years of work after the fact to even be playable.
- Comment on Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda and DLCs of all time 2 months ago:
“Bethesda hasn’t improved since Fallout '76 was released”
Make sense now?