LainTrain
@LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Why dont more people live in smaller communities , appart from economic opportunity (WFH is making it possible if not prefferable too) 1 day ago:
No modern housing due to NIMBYs here in the UK. A smaller community means renting a tiny attic, basement or god forbid house sharing a room in a partitioned victorian mcmansion for £1k a month or more.
- Comment on UAW president: ‘Deplorable’ that Trump stripped union rights for federal workers 3 days ago:
At least the economy will be great for the leopards
- Comment on How You Doin? 6 days ago:
I tried to get used to it but nah I just gave up and I just answer or ignore it outright.
- Comment on How You Doin? 6 days ago:
And here I thought this curse was British brainrot. No, I will give you a detailed account of my day to day activities unless you can learn to say hi or hello there like a civilized person.
- Comment on End-To-End enshittified 1 week ago:
TIL you don’t need Google photos to use lens, only Google translate
- Comment on Do you think Social Media is just exaggerated as being placed of being the source of all problems? 1 week ago:
Huh? What algorithm? Where?
Lemmy has no algorithm in the way that you mean it.
Which is to say: there are a number of sort options like “top”, “hot” or “scaled” which work purely on the basis of upvotes or downvotes and don’t involve the actual content within the posts whatsoever.
It also has no “suggested” or “for you” and no personalization or data harvesting, the sort being based purely on upvotes or downvotes also doesn’t artificially skew the content politically in any which way.
It’s also completely open source so if that changed, not only would people find out immediately, but they’d be able to fork it and undo the change and maintain their own version.
Any instance then using an unfair sort feature would be defederated from.
So I don’t understand what you mean at all to be honest.
- Comment on Do you think Social Media is just exaggerated as being placed of being the source of all problems? 1 week ago:
I have a Facebook account too actually for far more vapid reasons of needing a “meta” account to use Oculus Quest, and I have an Instagram from the before-times - for when I was a content creator. I just don’t use them.
- Comment on Do you think Social Media is just exaggerated as being placed of being the source of all problems? 1 week ago:
I’ve unplugged and absolutely nothing changed. People are absolutely full of bloodlust with or without social media and have always been. I don’t even use any corpo social media whatsoever still, I have no need or time for it.
- Comment on Do you think Social Media is just exaggerated as being placed of being the source of all problems? 1 week ago:
This. Don’t rob the public of agency, they actively choose algorithms.
- Comment on Do you think Social Media is just exaggerated as being placed of being the source of all problems? 1 week ago:
Yeah I’m starting to agree. Even if some of us here are more than evolved enough for this, it doesn’t mean the average joe is.
- Comment on Do you think Social Media is just exaggerated as being placed of being the source of all problems? 1 week ago:
Agreed. Many people have issues thinking in the abstract in general, even when they do speak on it they don’t understand what they’re saying, they’re just mimicking what reasoning sounds like, no different than predictive text typing, it’s why so many can hold completely contradictory views.
- Comment on Do you think Social Media is just exaggerated as being placed of being the source of all problems? 1 week ago:
Why is it fairly easy?
- Comment on Do you think Social Media is just exaggerated as being placed of being the source of all problems? 1 week ago:
Yes. Social media is literally just a fairly accurate reflection of us as a species and our civilization. If people wanted, things would be very different. People simply do not want equality or progress, they want to hate thy neighbour.
- Comment on Upscaling is actually good (as an option) 1 week ago:
Meh, I’d rather play at lower settings than upscale. DLSS just looks like muck and the rest of them are indistinguishable from normal resolution. I don’t know any game my RTX 3090 can’t crush GPU wise at 1440p at decent settings. I even turned off path tracing in 2077 because I didn’t want to ever use DLSS.
But there is one situation where I support the brainrot and that’s on portables. Steam Deck did the right thing by having a nice OLED 1280x800 16:10 screen instead of chasing resolution, it looks great, but if they do up it as most g*mers seem to want them to for mostly nonsensical reasons, FSR could work there, and something like DL DSR could help for games with small details if they go for an 800p screen again.
One thing I won’t miss for sure is TAA, fuck TAA so much all my homies hate that shit. DLAA is at least better but never forget they took SMAA and MSAA away from you for this absurd world where consoles advertised themselves as 4k, 8k while they run games at barely 720p via checkerboarding and what have you.
- Comment on What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists? 1 week ago:
Play the xbla version via Xenia with mouse support and you’ll love it more than you ever did.
- Comment on The cunts who spoil podcast episodes in the comments 1 week ago:
Please get your podcasts off my fucking Spotify. Go fall for your ad-driven MLM bleach supplement only 5G diet scams somewhere where it doesn’t shit up the UI for people who just wanna listen to some music. K.thx.bye.
- Comment on Walter 1 week ago:
The username cracked me up
- Comment on I've done it again... 1 week ago:
Lucky. For me it’s either spend more money to eat beef or pork with every meal or just cope with always feeling low-key hungry.
- Comment on I've done it again... 1 week ago:
Yeah only proteins make me feel full, unless there’s meat involved I generally don’t consider it a meal. Carbs and veggies do not make me full at all and I never crave them, they’re only there to give me variety and make me feel civilized while I consume meat. I never really crave sugar either.
P.S. I’m not one of those “meat diet” whackjobs and I have nothing against vegetarians or vegans or animals but this has just been my experience entirely.
- Comment on Why hasn't video quality improved much over the past ten years? 2 weeks ago:
Then why does it look like dogshit?
- Comment on Why hasn't video quality improved much over the past ten years? 2 weeks ago:
My parents barely know how to use a computer at all, but they’re old and don’t have internet. They mostly just watch their own DVD movie collections or tune in to movies on DVDs.
I did teach my dad to find news on YT instead of TV (they are Russian, I’d rather they listen to Meduza than Putinist propaganda channels).
I honestly dunno what content requires live transmission apart from livestreams? I didn’t just mean twitch btw I meant sports games etc. None of those require a very high bitrate or quality etc.
- Comment on Why hasn't video quality improved much over the past ten years? 2 weeks ago:
Also rights holders dont want you to have an offline copy if they can avoid it, that way its easier to monetize for them.
Well ain’t that a shame. I’ll weep for them I swear.
Not all content can be downloaded,
Like livestreams? That being the exception but most ‘content’ isn’t live.
and for many people they want to watch what they want to watch right now, and waiting for the download is not something they are interested in.
Bet they use YouTube through the home page and use algorithmic feeds and/or corporate social media. Some people are animals and it can’t be helped. That doesn’t mean the rest of us must suffer.
- Comment on Why hasn't video quality improved much over the past ten years? 2 weeks ago:
Why not download? Streaming is always going to be dogshit quality unless we find something faster than light.
- Comment on Remember when things were slightly less bad? The good ole days... 2 weeks ago:
The collective delusions have been there since 2015, not a COVID thing really. In 2020 there was hope that a lot of this would just pass. Can’t argue with the rest though, I’m sorry you had it rough.
- Comment on Remember when things were slightly less bad? The good ole days... 2 weeks ago:
COVID was pretty good times in retrospect, as long as you didn’t get sick, laid off or died.
- Comment on TOS applicability to federated users 3 weeks ago:
Why not link those posts?
- Comment on TOS applicability to federated users 3 weeks ago:
Yes I know that community exists, but I was asking more specifically if there was an inviting incident if some sort.
- Comment on TOS applicability to federated users 3 weeks ago:
Yikes. At least he got banned finally but it’s concerning people could sign up while underage. All underage should be b& and v& ngl.
- Comment on TOS applicability to federated users 3 weeks ago:
Why?
- Comment on Anon is deeply disturbed 3 weeks ago:
This makes me wonder what the fuck they must put in US Domino’s because in the UK it’s considered perfectly decent pizza, usually quite a bit more expensive than the crappy dodgy pizza shops about and it most certainly doesn’t give you heartburn nor any other health issues. It must be one of those high fructose corn syrup soda type things, tried it once and it fucked up my stomach for days, us mtn dew is actual swill.
