atomicbocks
@atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Amazon advertises DRM-free ebooks that have restrictive DRM 🤦 3 days ago:
Dell and other companies are now using Amazon’s RTOS for their firmware. You could cut every Amazon branded device out of your life and still be giving them money just by buying a laptop.
- Comment on Remember the past 2 weeks ago:
I was just never with it.
- Comment on Opinions on Jurassic Park as a Zoo 2 weeks ago:
The Lost World (the second movie) is also based on a book by Michael Crichton [pronounced cry-ton], but it diverges from the book even more than the first movie.
It’s worth a read, as is Disclosure by the same author (pretty much all of his books are good).
- Comment on Missing banana for scale. 2 weeks ago:
No, it’s not a real photograph. It says so in the photograph.
- Comment on Missing banana for scale. 2 weeks ago:
It’s super cool that we can still see it even though the photograph isn’t real.
- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 3 weeks ago:
As would I. There is an existing line from Kansas City to Tulsa to OKC that has been talked about being opened for passengers for a couple decades.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 3 weeks ago:
The fucking MythBusters did an episode on that like 20 years ago.
- Comment on Wobble wobble 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure about the more classic devices but a lot of game controllers and phones these days use linear motors or similar piezoelectric devices for vibration. For instance Apple’s “Taptic Engine”.
- Comment on Ripperonis 4 weeks ago:
Cotard’s Syndrome is close to that.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Patch Due Out Today, PC Performance 'Our Top Priority,' Gearbox Says 4 weeks ago:
I think they do think that though. Companies seem to have realized they can make more money with less sales by pricing the lowest bidding consumer group out of the market.
- Comment on Nearly 1,000 ‘worker over billionaire’ actions planned for Labor Day in US 1 month ago:
- Comment on Child sex abuse victim begs Elon Musk to remove links to her images 1 month ago:
I don’t have time to visit the hospital right now so why don’t you check it the separate Wikipedia articles yourself.
- Comment on Child sex abuse victim begs Elon Musk to remove links to her images 1 month ago:
I wasn’t being pedantic, It’s an important distinction. You don’t have to think so though, you don’t have to be rude about other people’s opinions.
- Comment on Child sex abuse victim begs Elon Musk to remove links to her images 1 month ago:
Not the Internet, the World Wide Web. But yes.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 1 month ago:
Often yes, but not always.
And, bonus HP douche.
- Comment on Every dam time 1 month ago:
Nobody wants to advertise that they don’t support the latest and greatest tech. Also regulatory capture to an extent.
- Comment on Every dam time 1 month ago:
In the US HD and even some SD OTA (antenna) channels are usually broadcast in at least 5.1 Dolby Digital and the upcoming ATSC standard update will allow 7.1 and Atmos broadcasts. This is also true for most streaming services, DVDs, Blu-ray’s, and even some VHSs and video games going all the way back to the N64 (Dolby ProLogic).
That people are watching (or listening to in this case) that kind of signal on a basic TV is the issue being described.
- Comment on Every dam time 1 month ago:
Most systems should be capable of downmixing to stereo. I have found that sometimes this issue comes from a double downmix where the streaming box converts to stereo but still sends it encoded in DTS or similar so the TV or soundbar downmixes it again. The result is that it reduces the volume of the left and right where the dialog now is and increases the now silent center channel.
- Comment on Sony is raising all PS5 console prices in the US by $50, starting tomorrow 1 month ago:
Sega had an earlier console in 1983 called the SG-1000.
- Comment on IYKYK 1 month ago:
Yes, we have even made bacteria that excretes fuels. But nothing that competes with just pulling hydrocarbons out of the ground at scale like we have with diamonds.
The main scaling issue is that the constituent carbon still has to come from somewhere, and one of the main carbon sources we have is… oil.
The best solution is to move away from carbon based fuels.
- Comment on Me too. 1 month ago:
Conscious (sentience / sapience) is an ineffable, unmeasurable, quality. There is no way to say that one sentient being is more or less sentient than another. In fact there is no way to tell that I am not the only consciousness in existence but it feels rude not to give others the benefit of the doubt. We can create neurons and even small brains in the lab but we don’t have any way to instill life into that neuron. Consciousness simply emerges out of the constituent parts of being alive, possibly even as a result of the interactions of such a complex system.
- Comment on Me too. 2 months ago:
Consciousness is 100% an emergent property.
- Comment on Help. 2 months ago:
Wasn’t there a guy who married his 3DS dating game girlfriend a while back? I’m not sure this is exactly a new phenomenon.
- Comment on California is debating whether or not to remove the bike lane on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. During the public hearing, a politician was driving his car 2 months ago:
I think that’s part of the problem though. Downvoting isn’t for disagreeing it’s a vote that a comment detracts from the conversation as a whole.
- Comment on California is debating whether or not to remove the bike lane on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. During the public hearing, a politician was driving his car 2 months ago:
Based on this and a couple recent other threads I am becoming pretty convinced that more and more of the people on Lemmy are children.
- Comment on The design is very human 2 months ago:
Not necessarily, lots of old TVs and console radios only had one speaker. As well many old LPs split the lyrics onto the separate channel with the intention that it would be listened to in mono with one speaker. This is why some old masters still have all the lyrics on one channel and all the music on the other.
- Comment on stupid sexy apples 2 months ago:
The allergens in honey are from where the honey was made. If you haven’t already you might try locally sourced honey as it will have the allergens that are already in the air where you live.
- Comment on Instacart is urging the Mayor of New York City to veto a bill that would require the company to pay its workers minimum wage 2 months ago:
There is a whole group of people that actually believe that some jobs should not provide a living wage. They will argue that high school students don’t need a living wage and then unironically still want McDonald’s to be open during a school day.
- Comment on flowers for the lost 2 months ago:
You forgot Sojourner.
- Comment on In New York City, Drivers Who Run Red Lights Get Tickets. E-Bike Riders Get Court Dates. 2 months ago: