mobyduck648
@mobyduck648@lemmy.world
Sailor, software engineer, musician, terminally online.
I miss the pre-adtech internet.
- Comment on ‘Cheap travel is not a defence’: the parents facing court for school absences in England 2 days ago:
Yeah I was always a bit miffed as a pupil I couldn’t just start summer early after end of year exams, those few weeks were always a waste of everyone’s time.
- Comment on All aboard the Pythagorean Express 5 days ago:
In the world of sloppageddon, I actually don’t mind being bamboozled by a photoshop now and then.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
My unpopular opinion is that 100k is the inevitable enshittification threshold.
Mind you the Fediverse might help because there’s no reason not to have hundreds of instances with tens of thousands of users.
- Comment on Friends. 1 week ago:
Maybe it’s just nostalgia talking but I feel the Inbetweeners and Fresh Meat still hold up. The former one especially, if anyone wants to know what it was like growing up as a British teen in the '00s it’s basically 100% accurate.
- Comment on Ciao 2 weeks ago:
‽ is a sublime punctuation mark.
- Comment on Are you too young to remember these? 2 weeks ago:
A pain in the arse to drive from modern video sources is what it is! Bought a CRT recently with a thought to using it as a cool secondary monitor but HDMI to composite adaptors are all crap!
What I ended up doing was using HDMI to VGA, then VGA to composite. This let me set a proper 4:3 resolution and the picture improved a lot. What I should have done is not bother with composite at all and gone VGA to RGB to SCART as this would improve the colour a lot, but couldn’t find the adaptors for that. Not sure how widespread SCART was, might have only been a European thing but when I was a kid most TVs could either take a composite RCA input or SCART, and SCART could carry composite or RGB.
Definitely given me the bug for old TVs though, I’m going to have to write an ActivityPub to Teletext software adaptor so I can have Lemmy on a ‘90s TV or something. HackTV looks like a lot of fun as well.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 2 weeks ago:
Reddit is a cesspool but unfortunately so is the wider media ecosystem for the most part.
- Comment on That Damn Smile 2 weeks ago:
Yeah age of sail lookouts had incredible eyesight, they had to since every minute you lost determining friend or foe was a minute you’d delay beating to quarters and running out your guns.