BorgDrone
@BorgDrone@feddit.nl
- Comment on one bright second 1 week ago:
Supposedly this will happen just after the release of The Winds of Winter.
- Comment on Why aren't Linux based mobile OSes more popular? 1 week ago:
I’ve been in solitary confinement for going on seven years. I doubt you’d enjoy it as much as you think. We’re social creatures.
I don’t doubt it. While most people were going crazy during the corona lockdown it was probably the most peaceful and happy period in my life. As an autistic person social interactions aren’t exactly enjoyable.
- Comment on Why aren't Linux based mobile OSes more popular? 1 week ago:
mean, I left Facebook in 2014 and have never been on Instagram or TikTok.
I’ve never been on any social media, but we’re not exactly average people. For a lot of people it’s hugely important to their social lives. Giving up Facebook for them means being excluded from social events. They will no longer see event announcements from their social groups.
You and I may not care about these things, but to a lot of people these are hugely important.
And it’s not my fault they can’t see that.
It’s your fault for not being able to even consider that other people are different from you and have different needs.
You could put me on an uninhabited island for 10 years and I’d be perfectly happy. My brother by contrast will get depressed after 2 days without social contact.
- Comment on Why aren't Linux based mobile OSes more popular? 1 week ago:
Ah, but there is. Privacy.
Tell that to the masses who post their entire private lives on bookface and tictac. The overwhelming majority of people don’t give a fuck. Especially if it means having to give up all their favorite apps.
I don’t know why you think you have the moral high ground here
What makes you assume I think that?
there are people who don’t like being part of a surveillance economy, and as paid-off lawmakers aren’t going to do jack shit
Of course there are. The question was why mobile OSes that offer that don’t take off. And the answer is simply that very few people care enough for it to be a viable market. Very few people care enough to be willing to get excluded from iMessage or Facebook groups just to take a principled stance on privacy.
If you want these to take or you have to offer way more than some abstract promise of better privacy. Think of what you’re asking people to give up. To get them to switch you need a massive incentive.
- Comment on Why aren't Linux based mobile OSes more popular? 1 week ago:
People care about having an OS not controlled by Big Tech.
Sure. Ask the average person if they want to give up their Facebook or TikTok apps so they can have a ‘free’ OS. You’re absolutely delusional if you think that any significant number of consumers will choose that.
- Comment on Why aren't Linux based mobile OSes more popular? 1 week ago:
The massively different userlands, mutable root partition by default, root by default, etc.
And there’s your answer: that’s shit no one cares about other than a few super nerds on Lemmy.
- Comment on Why aren't Linux based mobile OSes more popular? 1 week ago:
What is the difference between Android and any of the other Linux based mobile OSes?
- Comment on Why aren't Linux based mobile OSes more popular? 1 week ago:
“Why aren’t Linux based mobile OSes more popular if we ignore the fact that the most popular mobile OS by far is Linux based”.
Gee, I wonder why.
- Comment on Why aren't Linux based mobile OSes more popular? 1 week ago:
They aren’t popular because there already is a very popular linux based mobile OS: Android. What would be the point of another one? Why would anyone want to use a new OS with zero app support and no advantage to using it?
If you want to overcome the obstacle of being a new platform with no support then you have to provide a significant advantage to make it worth the pain, and there simply isn’t one.
Why did people switch to iOS and Android phones when companies like Nokia had the market cornered? Because they offer a massive improvement in UX over the established players. What advantage do those OSes you mentioned have?
- Comment on Why aren't Linux based mobile OSes more popular? 1 week ago:
Well, there you have your answer.
GNU/Linux makes for a shitty mobile OS.
- Comment on Why aren't Linux based mobile OSes more popular? 1 week ago:
Then explain to me what he means; what makes those mobile OSs more Linux-based than Android?
- Comment on Why aren't Linux based mobile OSes more popular? 1 week ago:
Android is Linux based and arguably the most popular mobile OS.
- Comment on DEI, more like DIED 1 week ago:
The ironic thing is that this anti-DEI government has some of the dumbest, unqualified people in key positions. Clearly they were hired based on anything but their ability to do the job they were hired to do.
Every accusation is a confession with these people.
- Comment on They have a right to feel smug 2 weeks ago:
I have a removable screen with one of these windows. The window opens inwards, the screen basically clicks into the window frame from the inside and sits between the window itself and the frame. So the screen sits outside the window, but you can easily remove it from inside. You just open the window and pull the screen out of the window frame.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 21st 4 weeks ago:
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2.
Really enjoying it.
- Comment on Pretty good idea. Color codes easy to understand 5 weeks ago:
This. New cylinders aren’t that expensive and they take about 20 seconds to replace.
- Comment on If you had to buy a new TV, what brand would you get? 5 weeks ago:
Also economies of scale. They will sell 10.000 TVs for every commercial display.
- Comment on If you had to buy a new TV, what brand would you get? 5 weeks ago:
A monitor that size is way more expensive than a TV though.
- Comment on Still waitin for that success step to kick in 😆 2 months ago:
Trying is the first step towards failure — Homer J. Simpson
- Comment on Robocop: Rouge City 2 months ago:
Kind of dumb to set the auto-reply to a Welsh text, you’d expect that people needing the services of a Welsh translator won’t be able to understand the text.
- Comment on Off topic 2 months ago:
points at username
‘Being born on the wrong planet’ is a common analogy to explain how people like me (asperger or high-functioning autism as it’s called now) experience the world. We live on a planet with people who look like us, but who behave in strange, illogical, irrational and often creepy ways. It’s like living among a bunch of aliens. You people are seriously weird.
- Comment on Off topic 2 months ago:
You misunderstand me. My principal point is that any 2.0/2.1 (i.e., stereo) setup will always be better than the surround sound system of equal price.
Define better? Better depends on what your application is. They won’t be better at playing object-based surround sound. Both kinds of systems are set up for a different purpose. For example, in my home theater I want a subwoofer that makes me feel explosions in my gut. That’s not what I look for in the low-end of my 2.x system.
As for my comment on spending money on speakers I would only use for movies: surround sound only has a real advantage for movies,
Of course, but we were talking about sound systems for use with your TV for watching movies.
for other activities stereo speakers of the same price will undisputedly be better.
That’s why you have both kinds of systems.
I would hate to spend 3k on a surround system, when I’ll use my 3k stereo system for most of my listening anyway (this is an example).
I use both regularly, but at different times of the day and for different purposes. I use my HT system when watching a movie or series in the evening. I use my 2.0 system during the day while I’m working or relaxing on the weekend.
- Comment on Worldbuilding 2 months ago:
The long leaf pine has a grass phase where it just looks like grass
Trees are weird, because there phylogenetically there is no such thing as trees. As in: there is no single branch of the evolutionary tree where trees split off from other plants and there’s just an entire branch of different trees. Instead, different plants in separate parts of the evolutionary tree evolved into trees, and sometimes back into non-tree plants, and sometime even back into trees again. So a tree that spends part of its lifecycle as grass is par for the course.
- Comment on Off topic 2 months ago:
You’re like the audiophile’s evil twin (I’m kidding). The audiophile insists on purism, only 2.0, and you are waaaay on the side of the spectrum.
No, actually I’m not. I have a nice 2.0 system as well for listening to music. The 5.1.4 system is in my living room with my TV. The 2.0 system is in my bedroom where I can chill out on my bed while listening. I also have a nice set of headphones with a separate DAC for listening to music.
That is a big part of mixing, because I want as many people to enjoy my music and the music I mix for other people as possible.
Sure, but that’s a completely different use-case. Movies are mixed for theaters, people don’t need to spend a fortune on equipment to enjoy that mix, they just need to buy a movie ticket.
Movies, however, are frequently available past their premieres. Maybe this is greed on the part of the artist, that they sell the movies, even though they know that it is impossible to truly enjoy the movie without the very specific audio setup it was created with?
Not the artist, the publishers. They want to wring every dollar out of it they can. The people actually creating movies don’t care about people watching the movie on TV at all.
A good example of this attitude: your movie can’t even be nominated for an Oscar unless it has been in theaters. I.e. a movie that’s not made for theatrical release isn’t even worth considering.
- Comment on Off topic 2 months ago:
You don’t need subtitles, you need a decent surround sound system.
- Comment on Off topic 2 months ago:
I had a great experience, in part because I love more about the movie than just the visual and auditory delivery. I like the story and philosophy as well.
A chain is a strong as its weakest link. You want to tick all boxes, not just half of them.
- Comment on Off topic 2 months ago:
You can, of course, build you own surround sound system for more than a few thousand, but that is a radically different price range, which I don’t think is really relevant to this conversation
It doesn’t have to be expensive at all. You can get a 5.1 setup with a decent amp, floor-standing fronts, bookshelf surrounds, a center and a subwoofer for as little as €3000, and that will blow any sound bar in the same price range out of the water. Add a nice 77” OLED, pick last year’s model for a good deal and you can have a home theater setup that will be good enough for 99,9% of people for less than €5k.
(I certainly don’t have that kind of money to spend on a speaker that I’m only using when watching movies).
Why do you think I would use it only for movies? I have never even heard the speakers in my TV because disabling them was the first thing I did after unboxing. I use my 5.1.4 set all the time. Why wouldn’t you?
I think it is borderline poor-shaming (or really just not-rich-shaming) to say that movies can only have audible dialogue at $10,000 surround sound systems. Before that, 2.0 or 2.1 will almost always be a better investment.
No one says you need to spend that amount of money, it can be much, much cheaper. €3k can get you a pretty nice set, but you can build a passable one for half that.
- Comment on Off topic 2 months ago:
This is what I can’t stand about you humans. This tendency to be okay with mediocrity.
- Comment on Off topic 2 months ago:
Doesn’t it bother you immensely that you’re getting a subpar experience? Even if you enjoy it, doesn’t just knowing it could be so much better suck all the enjoyment out of it?
- Comment on Off topic 2 months ago:
By that measure, most movie theaters also shouldn’t be showing movies – very few of them have the precise setup a given movie was mastered for.
That’s what calibration is for. You master using a reference display and whatever you use in the theater should be calibrated to the same specs.
Or theaters with Atmos sound systems if the movie was made with DTS-X in mind.
Why would that be a problem? DTS:X is more flexible with speaker layout than Atmos. If you have a theater with a speaker layout for Atmos it should be no issue to use them with a DTS:X processor.
Or, you know, you release it for multiple projection and sound setups and accept that there is a close enough level of fidelity for a given use case. Which leads us back to actually properly mixing it for the home release
How do you go from “Atmos and DTS:X in a theater are close enough to give a similar experience” to “we should mix it for a bunch of crappy 2.0 TV speakers” ?
If you mix it for such an inferior setup, nothing is left of the original movie. Sounds i a huge part of the movie experience. Try watching a scary movie with the sound muted, it’s not scary at all. If you mix it for a TV’s built in speakers, nothing of value is left. What is even the point of watching a movie like that?