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- Comment on In Warning Sign for Hollywood, Younger Consumers Are Choosing Creator Content Over Premium TV and Movies 6 days ago:
As a “someone born in the 70s and 80s”, Hollywood doesn’t cater to me… or my similarly aged wife and friends. We go to maybe 1 or 2 films a year tops and only really because of our daughter. We canceled Netflix a while back and just don’t watch much TV at all. One of our 40-something friends doesn’t even own a TV anymore. Everything is just rehashed junk at this point and it’s depressing.
- Comment on Europe is looking for alternatives to US cloud providers 6 days ago:
Two European-based cloud service companies, Exoscale and Elastx, tell WIRED they have seen an uptick in potential customers looking to abandon US cloud providers over the last two weeks
Are these any good? Are there others? As an American, I’m 100% on board with getting my digital footprint out of this country and into the EU somewhere, so I’d love to know!
- Comment on Nearly All Cybertrucks Have Been Recalled Because Tesla Used the Wrong Glue 1 week ago:
It’s become very popular. Jaguar, Lexus, Audi, they’ll use glues at some point. So I’m very surprised. It’s not as if it’s an unknown science. I’ve not heard [of problems] anywhere else.”
Yeah, none of those brands are trying to be cheap as shit death traps though.
I also find it fun how i heard this morning that it hasn’t even been fixed in production yet.
- Comment on People are using Google's new AI model to remove watermarks from images | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
So glad we’re destroying the environment and GPU market for this.
- Comment on A Weekly Occurrence at Work 2 weeks ago:
On one hand, that’s pretty lazy.
On the other hand, the last office I was in would over pack it in that dispenser and all you’d get were shreds every, single, time.
- Comment on FTC asks to delay Amazon Prime deceptive practices case, citing staffing shortfalls 2 weeks ago:
So. the FTC doesn’t have enough people now to do its job… great planning there.
Except it’s likely on purpose so they won’t have enough people to look into this and other large cases against corporations that might impact the people buying out the government.
- Comment on Pokémon games have become consistently ugly, and it's alright to wish they weren't 4 weeks ago:
While it wasn’t necessarily pretty and had its share of glitches, I quite enjoyed Arceus. It was a nice break from the standard patterns it’s fallen into.
Course I say that as someone who also enjoyed Sword and Shield after a skipping a few prior.
Graphics definitely aren’t everything, but they could stop it With the half finished games with glitches.
- Comment on Meta fires 20 employees for leaking 4 weeks ago:
Sounds like a health problem.
- Comment on ‘Captain America: Brave New World’ has the MCU’s lowest Cinemascore ever 5 weeks ago:
<Slaps Post>: This list holds so many arguments.
- Comment on My love for you is like a Peregrine Falcon 5 weeks ago:
Berserker!!!
- Comment on The price breakdown of my flight is kinda funny, 80% taxes and fees 1 month ago:
I’m not sure how that maths out. Last time I booked a ticket (sadly a few days ago), it was a round trip with one connection each way, so 4 flights. It was an extra $600 for first class, so $150 per flight. The planes were around the 20 seats in first class size and that’d be $3k… it’s hard to say that the $3k was the bulk of the income there.
- Comment on Larry Ellison wants to put all US data in one big AI system • The Register 1 month ago:
My dead grandmother use to tell me stories about the bank account information of everyone in my neighborhood…
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 1 month ago:
Luckily it’s a jeep, so you can just take those off.
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 1 month ago:
It’s easier to roll out if no one can saturate it!
- Comment on S̵̢̡̠̣̜͍̘͍̈́̿͒̈̎̉͌͂̎̾̓Ḩ̶̡̛̯̰̤̻͖̹̝̼͍͔̰̃̅̋̍̈̆̋̋́̔͝Ǫ̴̺͔̫͈͉͎̤͎͗͂̅͒̀͒W̶̛͖̺̰̠̙̲̓͆̋̉̌̆̂͛̀̒̕͘ ̷̨̦̤̇̀̓̉́̅͒̄͝M̶͓̗͚̩̬͈͎͗̓̈́́͜͜Ẹ̵̢̢̺̞͓͓̤͙̙͖̈́̈̉͝ ̶̧̡̲̺͓̮̰̘̮͚͉̝͈̝̀͒́̎̾̓͜͝͝͠T̷̡̟̘̫͋͋̑͊̓͐̊̐̎H̸̪̋͛̓̀̍̂̐̂͐̾̈́̒̃É̵̛̾̅̀͛̃̄̏ 2 months ago:
“Fire at the disco; fire at the, Taco Bell!”
- Comment on America’s Right-Wing Propaganda Problem Might Be Terminal -- [Opinion] 2 months ago:
I like how now is referred to as the “post-truth era” as if there were pre-truth and truth eras as well… the internet and newspapers in general have never been infallible. Journalistic Integrity was a bigger deal, but it was pretty easy to find false, dubious and inflammatory statements in printed papers and news programs. As someone who grew up in the 80’s and 90’s, I remember having to site multiple sources in papers due to inconsistencies and straight up lies and opinions being wide spread.
What we’re seeing here is less about truth, and more about the speed of information spread, truth or not. Coupled with the lack of questioning from the general public and the acceptance of marginal information by the masses. Anything that fits someone’s personal narrative is championed and distributed as truth. I feel that it’s partly due to the online bubbles that promote such community echo chambers, but we had those in the past as well. Perhaps they just didn’t work quite as well as those that can be both world wide and easily influenced by outside actors.
I’d agree that some of the perceived lack of journalistic integrity could be exaggerated by the AI and click bait tactics to drive views and revenue.
I’m all about decentralized social media, but I don’t think it’s a panacea as Lemmy has plenty of echo chambers and questionable information just as any other social media network.
- Comment on Lazy scientists announce there are probably several kinds of squirrels but they move too fast to be sure 2 months ago:
Gotta go fast!
- Comment on After a disastrous opening, The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim heads to digital on Dec 27th 2 months ago:
Wow! I’m looking forward to seeing it in theaters, but there holidays are always hard for me to make time for a movie showing.
To be fair I’d have never known it was a thing if it wasn’t for Lemmy or seeing the poster in the theater hallway when I saw Moana 2.
- Comment on Should you bother with... mini PCs? 2 months ago:
eBay, Amazon, sometimes you can snag deals when they release newer versions, they actually had a few on Black Friday/Cyber Monday.
Tbh, I got mine in a pack of 4 on eBay (I only needed 3), cleaned them out a bit, bumped the RAM and put new disks in them and they’ve been solid.
- Comment on Should you bother with... mini PCs? 3 months ago:
Wow, this goes against Betteridge’s Law of Headlines, but absolutely.
I’ve got a small stack of 1L PCs running a ProxMox and Kubernetes cluster and it’s been perfect. Highly recommend. I’ll probably get one for my wife’s desk when she sets it up as it’ll do everything she needs and more, and it’s tiny and you can get em cheap lightly used.
- Comment on Germ Blaster 3 months ago:
I always have to imagine I’m playing Operation and it’s going to buzz and light up a red light over my head if I bump the sides.
- Comment on Cetaceans 3 months ago:
Verified. It’s on the table entry for en.wikipedia.org/…/Tamanend's_bottlenose_dolphin
- Comment on ambition 3 months ago:
I always figure we ask kids what they want to be when they grow up because they have better imagination and we adults are looking for ideas.
- Comment on Google hit with £7B claim over search engine dominance • The Register 3 months ago:
I daily DDG and either go to Kagi or, oddly enough, Bing if that doesn’t work. Google is too riddled with ads at this point.
One day I’m going to run out of free Kagi queries and I’ll probably have to pony up the money.
- Comment on Haha SO TRUE! 4 months ago:
The phrase “Haha So True!” (referred to as ‘HST’ henceforth to save space and out of respect for the readers’ precious time who would rather engage in intellectual conversations elsewhere than keep repeating “Haha So True!” over and over again
HST
- Comment on They're called leaves for a reason. 4 months ago:
Absolutely. There’s a lot in my neighborhood… And it’s annoying when there’s a perfectly good sidewalk right there.
- Comment on Dogma 2 on the way from Kevin Smith 4 months ago:
RIP Alan Rickman
- Comment on Hiding the Other Half: ‘Wicked’ Is the Latest Film to Trim ‘Part One’ From the Title 4 months ago:
I still remember going to see the first LoTR film and right after it fades out, hearing a lady yell “you mean there’s another one?!”
- Comment on anyway, i started blastin' 4 months ago:
So, what are their names?
- Comment on The Open Source Project DeFlock Is Mapping License Plate Surveillance Cameras All Over the World 4 months ago:
I’ve often wondered if the authorities would care about a community run FOSS plate scanner network that publicly advertised the location of all government vehicles. I mean, it’s public data, right? A nice web front end with built in pattern detection shouldn’t be too bad. Plate scanners can be built with Raspberry Pi’s, so it’s fairly cheap commodity hardware. You’d need a good number though. Coupled with additional hardware, you could put them on cars as well I suppose.