Adderbox76
@Adderbox76@lemmy.ca
- Comment on 1 day ago:
If a seagull lives to it’s thirties I imagine it’s flying around with nothing but Smashmouth banging around it’s brain all day.
- Comment on Is it normal to see this static when you close your eyes? 1 day ago:
I mean, I guess that’s true in a peculirar sort of way in which nothing really exists outside of our perception of it.
What I mean by that is that whatever we see, hear, taste, etc… is merely neurons firing in our brain, processing a signal that it receives. So if we’re looking at a tree for example; that tree is just light/energy waves vibrating on a specific frequency. It’s only when it hits our optic nerve and travels to our brain that it’s translating into something that we call a “tree”.
So when the eyes are closed, the random interference pattern could indeed be interpreted as you say. Goog catch. Kind of makes you wonder.
- Comment on Why do languages sometimes have letters which don't have consistent pronunciations? 1 day ago:
Simple answer without typing a textbook is simply that the longer a language exists, the more individual “quirks” it picks up.
Words or idioms from a different language, regional differences in pronunciation that become common, changes in preferred spelling, etc…
Language is protean and ever evolving, which means that no (natural) language is ever going to be without it’s own unique weirdness.
- Comment on Is it normal to see this static when you close your eyes? 2 days ago:
What you’re seeing is the inner workings of the holographic universe we inhabit. Your brain interprets the signal as static.
/Obviously I’m not serious…
- Comment on Is capitalism or consumerism at fault? 6 days ago:
IMO, consumers aren’t necessarily stupid as much as corporations have very expertly learned to weaponize FOMO through advertising; allowing companies like apple to inflate their profit margin from something reasonable to “whatever the consumer is willing to pay.”
Is that “capitalism”? Yes…technically. But to me, it goes against the spirit of capitalism, which at its heart sums up as “Farmer has a cow that produces milk. Farmer sells the chicken farmer down the road his extra milk and charges enough to be reasonable but doesn’t get greedy because he needs eggs.”
Corporations don’t need our eggs. They don’t believe they need anything from us and so don’t care about being reasonable about profit.
Its “capitalism”, but in my opinion, a perverse, stilted form that should have been kicked to the curb the moment Reaganomics started making it popular.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 1 week ago:
Doubt I would ever do the VR headset. I simply don’t play the kind of games that work well with (or even need) VR. Although come to think of it, a VR Civilization VI game would be wild.
But the Steam Machine would be interesting to replace the old laptop I currently have running as my multimedia box on my television (streaming, retro gaming, steam mirroring, etc…) It would be more powerful than the well worn old dude I’m currently using.
- Comment on Train collides with 18-wheeler hauling cars, intersection reopens Monday morning 2 weeks ago:
Did anyone else’s parents tell them when they were growing up that it you put a coin on the tracks you could derail the train?
Yeah… About that…
- Comment on TEETH 3 weeks ago:
If there’s ever a link I will never press…
- Comment on TEETH 3 weeks ago:
I’m generally a pretty stoic guy. I don’t get “creeped out” by much. But there are two things that never fail to invoke a creepy unsettling feeling in me.
- A toddler skull with all of their teeth. Shit’s just terrifying even though I know it’s natural.
- There’s an old black and white clip of an eyeball being sliced into with a straight razor that just makes me shudder every time.
- Comment on Nothing’s new bloatware includes Facebook services that can’t be uninstalled 3 weeks ago:
I’d like that. I’ve enjoyed being on Motorola for the last few phones. Good, serviceable, middle-of-the-road priced phones and a company that doesn’t think so highly of themselves that the majority of the price amounts to a prestige tax. (ahem…Apple and Samsung)
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Last relationship ended in 2016. Been single since then.
A few different reasons. The two most important being that being in a relationship requires going out and actually socializing with the public, which is usually something i tend to avoid. And secondly being that I don’t think I’m in any position emotionally, financially or psychologically to be of any use to a woman.
- Comment on World would be a better place 4 weeks ago:
I prefer Mormons. They have better porn
Five little mormons jumping on a bed?
- Comment on World would be a better place 4 weeks ago:
I’d be dead. A serial killer would use it as an excuse to come inside and I’d immediately be an idiot and say “absolutely come on in. I love Venus.”
As I was writing the above sentence, I suddenly had an idea for a story about a Vampire who tries to use religion as a way of being invited over the threshold of strangers homes, and get increasingly frustrated when people tell him to fuck off.
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 5 weeks ago:
The world is kind of a shitty place right now. And to be honest, I’d be surprised if it wasn’t, at least to some degree, affecting everyone’s calm.
- Comment on Was the fall of Rome this stupid? 5 weeks ago:
The fall of which Rome?
I still contend that this isn’t equivalent to the fall of the Empire. It’s equivalent to the fall of the republic and the rise of the empire.
The US isn’t dealing with Astragoths and Huns pillaging their cites. They’re dealing with an exceptionally stupid version of Caesar trying to usurp power and proclaim an empire.
Buckle up, America. If you don’t take care of this now, your in for about 437 more years of this shit.
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | Official Trailer | Paramount+ (NYCC 2025) 5 weeks ago:
I get it. Younger demographic, new audience. Star Trek is no longer made for me. I understand that, and I get it.
But…
Regardless of who it’s made for, regardless of who the target audience is, there came a point in Star Trek history (ahem…2009) when they stopped making somthing designed to be “Star Trek” and starting making “X…with a Star Trek Theme applied on top”.
- “Star Wars…with a Star Trek Theme applied on top”
- “James Bond…with a Star Trek Theme applied on top”
- “Futurama…with a Star Trek Theme applied on top”
- “Battlestar Galactica…with a Star Trek Theme applied on top”.
- and now introducting, “My So-Called Life…with a Star Trek Theme applied on top”.
That’s why SNW was (at least until the latest season), a breath of fresh air; because it dared to be a “Star Trek…with a Star Trek Theme applied on top.”
Hell…Discovery tried to be “EVERYTHING ABOVE…with a Star Trek Theme applied on top” depending on the season.
I get it. Chase the audience. But it’s maddening.
- Comment on Pop-up Amazon TV ads despite charging people monthly fees for their ad-free plan. 1 month ago:
There’s definitely something in their terms of service that says the ad-free doesn’t apply to their products.
- Comment on Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar? 1 month ago:
If I remember my highschool biology correctly (which I probably don’t, so take this with all the grains of salt), natural sources like berries, fruits, etc… create natural glucose which is what every living organism (including us…use for energy). Meaning when we eat berries and fruit, that natural glucose doesn’t need to be converted or processed in order for our body to make use of it. That also gives it a more stable effect in our system.
Refined sugars, on the other hand, need to be processed into glucose before it can bind to (oxygen? I think?) and pass into our bloodstream. That process leaves a lot of junk leftover which can have detrimental effects.
Again…I’m trying to remember a 35 year old highschool biology course, so correct me if I’m wrong.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
That can happen when they leave the microchip a little too close to the surface and it causes skin irritation.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Ich bin ein berliner
- Comment on Former BioWare lead writer reads the runes on EA-Saudi deal and speculates that 'guns and football' are in, 'gay stuff' is out, and the venerable RPG studio may be for the chop 1 month ago:
InXile was most famously the Wasteland series, the spiritual successors to the original fallout designs (1 and 2). But they also did Tides of Numeria and Bards Tale (I think, but don’t quote me)
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
No. And to be honest, it’s kind of stretching the limit of the title of the community.
- Comment on It's official: EA is going private. 1 month ago:
Had an EA Play so I could play NHL and FIFA, and the occasional ME Trilogy replay. Canceled it the moment the news broke about Kushner and the Saudis. Had paid for the year and was willing to sacrifice the final five months in the name of morality. But luckily they refunded me the difference.
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 1 month ago:
Because they’re completely different gods. The old testament is only a part of christianity because in order to gain some legitimacy for their early church, they decided that their new god must be the same dude as the the god of the people that they were living among.
But in reality, they are very different books, written in very different times, by two very different religious cultures.
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 1 month ago:
That app was your other browser. And the problem was that it made itself your default browser. But no worries. We fixed that right up for you.
- Comment on Yes, That Great-Looking 'Star Trek: Voyager' Game Will Let You Spare Tuvix 1 month ago:
Because then Tuvix would still exist. And that flies in the face of all that is holy.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 1 month ago:
When I graduated highschool, the idea that some dinosaurs had feathers and evolved into birds was still “fringe science”.
- Comment on FOSS App to Edit videos ? 1 month ago:
Resolve does indeed have a proxy mode, as does Kdenlive.
- Comment on FOSS App to Edit videos ? 1 month ago:
Yes.
There are a couple of limitations in the number of filters/effects you can use. And on Linux, the free version won’t edit MP4 natively. But the reality is you shouldn’t be editing on MP4s anyway. It’s a dreadfully inefficient format for doing actual editing as far as scrubbing through the timeline, etc… MP4 is a final product format. For editing you should be transcoding your clips into something like Apple Pro-res or DNxHD.
- Comment on FOSS App to Edit videos ? 2 months ago:
As far as “professional” goes, Kdenlive is miles and miles ahead of other FOSS programs. It’s the only one with the feature set and the development commitment to come within shouting distance of it’s proprietary competitors. It’s not quite there, of course, but it’s the only one that gets somewhat close.
If you’re not fully militant about it having to be FOSS, Resolve is of course the GOAT on Linux.
I’ve used Kdenlive for both personal projects and professional ones and it gets the job done admirably. But I’ve gone to DaVinci resolve when I had projects that needed more complex motion graphics rather than bringing a separate FOSS app into the mix to do it (Natron or synfig depending).
Resolve’s strength is that it puts audio, motion graphics, editing and effects all in one program instead of having to use multiple programs.