Adderbox76
@Adderbox76@lemmy.ca
- Comment on TEETH 1 day ago:
If there’s ever a link I will never press…
- Comment on TEETH 1 day 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 2 days 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] 5 days 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 1 week ago:
I prefer Mormons. They have better porn
Five little mormons jumping on a bed?
- Comment on World would be a better place 1 week 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? 2 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? 2 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) 2 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. 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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] 4 weeks ago:
That can happen when they leave the microchip a little too close to the surface and it causes skin irritation.
- Comment on 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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] 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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?? 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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 ? 5 weeks ago:
Resolve does indeed have a proxy mode, as does Kdenlive.
- Comment on FOSS App to Edit videos ? 5 weeks 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 ? 1 month 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.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Conservatism
- Comment on How often do guys have a haircut? 1 month ago:
Buzz it down with no-guard clippers twice a week. Sometimes shave it complely, but not often. Trim the beard when it gets itchy.
- Comment on The USA prided itself on a nation of immigrant, heck even the Statue of Liberty says it. When did immigrants (US citizens from the old world) become anti immigrant and why? 1 month ago:
When said immigration switched from primarily being Europeans emigrating from a post WW2 Europe, and instead became primarily brown folk coming from all the countries that the U.S. itself bombed to shit.
It’s not immigration that they hate. It’s brown immigration.
Never forget that.
- Comment on We finally expelled the ambassador 2 months ago:
The irony of the meme is that Portman is an Israeli actress…
- Comment on "We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal 2 months ago:
As a Canadian, American Express most certainly exists here. A quick google search shows that it exists in the UK as well. I’m going to guess it exists in other major countries as well.
No idea about Discover though. Barely even knew it existed at all.
- Comment on Where will it stop ? 3 months ago:
One of my go-to orders from the pizza place around here is a Bacon Cheeseburger Pizza.
BBQ sauce, seasoned beef, diced tomatoes, onions, pickles, bacon, and cheddar cheese.
Fucking delicious and I don’t care what purists think.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
“Free as in Freedom” doesn’t mean “Free as in Beer”.
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with a paid service using FOSS software if that’s the route they want to take. Using FOSS doesn’t mean you have to rely on donations only.
There’s a pervasive, damaging, and limiting misunderstanding about the word “Free” that has always been a problem in the Open Source world. This notion that things that are Open Source should be “No Cost” just because the source code is readily available and anyone could technically spin their own fork of it if they had the ability to do so.
But NO WHERE does it actually say that FREE means “Free as in Beer”.
If you don’t like it and don’t want to sign up, more power to you. That’s your freedom of choice. And to be honest, an instance asking for a fee probably wouldn’t be very successful.
But pretending that there is something either shady or legally or morally wrong with asking for a fee for using FOSS software is harmful to the very notion of FOSS and the upvote ratio you’re getting is a shameful example of how pervasive the whole “But GIMP/INKSCAPE/BLENDER is supposed to be free!” whining has become from users who have no clue what the FREE ifnFREE and OPEN SOURCE actually mean.
