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yukichigai , 11 months ago to lemmyshitpost in Pick your Lemmy instance wisely...

Beehaw: You should join our instance.

Also Beehaw: We're defederating from two of the largest instances.

yukichigai , 11 months ago to memes in Firefox gang raise

The Firefox devs played The Silent Age and really liked the aesthetic.

yukichigai , 11 months ago to lemmyshitpost in tru do

Noooooooooope, don't fall for it. I've seen the finale of Dinosaurs, I know how this ends.

yukichigai , 11 months ago to worldnews in Ukraine running out of options to retake significant territory

Now I want cupcakes. Dammit.

yukichigai , 11 months ago to memes in Today we learnt...

[CBT intensifies]

yukichigai , 11 months ago to memes in Today we learnt...

What a horrible day to have genitals.

yukichigai , 11 months ago to mildlyinfuriating in Game ad notification on Windows...

My work forgot to remove game mode and a bunch of the built-in advertisement stuff from the workstation images they were using a while back, and I work for state government.

yukichigai , 11 months ago to technology in Twitter's removal of block function appears to violate both Apple and Google's app store policies

I can't imagine that still won't violate both store policies.

yukichigai , 11 months ago to memes in "Wanna listen to Limp Bizkit?"

Embedded as the level music for a custom Duke Nukem 3D map.

yukichigai , 11 months ago to linux in Windows 11 vs Linux supported HW

Some builds can get really tetchy about laptop hardware, but that's almost always older hardware.

Though I will say it took entirely too long for most builds to have a "change what closing the lid" does menu option rather than making you modify a .conf file.

And don't get me started on resolution switching when hot swapping display inputs.

yukichigai , 11 months ago to news in Trump supporters post names and addresses of Georgia grand jurors online

Imagine becoming a fed because you want to uphold the law and chase down bad guys, figuring you're going to be tracking down drug dealers and human traffickers and mafia goons, and instead you get tasked with running down Karen and Cletus who decided to firebomb a house based on something they read on RealTruthPatriotNewsDaily-dot-net.

yukichigai , 11 months ago to technology in "For you" isn't - The case against corporate algorithmic feeds

I think there was a brief time with algorithmic feeds were actually good, and I remember getting quite a few recommendations from news aggregators and the like which actually were of interest to me, but those days are long gone. These days... no.

Odd example here, but bear with me: I have a separate Twitter account just for following ahem adult content. Even before Elno bought them out the "For You" section was completely nonsensical. I followed nothing but adult artists and performers showing T&A, and every 8th entry in my "For You" feed was Sports or Politics or rage-bait in general. It wasn't what I wanted, it was what Twitter wanted me to want.

yukichigai , 11 months ago to piracy in Ohh yeah, EMPRESS drama is BACK!

I have half a mind to start releasing cracks just so there’s 1 cracker who isn’t a fucking bigot.

I have had this exact thought, but that would undoubtedly eat up what little free time I have these days. I don't have as much of it as I used to.

yukichigai , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to asklemmy in What are some things that can be done with blank dvds, nowadays?

HD DVD was 15/30 gig versus Blu-Ray being 25/50 gig storage, yeah. For mainstream use that was far more important, so that played a large part in why it won, though a lot of it was also Sony making the PS3 Blu-Ray-based and giving adoption rates a huge boost as a result. In terms of actual video codec support though the two were identical: H.262 MPEG-2, H.264 AVC, and VC-1.

As for how much content you could store on a CD, there were a lot of video resolutions supported in between 240p and HD, and H.264 can compress video quite a bit while still looking decent. For the die-hard video enthusiast, not much of a draw. For someone wanting to distribute stuff on the cheap, especially in poorer areas and "emerging markets" where SVCD players were (at the time) still commonly sold? Huge draw.

EDIT: Also of minor note was that the video (but not audio) formats from previous CD-based formats were completely compatible with the HD DVD standard, meaning in a pinch someone could just take the existing video from an SVCD/CVD release and drop it into a HD DVD. Of course why one would do that is a valid question, but nonetheless the standard was set up to allow it. For whatever reason.

yukichigai , 11 months ago to asklemmy in Anyone else feel that Lemmy just *isn't* addictive?

Right now the biggest barrier for me is the interface. Too many instances favor this very spread out, low information density, optimized for mobile (but not really) look, and group information in ways that are irksome. A certain amount can be fixed by user styles, but some functionality can't, like on kbin when I click on reply notifications and am not actually taken to the context of my reply because the comments have split across multiple pages even though I've set my preferences to infinite scroll. If I'm on another instance, clicking context gives me... well, not the context of my comments, just the damn comment and a series of "load parent comment" links to click. It's, well, irksome.

Most of my gripes aren't insurmountable, but that doesn't change the fact that right now every instance is a little janky to use.