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tiramichu

@ tiramichu @sh.itjust.works

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  • By technical standards were 3D TVs impressive, Why didn't they catch on back then?

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  • They made 3D TVs with passive glasses too, I had one. Still have actually, working fine 10 years later.

    Has some neat tricks like coming with two pairs of "game" glasses that are effectly two left lenses for one person and two right lenses for the other, giving the ability to play a two-player split screen game with each player having a full-screen view (albeit stretched) and not being able to see the other! Trippy.

    IMO the reason they didn't catch on wasn't the technology, just that it genuinely didn't add much to the movie watching experience. What makes a movie worth watching continues to be the movie itself, and in some ways 3D - which was meant to be "immersive"- was actually just a distraction from the movie which frequently reminds you you're actually just sat in a room watching a screen, rather than letting you get into the story.

  • WhatsApp appears to have ads now. Good thing I don't really use it anymore.

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  • I guess that's part of WhatsApp's terms of service. Good to know, thanks.

    Either way, my dislike for corporations using closed platforms still stands. I really wish we had some modern, secure and featureful version of SMS - a federated direct messaging system that everyone was on, and yet nobody owned.

  • WhatsApp appears to have ads now. Good thing I don't really use it anymore.

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  • There's nothing to stop anyone sending you a message on WhatsApp if they have your number, be they an individual or a company.

    But it IS absolutely infuriating - not because it's an advert, but because I don't want any aspect of my communication with companies to take place on third-party proprietary closed platforms of which that company has no ownership or data control and which would require me to have an account with said platform.

    I'm sure many people love being able to contact customer support by shooting them a DM on Instagram, but to me that's wholly unacceptable.

    If companies want to talk to me it should be through email or SMS only - because those are the only methods which are provider-agnostic.

    Email and SMS are like the original federated systems. (And the postal service is, too!)

  • I hate it when Windows wants me to wear a suit.

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  • Here you go fam

  • Valve employee Pierre-Loup Griffais talks more about anti-cheat support for Linux/SteamOS on FPS Podcast #83

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  • Valve are working on what they can from the OS side, but fundamentally there's no silver bullet and it's up to game devs to implement anti-cheat in a way that works for SteamOS if they want games that require anti cheat to work.

    My personal interpretation is that we remain in the same situation as ever, and games which have invasive anticheat will continue to not work on Linux unless the game developers make them work - and publishers won't do that until Linux as a gaming platform has sufficient market share that they would lose a large chunk of money by not supporting it.

  • The Six Stages of Code Grief

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  • So infuriating when you have some dickhead making themselves unfireable by intentionally convoluting the codebase and chasing out any other hire. And even worse when management bought into it and think the guy's an actual irreplaceable genius.

    Probably even believes it himself. I hate narcissists.

  • If you don't know where a movie/show/book/game takes place, where do you assume it takes place?

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  • The anime Moriarty the Patriot had some interesting scenes for me.

    It's set in Sherlock Holmes-era England, and all the locations are closely based on actual places.

    They visited the city I went to university in, and I recognised it down to the level of invididual buildings like "That place is a pizza restaurant these days!"

    Pretty surreal honestly - when you are so used to everything shown in media being so utterly divorced from your actual life.

    Good anime, too.

  • YSK before you buy a replacement for your cellphone that has stopped charging, buy the $10 cleaning kits and spend the time deep cleaning the phone's charging port.

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  • Sure. But that's intended to detect shorts caused by water, and water is a much worse electrical conductor than a piece of metal, and so less damaging in the time it takes to detect a short.

    Even if phones have some level of protection, why risk damage when you could use something wooden or plastic and just not risk it at all?

  • I Assumed 'Twas The Boot Code

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  • As far as I understand, it's purely marketing semantics.

    The point of the 'Turbo' button is to slow the CPU down to provide compatibility with old software that was written with a fixed clockspeed, where the software would become unusably fast on newer CPUs.

    Calling this a "slow" mode or "compatibility" mode wasn't very marketing-sexy however, so manufacturers just flipped it around and called the normal speed 'Turbo'.

    With later systems, developers all became aware that varying CPU frequencies were a thing, and started to base their software timings on the realtime clock instead.

    So in later systems there was no longer any need to have the CPU run at anything other than its maximum (normal) speed - and the turbo button simply went away.

  • WTF is going on with my phone's calendar?

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  • It also plays on that other classic scam tactic - creating urgency.

    The victim may not even see the calendar entry until they get a notification "x starts in 1 hour".

    Maybe they're already in the middle of a busy workday, juggling a bunch of stuff. That calendar popup is just more stress, but it could be important, and they need to find out soon because it's basically starting!

    And so they click.

  • I'd like to control my air-purifier with one of those power-socket-timer-switch thingies – Is there a way to "auto-press" those non-mechanical buttons?

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  • For anyone looking for a cheap but decent air filter which DOES do this, IKEA's UPPÅTVIND remembers its last setting when turned off and back on at the plug.

  • Hot Take Time: What is a popular long-running franchise that just needs to stop?

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  • I'm glad that Strange New Worlds exists, but it's totally fair to criticise.

    I feel a lot kinder towards the writers and showrunners when I consider that we simply don't live in the 90s anymore, and that the realities of media consumption have changed in a way that forces different priorities.

    Back in the era of TNG, Friends, and the X-Files, it was totally reasonable for a show to air 26 episodes over 26 weeks. Seasons would run so long that writers were putting out bottle episodes just to stretch the budget. Yet it was profitable because people would keep watching - after all, there were only a few channels competing for the same limited airtime.

    Nowadays we're utterly drowning in media. The amount of content is almost infinite, and viewers are seemingly fickle, and quickly bored.

    Being successful now isn't about having a great long-running show, it's about making a massive impact as fast as possible, and hanging on to that top-banner spot on Netflix or whatever platform for just a scant few weeks before people get distracted by the next thing. Only those first weeks matter.

    And so, seasons get compressed and the budget gets concentrated, until shows are six episodes all coming at you full force like an airhorn blast of non-stop action and effects. They don't want longevity, they want hype.

    We can blame the industry, or we can blame society, or we can blame people's viewing habits. Probably it's a bit of all three. But it certainly explains a few things.

    It's almost a similar story to how the "Triple-A" gaming industry ruined games by optimising for the wrong metric, all while costing a fortune to do it.

    Fortunately for gaming we have a thriving indie dev scene now, which is where the true joy, art and creativity can be found.

    Perhaps TV is simply waiting for its own indie revolution.

  • Hot Take Time: What is a popular long-running franchise that just needs to stop?

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  • SNW does have some great moments. I loved the "documentary" episode most specifically, because it was a neat spin on things that let them experiment a lot with the cinematography and documentary-style shots.

    As the documentary was the real 'focus' of the episode, the plot of transporting the enslaved alien creature/ship was allowed to be a self-contained story like old-school trek used to be, and I really appreciated the reflection on the morality of what they do as a crew, and as Starfleet.

    There was a lot of TNG's DNA in there, and I liked that.

  • Bean check 💖

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  • Check ✅

  • Are there good Movies, TV Shows, Anime, with wholesome family (particularly parent-child) relations?

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  • Watch out though, because while the TV anime ends on a sweet note, and you should probably stop there, the manga ends with time-skipping forwards 10 years to when they start a romantic relationship together.

  • Are there good Movies, TV Shows, Anime, with wholesome family (particularly parent-child) relations?

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  • Kakushigoto is really good.

    It is the story of a single-parent manga artist who is ashamed of his work and goes to great lengths to keep it from his young daughter.

    The story begins when the girl, now older, discovers her Father's job, and is told through flashbacks to her growing up and life with her father who was always trying his best for her.

    I can't find the official trailer with subtitles but it gives you the idea. Trailer.

    Really heartwarming, and bittersweet at times, and other things I won't spoil.

  • What is something only you and two other people know?

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  • That's a yes, then

  • Dick

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  • Yeah, it's a real shame they never made another. I'd love a third Alien movie also, but we'll just have to make do with two.

  • Dick

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  • Isn't this The Entire Point?

    That there is value in truth, even if the truth is painful?

    That we should believe in and fight for a cause, even if fighting is hard?

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
    tiramichu @sh.itjust.works

    Which Video Game was most influential on you as a child, and why?