Now how does banning social media give children a fairer chance growing up and adulthood. It’s just putting blindfolds on children so they it takes longer for them to learn what they should be complaining and uncooperative with

Generically sales people. People that call themselves hustlers. Whatever grind mindset that the people who talk that up the most always ends up being people ladder stepping salespeople

Where do you want to go with that? That can be said about the treatment of every non-white European people’s by white Europeans around the world. Native Americans are still very present in the US just ignored. People in the US and Europe also seem to pay no care for refugees from wars brought on by their countries imperialist/colonial wars. Nor do they seem to recognize native hispanics as native Americans nor people in the Middle East as people indigenous to those lands. American, European, Australian, etc tourists don’t seem to recognize people other than natives on reservations in the US and Canada as indigenous to any lands. These can be said to discourage every civil rights activist in the past to present. Can be said to anyone working for the ACLU today. Those in medical research in NATO countries today. People today have to work towards something.

The spirit of America and European countries have been for the last ~600 years, marked by slavery, genocide, colonialism, imperialism. Going forward it will be something. It’s far from as bad as it once was but it’s trending back towards overt imperialism again and internal opposition has to be better than they were in the past because in the past they were terrible at it.

People that leave the US, France, UK, Netherlands, Spain, Canada, Australia, etc countries to poorer countries to take advantage of their relative wealth to live out life as a wealthy conservative are not contributing to society in their home country nor the country they’re trying live a life of tourism in. And it is no surprise that conservatives succeed so much in politics when lean lefts are so quick to give up and recluse themselves from politics of not just where they were born but every country in the world so they can just enjoy themselves. Live life. Focus on their own spirituality. On their own art. Mental health. There’s no balance. It’s all just consumerism and hedonism dressed up for the art district. Etc

People have warped views about where is worthy of living. In the US people are all about big coastal/hip cities. Like Portland and Austin aren’t coastal but they’re still hip. That wouldn’t be so bad if they didn’t trash on non-coastal cities. I don’t know how these people think to build some sort of working class solidarity when you shit on the homes of the majority of peoples who may not want to live in a dense city environment

Similar to that is weird exoticism of people in other countries and their lifestyles. Like I’ve known people that have moved from the US to Ecuador to escape growing fascism and I’m puzzled that they must have done zero research into this. Same with moving from the US to France because they’re anti-imperialist and I’m just puzzled. France has been continuously imperialist for centuries. No pause.

Then the ones that self-style as a refugee when moving to a poorer country. You’re moving from a wealthy country with your savings and many of your belongings, often keeping your job but working remote, often keeping your citizenship. These people have more in common with European colonists in America than someone escaping war in southeast asia 50 years ago or like Sudanese refugees today. These people are also very awkward to talk to these actual refugees and their children especially when they’re living wherever they can in a country to make it rather than like Seattle

All that really to say about how little interest people want to be a part of uplifting their home communities. Their countries communities. I don’t care how little you care for Oklahoma because of politics, you should want people to thrive there. Especially if you fancy yourself some social progressive that cares about native Americans

And this warped view ends up having people spend so much money on things that aren’t needed to make them happy. Maybe you see way funnier stuff at improv shows in New York City. That doesn’t mean you can’t have a good time at one in Omaha Nebraska. You can help grow that. Too many people that just want to move to a city and consume and get pissed off that the cities with built out amenities are expensive. So then move to a cheap country and continue to contribute nothing. Just consume. So move to Ecuador to be rich and contribute nothing culturally nor politically to prevent some fascistic rise they “fled” growing in the US or France or UK, etc

I view it like a supercharged American moderate that MLK Jr spoke about that people love to cite. The American moderate shares that video to claim they’re not a moderate. People in wealthy countries find any reason to not have to be a part of change and hope they can move to their ideal community that will entertain them. And in the case of moving to a poorer country, their ideal home wasn’t actually leftism and setting up their communities to thrive in the future - it was being rich. It’s a lot worse today I believe because of social media. A lot of people consume enough self help books and socializing tips YouTube along with lifestyle influencers and now we have an impotent leftist movement. Approach to lifestyle like a wealthy conservative but wrap it in messaging of wellness, socialism, whatever

I wish them success so that they can scale up and provide good customer service

XDA will write articles these days like:

• How this wallpaper has proven how I’ve been using computers wrong for 30 years
• These gloves improved my typing speed 300%
• I painted my NAS red and you won’t believe the improvements

That thread is mildly hilarious with the people snarkily saying if someone doesn’t like it, fork it and remove the AI slop and develop from there — and then people admitting they don’t have the skill to do the software development/they don’t want to learn/they wouldn’t be able to recognize the AI generated code from the human written code/they’re not going to fund AI free development and generally glossing over that these are unpaid hobby projects and they’re getting mad at a volunteers free work. Like damn the community gardens volunteers keeping the plants alive using unnatural big agriculture’s chemical products rather than dedicating even more of their free time to the community garden I want to consume

A bunch of these people I’m certain would not work for free and make that a moral and political statement about the value of labor but not extend that energy to the work of open source software developers. The guy works on a project that I’m certain would have a low ceiling for amount of monthly donations. People whining about him using AI who themselves won’t contribute any more than words of affirmation. So pretty much worthless. Absolutely worthless after like half a year of a demanding user base whose only contribution is prey much like a kid grumpily saying, “well I said thank you! You happy!? Now can you do what I said!?”

The tegra boards are good on Linux. They need to get this out so software developers can work out the software kinks and hardware integrators make some good designs. I want a whole lot more Steam Machine sized devices to choose from

It’s good that h265 hasn’t caught on like h264 and likely never will. H266 having been even slower than h265 to gain adoption

Everyone pile into matrix and the element client. Got to make it more popular

The Element application is solid now. Still I think it’d be a rough transition for most discord users. But more users probably means more potential for developer interest

For movies, look up what Alexa Mini’s can do. The very recent past dominant Mini had a 3424x2202 resolution. Most movies shot digitally (most in the last like 20 years) were shot at below 4k. Many had special effects done at 1080p. When movie theaters switched to digital projection, most used 2048x1080 projectors and the shift towards 4k projectors wasn’t that long ago.

The Alexa Mini LF can do 4448x3096. The Sony Venice 8k camera is a few years old only. There’s a huge amount of loyalty to Arri, particularly the lenses. Panasonic and Z-Cam have 8k cameras. But like Arri, I’d bet most filmmakers would choose the 4k/6k cameras

Even the ones that opt for the 8k cameras, there very likely would be lower resolution cameras in use as well like the Alexa Mini or a 4k/6k Z-Cam or like a Sony FX3. Including most nature documentaries. Unless it’s just wide canvases, you’re not going to be mounting the 8k cinema cameras all over the place like you would cheaper small cameras like an FX3. Plus stuff like shooting at 240fps 12bit color for slow motion playback. I’m betting that none of the cinema cameras support that at 8k. So back down to probably 1080p. Don’t know the status of 4k240 out there. That’s a lot of bandwidth, storage, processing power, and cooling needed

Then there’s 70mm filming. The vast majority of productions cannot do that. There’s a lot of unused footage that goes into filmmaking. If you look at the size of a roll of 70mm film used for projecting a feature length film, it’s huge. It’s boutique equipment. There’s not a ton of cinema 70mm cameras and lenses to rent. Camera operators. Labs to get them scanned for digital editing. 70mm will always be limited in adoption especially now that digital is the dominant form of cinematography

So 8k will for many many years be the land of upscaling and for native, old video games. Videos, I guess two 8k60 cameras rigged together for VR will lead the way along with an occasional movie/documentary. No guarantees that the movie theater will show it in 8k though. It’s taken a very long time for 4k projection to approach standard for theaters in places like the US let alone poorer countries or countries with less mega theater chains that could more comfortably afford the upgrade

Same song and dance since at least Windows me. Overtime it keeps getting more bloated and focused on advertising. If you got to use Windows at work, it is what it is but at home, get over it and switch to Linux already. It’s very clear that all the complaining of the world has little chance to ever get Windows to be what people want it to be

Terribly need degoogled android to become popular and/or a normal Linux distribution phone to become popular so that normal Linux market share couldn’t be ignored

Mildly entertained how fast it went from a bill to give the executive power to designate applications as security threats and ban them to then it being abused. A lot of folks saying the EFF and ACLU were wrong this time and then the EFF and ACLU being right less than 2 years after the bill passing. And it’s not like TikTok has been around all that long. 2021 all the pearl clutching about China’s influence ruining the youth just look at the zoomers entering the workforce - the app was popular for like 2 years at that point. Everyone people were complaining about were raised on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter. Not only that, TikTok was about the only social media platform that leftist were pretty good at compared to right wingers. The ridiculous dichotomy of leftist supporting a bill to ban TikTok while TikTok was core to the lefts grassroots outreach and networking. So now TikTok is right wing owned and Instagram and YouTube are still the same kind of content that people blamed TikTok for and have had for much longer.

That bill in 2024 was a Democratic Party self own especially when the bill wasn’t even TikTok specific. Somehow saw masked plain clothes federal agents kidnapping people in 2020 to pretty much no consequence and decided in 2024, the federal government won’t abuse this bill

iPhones are too locked down for the hardware they have. I’m writing this on an iPhone 15 …

The foldable I like the most I’ve seen are the Motorola razrs. That’s vertical. The best fat foldables are going to be Android because of all the video game emulators for Android

As others, my basic home lab NAS plans are grounding to a stop because of worsening prices. Next up, phones are going to be even more expensive. Video game console price increases again

I loved last.fm. Used it for like a decade until I stopped caring about logging every time I listened to something. Was real good at finding music I liked. I used to view it as a reflection of me and then I got older and stopped caring about public reflections of myself

It’s internet explorer vs Netscape navigator. Even Safari. Gemini gets pushed by Android phones. MS lost the smartphone OS war. Also lost TVs. Also lost home assistant speaker/mics. Microsoft and every other company without a major mobile OS under their unbrella is fighting a battle with a major handicap against Google

From my memories, the price of appliances haven’t changed much in the last couple of decades. They maintain or increase margins with cheaper parts, less QA, looser performance tolerances while keeping the same sticker price. Whatever the quality sacrifice equivalent word for shrinkflation