nintendiator

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nintendiator , to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ in Am I the only one preferring low quality media over high quality one?

I'm totally fine with something like 540p or 480p, although I guess that's because my preference is good ol' TV shows that aired in the 90s or 00s over TV cable, so I'm fine with SDTV quality. And honestly, there's not much sense in downloading all seasons of, say, Ally McBeal in 4K when you can download 8 full glorious 90s shows with their entire seasons in SDTV in the same space.

Even with "modern" stuff, I've seldom found a movie or TV show post 2012 that merits anything higher than 720p. I don't get why don't movie codecs get a multi-res options so that for example you can get the action scenes in 1080p, even 60fps if you want, but the melancholic scenes and the quiet drama scenes and the credits in 480p. Would save lots of space without losing quality where it matters.

nintendiator , to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ in Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win

Oh, you believe law is fair? You sound so cute.

nintendiator , to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ in Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win

Maybe filing a charge.org petition to raise an alternative service to charge.org. Maybe something in the Fediverse, even!

nintendiator , to Technology in An Important Hypothetical - What Android Apps Do You Install??

only half an hour

no information on the internet connection quality

Minetest I guess. Can't trust that I can get Retroarch plus the cores and games I want on time, and it's not worth the hassle for only 3 hrs drive.

nintendiator , to Ask Lemmy in A bit of a weird question: Can modern medicine be a threat to humanity long-term by greatly reducing effects of natural selection?

Hopefully the inbreeding within those weirdo groups helps fix that.

nintendiator , to Programmer Humor in “ARE YOU ALL SEEING THIS”

Maybe you jest but now I'm seriously wondering why hasn't this been proposed. It's defo better than something like "disallow list".

nintendiator , to Programmer Humor in “ARE YOU ALL SEEING THIS”

Oh yeah that was a shitshow. I made a point to keep "master" in my repos and configurations because it's the other meaning of master - one of the many others. Words are allowed to mean different things, ya know? If I'm drinking some coke I'm certainly not drugging myself (...I hope).

After all, the command to attach to a master is not "git slave", it's "git pull".

nintendiator , to Programmer Humor in What it's like to be a developer in 2024

They have a button to go to the latest version of the docs, but not to the equivalent page on the latest version

Oh yeah this is a PITA. Tho in that case it's skill issue on their end.

nintendiator , to Programmer Humor in What it's like to be a developer in 2024

Course I do. Why, do you need a link to the newest version of the joke?

nintendiator , to Programmer Humor in What it's like to be a developer in 2024

Skill issue. Old version docs tend to offer you a redirect to more recent docs, and even then something sintactic like an "IN" operator is unlikely to change in form or structure between versions of a database engine.

nintendiator , to Programmer Humor in Perpetual Motion finally achieved!

That and the weird aversion to introducing new or useful keywords, or even extending the symbol set that doesn't even use full ASCII.

nintendiator , to World News in A Hong Kong-based crypto exchange used deepfakes of Elon Musk to claim the billionaire was its lead developer

Hahahahaha lol, I wish it had gone unnoticed a bit more. Scamming techbros and cryptobros sounds cool.

nintendiator , to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ in Would you teach your kids how to pirate?

From an ethical standpoint, in the modern world, not teaching your children how to pirate is being an irresponsible parent. Not just because the "download stuff for free" aspect of piracy, but because piracy is associated to a number of moral and ethical decisions and tenets that also form important ideologies. Getting ready access to information, and being capable to redistribute information, for example, is a key element to anti-fascism ideologies which is why eg.: punk places an emphasis on radio. Being able to fight your own fights instead of only trading on the currency (digital or otherwise) other people impose on you is a core element of both digital and physical sovereignty, which is one of the reasons why stuff like KYC laws or banning of sex workers in economic operations have to be fought against.

nintendiator , to Linux in Pipewire vs PulseAudio: What's the Difference?

But their choices do impact other projects. I may not use Gnome, but the choices made on theming (or lack of) , for example, now also effect XFCE.

nintendiator , to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ in “It’s a Silent Fire”: Decaying Digital Movie and TV Show Files Are a Hollywood Crisis

In fact, files end up corrupted,

Backup often and check the backups.

data is improperly transferred

Backup often.

hard drives fail

Backup often.

formats change

Use an open format. For extra sure, make sure it doesn't carry DRM.

work simply vanishes.

Uuuuh don't be corrupt?

Like, really, it's not like one's asking too much.

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