circuitfarmer

circuitfarmer , 5 days ago

It's almost like all these CEOs and MBAs are just shooting in the dark because of the $$$ in their eyes, but the fact remains that the market is no longer responding favorably to their absolute need for year-over-year growth.

circuitfarmer , 8 days ago

Much love for these teachers. They are not paid nearly enough. I hate the corporate pizza party, but not the public school one.

Edit: I wonder if the difference in financial burden between a corporate pizza party and a public school one is a good metric

circuitfarmer , 10 days ago

Have you tried emulating it while interfacing with some ancient ISA card?

circuitfarmer , 10 days ago

Tell me you've never tried it without telling me you've never tried it.

circuitfarmer , 13 days ago

I've never, ever seen anyone lick boots harder than this.

circuitfarmer , 13 days ago

Unfortunately they'll go after that next.

I'm legitimately surprised at the number of pro-government control comments in this thread, though. We are truly doomed because of the people in the back.

circuitfarmer , 13 days ago

Yeah, well that's the thing: they like the idea of being against government regulations, but if it is presented to them as a moral issue, they eat it up.

Case in point: a comment in this thread loosely trying to pose PH's response as being against states' rights -- in this case, due to the states tacitly regulating morality. I'm sure if the issue was e.g. raising state taxes, all of a sudden states' rights wouldn't matter.

The right wing learned a while ago that if you can pose anything as morality, there is a whole class of people that will simply lick the boot.

circuitfarmer , 13 days ago

OP's claim here is just BS. PornHub is in no way a monopoly or even close. It reads like someone who has literally never searched for porn on the internet. Astroturf.

circuitfarmer , 13 days ago

"Every other site", obvs, it's right there in the comment. You mean you're not uploading your driver's license to watch someone get railed?!

/s

circuitfarmer , 13 days ago

Can you define what part of PornHub owning a lot of other porn sites makes them a monopoly? Part of being a monopoly is being anticompetitive. What has PornHub done in terms of lobbying or other anticompetitive practices which makes it more difficult for a new company sharing porn to take hold? Because there is a ton of porn online which is unrelated to PornHub.

I'm all for calling out monopolies, but I legit don't see one here. I'm open to being wrong.

I don't believe that the thing about actresses getting work after 22 is reliant on PornHub. Porn has worked that way for 50+ years my dude.

circuitfarmer , 13 days ago (edited 13 days ago)

With other industries, owning 5, 10, 15 other sites might be indicative of a monopoly. But there is a metric fuckton of porn online.

Edit: pardon me, a *metric fucktonne

circuitfarmer , 13 days ago

I'm sure inflation has affected that too

circuitfarmer , 22 days ago

100% they will do this.

But I wonder if the effect will be different to now. I know Apple wants to retain the idea that their users are in an exclusive blue bubble group. But currently, green bubbles are associated with shitty looking images, video, etc, due to MMS. Especially for people that don't know why files come through that way, green bubbles are always presented as inferior by virtue of actually being inferior.

But now, if they do keep the green bubs, they'll just be green. Green at feature parity is different from green with clear differences.

circuitfarmer , 2 months ago

I've been on Lemmy ever since the reddit API fracas. To date, I have not seen a reason to return. I have, however, seen many reasons to stay away.

circuitfarmer , 2 months ago

• Now-famous poor quality control
• Questionable design decisions like shifting with a screen
• Company smells Musky

Yeah, I'm sure it's the hybrids.

circuitfarmer , 2 months ago

The movie is about a company that invents some new technology which allows you to remotely control other humans

I think about it whenever I think about Neuralink. Someone is inevitably gonna hack that shit.

circuitfarmer , 2 months ago

Anyone have a list of legislators who are also investors in VPN companies?

circuitfarmer , 2 months ago

It's important to differentiate advertising from sharing information, generally. SponsorBlock is not a corporate product, so mentioning it is not an ad. If the idea is not to share information, then the entire internet should be avoided, but advertisements specifically are aimed at some party making money.

I do actively try and avoid ads wherever possible, mostly through the use of open-source approaches. I don't have them on my phone because of heavy modification (except technically robocalls). I don't have any on my desktop rigs because of a complete reliance on Linux. I get some on my work machine, which is a Mac, but I went with that because IT gave me two choices and Linux wasn't one of them. I know I'd have more had I gone Windows.

I don't watch traditional television, but there aren't many ways to consume corporate content without also consuming ads. I think that is a thread that ties a lot of this together. Basically, if you want to consume corporate content, you have to concede to watching advertising in some capacity, and that is by design.

I would argue that we should be able to avoid it in life generally (e.g. billboards and such, which are a constant annoyance), but aside from that, I always see ads as a tradeoff that I have no option to avoid if I want to consume certain content.

Edit:

Basically, if you want to consume corporate content, you have to concede to watching advertising in some capacity

*if you want to consume corporate content legally

circuitfarmer , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Windows 11?

I've seen them in the start menu, and in the bloat installed without consent, and in the emails to the mandatory Microsoft account.

Edit: not sure why the downvote, unless you have some evidence that MS doesn't push ads via those channels.

circuitfarmer , 2 months ago

Yeah. It seems obvious when looked at from a design standpoint. They have shifted the product into a different space.

circuitfarmer , 2 months ago

Currently logged in as BiggolShitties69@icloud.com

circuitfarmer , 2 months ago

Years and years of productivity increases, and yet no change in the standard work schedule. The writing is on the wall.

That said, I don't believe I'll see a change in my lifetime. This article is pretty pie-in-the-sky.

circuitfarmer , 2 months ago

Buy

No

circuitfarmer , 2 months ago

I've just invented a way to never use a Roku product again, and I've chosen not to patent it.

The process is this:

1. Don't buy anything from Roku anymore.

circuitfarmer , 2 months ago

Shocked, I tell you.

circuitfarmer , 2 months ago

I am mostly a Linux user (surprise, Lemmy!) but recently started a new job. Given the choice of a Windows laptop vs a Macbook Pro, I took the latter, despite my long-time distaste for Apple.

I do not, even in a work setting, even want to touch Windows 11 in any recurring capacity (yes, I did try it -- at my last role).

circuitfarmer , 3 months ago

Higher audio quality than CD? No, that is demonstrably false.

More pleasant to listen to than CD or other digital formats? Yes, that I agree with. It's entirely subjective, but I'm definitely not alone in the feeling. The fact it is hard to quantify is why lots of people don't "get" vinyl until they've sat and heard it on a decent system. Something about it is pleasing. As another commenter mentioned, it might just be the imperfections.

So I guess it's a bit of a philosophical question. If CDs technically sound better, but vinyl sounds more pleasing: does the vinyl then sound better? People tend to chase pleasure, and in the time it takes someone to explain how much lower the noise floor is on CD or how we can only perceive so many samples, etc, etc -- you could have been chilling with multiple records and had a great listening experience.

circuitfarmer , 3 months ago

This is only new vinyl, right? In my town, used records are king, by far. In fact, I probably buy 10+ used records for every new record.

circuitfarmer , 3 months ago

Yes, totally agree. Vinyl rips still lack something. A lot of it is about practice, which makes it harder to quantify.

circuitfarmer , 3 months ago

I know for a fact I would hear the difference -- but primarily because of the imperfections in the vinyl, as well as the different bass response. I can rule out placebo.

circuitfarmer , 3 months ago

Yeah like also, if you're doing art for validation -- you're not doing art.

circuitfarmer , 3 months ago

Some instances, like mine, do not require an email address to join .

circuitfarmer , 3 months ago

So that leaves one option: it's a moonshot project to convince the tech illiterate public to take them and their stock price to the moon

100% that. It's even in the name.

People vastly overestimate the capabilities of AI, but perhaps worse, people are simply unaware of the limitations. The hype took over, but it is (slowly) coming down to realistic levels.

We also could use more public knowledge of the sheer amount of data and energy it takes to train these models which still, by definition, end up with limited scope. It's actually incredibly wasteful.

circuitfarmer , 5 months ago

We were all fed the lie that ads were a necessity to "pay" for services that were otherwise free to the consumer. Of course, it was always the plan to charge for anything that really took hold, and it was concurrently the plan to throw more and more ads on everything anyway -- it's just now, they're considered normalized.

circuitfarmer , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

Clearly you're meant to have the car on its side before playing any media

circuitfarmer , 6 months ago

Serious "you will address me by my husband's rank" energy here

circuitfarmer , 9 months ago

alienate a large number of users by removing SMS

Would you mind elaborating on this?

SMS in Signal was never secure (it's SMS), and so it was removed. Now I have private messaging in Signal, and if some one sends me an SMS, it shows up in my stock texting app. No false sense of security and it's very easy to use 2 apps.

circuitfarmer , 9 months ago

Please, everyone, stop using Chrome. This is an easy vote with your wallet that doesn't even require your wallet.

Complacency means the internet gets worse, ads get worse, nickel and diming gets worse. It's the easiest chance to take a stand you'll ever have.

circuitfarmer , 9 months ago

Years upon years of pro-capitalist propaganda is a helluva drug.

circuitfarmer , 10 months ago

As far as I know there is no intended method for changing the default terminal in Gnome.

100% unacceptable.