Did you regret taking it apart after finding out?
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I know it's blurry. I know it's 4:3. I know that there are artifacts. But all the same if I could buy 35mm rips instead of remasters I would. I miss the color grading.
Don't get me started on AI upscaling.
When a work of art is created, sometimes it's best to let it stand on its own. No need to interfere.
The need for surveillance capitalism is a perversion of privacy which has been previously tolerated because the scope of their encroachment was in the context of closed circuit recording that don't persist long.
Pervert glasses are awful because their scope is greatly increased, with no localization of tolerated behavior.
No one wants to be filmed.
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/no-true-scotsman
Cryptocurrency is effectively anything on a block-chain yeah? Fair enough. It's crypto.
https://kotaku.com/backrooms-director-kane-parsons-a24-copyr...
Love this guy. Gonna miss him :(
If I can, my only feedback is that the battle system is REALLY hard for me. If there were keyboard shortcuts to block I wouldn't complain, but having to mouse to block is too much. I ended optimizing by letting one on the left or right die and then praying I could block enough to kill the boss.
Really great work! Seriously love this stuff!
Forgive me for not caring too much.
I'm in this weird space where I'm working for a company on behalf of my actual company. And the company I'm being farmed out to does not care for us because we are contractors in a sense. This resulted in us being brought on board without any training, any knowledge transfer, and guidance, and being told "get to work".
The result is when I ask people for information regarding the organization or code bases they come back to me with "ChatGPT said this", where ChatGPT is an internally hosted AI stack.
It's gotten to the point where I've given up and just have the internally hosted AI writing unit tests for me because their organization doesn't care about us, and as a result I just don't care about them.
The worst part is the tests seem to be reasonably working. Which is terrifying because I actually know the language or testing framework very well. I'm effectively working in a junior capacity without any training or guidance and my merge requests are getting pushed through.
It's going to be interesting seeing how these organizations that force AI in the workplaces age, because there are no longer experts in the code base. Only slop.
It's a real bummer because they were the only company I was actually interested in seeing pursue Augmented Reality. Now it's literally the most evil companies Meta, Google, and Apple.
The 90s optimism of future tech is dead and all that's left is whatever this is.
There needs to be a new word for when you're impressed, but so depressed at what is being achieved.
The thing about VS Code is not that it's bad, it's just, like everything and the kitchen sink? Sublime Text just feels like a really nice tool bench that your craft for yourself.
I'm really happy to hear there are others out there.
(And yes, I totally bought the license, but never enter it in)
It feels like people aren't interested in being creators. Just consumers. And that shows in how media and companies refer to people as consumers.
I wish there was a way to reverse this trend. It feels in many ways like a Plato's cave kind of situation.
I don't know what to do. I have a huge sunk-cost fallacy here.
I guess I'm going to ship it and pray, and then never use Unity again.
Jesus christ, what were they thinking?
Fuck Unity.
How come I can "buy" a movie on Amazon prime, but I can't download it to any device I want?
How come I can only stream on spotify and not purchase digital albums?
Our rights have eroded so quickly and so deeply that people forget one of the biggest selling points of the original iPods was carrying around YOUR music.
Everything is a subscription. You'll own nothing, and like it.
It's our data, it's our privacy. We should be able to own and control both.
I grew up during 1990's air travel and it was still pretty great back then.
For a lot of the younger generation, they are so used to the disrespect from start to finish as a result of 9/11.
The good old days - in no specific order
- TSA Body Scans that used to be simple metal detectors
- Not having Disneyland-like Fast Passes, for TSA Scans (I cannot believe this is real)
- Being able to wait at the gate for people
- Not being charged insane amount of money to get mediocre services before your flight
- Extra seat room
- Flights that weren't over booked
- Actual in-flight meals
- Actual in-flight snacks
- First class that was actual first-class quality
Man I can go on. I hate flying so much now-and-days, and it KILLS me, because I try to articulate this to younger folks, and they shrug their shoulders because they're been raised in this. And the worst part is I KNOW it was better before the 90's. It's just been an absolute enshitification that has become such a disruptive force in my life when I decide I want to travel anywhere, and it's a fucking bummer.
My community is nothing but ring cameras and it drives me nuts because it means I'm always being monitored. I hate it so much.
People just aren't free to be people in private anymore.
I don't feel like I own my devices anymore.
But I am telling you that monitoring and surveillance is not the first, second, or even tenth potential choice available to start tackling this problem.
I can't leave my house without being monitored by ring cameras. I cannot go to work without being monitored by badge systems. And now, I can't play games without my voice chat being moderated.
I'm not a racist, sexist, terrible, or bad person. Why do I have to be forced to be surveilled and monitored like this in ever freaking part of my life, and why do you all jump so gleefully into these ecosystems? Why are you so excited to throw away these areas of your life to be monitored and controlled by companies?
I don't understand why this is so freaking hard to find.
Kinesis had the Free Style 2 keyboard[1] that you had to go out of the way to buy a vertical stand with, and it has been my go to keyboard FOR YEARS now because I just can't find any alternatives.
I used to use the Kinesis Advantage keyboards, but they mess with my carpal tunnel. As cool as they are the plastic placement for the wrist rests still mess with you. It's awful if you have carpal tunnel. And yes, everyone is saying they help, but they're still sources of aggravation because you are wresting your wrists on the plastic and compressing them. And yes, you can get some pads, but that really doesn't change the system.
I just want some g- d- vertical keyboards. And no one makes them with good layouts.
I got this crazy battlestation vertical keyboard from Safe Type [2] and I freaking HATED it because their layout puts a bunch of keys in the middle and there's an insane F-row keyset that requires me to move my hands all over the place. It's ridiculous!
How hard is it to get a vertical keyboard with a good keyboard layout?! I'm so scared my free style 2 is going to fail and I'm going to have to go back to a world with terrible keyboards. I even e-mailed Kinesis asking if they were going to go the same route of vertical keyboards and they refuse to. I'm dying here.
At this point I would love if someone made keyboard gloves that let me put them on and wear them to type so I don't have to compress any nerves, but I doubt that will ever happen. I feel like I'm nuts.
I've been using a Boox device lately to read old comics and I LOVE it. https://shop.boox.com/products/novaairc
The thing is that it makes them feel so retro because of the limited colors they can supply, and it still looks great doing it.
My only regret isn't a regret, it's just timing. I purchased the nova air c before the Tab Ultra C had come out. https://shop.boox.com/products/tabultrac
And its form factor is just so much more pleasant.
I can't wait for the coming years of e-ink advancements.