mastodon 4.7.3#Retro gamer, #Linux enthusiast, musician, old tech nerd, engine wrencher, dog lover, PC gamer, #Dreamcast obsessed
Album collector. Anti AI slop. Anti corpo. Moderate audio enthusiast
Gaming collection:
2600/7800/nes/SNES/genesis/n64/ps1/Dreamcast/ps2/Xbox 360/switch (SO)/ AMD PC w Linux, New Atari VCS.
Albums: over 200 and counting- a lot of 60s-80s rock, prog rock, new wave, classical, indie, drone, funeral doom, thrash, dnb
Freedom for all, down with facists.
A Lemmy comment I have saved for when this is true in 5 years: The only computer you’ll be able to buy will effectively be an Alexa speaker through which you tell whichever AI service you subscribe to what you want, and it’ll sometimes get it right enough. Nothing will work properly, but soon people will forget that there once was deterministic computing, that you could own a machine that would predictably follow instructions and, if the instructions are correct, get reliable results.
Why the fuck has it been normalized to listen to music through a shitty phone speaker ? Drives me absolutely insane.
One of the many horrible things about modern society.
Dont show me a fucking song you like through your phone speaker. We have had headphones and speaker systems for over a century.
The fucking dark patterns and lazy vibe coded bullshit permeating all the systems we use for work and play has to STOP.
I am so pissed off.
Any budget audio enjoyer's here? What's your setup!
Pretty sure I looked up once that there's enough land on earth for every human adult to have 1.5 acres of liveable land (ie, not including the top of Everest etc. Pretty crazy.
Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he’s destroying is this God he’s worshiping.
-Hubert Reeves
Just installed fedora on my extra laptop. Runs perfectly, 0 issues!! And its a Dell Precision, so I was surprised. Still sticking with Mint on my main PC though.
OK I'm a n00b, is there any way to private message a mastodon user ?
So darn awesome, playing powersmash tennis online the other night on Dreamcast!
The auADHD constant thoughts that you are an idiot becuase everyone you read about is smarter than you and 7 year olds are getting masters degrees, but also feeling like everyone around you is the dumbest person you know.
Just emailed my rep!
Reminder [USA]: The fight against age verification is still on
- Everyone knows Meta lobbied for these laws
- Everyone knows it's not "for the children"
- My friends and neighbors care about privacy and we are watching how you vote
- A vote for age verification is a clear indicator that you work for corporations and not constituants
If your state is blue or light blue on this map, *you* are under threat of age verification laws!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_age_verification_laws_in_the_United_States
This scene makes me laugh more now than ever. Such good writing
Its crazy how younger people will prefer motion plus and such on TVs... Gosh it looks so terrible. Give me a dvd over component on a CRT any day!
I'm sure this is just a diffetence of age (25+). But motion plus and such on streaming just looks wrong and like a cheap soap opera. Watch The Edge on VHS and tell me thats not peak cinema!
This needs to be spread like wildfire.
Being smart and cautious about tech and llms feels exactly how it must have felt hundreds of years ago trying to tell the people *not* to shove lead pipes in absolutely everything and maybe think about it first, while also bring laughed at that you're "stuck in the past old man!"