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- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 2 weeks ago:
But what if you can’t get it? Go try to watch the Willow TV show on Disney+. There is no longer a legal way to watch it. They removed it from the service. You can’t buy it. It’s gone. Disney has also been editing its classic movies like Lilo and Stitch and Splash to remove parts that I guess they found objectionable.
The trend that entertainment and culture are increasingly held hostage behind a paywall and subject to edits is dystopian as hell. What’s to stop Spotify or Netflix from moving all of your favorite media to Spotify Pro or Netflix Premium? What if there’s no other way to acquire that media? How much would you pay per month to experience it again? In what way is this a service that benefits the consumer?
I like my collection of movies, shows, and music, and as long as I’m careful not to lose the files, I can experience them, unchanged, for as long as I like.
it’s not like it was physical and became digital only
And that is happening. Many movies are out of print. DVDs don’t always last forever. There has never been a legal way to obtain a movie in a DRM-free digital format. Ripping backups from discs is the only way to guarantee they are preserved and available forever.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 2 weeks ago:
I have a digital projector that we take camping. It runs androidOS and you can install apps on it. There is no wifi when camping.
Movies ripped to a thumb drive saves the day.
In 1996, I watched Back to the Future on VHS on a portable CRT TV.
Also the ability to pull a clip from any film you own to create the perfect reaction gif is super nice.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 2 weeks ago:
We’re moving into a space where the only way to access certain types of content that was previously ownable is now through subscription.
There is absolutely no technical reason why Klaus is only available on streaming. It doesn’t require special live-servers to run. There is no staff maintaining it. There are no monthly updates. It’s just 20 gigs of data on someone else’s hard drive that you aren’t allowed to have.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 3 weeks ago:
My wife loves bandcamp. Especially the sales where they give 100% of the revenue to the artist.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 3 weeks ago:
Pirated enough games in my childhood. It’s the last I could do.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 3 weeks ago:
Won’t give them the satisfaction. There are plenty of other Christmas movies (we actually have like 4 days worth).
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 3 weeks ago:
My wife is the music person, so I set it up for her. She seems to like it. I had funkwhale originally, but it doesn’t have nearly the features (though it does support multiple users’ libraries).
The plan is to generate playlists in navidrome and match the filesystems so she can just drag them to her iPod. I haven’t looked into it all too much, but one annoying thing is that some things are kept in the database that I wish were plaintext. Like, I think you can rename files and whatever in the web interface, but it doesn’t modify the original files. I guess that’s okay if you’re nervous about busting your files, but I wish you had a little more control over it.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’d say my collection is maybe 5% 4k (over 1000 titles in total). Some discs are reeeeal finnicky. I actually thought my drive was toast at one point, but I was able to take it apart and clean the lens with some IPA to get it working again. Wasn’t looking forward to replacing it.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 3 weeks ago:
Go ahead and try to buy a copy of Klaus on DVD.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 3 weeks ago:
You can get bluray drives used for like $30. The real issue is the 4k drives because only certain older models let you rip those. They’re harder to replace.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 3 weeks ago:
My wife and I have been slowly over the last few years finding ways to cancel our subscriptions and just own things. If I want to play a vintage game, I buy a physical copy and boot up an emulator. We also set up navidrome and started collecting discs to rip. My wife backed up her spotify playlists before cancelling and we’re trying to find a way to link them to music tracks that we own and make a list of what we’re missing.
Not a terribly challenging task, but I looked around online to see if anyone else was doing it. What I found was dozens of projects going the other way. People saying “I’m looking to ditch my MP3s and move to Spotify.”
It’s certainly less work, but I wonder how all of these people will feel when they’re locked in and their monthly costs for these services increases and there’s absolutely nothing they can do about it.
- Comment on My new laptop chip has an 'AI' processor in it, and it's a complete waste of space 2 months ago:
Instructions unclear. Accidentally did science.
- Comment on My new laptop chip has an 'AI' processor in it, and it's a complete waste of space 2 months ago:
Yes. I’ve used it. But security cameras are hardly a killer app.
- Comment on My new laptop chip has an 'AI' processor in it, and it's a complete waste of space 2 months ago:
I love how Frigate is like…the only thing you can use AI processors for. I got a Coral M.2 card and used it for Frigate for like a year and then got bored. Sure, I can have it ID birds, but there’s not much more practical use that I found.
- Comment on Universal Adds 'No AI Training' Warning to Movies 2 months ago:
Should the audience shout “Sniper no sniping!” to really make it hit?
- Comment on That Dropped Call With Customer Service? It Was on Purpose. 3 months ago:
That’s me with United Healthcare. They charged me $80 for an annual checkup that was supposed to be free. Part of that checkup was a $14 cholesterol screening that was literally listed among the free things that came with my plan.
I contested it, they said that they reviewed my case and found nothing wrong. I escalated, which involved writing and physically mailing an appeal. They sent me the same response back that they reviewed the case and found nothing wrong.
So yes. “Fuck it” as the article says. $80 is not worth it.
- Comment on New tool burns images onto Compact Discs' recording area using ones and zeros — unlike Lightscribe, the technique works on any disc 4 months ago:
I feel like I remember someone doing this like 10 years ago. Can’t find a link.
- Comment on Kawasaki unveils a hydrogen-powered, ride-on robot horse 6 months ago:
Companies don’t need to make products for customers. They just need to make ideas for investors.
- Comment on All this bad AI is wrecking a whole generation of gadgets 7 months ago:
The video I linked is literally of Apollo.
Apollo has understood a bug to be a little critter he could potentially eat
How can you know that? He only knows a handful of words. The lizard probably looks more like a bug than like a cup or Wario. He’s familiar with the phrase “what’s this?” and “what made of?” If he had any real understanding, why didn’t he just ask those questions to expand his vocabulary?
I’m a big fan of Apollo, and he’s a lot of fun to watch, but his use of language is not demonstrative of a deeper understanding.
And regarding Koko:
Patterson reported that Koko invented new signs to communicate novel thoughts. For example, she said that nobody taught Koko the word for “ring”, so Koko combined the words “finger” and “bracelet”, hence “finger-bracelet”.[22][promotional source?] This type of claim was seen as a typical problem with Patterson’s methodology, as it relies on a human interpreter of Koko’s intentions.
Other researchers argued that Koko did not understand the meaning behind what she was doing and learned to complete the signs simply because the researchers rewarded her for doing so (indicating that her actions were the product of operant conditioning)
- Comment on All this bad AI is wrecking a whole generation of gadgets 7 months ago:
If that were true, how come the tech bros aren’t investing in humans?
- Comment on All this bad AI is wrecking a whole generation of gadgets 7 months ago:
The danger is that not everyone has enough critical thinking skills to question the correctness of an answer
I brought this up to my mom who responded with “yeah, but there’s a lot of incorrect information online anyway.” This is true, but AI strips away 100% of the context for that information, and if the AI people have their way, there will be no other portal online with which to get a second opinion.
- Comment on All this bad AI is wrecking a whole generation of gadgets 7 months ago:
Mostly unrelated, but since this is going to be a dunk on AI thread anyway, I think what’s feeding all this hubris around AI is that it’s essentially tricking us into thinking it’s intelligent. It’s an incredible tool for compressing and organizing information, but it isn’t really smart.
And I had this thought watching a video last night of Apollo the African grey parrot. This bird has the Guiness World Record for being to correctly identify 12 different objects. But that he can speak a language that we understand doesn’t make him any more intelligent than many other animals. And when left alone without a prompt he’ll just mumble nonsense or in other words “hallucinate.” That he gets the words in order is just something that he was trained to do. It’s not his natural state.
Anyway, I feel like AI is kind of like that. Our language-based psychology makes it seem more intelligent to us than it actually is.
- Comment on All this bad AI is wrecking a whole generation of gadgets 7 months ago:
I think one major issue is that we’ve somehow ran out of hardware to upgrade (except the camera I guess), so now we’re tying software upgrades to hardware.
Like, I was willing to play ball when Siri came out and my iPhone 4 couldn’t do it (had to upgrade to 4s). Like I knew that Siri was just an app on the cloud, but I figured it needed some hardware to preprocess audio or something?
But why the hell can’t these AI features just work on current phones? Oh, because the business model requires selling more hardware. So are we just assuming that nobody will pay money for AI assistants?
- Comment on Small study suggests dark mode doesn’t save much power for very human reasons 7 months ago:
Was it ever about power?
- Comment on Diablo speedrunners searched 2.2 billion random dungeon seeds to debunk a two-decade old speedrun record 8 months ago:
they began to search “impossible seeds” - “which could only be created by using save modification tools to force a creation date after the year 2038”. They eventually found dungeons with the drop in the right place, using seeds for the years 2056 and 2074.
For more:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
I assume the game didn’t allow for save files to have negative epoch time.
- Comment on Diablo speedrunners searched 2.2 billion random dungeon seeds to debunk a two-decade old speedrun record 8 months ago:
Why go to all this trouble for a 27 year old speedrun?
Uh, is 2009 that long ago?
- Comment on The Onion Deletes Image From Article After Realizing It Was AI-Generated 8 months ago:
Photo in question:
shutterstock.com/…/monster-sad-real-photo-2572494…
Apparently cut out the face and used it in the image on the article.
- Comment on Face Recognition Threatens to Replace Tickets, ID at Sports Events – and Beyond 10 months ago:
Considering you already need a smartphone, this sounds like more of a lateral step.
- Comment on Why Is Printer Ink So Expensive? 10 months ago:
Two printers. One costs 3x+ more than the other.
Ink for the cheap printer: $54 for 440 pages of black and since the cartridge combines color and black, you have to throw the extra ink out.
Ink for the cheap printer: $14 for 6000 pages. I couldn’t even find the official Epson ink since there are so many third party options. Because Epson doesn’t have to lock down their ink because you paid full price for their printer.
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 11 months ago:
I’m talking about the back doors. But yes. I incorrectly compared the front doors in the 3/Y with the back doors of the X.
