ThePowerOfGeek

Altman is the latest from the conveyor belt of mustache-twirling frat-bro super villains.

Move over Musk and Zuckerberg, there’s a new shit-heel in town!

This has the makings of a great sci-fi story.

I find the fact that the Qanon loonies are appropriating the symbolism of legendary rock band Queen both hilarious and offensive.

How the fuck did she think this was anything close to a good idea?! This shows a profound lack of good judgement, and a huge failure of both respect for her job and for the safety of the crew.

Oh wow, that’s a big step forward in longevity!

Thanks for the quote.

This is encouraging news. But don’t perovskite solar panels degrade much quicker than silicon ones? I know they had found ways of prolonging their life by using lasers to ‘smooth out’ and strengthen the crystal structure of the perovskite. But even with that the last I heard was that they would still only last few a few (2-7) years.

Nah, it’s a Scottish man describing a shot of whiskey.

I’ve had a similar experience. Except in my case I used lyrics for a really obscure song where I knew the writer. I asked Chat GPT, and it gave me completely the wrong artist. When I corrected it, it apologized profusely and agreed with exactly what I had said. Of course, it didn’t remember that correct answer, because it can’t add to it update its data source.

Thanks.

I am trying Libretube via F-droid. So far so good.

No Android version of it yet, eh? Damn.

ETA: I previously tried Vanced, but it didn’t work correctly.

Oh wow, that’s a huge monthly increase. Thanks for explaining the pricing system.

Not a big surprise on the Huffman Shitshow. A lot of subs over there are insanely toxic. But yeah, a ban for that? That’s crazy.

I didn’t even know RuneScape had a subscription! I think I briefly played it about 15 years ago. Good game, I just don’t have the time to play it, unfortunately. I assume you play? What’s the community like over there?

I just looked up their pricing and it makes sense for them to have an optional subscription. $14 a month is in line with other similar games (e.g. wow). Would be nice if they had a couple of tiers of subscription. Maybe a $7 and a $14. But that might complicate things. How much can you do on the free mode?

I’m a Gen-Xer who hates birds and squirrels equally. So I guess I’m your antithesis?

Though I don’t hate any of them to the point of harming any of them. That would be too much effort.

I was looking into something similar recently, and asked around on Lemmy. The general consensus I heard was that a Mini PC weren’t ideal, mostly I think due to the fact that they aren’t designed purely for streaming.

One think someone said piqued my interest, and I might try this. They recommended buying a cheap, Android TV compatible streaming box (like an Onn brand one), and side-loading an open source (and ad-free) launcher onto it.

I found this thread over on the Huffman Shitshow that had some good instructions.

Sounds intriguing. But you have to be careful sharing info like this. Blizzard is ruthless when it comes to shutting down resources they consider to be a threat to their IP.

Great article! This kind of thing fascinates me. I’ve thought about this topic quite a lot over the past decade or two. Mostly in the context of my own personal digital data and the stuff created by people I love and care about. But also on a wider level.

I’ve been backing up what I consider my most important stuff (including writing, audio, and art work) on to MDISCs for several years. Each disc is supposed to last around 10,000 years. But realistically because of the organic elements in the disc they ‘only’ last for about 1,000 years.

That should be fine from a longevity perspective (assuming the discs themselves don’t get destroyed, obviously). But there’s still the question of whether future generations would have the ability to extract that data, even if it’s still there on physical media. Would they have the devices and the know-how to read and parse them back into a useable format?

I guess if we hit another dark age then there will probably be more pressing concerns anyway. But it makes me sad to think of all that lost content - not only mine but so many other people who have created interesting stuff. Especially when one realizes that, like the article says, a lot of the early Internet has already been lost. And quite a few of those creators are no longer alive.

To paraphrase Roy Batty: all those creations have been lost, like tears in rain.

Lucky Brazil!

Yeah, this is a concern. I know lots of people say “just don’t connect it to the Internet” and turn it back into a dumb TV. And that works great right now. But the way things are heading I could see manufacturers requiring an Internet connection for it to work.

The recent Roku scandal (where they required users to agree to TOS changes before they could use their device in any way) was a wakeup call for many.

I’m hoping that a viable open source streaming device will become popular soon. I know there are solutions out there like hooking up an old PC or a Raspberry Pi as a media server. But I’m thinking of more of an out of the box solution for a set-top box solution, with a large computer monitor in lieu of a TV.

So Leawo recommends Leawo. What a surprise!

I recommend MakeMKV personally.

How did the error occur?

As I mentioned, the outage is happening all over the globe. The post has been joined by users from Australia, India, the Czech Republic, and more. The reason behind the outage is a technical error in their main product, Falcon.

A question followed by a paragraph that doesn’t answer the question. That’s frustrating.