AstixAndBelix

3 years agodiscuss

Has anyone found a decent use of the 100x zoom on these phones? Could it be that the sheer hype it causes compensates for the extra cost of putting it on the phone? Like, even if nobody uses it it stills turn an overall profit because of the marketing

AstixAndBelix

3 years agodiscuss

When I really think about the kinds of things I find essential in a computer, almost everything could be achieved with a TUI or a very light GUI.

Unfortunately, the problem of proprietary software and APIs is always around the corner. I can use a TUI client for Telegram, but I can't if I want to message someone on Facebook. I can use a simple newsreader for blogs, but I can't for my friends' Instagram posts.

I could honestly scrap by with a 20yo computer if the world was more open sourced. Such a shame

AstixAndBelix

3 years agodiscuss

This is utterly false and bordering religious beliefs.

Steve Yedlin has dedicated decades of his life to ultimately prove [1] that digital and film can achieve the same exact look, save for the fact that digital is infinitely easier to deal with.

[1] https://yedlin.net/DisplayPrepDemo/index.html

AstixAndBelix

3 years agodiscuss

Mastodon was not made for p2p, which having a huge amoung of single-user instances basically is.

The problem with Mastodon is that it ties your main account (and yes, most people just want a single account to represent their online persona) to a single instance which might have a very silly name and a very strong and unique culture (i.e. local timeline).

The solution to this is not to self-host, because the infrastructure was not made for it. The solution would be to completely rethink the Mastodon experience, but that will never be done

AstixAndBelix

4 years agodiscuss

If social contagion can get people to develop serious ticks imagine how many things we automatically do or feel or think that are a mere result of random social pressures

comments