Newpipe breaks too often and doesn’t have shorts, easier to rawdog YT with adblocker.

Enterprise level hardware costs a lot, is noisy and needs a dedicated server room, old laptops cost nothing.

Despite having fruitfully contributed to the network he is stripped of his name and his account is now known as “user4616250”.

Inspector Javert aah behaviour.

Did you project onto a wall or a projection screen?

Damn, really showing my age here 😳

I’m toying with the idea of just getting an LCD projector - I don’t care about seeing every pore on the actor’s faces, 1024x768 is fine.

And on the other hand I don’t get the obsession with putting so much spice into your dish that you can’t taste the ingredients. “Seasoned” does not automatically mean “so much chilli pepper that it makes you sweat”.

The Postman. Compared to other post apocalyptic cheese fests it feels like a more nuanced display of societal breakdown and the re-emergence of the barter economy.

Another dogshit looking green screen atrocity. I think their only purpose is to remind people that the animated original exists.

On: Dead,dead,dead - South Park

Last Christmas - Wham

Little Drummer boy - Traditional

Carol of the Bells - Traditional

Off: Screechy AI slop that appears when you put “Christmas music” in the Youtube search bar.

We’re in the cyberpunk dystopia.

“Chipping in” intensifies

Listening to the Hogfather while doing chores rn 😀

I guess so, but engagement does not equal revenue, and the models are black boxes that are already falling apart. I have no idea where exponential improvement should come from - throwing more and more computational power into the maw can only get you so far.

I’m all for corporations souring their dopamine pipes. Perhaps it may encourage the users to do something useful with their free time, maybe even pick up a book or two (said he, while scrolling Lemmy in bed).

The laundry chair ™

Jesus fandom, Catholic branch. In my defense they enrolled me before I was old enough to say no.

I am older than you, but not by much. I too remember channel surfing, which I guess was the equivalent of scrolling through your phone. Frequent ad breaks were not really a thing in my country until early 2000s, when private TV stations began to take hold, and by then I had already switched to PC gaming as a primary source of entertainment. I’ve done everything I can to banish unwanted advertising from my life, the only one I cand stand is Steam sales, but only because I can get hours of etertainment for a symbolic price.

Whenever I visit my parents the TV is on. They only have broadcast television, and ad breaks come on every 15 minutes and last 10 minutes. How can anyone watch a series episode or even worse, a movie like that is beyond me.

“I am focused on task x and cannot talk to you”.

Does he have a job to do or is he just there to pester people with smalltalk?

Ok, can we puh-leese stop talking about corporate media siloses on the fediverse? I keep seeing Elon’s stupid mug plastered all over the media, can Lemmy be the exception, pretty please?