Wrench Wizard @ BallsInTheShredder @lemmy.world

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According to the wiki article that you linked:

However, due to many legal, regulatory and technological obstacles, cable television in the United States in its first 24 years was used almost exclusively to relay terrestrial commercial television stations to remote and inaccessible areas. It also became popular in other areas in which mountainous terrain caused poor reception over the air. Original programming over cable came in 1972 with deregulation of the industry.[1]

So basically for that first 24 years - around '1948 -'72 it was primarily used to get broadcast television to people in areas with poor reception.

Then came cable companies, producing content.. without as many commercials as OTA t.v. I wasn't born early enough to know the 70's, but did grow up with antenna television and remember being introduced to cable. First thing I noticed was that there weren't any ads at all on some channels. When I was a kid the ad free channels on my setup were 09, 10, 19, 20, 21, and some others I'm likely forgetting. I didn't actually have too many more than that, and a lot of that was filler. The ad free channels were the meat and potatoes of my experience!

So, maybe history doesn't say it was marketed that way, maybe the cable companies didn't either, I won't claim to know, but I will tell you that seeing channels without ads was a pitch on its own back then, you noticed it when you visited others homes and talked about it, others noticed when they visited out home and thought about getting it themselves etc.

Maybe it wasn't a pitch, and the whole deal, but it was damned sure a selling point.

We got reception just fine, somehow even in my rural area, what we didn't get was relatively new, commercial free movies, or titties.

What makes it a tabby cat? Asking for a friend that claims her cats are anything but tabby

Oh wow, so during a strike the union pays employees? Never realized this happened but it makes so much sense now, so the employees can strike without having to worry about going broke. Would be cool if that funding were extended so that if an employer decides to give strikers the middle finger, those people can ride that funding until another job is found. Reducing the hold companies have on employees.

Birds aren't real anyway

Downloaded it, checked disable ads and it asks for a configuration Id? Assuming I make one on their site but can't figure how I would connect this app to the site

Where is this set up at? I'd like to see

With everyone self hosting huge servers like this, my question is.. how can I access some large ones like this? Kodi, Plex?

Really happy to see people accepting "y'all" lol, It just makes so much sense!

Is that for movies, images or what? Either way it's interesting

I do the "wrong song" as well! Been a habit of mine for decades. Some songs from say the 90's, I don't even know the actual lyrics for anymore, just what I made up

Am actually super experienced in this. I've been the fart maker, I've been the manager, I've been the co-worker tolerating it. Here's what you do.

Call a team meeting, preferably with HR discussing behavior similar to this, without pinpointing fart jokes but close enough that the message gets across. Maybe say there have been anonymous complaints. Definitely do if possible this will come in handy later.

With step one done, here's how you deal. If at all possible, develop a bond with the guy, pretend to like the fart jokes. Maybe even make one or two yourself so he feels you're in this together.

Then, when you tell him to stop, blame HR.

"Haha! Oh, how I love our fart jokes mr.man, but we should lay off of them before HR calls us in!"

"Can't let you get fired over that, I need you here bud, not fired over a fart joke haha"

This typically has worked from what I've seen. When you make someone else, especially a company, the "big bad" and get people to feel like you're on their side/fighting for them they're typically more willing to bend a little bit.

I won't disagree on that and do see your point, 100% context for sure

We do have more context than it seems though, if someone tells me to show up to work at 7, I can assume it's a.m. If someone says they'll meet me at 12, it's going to be mid-day etc. If it's 7 and bright outside it's in the am, if it's 7 and dark it's p.m. It's not too tricky with context clues

But, being my own devil's advocate, you are right. No ambiguity in 24 hour time. I don't have an issue with 24 hour time, was raised on 12 hour so it's natural but 24 isn't bad either, and is more exact in some ways.

I do prefer 12 hours though, makes the day feel shorter like working two 4 hour shifts instead of a solid 8. Same time but one feels shorter so I apply that to most days. As another mentioned, working a 9-5 seems short when compared to working a 9-17 😂

If it were up to me though, A.M and P.M would be visible on every 12 hour clock, I do agree it's weird that some are made without it, sure it is easy to figure out whether a.m or p.m via context clues but having any ambiguity in a form of measurement seems odd, but making a dinner date for 7 and showing up at 7 a.m would be odd as well I guess, though not everything is so clear.

The context is the am/pm after

I hate when our wife says things like that

But us common idolators want to mob them

Thanks for sharing a branch from your knowledge tree!

That was a (bad) pun, tr-hee hee!

But really, I can't wait to become a tree so I can throw apples at tin people.

No one's saying creativity will completely die, but experience tells me that when a function isn't completely necessary, many people forget.

When the internet came, libraries became less necessary.

When print came, cursive became unnecessary.

When kindles came, physical books lost value.

We can be optimistic about it, but it will have an impact.

Bad thing? Who knows. Major changes in life? Absolutely.

It'll make life easier, at the cost of losing certain skills we have, that's how it's been happening for a while now.

Give a man a calculator, why would he do math in his head?

Teach print, why write in cursive?

Give me a library on my phone, why have a physical building?

All of these things exist, sure, but to say that all change is positive is.. not good. People make mistakes, not all modern advancements are for the good of humanity, or the individual.

I get where you're coming from but still beg to differ. Sure, the suffering of a broken leg may end sooner for an animal because death but what about the life without comfort that proceeded that energy? The savage wild where everything seems to want to murder you? Going without shelter, food etc? Meanwhile even in major poverty humans tend to have some form of shelter, some food, some support, friends, maybe benefits from the government etc.

Even people in prison have it better than animals and I'm not sure how dying faster = better life? Sure, it sucks (for some) that life is drawn out while others (especially the rich) live long happy lives enjoying every minute of it?

Not saying I don't understand where you're coming from just seems oversimplified to say they have it easier because they die faster

I get what you're saying and there is a market for all that but it's getting smaller by the day.

Physical game copies are only wanted by collectors and for many it makes more sense to just emulate as you can tweak settings, save any time, swap controls/controllers etc.

Bikes? Less and less. Gone are the days, in my town when you would see droves of youth biking from home to home visiting friends.

Who rides bikes around my area now? Tbh mostly wealthy suburbanites with free time and money. I live in the "sticks" so guess that's by default, but it's rare to see a bicycle in our big cities right now too. I travel to one of the biggest cities in the country quite often and it's all E-scooters at the moment, a bike is seldom seen.

Manual transmissions? It's rare to see those as well. I work in the automotive field and from what I can see, automatics have taken over. The only sticks I've seen in years have been on older work/farm vehicles/equipment and that's only because the owners can't afford to upgrade. When I have seen them upgrade, it's almost always automatic when applicable.

What I'm saying is, sure, maybe these things aren't officially dead yet but they're not really thriving either.

Just like these things, give it 20 years and AI will be the default. Those who make "real" art will be a small minority, like a person still receiving calls through a landline or something.

Or maybe it won't? But this is how it's usually gone in my lifetime. I've yet to see much stop the winds of change, but people do still read paperbacks even though kindles exist so who knows. Just seeing a big push for AI rn and the only way it won't take over is.. well I can't imagine what would stop it. People are paying to use it, and I've yet to see something that's profitable not be expanded upon.

My pain isn't the knowledge of death, it's the experience of life and I feel like sleeping outdoors, having to kill to eat etc. Wouldn't be as pleasant of an experience as say eating a bowl of chili and watching a movie before crawling into a comfy bed

Also, when I step on my cat's foot it meows like it hurts, not sure what you're saying tbh not being snarky just confused what kind of pain do animals not experience? Depression, trauma etc?