vonbaronhans @ vonbaronhans @midwest.social

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Pixels are definitely a small slice of the market, but by golly, it's still my favorite line.

But I am a nerd, so. No argument there.

There have been plenty of phones and tablets with 3D camera systems. It's just not something that most consumers really want or need, so it tends not to become mainstream.

It still comes up every now and then. The iPhone 15 has a computational 3D camera thing it can do, but I've seen virtually no buzz about the feature.

Isn't that what communities and subreddits are for?

On the first point, I can't speak to the overall volume, but I can definitely say that people willfully misinterpreting me was a pretty common occurrence over on Reddit and definitely pushed me to comment less over time, just for the sake of my mental health. I don't think I've been on Lemmy long enough to make a meaningful comparison though.

To add to your second point, Lemmy definitely feels very stale very quickly. Reddit, for all its faults, has a much larger user base with thousands of active communities. On Lemmy, even browsing the everything feed, I only see maybe a couple dozen new and interesting posts a day, and it only takes about 10 minutes of scrolling before I'm looking at stuff from days or weeks ago. Most communities I've tried to explore have one, maybe two posters. Subbing to a community often feels like subbing to one person and hoping it becomes a real community in the future.

I dunno if any of that will push me back to Reddit. If Lemmy doesn't really fit me... I'll probably just give up this last little bit of social media and just browse Imgur for memes when I want.

You can patent a specific implementation of a technology, but not usually the principles behind that tech. Nintendo had patented this, too, but that likely has little to no effect on other hall effect joystick manufacturers.

Yeah, for most people it's "God it's terrible out here. I'd like to do things that make me feel better." And some folks hear that and go, "yeah you're SUPPOSED to feel bad because the world is bad and you should actually be MORE angry and upset so that you'll join my political project."

Which, like, has some truth to it. Capitalism is bad, true enough.

But if someone is just looking for connection, entertainment, and some good times to carry us through the bad... probably not the best time to recruit them into a political cause. Well, you could, if your political project has a big component of joy to it.

But I get it. I also get burned out just trying to stay informed. And maybe I just wanna talk about the new jazz album I found yesterday (black classical music by Yussuf Dayes) or the new game I'm stoked about (Sea of Stars). Good art would exist under any political system, after all!

I just paid the one time fee for no ads. Works for me.

Yeah, I've never had an ad like that on a work laptop, ever. A good IT dept will lock down the experience to minimize distractions for business purposes, and lock down features that aren't appropriate for work.

Nissan cars bad? Is that a common US complaint? The others I hear all the time (as an American myself).

Must be server specific. I've used Discord for years and never had to add a phone number.

My only concern with his age is his vice presidential pick. Harris is still largely better than any GOP candidate though, so they are certainly in no danger of losing my vote on the generals.

While this is true, I'll add that a huge swathe of the same people are huge hypocrites. All it takes is one of their own children to be inconveniently pregnant, and then it's all "rules for thee but not for me".

I don't think it's possible to know the proportion of evangelicals who are hypocrites in this way with confidence, but if you look for examples you'll find plenty. The most recent one I saw was a BYU student who was paid 500 bucks to prank called his mother and say he got a prostitute pregnant (for the filmer's tiktok or whatever), and after a couple exasperated questions, the mother told him to make the fictional prostitute get an abortion.

I may not be any of those things... but turns out I enjoy the humor of all of them greatly!

Oh. The intro on this alone is worth my attention.

Not super new by now, but the latest Sungazer album, Perihelion, is definitely in the rotation. I also like virtually anything Carlos Eine does (aka Insaneintherainmusic). I'm a sucker for jazzified video game music.

Most of the comments in here are from 2mo ago, seems like, but I'll give it a shot.

Michigander here. Lived most of my adult life here, but was raised in Illinois and bounced around for a bit in my 20s.

Started out with the standard rural Midwest set of beliefs (plus a few nutty ones like young earth creationism), but after a great many years of transformation I now consider myself a leftist (and/or socialist depending on my mood) and generally progressive dude.

Love me some tech, anime, video games, jazz, ttrpg, and so on with the nerd stuff. I also draw on the odd occasion, even a few commissions under my belt, but don't expect much. No academic or professional training here.

I do have an academic background in Japanese, Psychology, and general Social Science study methodologies, though I work primarily in IT these days.

I look forward to the discussions here!