The_Grinch

joined 2 years ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

For me the main selling point of epaper is that the device can write to it then turn entirely off, for potentially multiple weeks of battery on a charge.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Are they really or are you just projecting what you want them to do?

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

You are pigeonholing my utterances as logical fallacies. debate-me-debate-me You are committing fallacy fallacy.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If this is what exercising your intellect looks like I guess you need it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Similar to another reply about shorthand, I practice with my own steno-typing keyboard I 3D printed as a hobby. I'm steno-typing this very message! (Very slowly)

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Yes, good, we're all very impressed that you know that word. They literally are pigeonholing you... and what's your point?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

And what precisely is the moral issue with stealing? Depriving someone of their personal property, which piracy is not.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It certainly feels like we're on the precipice of something breaking what with computers rapidly getting more locked down, these secure enclaves and/or TPM chips verifying that you're watching on an approved OS and web browser before allowing you to stream, and then the video is encrypted until it gets to your actual TV. Crazy what they're getting away with.

In the near future I foresee pirates pointing cameras at TV screens then using AI to clean up the video, then media companies responding by creating randomized slightly different versions of videos so they can trace them back to the account holder who shared it (move some tree branches around, slightly different colored hat on background actors, etc) and perhaps getting legislation passed to stop cameras from being allowed to record IP protected material, and so on.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They want >$100 a month to come out with maybe one movie and maybe two TV shows worth watching each year? No thanks, piracy for me has become more of a means to assuage my fear of missing out and keeping in touch with the cultural moment than actual enjoyment of the media they're putting out right now.

I do not believe the quality would go down if their budgets were cut significantly.