IninewCrow

Isn’t it just a limitation of human vision? No matter how much resolution we can create, the human eye will only ever see a certain level of resolution … anything beyond that is imperceptible to us. I think I remember reading that 4K is the maximum we can realistically appreciate and anything beyond that is impractical because no one would ever notice the difference.

The only way higher resolutions work is if you start blowing up the size of the image itself. A 20" wide image at 720p looks good but the same image blow up to 60" becomes noticeably pixelated. A 20" wide image at 8K looks sharp and blown up to 60", it still looks sharp.

The current point of our human civilization is like cave men 10,000 years ago being given machine guns and hand grenades

What do you think are we going to do with all this new power?

It’s great because the internet was initially developed as a decentralized service so that if any part failed, the rest could maintain communications.

Over the past decade, corporations have been actively developing an internet of services that heavily rely on just a small set of services … and if any of them go down, everything is lost.

Dedicated GPS unit in your car

My parents gave me a GPS unit for my car about 20 years ago and I used it for the longest time. It was great help when driving in cities and big towns or locations I had never gone to before. We used it all the time and I think I updated the maps … I think it was a Garmin device … I think I updated the maps 2 or 3 times over the years. Then it went unsupported but I kept using it for the longest time.

Then I started buying better smartphones and my phone just eventually replaced the GPS unit.

I still have it and it still works and the battery on it is still good … I just don’t need it any more and the maps are about 10-15 years out of date.

We’d all like to think that but what usually happens is that the ultra wealthy lose a quarter or half their wealth, which makes no difference to anyone because they are so massively wealthy … everyone else lose everything

Planned Obsolescence … designing things for a short lifespan so that things always break and people are always forced to buy the next thing.

It all originated with light bulbs 100 years ago … inventors did design incandescent light bulbs that could last for years but then the company owners realized it wasn’t economically feasible to produce a light bulb that could last ten years because too few people would buy light bulbs. So they conspired to engineer a light bulb with a limited life that would last long enough to please people but short enough to keep them buying light bulbs often enough.

So you’re saying that we should do more AI searches for “Trump Dementia”

… and use variations of it like … “Trump old losing his mind”, “Trump old senile”, “Trump dementia don”, “Donny Dementia”, “Ding Dong Dementia Donny Trump”

Yes

And also, the major internet services and social media platforms should be publicly controlled and owned like postal services, medical services, water services or waste services (I know most American services are private, even in Canada) but all these services should be publicly controlled without private interests because they are the basis of running and maintaining peaceful democratic norms.

Whenever conservatives argue or demand that something be changed because they want it to … you know that any change they make will only last as long as the money is flowing.

Yes let’s do that … by stop talking about him, forget him entirely and focus all our attention on the fascists still around.

I think a better way to decide on an instance is reliability.

What is the instance, where is it based, who runs it. I don’t mean to completely dox people but they should provide some meaningful background info to legitimate themselves.

Personally I wouldn’t trust instances run by individuals unless I knew the people personally and I could talk to them. Otherwise you will always run the risk of leaving your content in the hands of someone who may or may not want to continue running their instance.

Is it run by a single individual, a group or an organization? I’d rather trust a group or organization and the more info they gave about themselves and their team and messaging the better. A group or organization is less likely to fall apart if any one person decides to quit.

A well organized group who know how to raise and maintain funds will also be less likely to fail.

And the user themselves have to make themselves responsible as well. Once you find a reliable instance that you like … give them money, support them, donate to them. The whole system needs money to operate and the people who make it work should be paid for their time and effort. If we all paid a little for every little bit of the fediverse we use, the more reliable and stable it will all become. The little bit we pay to every little instance we use will mean that it will be less likely to devolve back into a monolithic centralized corporation that controls everything all over again.

Making as many mistakes, missteps, misunderstandings, misconceptions and misses as possible.

Luck as in ‘lucky enough to have your entire species wiped out by a single unforeseen catastrophic event or climatic change’

Dinosaurs would have evolved into more exotic forms if they hadn’t been wiped out by an asteroid

We might unfortunately end ourselves through our own actions in a similar way

I wouldn’t worry about it … evolution is all about the survival of the luckiest and most fortunate

Sure it is survival of the fittest, strongest and most capable … but often through earth’s history … survival is more often left to the survivors, the lucky few who were just fortunate to survive.

With my dictatorial powers … my first action would be to seize and outlaw extreme wealth. No one would be allowed to own more than $1 million.

All the money collected would be used for government and providing a Universal Basic Income for everyone.

And I’d get a designer to make me a big fancy hat.

MAP … Minor-attracted person, a euphemism for pedophile

the things you learn about on the internet

Same here … I feel like an addict … if I can’t find Pringles, I will go for the no name stuff in a tube … they taste about the same but Pringles is like gourmet junk food in a can to me.

A can of Pringle chips

I secretly buy about three or four cans whenever we go grocery shopping. My wife’s unwell so I have to do everything at the grocery store and most times I’m on my own. But in just about every trip I buy the chips and sneak them around the house and eat them myself. I love the stuff and my favorite is BBQ.

Sometimes I feel like some alcoholic sneaking bottles around the house. I have a can in the basement, one in the garage and always one by my desk. I keep track of them all to keep them fresh and renewed.

I have a problem don’t I? … yeah I know … but I love it.

I used to unsure about the idea of lab grown meat … but now I think they would be fine. I haven’t seen any in my area yet.

Lab grown meats couldn’t be any worse than the horrendous things we feed and do to the animals (large animals, birds and fish) we eat already.