Is this going to end up as an Escape from LA situation?

As we all know, UI is a fundamental part of any piece of software’s architecture and cannot be changed without a ground-up rewrite.

Isn’t that what the Skate series is for?

Same. I’ve no interest in watching videos about this stuff. I like skimmable things where I can stop and read more if a particular story takes my interest.

I wish I could get past how ugly and small that engine makes places look.

We and I know many things.

I always rather liked Cassidy, but Sulik could get pretty murdery at higher levels with some suitable gear.

Do your best.

I tend to use things like Pixelfed to find people interested in the same hobbies. Mastodon I use more for general nerding out.

I wasn’t intending to criticise your use-case. I don’t know what normal usage patterns look like.

That sounds lovely but it’s not been my experience of using social media (except Facebook). I’m not suggesting my experience is normal, or that yours is. I genuinely don’t know.

Monolithic as in Twitter, Reddit, Facebook - platforms that do not federate.

Plus I’m yet to run into a single person I actually know IRL on the fedi.

Is that a normal metric for monolithic social media?

They’re a tad bigger than that (100 GB per disc), and I’ve lost enough hard disks over the years to not want to have to deal with backing up files that big. Not when I can have a small collection of shelf stable discs that won’t suffer mechanical failure short of deliberate damage.

Anyway, you can disagree all you like. If it’s not inconvenient for you, excellent, but for me it is. Hard disks sit in the back of my mind as ticking time bombs that I need to keep an eye on if I want to trust them. Ugh, I’ve done enough of that in my life. So many dodgy disks!

Oh and that also assumes a load of infrastructure in my home that I don’t have. I know how to set it up, but I don’t want to. Been there, done that. I’d rather check the second hand UHD shelf at CEX and pick up the occasional disc when the price isn’t silly.

Of course, eventually my UHDs will decay, but the timescale is decades rather than years.

Dolby Atmos is a surround sound technology. The most basic speaker setup for it is 5.1.2: 5 = front left and right, centre, rear left and right 1 = subwoofer (bass box) 2 = ceiling speakers

So a soundbar - a single block sat in the centre below the screen - claiming to do immersive surround sound is up there with gold-plated fibreoptic leads.

This is something that irks me about how we have things setup at the moment. Farming produces food. Put money in, get food out. The notion that it also needs to make money is putting the cart before the horse. Yay capitalism.

I’m always tickled when I see soundbars that ostensibly support Dolby Atmos.

Speaking only for UHD blurays - to get similar quality requires large files. Storing a collection of giant files is a hassle.

I don’t think attempting to blow into one of these is going to help matters.

I think the only thing I want to know is “can anything be done to help my body?” and I didn’t see anything in there. Limiting exposure, sure, but I am already exposed, so what do I do about what has already happened?

Go smoke, go broke.