ShepherdPie

joined 11 months ago
[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 3 points 5 months ago

I consider myself the ideas guy.

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 7 points 5 months ago

Of you want to see an even more extreme example, look at how many people are still using Twitter despite all the shit getting pulled over there. Reddit's shenanigans look tame by comparison.

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 1 points 5 months ago

I'd hate to be the one to use them after /u/buttfarts.

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 2 points 5 months ago

That's the outside. The inside is 256 million pixels.

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 3 points 5 months ago

It is absolutely pushing boundaries to be driving this many pixels at a frame rate that doesn't take minutes to refresh. I build a lot of projects with addressable LEDs and the typical hobbyist stuff chokes out when you start trying to control more than a thousand or so. This thing has 256 million pixels inside and 1.2 million outside.

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Probably because they're not doing much with it. It's $100/person to see the basic "Planet Earth" showing and almost $200 to see The Grateful Dead show. Previously they showed a Phish show. That's it for options, and none of it sounds really appealing to me.

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

This is such a naive and ignorant take that assumes everything is argued in good faith and not with an army of bots posting literal propaganda, lies, and disinformation in order to brainwash people who don't know any better.

What you're arguing for is allowing cancer to spread rather than seeing a doctor about it "because the immune system will take care of it."

We're not arguing about "a marketplace of ideas" in real life, this is about weaponizing technology to serve the interests of a select few to the detriment of everyone else.

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 2 points 5 months ago

The one thing that was strange was that gamestop almost always broke disks in half before throwing them out.

I think this is a common method to disincentivize people from taking stuff. Many moons ago I worked at Walmart and they did the same stuff in the claims area. They would damage everything to make it worthless and then either toss it in the trash compactor or send it back to the manufacturer. They damaged it to male sure that it couldn't be sold again and to somewhat prevent people from using this as a method to 'launder' good items that they'd come back later to take home.

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 5 points 5 months ago

Or wash dishes.

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You could use it to sell decorative coasters.

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I was just at a store last week and they had a sign on the machine saying you can't use it and it's going away. I wonder what they'll do with all those discs.

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