loudandskittish

Brian Eno once said: "Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided."

So, Instagram emulated cheap, plastic film cameras and now we've finally moved on to OG digital cameras...

But the thing is, a year ago, Twitch actually did a good job suggesting people with only six viewers. *Now* for some reason, they're pushing people in hot tubs who already have thousands of viewers. That's what I'm complaining about.

> Instagram actively hides pics from my step kids, nephew and niece to show me "reels" from people I don't follow.

I find it all that for all the data these companies have, they don't seem to be using it well...or stopped using it.

Facebook has suddenly started flooding me with posts from political meme groups I never joined and have never even looked at.

Twitch's recommended section used to be spot-on. Now they're trying to push me to watch women in hot tubs for some reason.

For me, YouTube is the only one that still manages to surface things I actually want to watch.

I don't know what changed (I've really only noticed this in the past two months), but this is starting to feel like the old broadcast TV model of executives deciding we should all watch the same thing.

Is it just me or do the "up-scaled" versions look more like a child's MS-Paint drawing?

I used to think that...until my second no-fault eviction in two years...

> But what about people with special needs? eg. people with mental health problems or medical conditions requiring expensive therapy? Unless you think we should let those people fend for themselves, you'll still need welfare programs to help those people

Speaking from experience, such people already have to fend for themselves...so nothing really changes.

No, it shows that a lot of people left Montreal when the major financial and media institutions moved their HQs to Toronto after Bill 101 was passed in 1977.

Problem is, you could end up spending $3.8 billion on pizza.

RAM, processing power and HD space.

I've yet to see a single reason why I would want Windows 11.

Yes, on top of the fact that just about every portrayal of 'The Metaverse' has been a dystopian nightmare.

Thank you! I followed the link on my phone and WTF is this bullshit? There's a popover that tells me to either download the app or "Return to /r/popular" ...despite not having come from there in the first place. No way to just close it and, you know, read the content. At least, no obvious way.

But online collectible card games have existed for well over a decade without any need for NFTs, including the ability to trade and sell your rare cards. What does having an NFT add?

I'm wondering how long this will remain efficient, though. I'm now at the point where I just flat out refuse to click on any video with a clickbait title, or any video that is exactly 10 minutes long (give or take a few seconds). I can't be the only one.

...as long as you don't tell them you were delivering food at the time...

What I don't understand is why people care so much...

I'd rather be "Mark."

I worked for a call centre in Canada that had all the same rules.

"The average 30-year mortgage rate in 2020 was 3.11%. The same $2500/month payment with 20% down buys a $730,892 house."

Except what's happening I live is that now the $423,870 house costs $730,829. As well, for someone who doesn't already have a house, the down payment isn't something you can just handwave away.

> You can't build a bubble on boring, moored ideas, you need hype.

...except for houses

Is there any viable way to bring back forums? I worry I'm going full "boomer," but damn do I miss the 90's internet.

I spent many years thinking they were invented as scary video game baddies...was pretty horrified when I found out they're actually real.

Unrelated, but is there a reason I now suddenly have to click "Show Thread" every time someone links to a Twitter thread now?

I bet it runs smoother and uses less resources than anything written in Electron...

I really don't get what's up with that...2012 or so, Netflix was suggesting movies I'd never heard of that I ended up loving. Now when I log in, it just demands I watch Family Guy (ugh) ...and starts auto-playing it, of course.

I've recently tried to get back into tracking and I've found OpenMPT to be one of the worst modern trackers. Yes, it adds lots of modern features but its very poorly documented, there are barely any tutorials and what few do exist are more focused on "drawing" samples than actually using the program to make music. I also dislike that I can't quickly go through my samples directory and try a melody on each sample like I could with the trackers of yore.

So far, Schism Tracker is more usable I've found, but it feels like running Impulse Tracker in DOSBox, which, granted, it not necessarily a bad thing.

In the end, I may just suck it up and pay for Renoise.

...is this advice people actually need?

Here's an article by someone using a similar system where I think how it's actually used in practice is described pretty well: https://ryanholiday.net/how-and-why-to-keep-a-commonplace-bo...

May I ask what unimplemented features you're referring to? I think one of the biggest issues the older crowd has with Electron apps is not only that they eat up 500MBs of RAM, but also that they only have a tiny subset of the features contained in apps that ran fine with 500KBs.

Seriously. I'm not sure how we got to a place where 500MBs of RAM for apps that don't even have a quarter of the functionality of apps that needed 500KBs of RAM became normal and acceptable.