Almost everything you ingest from day to day on your PC, in terms of multimedia content, is compressed.

File compression is a necessity, as it makes transmission of such media over the internet much more teneble. But uncompressed video carries a lot more information – not necessarily all useful information, but it is there.

I can’t imagine a better result.

Many modern devices can “float” between 110-220v as well as 50 and 60Hz.

In practice, it means you don’t need older style, larger adapters which actually change the voltage and frequency for you. You can just use the cheaper adapters which only change the plug.

To be sure, just read the little print by the power area on whatever device(s) you’re bringing. The ranges will be listed.

Done it many times.

For a server, IDK.

I used to care on the desktop. AM5 boots painfully slowly, which probably would have been an issue at some point. Now I rarely reboot, so I don’t care as much.

Never played Shadow of the Colossus, but it has been on the list for a while!

Arthur Morgan’s death scene in RDR2 really got to me. But perhaps even more so, when my horse was killed right before. I remember pausing the game for a moment because I had had that horse for so long and somehow it felt like a major deal that happened so quickly.

Never had a game affect me like that before.

Not even once

Methamphetamine

Yes, because they’re not funny, but if I get in the habit of laughing at them myself, someone nearby may not be paying attention and laugh along with me.

That should work, as soon as I have friends to be around me

Yep, I went to Mastodon too.

It’s very upsetting that the way most people know about federated platforms is Meta’s Threads.

Reddit was reddit. I left when I was forced into using their stupid app and watch ads.

I’ve generally enjoyed Lemmy.

Edit: or to and

Linux. I use Pop on my desktop and Arch on my laptop.

BTW, Linux+Proton is great for playing Windows-only games. The time for needing Windows for gaming is mostly past, tbh. You may often find better performance on Linux for many games, too.

I got one of these today too.

Something tells me the USPS wouldn’t be using bit.ly.

The early 2000s.

I was a Genesis kid. Loved the 16 bit era, and also had plenty of 8 bit. Much love all around.

Got into PC gaming in the 1990s. Loved strategy especially, and it’s something you can’t do well on 16 bit.

But the early 2000s were relatively dark. 3d graphics were around and pretty shitty by today’s standards. There was a lot of straight garbage in the gaming market that I don’t want to experience again. There was good stuff, like HL2, but on the whole things were bad.

Nokia of now is not the Nokia of yesteryear. Their new phones are just cheap Android smartphones.

By the numbers: French or Arabic, as other commenters have mentioned.

But it really, really depends on where in the world you want to travel. If you’re interested in Asia, for example, neither French nor Spanish nor Arabic will help you much (save for some remaining French usage in Vietnam).

A better answer is: figure out where you want to go, then do the math on what to learn.

I have had fun with ChatGPT, but in terms of integrating it into my workflow: no. It just gives me too much garbage on a regular basis for me not to have to check and recheck anything it produces, so it’s more efficient to do it myself.

And as entertainment, it’s more expensive than e.g. a game, over time.

The only honest answer in the whole thread

The US has a problem of representation. Specifically and especially since the Citizens United decision, corporate interests can easily flow money towards politicians to make them do just about anything they want. This exacerbated an existing problem with the corporate tax rate and has now brought it into laughably low territory.

That’s all an oversimplification of course, but it’s not that Americans haven’t “figured it out”. It is far more complicated than that.

I guess that depends on your age. Even for some of the most contested elections in my lifetime (e.g. Bush v Gore 2000), supporters of either side did not have the kind of rabid quality that so many have now.

I wonder how much of that has to do with semantic drift on Elohim, i.e. by the time the oldest extant manuscripts were written, the figure was already considered singular despite retaining the noun plural morphology. The implication there would be that earlier (now lost) manuscripts may have had plural verb agreement for Elohim, or maybe simpler / more plausible, there was a time in the oral tradition where Elohim was still considered a plural figure and would have naturally gotten plural verbs.

I think the fact that the plural morphology exists on the noun at all suggests at least that the figure started as a collective.

Edit: probably also worth a mention that portions of Genesis (e.g. Garden of Eden) mirror portions of the Epic of Gilgamesh, a story which is overtly polytheistic.

Yeah. I think historically it is interesting, because the Hebrew Elohim of Genesis is in the plural, and there is evidence that followers of El believed him to be one deity in a pantheon. In that sense, Elohim and the associated creation myths have their roots in a polytheistic religion.

Yhwh was more likely a figure from a belief system of a different region which ended up co-opting the earlier stories. I know your comment was tongue-in-cheek, but I think it is actually plausible that things like the Catholic Holy Trinity have roots in El and Yhwh technically being different figures.

But is it Yhwh or El?

The Shintō sun goddess Amaterasu is quite interesting. As is the whole Shintō origin story.

Sounds like a very interesting read. Thanks for the suggestion.

What about Roosevelt then? He got voted into serving four terms before he established a term limit.

But how were his voters? Did you see the kinds of things I listed in the post? I’m not saying it isn’t the case, but I wouldn’t think that FDR being reelected multiple times necessarily means his supporters were doing culty things as I listed.

Same with JFK, etc. (modulo Reagan who is mentioned in another comment). I’d say all of them have definitely been elevated to a weird status after the fact, but I’m not sure that puts them in this group.

I take that more as a general nationalistic symbol. Yes, nationalism is also pretty cultish in a way, but it is less reliant on a single individual.

(And the faces of Mt. Rushmore are very much a blight on what the Lakota call Six Grandfathers).

There have been demagogues before, with cultish followings, but they’ve not been anywhere near as popular as Trump.

This is pretty much where I was coming from with the post. It seems like a new thing to have something so culty be so popular in the US.

Thanks for these. Joseph Smith in particular is an interesting example. I didn’t know he attempted to run for President at one time. On the Mormon side, I find it quite interesting that his religion still exists despite him being outed as a charlatan. I guess that also says something about human nature.

I knew someone who was a Ron Paul supporter. Definitely heavily into the conspiratorial stuff. I think at the time, the movement was relatively small, so I hadn’t considered that it was somewhat culty.

Thanks for these. I had never heard or Charles Coughlin. I am familiar with McCarthy, but never considered his story in these terms. It does fit.

Very interesting figure and exactly what I was hoping to find through this post. Thanks.

I had heard this name before, but for some reason I thought he was mostly a religious figure. Maybe that’s the cultiness. Interesting that he shifted from left to right.

Oh yes. As a US person it blows my mind as well. We have an unhealthy fear of changing the Constitution, despite its many amendments. Of course that also precludes changing portions of it that were clearly designed under different pretenses than currently exist (e.g. 2A, but that’s a whole can of worms I’m just tired of opening at this point).

The main issue there in my view isn’t actually the Constitution but the sheer division at every decision. Nothing can be changed anywhere if people can’t even agree on the same facts anymore. It ultimately means the US is at a constant government standstill. Fun times.

In many ways we now feel like two different countries. The blue country with dense populations centered around either coast, and the red country with sparser population in the middle.

I was pretty young when Reagan was a thing, so I wasn’t quite sure how intense his original supporters were (modulo his election results).

But, I guess it’s also worth noting that he’s been glorified by the GOP over and over again.

Yes, and he still lost handedly. That extra time was all rambles and nonsense. I think in the end it was better.

(Yes, I still would have preferred they muted him, ultimately).

The Office (US). I’ve seen them all a million times but there’s still enough to distract my mind. It’s using the ubiquity of all the one liners and memes to advantage.

Huge, HUGE red flag. Even without it being I9 stuff.

I have worked remotely for 8+ years at this point. Sometimes I don’t even turn my camera on for meetings. It depends on a lot of factors. If my employer cared about any of that, they probably wouldn’t be a good employer for remote work.

I appreciate that. I probably should have put a /s tag on it.

I don’t pronounce them at all, because that would require friends in the real world

Pop on my desktop, Arch on my laptop, Debian on my really old laptop

Edit: Commodore in the sheets