I believe a major reason is reputation tied to a person’s account. OfferUp has also superceded Craigslist in my area and I think the user history and reputation system plays a role there. Same with other stuff like eBay, Mercari, StockX. Craigslist is too anonymous
Screw Dolby. I’ll only ever encode in AV1 and in the future AV2. HEVC won’t ever be ubiquitous like h.264 and VVC has already had support dropped by Intel processors after only one generation of hardware support. 6 years after the standard was finalized and VVC is still practically non-existent in consumer hardware
Main reason I want the steam machine to be a hit is just getting regular Linux boxes under people’s TVs and that getting developer interest. KDE Plasma Big Screen too. Good TV interfaces for media software. Respond well to remotes and gamepads. Popular service apps like Netflix and Crunchyroll. It’s jarring when I use other people’s TVs and the default page screen is just a wall of advertisements. At least Android based TVs I can install projectivity launcher to get a clean interface
That thread is mildly hilarious with the people snarkily saying if someone doesn’t like it, fork it and remove the AI slop and develop from there — and then people admitting they don’t have the skill to do the software development/they don’t want to learn/they wouldn’t be able to recognize the AI generated code from the human written code/they’re not going to fund AI free development and generally glossing over that these are unpaid hobby projects and they’re getting mad at a volunteers free work. Like damn the community gardens volunteers keeping the plants alive using unnatural big agriculture’s chemical products rather than dedicating even more of their free time to the community garden I want to consume
A bunch of these people I’m certain would not work for free and make that a moral and political statement about the value of labor but not extend that energy to the work of open source software developers. The guy works on a project that I’m certain would have a low ceiling for amount of monthly donations. People whining about him using AI who themselves won’t contribute any more than words of affirmation. So pretty much worthless. Absolutely worthless after like half a year of a demanding user base whose only contribution is prey much like a kid grumpily saying, “well I said thank you! You happy!? Now can you do what I said!?”
The tegra boards are good on Linux. They need to get this out so software developers can work out the software kinks and hardware integrators make some good designs. I want a whole lot more Steam Machine sized devices to choose from
When I paid for nordvpn with a credit card and decided to cancel, it took like a week and a half of emails with them to cancel and remove my payment info. A lot of, are you sure you want to cancel, are you sure you’re who you say you are
After that no more nordvpn. Pay for these services with crypto
I like the news not because I think Asus and Acer should be paying more royalties to the whichever ghoul in the patent web there is but because every-time something like this happens it’s another hit against support for hevc and its nearly 6 year old successor that’s gotten little to no relevant adoption in mobile or desktop hardware. AV2 will publish its final standard 6 years after VVC and pretty much not be behind at all because of how crappy the patent situation is for hevc and vvc
It’s good that h265 hasn’t caught on like h264 and likely never will. H266 having been even slower than h265 to gain adoption
Everyone pile into matrix and the element client. Got to make it more popular
For movies, look up what Alexa Mini’s can do. The very recent past dominant Mini had a 3424x2202 resolution. Most movies shot digitally (most in the last like 20 years) were shot at below 4k. Many had special effects done at 1080p. When movie theaters switched to digital projection, most used 2048x1080 projectors and the shift towards 4k projectors wasn’t that long ago.
The Alexa Mini LF can do 4448x3096. The Sony Venice 8k camera is a few years old only. There’s a huge amount of loyalty to Arri, particularly the lenses. Panasonic and Z-Cam have 8k cameras. But like Arri, I’d bet most filmmakers would choose the 4k/6k cameras
Even the ones that opt for the 8k cameras, there very likely would be lower resolution cameras in use as well like the Alexa Mini or a 4k/6k Z-Cam or like a Sony FX3. Including most nature documentaries. Unless it’s just wide canvases, you’re not going to be mounting the 8k cinema cameras all over the place like you would cheaper small cameras like an FX3. Plus stuff like shooting at 240fps 12bit color for slow motion playback. I’m betting that none of the cinema cameras support that at 8k. So back down to probably 1080p. Don’t know the status of 4k240 out there. That’s a lot of bandwidth, storage, processing power, and cooling needed
Then there’s 70mm filming. The vast majority of productions cannot do that. There’s a lot of unused footage that goes into filmmaking. If you look at the size of a roll of 70mm film used for projecting a feature length film, it’s huge. It’s boutique equipment. There’s not a ton of cinema 70mm cameras and lenses to rent. Camera operators. Labs to get them scanned for digital editing. 70mm will always be limited in adoption especially now that digital is the dominant form of cinematography
So 8k will for many many years be the land of upscaling and for native, old video games. Videos, I guess two 8k60 cameras rigged together for VR will lead the way along with an occasional movie/documentary. No guarantees that the movie theater will show it in 8k though. It’s taken a very long time for 4k projection to approach standard for theaters in places like the US let alone poorer countries or countries with less mega theater chains that could more comfortably afford the upgrade
Same song and dance since at least Windows me. Overtime it keeps getting more bloated and focused on advertising. If you got to use Windows at work, it is what it is but at home, get over it and switch to Linux already. It’s very clear that all the complaining of the world has little chance to ever get Windows to be what people want it to be
Terribly need degoogled android to become popular and/or a normal Linux distribution phone to become popular so that normal Linux market share couldn’t be ignored
Mildly entertained how fast it went from a bill to give the executive power to designate applications as security threats and ban them to then it being abused. A lot of folks saying the EFF and ACLU were wrong this time and then the EFF and ACLU being right less than 2 years after the bill passing. And it’s not like TikTok has been around all that long. 2021 all the pearl clutching about China’s influence ruining the youth just look at the zoomers entering the workforce - the app was popular for like 2 years at that point. Everyone people were complaining about were raised on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter. Not only that, TikTok was about the only social media platform that leftist were pretty good at compared to right wingers. The ridiculous dichotomy of leftist supporting a bill to ban TikTok while TikTok was core to the lefts grassroots outreach and networking. So now TikTok is right wing owned and Instagram and YouTube are still the same kind of content that people blamed TikTok for and have had for much longer.
That bill in 2024 was a Democratic Party self own especially when the bill wasn’t even TikTok specific. Somehow saw masked plain clothes federal agents kidnapping people in 2020 to pretty much no consequence and decided in 2024, the federal government won’t abuse this bill
It is pretty great for shrinking the filesize of my photos. It’s a part of the PDF standard now. It’ll get great support across the board eventually. Still pretty early in adoption
I know people that work in documentary film making, will eventually be incredibly annoying/expensive to practice in the US though it is always possible to rent gear/hire an operator with their own gear in other countries when filming outside of the US
That’s the hard part. People with advanced degrees or deep in the arts are used to regular praise. Don’t respond well when you don’t get excited for the things they say. One thing is to focus criticism onto how the upper social classes of leftist movements speaks they get used to taking non-academic criticism again from political colleagues.
Right now it’s the lower class that gets scolded for language and behavior that doesn’t fit with upper class language. The opposite should be it. The upper class either needs to step aside, adapt their speech like they’ve demanded everyone else for decades, or get ignored or scolded. The getting ignored part is already happening. The scolding seems to be increasing to me as the lessening of respect that academia seems to get now (not that academia should be disrespected but that the default to following academics seems to be in decline)
I’ve gotten used to calling out peers for being out of touch and for getting in fights with their imagination rather than just asking people at like a town hall in the poorer parts of town or a food bank what their concerns are or cashiers. It’s great. 10 years ago they were certain they were doing things well. Now today I’m finally seeing my academia friends thinking saying BIPOC and Latinx (two terms lifted from academic papers) isn’t resonating with minority communities or most white people outside of small university groups. The majority outside of universities have way more basic needs concerns compared to university students.
Telling people to go to therapy and travel more and go to music festivals isn’t working. Yoga, meditation, etc are not solutions that display urgency. Wellness rhetoric is weak. People that suggest these need to be shoo’ed away. The first time I heard bipoc said was at a fundraising event. I have never heard it said outside of political events that has significant speakers in attendance like local politicians, university professors, leaders of major nonprofits. I never hear it said out in the minority majority neighborhood I live in. Pressure the leftist upper class to speak the language of the common person by pulling them down into the lower class communities or push them aside by ignoring them and encouraging others to do so as well. If they want a career in politics either directly in government or in community organization groups, they better learn the culture and speech of the community
It’d be good if after speaking, like at those 50501 marches, canvassing the crowd for response. Do you remember anything people on the stage said? What are your pressing concerns locally? Did the speakers today address those? After today do you know where you can continue involvement in days between marches? Do you know when local town halls with local politicians occur and where? Are you active in any boycotts? Are you a part of a group in these boycotts? Did anything today bring you into membership of a grassroots political organization that you weren’t before?
If we aren’t being affective, we need to know as soon as possible.
Every bit of communication we do is an opportunity to also hear whether we’re even communicating well rather than relying on if the crowd clapped or cheered. The crowd almost always does once some starts to do so. We should constantly be optimizing our speech for how people respond in understanding and action
Also telling the higher class leftist who make fun of conservatives for being poorer on average to stop being a dick. Plenty of poor people are leftist. Or for being born in a non-destination state. Nothing wrong being born in South Dakota or wanting to live in South Dakota. Same idea for other countries. Plenty of conservatives are conservative because that’s what they were born into and are surrounded by. Either provide an avenue to be a leftist or an ally in benefit, not fully in ideology, or shut up and keep the elitism to themselves.
Sure it offends upper class leftists to be called out of touch and be ignored. Doesn’t matter, they’re a very small portion of the movement that by and large just vote and socialize among other champagne socialist. Their contribution is small. Better to alienate the well off upper class leftist than alienate the poorer leftists and middle swing voters that barely follow politics for whatever reason. There’s way more that aren’t upper class leftists
Local politics over national. Local town halls with city council members have plenty of unpolished but passionate speakers that are desperate in their situation. These are the people that should be getting positive reinforcement and encouragement. Someone that gets potholes filled because of their pestering city council members has displayed more political willpower and ingenuity than someone who got a bunch of college people to hold a moment of silence for all the people who’s voices that aren’t being heard
Should have accomplishable goals short dated and long. Short ones can be simple community work like cleaning up litter and volunteering at local community centers. Organizing fundraisers for random children activities that kids do. Associating regularly with counseling centers. Food drives. Clothing drives that deliver to people directly rather than pass on to the mostly faceless very large established non-profits. People should see the results of their efforts.
Like a friend of mine has been working as a councilor for ~18-20 year olds in a poor neighborhood. Often broken and/or impoverished homes. Got a friend that coaches sports. Others that work I restaurants and enjoy showing people how to break down whole chickens, fish, beef, etc which people love to learn especially the budget conscious. I don’t get why there’s such a strong separation between social workers and political organizations. Political organizations should be doing community volunteer type work on the regular to constantly be in touch with community member and potentially find people that would be great in helping plan, organize, and communicate with the public and that should be a part of their whole mission. On their website. In their brochure. In their marketing. Fundraising and paying for lobbyist is not a very engaging organization to keep people active
Don’t discourage anger from poorer people. In the art/politics/academia world, everyone is too sedated and decorum too required. That sort of attitude does not make poorer people feel like there’s urgency for them.
Shits hard but got to keep trying. Right now my attempts are focused on supporting local needs and trying to get the university/art people to stop trying to culture police people who aren’t even doing anything bad really and stop making people feel like they’re greedy for being more concerned about their finances rather than whatever the current social cause academia is hot these days
My thoughts are based around about 25 years of being the guy that grew up in an abusive poor household but managed to make it to college and into middle to upper-middle class social and political groups and being repeatedly frustrated with how much of a class divide there is on the left and how the upper portion dominates over the lower and it being really ineffective including the Obama years. We’ve been losing more and more of the non-college educated voter for decades and keep acting like the solution is to get more and more people a college degree. Now less people want to go to college and 2024 college students didn’t vote as lopsided left like they did in the past. Hoping demographics will save us is too passive
I spent a good amount of time typing that while doing other things as well. Too much. My bad. Unreasonable for anyone to read it. Gist
We look to people that are too out of touch for leadership. Politicians, artists, university professors and students
We need to look at those with urgent needs for leadership. Impoverished, medical problems they can’t afford, people with limited class and career mobility like tradespeople, gig workers, retail/restaurant workers, factory/warehouse, farmers, etc
The clear majority of people are not in the university, art - living their best life world or ones that follow politic at all. The majority are working hard and too exhausted to follow politics with their limited free time. We need laborers to feel like they’re not walking on eggshells among us
These people are not polished speakers because they’re not practiced. They can’t practice because mistakes are too harshly judged. They can’t practice because the out of touch people dominate the leftist scene
We need these people front and center on stage because they’re the ones people can relate to. They know how to talk normal. Like i am not good at that. I’m too bookish with my speech. I can be unrelatable like my previous post
On our end it’s support poorer less educated people in less glamorous jobs to be our leaders. Don’t be so judgmental on those that say problematic things on occasion. That’s like everyone that isn’t always surrounded by leftist
And in the past like 80s and back, it looks to me that the major activist leaders that got results were normal people on the edge and working at it full time without a backup plan for failure. Wealthier people can leave the country. Go and live a quiet comfortable life barely participating in politics. We need people leading that dont feel like they can have a comfortable life without major change
I’m bewildered locally trying to get leftist to care about local issues. They see something online and get way more worked up and spend way more time thinking of that then the example of a homeless kid with destructive tendencies in pseudo-adoption by someone I know. Or all the people I bring up that are struggling to find work and pay rent. Everyone’s focused on what makes them angry online or what they imagine could be happening or could happen to them rather than what they can effect around them so local communities get no attention. No building. No camaraderie. The people that are in need now have very little concern from them in local or national politics. Not from highly verbal political types. Well actually if a conservative comes across them, they’ll try to speak with them and move them towards to right
Back to artists and why they aren’t good leaders
Artists inevitably make art for other artists. Go to a film festival with a filmmaker Q&A about a movie of some poorer background. It is time and time again very little interest on the films subject matter and when the filmmaker speaks of them, time and time again it sounds to me as someone very out of touch with the people they’re making art about. Even when based on real people, I always get annoyed at artistic liberty they profess to have made to make a more effective art or make it more appealing. Lots of talk about awards and career. Hearing stuff like they added something to add more drama and intrigue. Like people working at fast food restaurants have all sorts of stories of funny/wild nonsense they or patrons have done in the restaurant. Have great conversations with coworkers after some time when there’s time to talk. But that’s seemingly too boring and depressingly small ambition for many high brow art consumers
The difference between an artist saying, “I spoke to people and heard stuff like this and that and I was inspired to make this movie” compared to, “this is what happened to me. This is how I live. This is what I think of in bed, at the grocery store, at a mall, at work.” The first hand account is unsurprising far more visceral and inspiring than the filmmakers however many degrees of separation telling. A university professors interpretation of data/info collected.
Somehow we talk about the importance of lived experience and then put the ones with the lived experiences, the poorer people, at the back of the line in favor of the lefts most comfortable people - the gainfully employed and highly praised people of marketable careers
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Hard to say. What I believe is that in more desperate times, civil rights leaders were average people. They weren’t people working in academia. They weren’t working for political parties. They were laborers, they were people that met and organized at church, people that met at work. Filmmakers, musicians, painters, fashion designers - they were all in their own bubbles making art about people that actually did the work of organizing and were desperate in their situation to feel the need to do so.
The art and career politics world is filled with people that can move neighborhoods, cities, states, countries. That automatically alleviates pressure to succeed in changing politics. The people at the auto shop conceivably can’t buy citizenship elsewhere, don’t have connections to get a “refugee” visa, education to apply for a workers visa for a field the counter considers in high need like tech. You don’t see landscaper visas for successful landscapers like you see governments do for people deemed successful artists.
These people are more successful in organizing people, inspiring people, relating to people than any career (even aspiring artist) artist can. Art as a hobby but no hopes as a career are relatable. The ones selling their postcards at the local farmers market, sorry guys not so relatable compared to the grocery store cashier that after work goes home and watches YouTube shorts
So effective leadership will not come from universities or the art world. Not from documentarians. Not from journalists. It will come from places like the restaurant kitchen, the auto shop, the factory, gig economy workers. No their language is not polished. They may say something crass here and there. But it takes practice to be a public speaker and the well off middle to upper class drown out the lower middle to poor people. Mistakes of crassness are judged to harshly and permanently. I do not think civil rights leaders of the 80s and back would make it today because of how judgmental we are today on the left. Like there’s little avenue to have the wrong/bad/evil opinion one decade of your life and try to join up and be embraced doing good things the next decade. The average adult person unsurprisingly knows how to talk to the average adult person better than university students and professors and politicians. Better than artists.
Anyone that doesn’t vote or skipped a vote get treated like trash by the left. Shouldn’t be the case. Disenfranchisement whether by political machinations or mental exhaustion should not be shamed. They need to be find belonging with us
Conservatives do that. They speak with patience and respect to those that don’t vote. They do that to those that don’t study high brow media. They do that for the non aesthetic. A leftist will own a fence sitter by making fun of visibly poor diet and hygiene if that’s the case and a conservative will step in and say that’s fine as long as you’re good people. Come hang out with us. Play video games with us. Fish with us.
And I call out artists and university students and professors because they’re so deep in their bubbles that they are deeply unaware just how unlikable they are when heard. Like the revulsion they have for the poor and less educated is not well hidden at all. Conservatives hide it very well in comparison
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So for us, stop being obtuse with our communications and be direct. Simple to understand. Also no dunking. Stop the diabetes, small penis, uneducated, trailer park, lol you can’t afford to travel type shaming. Nothing wrong with liking Marvel movies or liking McDonalds.
Too many times I’ve had to console good people to at work 7 days a week because people in the community think it’s funny someone doesn’t know much outside the city they live in. Too many times playing damage control over people making diabetes, small penis, poor people jokes for why conservatives are as they are. All of those have a ton of people that lean left or people that barely follow politics at all. 7 8+ hour work days a week doesn’t let people follow politics much so the dunking on poor people for being dumb and voting against their interest is insanely stupid
It’s not a good thing anytime I see leftist taking joy that the left is more educated and wealthier in comparison to conservatives. That’s an inevitable loss with growing income inequality. Leftism shouldn’t shame others for not reading the right books, not going to university for a humanities degree, not understanding how artists of whatever movement use color gradients for meaning. Most people watch blockbuster movies and play games like fortnite. That doesn’t make them any less of a person than someone who watches Andrew Tarkovsky movies.
When a person who likes average things feels attacked by leftist art/entertainment, that’s avenue for conservatives. Leftist have to step in to and make average interests identifiable as leftist just as much as conservative. Same with stuff like not living in a big city or not caring for travel or living by a beach or not caring about journaling. Leftism these days are expressly too much about self expression. It derails organizational meetings when everyone wants/needs to express how such and such has made them feel and affected them especially when it’s from people that can comfortably afford therapy and to spend so much time of the thought of, am I happy
Look towards poor/working class people as voices that need to be at the forefront rather than university students, professor, celebrities. I don’t think we need 100k people marches where everyone is having a fun time with their protest boards and posters. What’s needed is professionalism. People that have settled into a life of compromise and may not live that beautiful life of travel and creative expression but are good people. They’re normal people. The average person. We care way too much about people that live outspoken lives. They don’t spend so much time of metaphor and meta thought exercises. They’re completely concerned about achieving what were once normal life goals and therefore don’t practice wordplay. Wordplay is annoying for people with limited time out of work and need people to get to the point. Metaphor is annoying. Symbolism is annoying.
It was a problem when Stephen Bannon was talking about how he’d recruit by reaching out to people playing World of Warcraft. Nothing about being a gamer should be conservative but because I suspect gamers not being aesthetic in appearance or lifestyle, we don’t want to associate our images with them. That is foolish. Same with kitchen staff. Same with warehouse workers. Same with farmers and fisherman. Vegans are largely leftist but their food comes from mostly conservative farmers. There is common interest here for common working class action rather than culture war splits. That Bannon recruiting 20 years ago on WoW wasn’t call to action on the left to do the same is insanely dumb.
That nuclear average family influencers are a conservative thing shouldn’t be the case. It should be politically neutral. The same with much of the cultural examples of conservatives taking over. A countries flag shouldn’t be synonymous with the countries conservatives/racist. Basic black and white idiosyncratic Tolkien medieval fantasy wouldn’t be so dominated by conservative fandom if on the left we weren’t so obsessed with doing real world inserts and prefacing that medieval such and such was evil and racist and the getting back to to story until the next time to remind people that such and such is racist and evil. Let fantasy be fantasy. It’s a stupid low yield battle that we on the left for some reason always have to force ourselves to fight
Escapism doesn’t have to bad. High brow art is itself high brow escapism/surrogate activism at best, poverty tourism at worst. We need to stop spending so much time and energy fighting battles that we imagine. Holy hell every time I listen to a conversation derail for what feels like eternity because someone reads a fictional book and they feel it’s problematic because it’s a period piece that is too realistic for the time. It should adopt modern demographics and language because it’s fantasy so it shouldn’t be a problem to modernize the content
Average people don’t care about modernizing their fantasy media and the conversation exhausts them. And it’s such a waste of energy compared to convincing people to join a union and pay union dues. To attend city council town halls and badger them for local problems they should address
Stop wanting local politicians to be national politicians. If there are any politicians that have potential to be locally in touch and conversationally persuasive, it’s the local ones. But we want national politics remakes from everyone and vote on that, that local politics is unknown to locals the average person doesn’t feel like they have anyone speaking to issues like local safety, bad roads, rent price, childcare costs, etc. Your city treasurer will be campaigning on on opposing fascism and justice for Palestine. It’s asinine. It’s asinine for most mayors to be campaigning on national politics but thats where we’re at now. Not even local politicians feel the need to campaign on local issues anymore
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