Wondering if my next upgrade should be an OLED screen or not. It looks amazing, but how is the current compatability with Linux these days? Anyone with one of these sexy screens that would like to share their experiences?...
This may be controversial, and may also be totally wrong (Iām no display expert), but I have a 55ā Hisense U8K QLED and am still legitimately shocked at how black the blacks are. I canāt even tell if the screen is on or off if itās just showing my black background. No light bleed or blooming, and inky rich blacks with incredibly smooth gradients. This screen convinced me that Iāll never need to shell out for an OLED.
Edit: in case youāre curious, I use it as the third screen in my PC setup, running at 144hz. Itās also my first experience with high refresh rates, and it has been a joy. Oh and the nits on this thing are something else. Ever been blinded by a sunrise in 4K HDR? Itās awesome.
Woah Iāve never heard of inverse tone mapping. I always assumed HDR metadata was burned into the file, didnāt realize it could be āfaked.ā Fascinating. What settings do you use if you donāt mind me asking?
Right? Itās shocking. I only learned about it recently when I started buying pineapples regularly and found out there are only a few companies in the world that produce them. And most if not all of them are incredibly shady and responsible for some truly terrible shit.
Yeah I canāt tell with them anymore either, so Iāve stopped reading the nytimes entirely. Itās a shame. There are still a few reporters I respect over there, but itās not enough for me to keep wading through all the bullshit.
I donāt know much about the case beyond some very lazy peripheral searching, but it strikes me that Protonās compliance isnāt an issue, but the requests themselves are totally unjustifiable and based on malicious prosecutions to nab some separatists on ridiculous terrorism charges for their nonviolent action and protests.
This individual is suspected of being a member of the Mossos dāEsquadra (Cataloniaās police force) and of using their internal knowledge to assist the Democratic Tsunami movement.
The requests were made under the guise of anti-terrorism laws, despite the primary activities of the Democratic Tsunami involving protests and roadblocks, which raises questions about the proportionality and justification of such measures.
That show was so ahead of its time! It had depth, complicated characters, and didnāt shy away from exploring situations with questionable morality. I didnāt know Frakes was involved!!
Fully agree. This edutainment disclaimer also applies when it comes to explanations of archaeological sites and the ādaily lifeā of ancient populations. The stories the public hears are based on the best understanding of complex interpretations of ceramics, surface features, architecture, stratigraphy, etc. You could ask two equally talented archaeologists to interpret a site and get two equally convincing but completely different explanations. We just canāt know any of this for sure, itās all filtered through the lens of the researcher, their methods, and their biases. And thatās okay. The best we can do is apply the most relevant and current methodology to interpret the evidence, be transparent about potential shortcomings, and be willing to change our conclusions if better evidence arises.
Lots of people are uncomfortable with āthatās just our best possible guess at the moment,ā but thatās how interpretive social sciences work. Until we invent a time machine, educated guesses based on all the available evidence are the best we can do.
Iām continually disappointed that America doesnāt live up to what I learned about in civics class 30 years ago.
I have clear memories of sitting in class as a kid, asking the most basic questions about checks and balances, separation of powers, equality under the law etc. and being absolutely mesmerized by the topics. I remember thinking, āwow, I live there? Iām so lucky.ā
When my teacher said ānot even the president is above the lawā I remember some other kid really trying to grasp the idea that every single person is supposed to be treated equally by the justice system, regardless of their family, job, or religion. It wasnāt a concept that came naturally to everyone.
It wasnāt until high school and college that I finally understood that these were just ideals that we talk about but donāt fully actualize. America is not the unicorn we think it is, but weāre great at lying to ourselves from a very young age. Howard Zinn was a big part of my waking up to reality.
Thatās not to say we donāt strive for improvement, but when one of the two political parties is hell-bent on dismantling the administrative state, taking away bodily autonomy for more than half the population, reverting our ācultureā and laws to the 1800s, destroying our planet, discarding science, fetishizing killing-machines in daily life and warfare across the globe, and so much more regressive bullshit, weāre not really setting ourselves up to realize those ideals.
So yeah, America is a genuine country, but itās not what it should be or what many people think it is.
I do the same thing, and always wonder that too. These companies have been caught lying consistently and repeatedly about what they collect and how, so even with all the right settings Iām very skeptical that they actually respect my choices.
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Iām not French, and my opinion is based on pretty much nothing but a smattering of headlines, but I really dislike Macron. He strikes me as an opportunistic little boy trying to make everyone happy while pissing off his parents (the French electorate) at nearly every turn. He tries to push his way into the global spotlight by meeting with Putin and Xi and thinks he looks like some neutral peacemaker, but we never really see any results other than a small boost to his profile.
Maybe Iām totally wrong, like I said Iām just a spectator. Maybe itās just his face.
I appreciate the pushback, I really do want to get a more well-rounded sense of Macron and his popularity.
I donāt usually like LLM summaries as a general rule, but since my opinions were admittedly based on vibes and not much substance, this might be a good use for it.
Yeah Iāve always been surprised that court fines arenāt on a sliding scale. Us normals shouldnāt be expected to have access to large amounts of money to pay fees or fines, but as the right consequence should have to pay enough to feel it without totally ruining our lives. The wealthy should have to pay enough relative to their net worth so they feel it at the same level.
$1000 a day is a massive life-ruining expense for most people, so for Trump it should be more like $100,000 or even $1 million a day if itās actually supposed to disincentivize violating a court order.
But that sounds too fair for America, so I doubt weāll ever see it.
The International Criminal Court is being warned by members of Congress in both parties that arrest warrants for senior Israeli officials will be met with U.S. retaliation ā and legislation to that effect is already in the works, Axios has learned....
All the double negatives make the headline a challenge to parse, but they are against the legislation because it would make it illegal for local authorities to implement basic safeguards for people who work outside. They want the safeguards.
The legislation, known asĀ House Bill 433, forbids local authorities from mandating that employers provide their employees with, for example, water breaks or advance notice of their work hours.
This is one of the more disturbing things Iāve read in a while, and thereās a genocide going on.
It strikes me that this guy and his followers simply never grew up, because they didnāt have to. Instead of being faced with everyday challenges like the rest of us, their money could insulate them from any degree of hardship or friction. When you live a life where literally everything can be solved with your money, and youāre pretty much guaranteed to never run out of it, thereās no motivation for you to empathize with or even understand other peopleās points of view, and thus this scary techno-authoritarianism is born.
These are the people who will prevent us from making any socioeconomic progress. They actually want us all to wear colored shirts and be discriminated against based on our color. Their dystopian vision is genuinely the stuff of my nightmares.
I used to hate them, so I understand where youāre coming from, but then I got a job at a company that uses Slack as its primary communications app, and memes and gifs became a genuinely joyful part of my day.
Some managers at my company communicate almost exclusively with gifs, which sometimes still annoys the hell out of me, but I have to keep reminding myself āBertram, you have a good job, working with fun people who sometimes use too many gifs. It could be so so much worse.ā And then I go back to laughing at the most absurdly ridiculous reaction gif my manager just sent as a response to a critical project delivery.
Iām all for more trains in general, but $12 billion?? Fucking hell thatās too much money. And Las Vegas??? A city that practically and logistically-speaking should not exist? Building a zero emissions train (theoretically awesome) that goes out into the middle of the desert to a city that is warming faster than anywhere else in America, one that will only need more access to our dwindling water supply in the future, makes zero sense to me.
Iām sure people will hate me for saying this, but we should be phasing out unsustainable cities like Las Vegas, not giving them incentives to build up even more.
In an order issued today, U.S. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria said that the hand-written notes of prosecutors from a 31-year-old murder case āconstitute strong evidence that, in prior decades, prosecutors from the [Alameda County District Attorneyās] office were engaged in a pattern of serious misconduct, automatically...
If you feel you have to exclude certain types of people because you think they might demonstrate too much empathy or compassion, then the system obviously needs more empathy and compassion.
Hello! I really, really love bok choy, but every time I prepare it it turns a little sour. My intent is to eat it as part of a simple vegetable stir fry....
On Tuesday, U.S. State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel refused to support the U.N. call for a probe into the mass graves in Gaza. Patel was questioned by journalist Said...
The Israeli government consistently lies about these things, so the US position is facially absurd. The only reason youād be against an investigation into an atrocity is if you didnāt want people to find out what actually happened.
Iām personally not watching it (you could call me a bit of a disco āhaterā and s4 really kinda bummed me out) ā¦ but thought Iād see how people are enjoying it and think about getting a paramount subscription....
Lots of good points have already been made in this thread, Iāll just chime in to say Iāve really enjoyed Discovery. It definitely has its problems, and Iām kinda bipolar when it comes to Burnham, sometimes I love her, sometimes I canāt stand herā¦she never really learns any lessons. But the show is gorgeous and tried to do something a little different. I respect that.
The action sequences and cinematography are better and more exciting than any other Trek I can think of. That sequence in S05E01 where Burnham is blown out into space, has a suit materialize on her, jetpacks towards Discovery and then transports through the viewscreen directly into her captainās chair was BAD ASS.
I just wish the show was released in 4K HDR. Seems like a waste of beautiful visuals.
I started reading it, but the very first paragraph is already spilling over with bullshit. So Iām done.
Israelās unpreparedness on Oct. 7 shows that even powerful nations can be surprised in catastrophic ways.
First of all, of course powerful nations can be surprised, what a silly thing to say. But thatās not what happened here. Israel should have been fully prepared, because Israel was warned about the exact thing that happened on Oct. 7th. Their intelligence was quite specific on what was about to happen, itās just that they didnāt believe their own intelligence for what I would call ironically racist reasons. They didnāt believe that Hamas was organized enough to be capable of carrying out such an attack, but they were so obviously wrong.
So without finishing the article Iām gonna guess these clowns are using an intelligence failure to justify more intelligence.
The 6.8% increase between 2022 and 2023 was the steepest since 2009, pushing spending to the highest recorded by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri) in its 60-year history...
Yup, it is. I canāt really conceptualize a thousand billions or a trillion, though. These are not numbers that translate to reality in any practical way for me.
Now thatās a price I can get behind. My 2019 Kia Soul cost $14,000, and I love that car. This might actually start making a difference in the market.
One woman miscarried in the restroom lobby of a Texas emergency room as front desk staff refused to admit her. Another woman learned that her fetus had no heartbeat at a Florida hospital, the day after a security guard turned her away from the facility. And in North Carolina, a woman gave birth in a car after an emergency room...
Leaving aside the overall quality of the show, you canāt just recast the beloved main character and expect people to still be excited about it. Especially when the original actor is also a gamer who raved about how much he loved the source material, left the show for the right reasons, and connected with the fans so well.
Wait, what the fuck? This is inexcusable. This means even if you werenāt born in CA, parts of your genome will still be in their database if youāre related to anyone who was, and those parts are often enough to identify you. This isnāt just about personal privacy, itās about our collective ability to retain ownership and control over the most fundamental parts of ourselves and our families. And this data will obviously be abused by law enforcement, if it hasnāt already, because thatās what they do.
Babies deserve even more privacy protections than adults, since they canāt consent to anything.
I have old Facebook and Twitter accounts, maybe some others. Iām old so thereās a MySpace account out there. But Iāve mostly been using reddit the last decade or so, and have migrated to Lemmy. Now, Lemmy is the only social media i use. Recent news got me thinking about this question.
I was just about to ask this same question in a different thread. Iām in a similar situation, in that Lemmy is the only social media I use (Reddit before the API crap), but Iāve never used my real name. Iād happily own all my comments, but the point of an anonymous account is that I donāt have to. I guess when youāre under oath it doesnāt matter, you have to truthfully answer the question thatās asked.
Because itās in everyoneās best interest that people with overt bias are dismissed. In high profile cases itās standard practice for both sides to do pretty intensive research on individual prospective jurors (they get a list), and that often includes scouring the web for their social media accounts. If they find something you posted, and you didnāt disclose your account when asked, you could be in trouble.
I donāt think itās usually standard to ask specifically about social media accounts, at least in normal mundane cases, but in a crazy case like this, it can say a lot about a personās ability to be impartial.
the colleague in question feels that only her way of doing things is the right one and expects me to adapt to her way of thinking and her logic. This is tiring and burdensome because I have to force me to stop doing things automatically and efficiently, but think how she wants it done and do it her way. I work worse when this...
Yeah this is how Iād handle it, simple and to the point. As a bonus I might add āIāll let you know if I need a handā which takes the impetus away from her so she knows her ideas are unwanted, but stays professional and polite.
Emissary is a revolutionary next-gen Web platform that lets you tinker with every little bit of it. It works with the Fediverse, is built on IndieWeb principles, and looks incredible.
Israel will make its own decisions about how to defend itself, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday, as Western countries pleaded for restraint in responding to a volley of attacks from Iran....
I think the whole neighborhood just heard me sigh.
No one can argue that Israel doesnāt have the right to legitimately defend itself, itās just that no one could reasonably look at what Israel is doing right now and say their actions are defensive, proportionate, or at all justified.
Itās so patently obvious that the onslaught of indiscriminate violence and the direct targeting of aid convoys and civilians, is an offensive war against a population of human beings who are incapable of defending themselves in any meaningful way. This is an absurdly lopsided assault on an entire population of innocent people who just want a country of their own so they can finally have a fair shot at life.
Sorry, but bombing Iran is not defensive (Israel been doing targeted strikes against Iran and Syria for years). Bombing a hospital is not defensive. Guiding your precision missiles so they perfectly strike the WCK logo on the roofs of their vehicles is not defensive. How can killing a child, let alone tens of thousands of children, ever be defensive? It canāt.
Wow, that explanation actually clicks for me in a totally fucked up way. In the past when Israel has used disproportionate violence against Palestinians, theyāve used rhetoric like āmowing the lawnā (look it up, youāll be disgusted) to try to rationalize this kind of preemptive defense.
The billās passage comes after the stateās most populous county, Miami-Dade, considered local heat protection rules that would have been among the most stringent in the country. That proposal would have required employers to provide shade, water and 10-minute breaks to workers every two hours on days over a certain heat threshold.
The fact that that would have been among the most stringent protections in the country is incredibly sad. Those protections should be in place nationwide by default at a minimum. Nobody benefits from overheated workers, who are human beings by the way. I feel like itās so much easier to just be decent and take care of peoplesā basic needs.
Youāre a monster if you donāt think your workers deserve to have a few minutes in the shade whenever the fuck they want. People will work harder if they feel like theyāre safe and respected. Everybody wins.
Experiences Regarding Gaming on OLED screens?
Wondering if my next upgrade should be an OLED screen or not. It looks amazing, but how is the current compatability with Linux these days? Anyone with one of these sexy screens that would like to share their experiences?...
Account required to use dark mode in 2024. ( lemmy.world )
Chicken Gyros
Made chicken gyros today, made the chicken, tzatziki sauce, and the pita bread. It all tasted fantastic.
Behold, the $400 red pineapple ( www.axios.com )
Why?
ProPublica series on Supreme Court gifts wins Pulitzer Prize ( www.politico.com )
Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain ( restoreprivacy.com )
Man or cartoon, still my first crush ( lemmy.world )
Face of 75,000-year-old Neanderthal woman revealed ( www.bbc.com )
Just jaw-dropping to me....
Do you think America as a nation is genuine?
Kind of a vague question. But I guess anyone that responds can state their interpretation....
People left seriously creeped out after woman shares how to find out everything Google knows about you ( www.uniladtech.com )
NYC mayor tells students 'walk away now' as police descend on Columbia ( www.usatoday.com )
Macron invites Xi to favourite Pyrenees holiday destination ( www.telegraph.co.uk )
What s the difference between gemini and chatgpt ( cbnumy.blogspot.com )
Hush money trial live updates: Judge finds Trump violated gag order ( apnews.com )
Scoop: Congress threatens ICC over Israeli arrest warrants ( www.axios.com )
The International Criminal Court is being warned by members of Congress in both parties that arrest warrants for senior Israeli officials will be met with U.S. retaliation ā and legislation to that effect is already in the works, Axios has learned....
Florida outdoor workers rally against law banning local regulations against extreme heat [RocĆo Magnani | Apr 29 2024 | LatinTimes] ( www.latintimes.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14848639...
The Tech Baron Seeking to āEthnically Cleanseā San Francisco ( newrepublic.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14962209...
Am I the only person who doesn't like memes?
Construction Begins on High-Speed Rail Line Between SoCal and Las Vegas ( timesofsandiego.com )
CEO Alarmed to Discover That Laying Off 1,500 Workers Had Consequences ( futurism.com )
Alameda County prosecutors allegedly excluded Black people and Jews from death penalty juries ( oaklandside.org )
In an order issued today, U.S. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria said that the hand-written notes of prosecutors from a 31-year-old murder case āconstitute strong evidence that, in prior decades, prosecutors from the [Alameda County District Attorneyās] office were engaged in a pattern of serious misconduct, automatically...
I need to figure out how to prepare baby bok choy
Hello! I really, really love bok choy, but every time I prepare it it turns a little sour. My intent is to eat it as part of a simple vegetable stir fry....
U.S. Refuses to Back U.N. Calls for Probe into Mass Graves at Gaza Hospitals ( www.democracynow.org )
On Tuesday, U.S. State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel refused to support the U.N. call for a probe into the mass graves in Gaza. Patel was questioned by journalist Said...
Donāt wanna bash on Discovery ā¦ but is there notable disengagement around the final season?
Iām personally not watching it (you could call me a bit of a disco āhaterā and s4 really kinda bummed me out) ā¦ but thought Iād see how people are enjoying it and think about getting a paramount subscription....
NYT op-ed: Government Surveillance Keeps Us Safe ( www.nytimes.com )
Paywall bypass: archive.today/KYV3b...
Global defence budget jumps to record high of $2440bn ( www.theguardian.com )
The 6.8% increase between 2022 and 2023 was the steepest since 2009, pushing spending to the highest recorded by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri) in its 60-year history...
Kiaās $15,000 EV2 caught in the wild as affordable EV offensive kicks off
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Emergency rooms refused to treat pregnant women, leaving one to miscarry in a lobby restroom ( apnews.com )
One woman miscarried in the restroom lobby of a Texas emergency room as front desk staff refused to admit her. Another woman learned that her fetus had no heartbeat at a Florida hospital, the day after a security guard turned her away from the facility. And in North Carolina, a woman gave birth in a car after an emergency room...
Almost a quarter of kids aged 5-7 have smartphones ( www.bbc.com )
Nearly a quarter of UK five-to-seven-year-olds now have their own smartphone, Ofcom research suggests....
āThe Witcherā Renewed For 5th & Final Season At Netflix ( deadline.com )
California can share your baby's DNA sample without permission, but new bill could force state to publicly reveal who they're giving it to ( www.cbsnews.com )
If you're selected for jury duty (US), should you give up your anonymous social media accounts?
I have old Facebook and Twitter accounts, maybe some others. Iām old so thereās a MySpace account out there. But Iāve mostly been using reddit the last decade or so, and have migrated to Lemmy. Now, Lemmy is the only social media i use. Recent news got me thinking about this question.
can you help me formulate an answer to a colleague who is not my boss but feels entitled to tell me how I have to work?
the colleague in question feels that only her way of doing things is the right one and expects me to adapt to her way of thinking and her logic. This is tiring and burdensome because I have to force me to stop doing things automatically and efficiently, but think how she wants it done and do it her way. I work worse when this...
Emissary is Whatever You Want It To Be ( wedistribute.org )
Emissary is a revolutionary next-gen Web platform that lets you tinker with every little bit of it. It works with the Fediverse, is built on IndieWeb principles, and looks incredible.
Israel will defend itself, Netanyahu says, as West calls for restraint ( www.reuters.com )
Israel will make its own decisions about how to defend itself, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday, as Western countries pleaded for restraint in responding to a volley of attacks from Iran....
DeSantis signs bill banning local heat protections for workers ( thehill.com )