Not really, electricity is pretty cheap when you live right beside the largest hydro plant in South America.

My server is a loose motherboard with a loose PSU, thrown into the living room TV rack, which I leave open for cooling. It’s a repurposed (free) Athlon, DDR2. I only use it for smb and git backups, and project sharing between my desktop and laptop. What amazes me most is my IT coworkers don’t find that a perfectly acceptable scenario.

I mean, literally just lean it against the wall, at the very least…

I mean, I agree that in an ideal world, people would just not use TikTok, and let it die. But they use it, because it hijacks their dopamine response, it uses pavlovian and skinnerian conditioning to trap people into cycles of behavioral control, and they don’t know or care enough to stop using it. It’s literally the same thing a drug like weed does to your dopamine receptors.

And you could say “just don’t use it yourself”, the problem is this mass compliance leaks onto every other platform. Stories/shorts were a Snapchat issue, now they’re an internet issue. Everyone is getting brainwashed, and as a result, we get shit software spilling over from their shit platforms.

Maybe I got a little too doomer with this one, but how could I not, when taking about modern day social media…

Decent buffering, decent scrubbing with thumbnail preview, double tap to skip 10 sec forward or back, proper fullscreen on desktop, and orientation on mobile. That’s just to cite the very least. Imagine how good the YouTube player is, and how smoothly it works 90% of the time. Pornhub works that smoothly 100% of the time, with 90% of the features.

TikTok doesn’t even let you scrub, at all.

I’m actually amazed by how the Pornhub and Xvideos players, after all this time, are still better than the Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Instagram, and TikTok players, like it’s not even comparable. The way people can just accept whatever slop any corporate will feed them is just insane to me…

250000 lines accepted.

While attempting to fix 3 individual issues.

A spinning wheel? That just screams inefficiency to me… Make it solid state.

Least brainrotted fediverse user

If there’s wind, it can signal to all roads at the same time. I call it efficiency.

I bet it uses ffmpeg…

Obviously the only static bitmap would be the word that has an accent…

It’s better than everything being exclusive to Windows, but I’d much rather everything just ran natively on Linux…

It will definitely not report back to Musk on your proprietary code…

Because Musk wouldn’t understand shit, it’ll report back to some Indian guy instead.

Driving is orders of magnitude more likely to kill you at any second you’re in a car, than flying is at any second you’re in a plane.

People who are terrified of flying will get in a car and drive like a monkey like it’s no big deal.

Remember when Google’s motto was “Don’t be evil”?

Never enough alternatives

I feel itchy just from looking at this

All I know is they took down the ones by LTT and Jeff Geerling, I can only assume it was due to the larger audience those two attracted. Now imagine PewDiePie…

Download the video before YouTube takes it down. I want to see that site flooded with reuploads if they do.