chris2112

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[–] chris2112@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've ditched both and have gone mostly back to physical media. Even standard 1080p Blu-ray from 2007 look better than any streaming app as the bitrate is significantly higher, and you can find used Blu Ray for super cheap right now. New releases are a little expensive but there are still rental options

[–] chris2112@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh yeah no for sure, we're pretty much past the point of no return at this point for shitty things happening in my of our lifetimes, even if humanity decides to suddenly start doing something about it

[–] chris2112@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Very misleading title

The new analysis estimates a timescale for the collapse of between 2025 and 2095, with a central estimate of 2050

To be clear, this is still really bad, but it's typical media reporting where scientists say sometime in the next 70 years and the media changes it to "next year"

[–] chris2112@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Says a lot about the different cultures too because here in the US a politician lying about having a party during lockdown would be praised by conservatives for sticking up for their "freedoms"

[–] chris2112@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It's tough because the last few high profile cases to allow cameras in the courtroom have if anything shown that too much transparency can be a bad thing, especially when you make a spectacle out of a process that anyone who isn't a trial attorney isn't going to properly understand, but will certainly draw their own conclusions regardless

[–] chris2112@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

The driver is responsible for this accident, Tesla still should be liable imo for all the shady and outright misleading advertising around their so called "self driving". Compare Tesla's marketing to like GMs of Hyundai's, both of which essentially have parity with Teslas system in terms of actual features, and you'll see a big difference

[–] chris2112@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

OP said LA so while these numbers are a little high they're not out of the ordinary for a high CoL American city. I live near NYC and prices at fairly mainstream not particularly upscale restaurants and Manhattan are similar to this. As long as you're living within your means there's no reason to avoid doing things you enjoy

[–] chris2112@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I've tried Firefox several times but always end up back on chromium due to compatibility; a lot of sites don't play well with anything but chrome anymore and this is very much something intentionally caused by Google, who have basically taken a page out of Microsoft's playbook but with a much more mature product that is going to be substantially harder to replace then IE was

[–] chris2112@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Spez may still be a corporate sellout but at least in this instance he did the right thing, probably because he determined ratting out users who pirated wouldn't make him money

[–] chris2112@lemmy.world 61 points 1 year ago

They've already lost their identity. The parties over, spez has turned it into corporate garbage no better than Instagram

[–] chris2112@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In theory, devs need to know what setting you chose so that, if you legitimately need presicse location, you can tell the user to enable it. In practice I'm sure plenty of apps that claim they need precise location don't really need it, but it's not a restricted permission either so Google doesn't do any validation during their review process

[–] chris2112@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I imagine it would very by jurisdiction as well as the specific facts of the case. Like if you're a conductor for example and your job duties include keeping the tracks safe, failing to do so could be negligence, assuming the facts show that you reasonably could have prevented it

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