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Re: Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

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Post by michaelmrose » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 2:11 AM UTC

badsectoracula wrote: post #658

michaelmrose wrote: post #440

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There are better monitors at my local thrift store for 5 dollars. It's like 68ppi the last monitor I had like that had a huge floppy drive and kings quest III. It's time to upgrade.

No there are certainly not better monitors at your thrift store for $5 dollars. This is a brand new monitor i bought some months ago (late 2019) and the cost was much bigger than 5 dollars. In fact it was the most expensive VA monitor at this resolution (i avoid IPS because i actually want to be able to see dark colors and contrast and every single IPS monitor i've used, regardless of resolution, is garbage when it c…

>1366x768 is currently by far the most common resolution on PCs

According to steam 10.9% of users are running at that resolution. Only 4% are running at worse and 85% are running at higher resolution mostly at 1080p at a whopping 65%. Calling it the second most common is true but deceptive is it just means that its so old that there are so many different better choices that people are spread out over the many and varied better choices.

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...

>i didn't want the blurry mess that a higher resolution would have

https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/285860-720p-looks-bad-o...

If you mean that your apu is so weak that it can't do more than 720p and this would look bad at 1080p you are correct but that seems like a uniquely bad choice given that one would logically want to either get an actual gpu or give up on gaming and get a screen worth using instead of picking a compromise that is the worst of both worlds.

Regarding scalling 800x600 scales evenly to a 1920x1200 with black bars on the sides. 1152×900 scales to 1600x900 in the same fashion. You can also run the game in a window and avoid having to match it up evenly.

>1366x768 on a monitor (as opposed to laptop) makes for very sharp icons, fonts (after you disable antialiasing) for everything (as opposed to using a hidpi monitor where some apps look crisp and others look either too tiny or blurred from scaling).

I think your eyesight is bad.

Your PPI: 68 Common Resolution for your screen size: 95 Best in class: 191

Re: Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

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Post by badsectoracula » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 2:27 AM UTC

michaelmrose wrote: post #661

badsectoracula wrote: post #658

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No there are certainly not better monitors at your thrift store for $5 dollars. This is a brand new monitor i bought some months ago (late 2019) and the cost was much bigger than 5 dollars. In fact it was the most expensive VA monitor at this resolution (i avoid IPS because i actually want to be able to see dark colors and contrast and every single IPS monitor i've used, regardless of resolution, is garbage when it c…

>1366x768 is currently by far the most common resolution on PCs According to steam 10.9% of users are running at that resolution. Only 4% are running at worse and 85% are running at higher resolution mostly at 1080p at a whopping 65%. Calling it the second most common is true but deceptive is it just means that its so old that there are so many different better choices that people are spread out over the many and var…

> According to steam 10.9% of users are running at that resolution.

Which is why right after the part you quoted and apparently ignored, i wrote "and the second most common on gaming PCs according to Steam". Gaming PCs are more likely to have higher resolution, but not every PC is a gaming PC. Statcounter.com has 1366x768 above 1920x1080.

Also 10.9% of Steam's user is still around 10 million active users, which is a lot of people.

> but that seems like a uniquely bad choice

That is your opinion, i find it a great choice and i like my monitor.

> given that one would logically want to either get an actual gpu

I have an actual GPU nowadays.

> or give up on gaming

I do not think you are in position to tell anyone give up anything.

> and get a screen worth using

I find my monitor worth using.

> instead of picking a compromise that is the worst of both worlds.

That is your opinion that i disagree with.

> Regarding scalling 800x600 scales evenly to a 1920x1200 with black bars on the sides.

1920x1200 is not 16:9 which will cause either black bars or stretched UIs on actually new titles and videos, i wouldn't personally buy a non-16:9 monitor these days. Also 800x600 looks fine on my 1366x768 monitor centered (even if a bit smaller image) with 1:1 pixels.

> 1152×900 scales to 1600x900 in the same fashion.

Pretty much no game where you have to use fixed resolutions (mostly 2D games) uses 1152x900. Earlier 3D games work at 1366x768 by centering 1024x768 but almost all of them have workarounds to work at higher 4:3 resolutions (when i used a 1920x1080 monitor i often ran older 3D games at 1440x1080).

> You can also run the game in a window and avoid having to match it up evenly.

If i had Windows 7 or using Linux, perhaps, but with Windows 8+ and the forced compositor that adds input lag i avoid running games in a window.

> I think your eyesight is bad.

Yes it is, which is why i sit close to the monitor so i can see stuff (and the reason i prefer smaller monitors). But i can clearly see the pixels, which is what i mean with "sharp" here.

> Best in class: 191

Subjective and it has all the issues with scaling and blurring i mentioned in my last message.

Re: Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

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Post by dabbernaught420 » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 4:14 AM UTC

IgorPartola wrote: post #599

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Actual discussion of racist thought is pretty off topic, I am more interested in where one could find good anti-race realist resources (and arguing for why attemptibg to censor racist thought can cause the problem of lack of said resources) then trying to rehash hundred thousand word arguments on an extremely complex topic in comments. That said, it would be rude to ignore the effort you've made, so: The main actiona…

Here: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Racism . Rational Wiki is a good resource for exploring arguments against bad ideas.

rationalwiki has a reputation for being extraordinarily bad for exploring arguments on controversial subjects. See:

http://nathancofnas.com/comments-on-my-rationalwiki-page/

and

https://medium.com/@NoahCarl/some-comments-on-the-rationalwi...

Frequently found are lies, deliberate misrepresentation, mocking, bullying.

Re: Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

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Post by dabbernaught420 » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 5:43 AM UTC

concordDance wrote: post #528

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> As someone who has been looking for good anti-racialist arguments for a long time... Racism isn't useful and isn't actionable at a policy level. Let's suppose there is some trait X (could be IQ test score, high jump ability, whatever) that is statistically variant by rigorously defined race. Group A scores on average 98, group B scores on average 103. The median difference between groups doesn't actually matter, be…

Actual discussion of racist thought is pretty off topic, I am more interested in where one could find good anti-race realist resources (and arguing for why attemptibg to censor racist thought can cause the problem of lack of said resources) then trying to rehash hundred thousand word arguments on an extremely complex topic in comments. That said, it would be rude to ignore the effort you've made, so: The main actiona…

Here's a classic article from Nick Land as to why racism isn't something worth spending too much time thinking about: http://www.xenosystems.net/hyper-racism/

The article is perhaps extreme and overly performative, but I think the central idea of "races" not surviving the near-future is a good one.

Re: Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

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Post by Can_Not » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 1:04 PM UTC

ativzzz wrote: post #165

nickdothutton wrote: post #71

I’m hopeful something good will come of this. I wrote this about LinkedIn but most of it could easily apply to a Reddit alternative, I love HN but would love to see a broader platform that didnt become cancerous. https://blog.eutopian.io/building-a-better-linkedin/

> didnt become cancerous Ultimately any platform big enough becomes cancerous unless it has sponsors who are willing to fund the platform without turning a profit, like HN is funded by ycombinator (though notice how over time there are more and more hiring advertisements for ycombinator companies). The bigger a platform becomes, the more expensive it becomes to maintain; the people who were volunteers at first have t…

The hiring ads here seem completely relevant and appropriate for this forum. Very few other websites can say the same for their ads. YC saves money on recruiter fees and job listing fees, you reach your target audience, and you don't need tons of analytics.

Re: Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

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Post by Can_Not » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 1:14 PM UTC

agensaequivocum wrote: post #243

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Approximately no-one on reddit or twitter is saying that straight people shouldn't be allowed marry. Plenty of people on both are saying that I shouldn't be, though. To take just one example. "People should be marginalised, and made second class citizens, and marginalised people should be kept marginalised" is a pretty common theme on the far right. It is rare on the far left; not that it's non-existent, but there ju…

> People should be marginalised, and made second class citizens, and marginalised people should be kept marginalised" is a pretty common theme on the far right. What? Not that there is no one with this view but it is an extreme minority. Same with people calling for the killing of all cops on the left, very small minority.

An extreme minority explicitly hold the view publicly, but what's not an extreme minority are people who take the long road around saying it and people who have kneejerk reactions to any proposed changes to the status quo.

Re: Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

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Post by tripzilch » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 2:57 PM UTC

bhupy wrote: post #611

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But you can't shout fire in crowed theater with the intent to cause chaos. You can shout fire in a crowded theater, if there is an actual fire.

Yes you can! That argument was made in a SCOTUS argument that has since been unanimously overturned. https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-tim...

Wow. So the argument was first successfully used to jail peaceful socialists and anti-war activists, but was later overturned for benefit of the KKK.

Re: Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

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Post by yogthos » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 3:09 PM UTC

ThA0x2 wrote: post #645

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>I am anti-fascist >That doesn't mean I stand with Antifa. Do you know what antifa is short for

Time for you to move to move to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. After all, it's all in the name! https://ifunny.co/picture/we-call-ourselves-the-anti-bad-guy...

So, do enlighten us, what exactly do you claim antifa actually stands for if you're saying they're not acting in the spirit of their name?

Re: Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

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Post by door99 » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 7:55 PM UTC

airtonix wrote: post #634

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If you think antifa is targeting “normal everyday views” I’m concerned about what sort of views you think those are. Do you think that neonazi and alt right organizations hold “everyday normal views”? That’s what antifa targets

If you think The Spanish Inquisition is targeting “normal everyday views” I’m concerned about what sort of views you think those are. Do you think that not acknowledging God as our one true saviour and creator and those jewish/muslim/eastern-orthodox/atheist organizations hold “everyday normal views”? That’s what the Spanish Inquisition targets?

You’re right, being a fascist and not being Catholic are exactly equivalent. Great point.

Re: Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

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Post by door99 » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 7:57 PM UTC

ThA0x2 wrote: post #645

door99 wrote: post #614

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>I am anti-fascist >That doesn't mean I stand with Antifa. Do you know what antifa is short for

Time for you to move to move to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. After all, it's all in the name! https://ifunny.co/picture/we-call-ourselves-the-anti-bad-guy...

Antifa is a decentralized organization of people fighting against fascism. They don’t have a positive ideology, literally the only thing that unifies them is anti fascism. Communists, anarchists, and liberals may all call themselves antifa