I’m going to throw in a sleeper pick and recommend the Motorola Edge 2025.

I’m still running the 2023 version and I dare anyone to tell me the difference between that series at 700 or so versus a 1000 dollar Samsung.

The reality is that once you pass the 600 dollar mark, your primary difference is whether the phone uses Snapdragon or Mediatek chipsets. And the people who tell you that make any kind of regular use difference outside of heavy gaming are flat out lying to you.

Save your money. Motorola is the last company that is seemingly still trying to price their products sanely rather than chasing Apples policy of “charge as much as we can until people say no”

https://www.motorola.com/ca/en/p/phones/motorola-edge/edge-gen-6/pmipmhp40mv?pn=PB7A0002CA&tab=techspecs

TFW high priced business lawyers walk in and tell little worm eaten idiots what happens if they don’t walk back their stupid claims.

I’d like that. I’ve enjoyed being on Motorola for the last few phones. Good, serviceable, middle-of-the-road priced phones and a company that doesn’t think so highly of themselves that the majority of the price amounts to a prestige tax. (ahem…Apple and Samsung)

Using the word “irregardless” disqualifies you from any job, anyway. So shouldn’t really matter to you.

Last relationship ended in 2016. Been single since then.

A few different reasons. The two most important being that being in a relationship requires going out and actually socializing with the public, which is usually something i tend to avoid. And secondly being that I don’t think I’m in any position emotionally, financially or psychologically to be of any use to a woman.

Humiliation requires a sense of shame. Which does not exist in Trump’s world.

What’s her pet situation? It’s going to be hard to top Sioda and Brod. But it’s the most important question.

Phonetically it’s pronounced “K-D-E-is-superior”

But hey, language is protean. It evolves and flows like a river, daddy-o.

I feel embarassed to say this as someone who is fairly techy, but I’m a little confused by the whole brouhaha.

Is Google making changes to Android, or to AOSP?

If Google is making changes to the Android fork they put on their own phones, then fuck 'em. Use Graphene. Use e/OS/, use Lineage…use something that forks their own branch of AOSP and Google can pound sand because those forks are in no way obligated to make the same changes as Google. AOSP is open source for that very reason.

If Google is making those changes to AOSP itself, which means that anyone who uses AOSP as a base have those changes by default, then isn’t Google obligated to keep those changes as Open Source, in which case anyone else who uses AOSP can just remove them from their own fork?

Someone explain like I’m a particularly dim five-year-old, please.

Grace Helbig had cancer? Oh shit. Did some quick searches and happy to learn that she seems to be okay now.

Loved her in the old days when the first @midnight was a thing hosted by Chris Hardwick. Fell off my radar after that show went off the air.

No. Practice isn’t doing the same thing over and over again.

Practice is an iterative process where each time you fail, you learn something new and add it to the process until eventually you find a result that is different.

You’re practicing your golf swing because you keep shanking the ball to the right. You don’t keep making the same shot over and over agin. You adjust your stance. You adjust your leg positioning. You adjust a hundred little things until you find the combination that gives you the results you want. THAT’S Practice…not just repeating the same action.

That app was your other browser. And the problem was that it made itself your default browser. But no worries. We fixed that right up for you.

Tuvok had a potty mouth before going through the kolinar.

You don’t tear out an architectural feature like that. You make it a focal point.

It’s more complex than just “prison labour isn’t that bad.”

I agree that prisoners should have jobs, opportunities to train for new vocations, something to be proud of accomplishing when they’re locked away.

But that’s not why they work. They work to make the prison more money, and in a profit driven prison system, it disincentivises rehabilitation because recidivism ensures a hefty circulating population of re-offenders.

In a system that saves money and stays competitive by using their prison labour as slave labour for pennies, there is no onus for that same system to try to help its prisoners not reoffend.

Resolve does indeed have a proxy mode, as does Kdenlive.

Yes.

There are a couple of limitations in the number of filters/effects you can use. And on Linux, the free version won’t edit MP4 natively. But the reality is you shouldn’t be editing on MP4s anyway. It’s a dreadfully inefficient format for doing actual editing as far as scrubbing through the timeline, etc… MP4 is a final product format. For editing you should be transcoding your clips into something like Apple Pro-res or DNxHD.

A long long time ago, someone asked me a rhetorical question and it’s lingered in my brain ever since. I don’t know why I still think about it to this day but I do.

“Do you think, when someone is going insane, there’s a point where they are about to cross over the line, but there just still barely sane enough to know that they’re insane?”

I mean “welcome” in the most generic, passive aggressive Canadian sense of the word. Shutting the door is exactly what the strength of federated/defederated social media is all about.

They’re welcome to it.

As far as I’m concerned, this is the entire benefit of lemmy/piefed/etc… They can have their space, and any other instance can choose not to federate with them so we aren’t forced to listen to them, unlike the alternative, where an algorithm forces them into everyone’s face.

Rather than telling them they don’t have the right to speak, we simply have the ability to shut our window and not listen to them.

Let them bitch at each other.