I used a program called spotdl to download all the music in my playlists and then ditched the whole thing.

This reminds me of a project I saw some years ago, it was AR glasses with just a monochrome display that would project into the eye itself, adjusted to the individual user by an optometrist.

It was less ambitious than the other projects at the time on what it would be able to display, but this had the distinct advantage of being extremely power efficient and lightweight, allowing the system to fit into a normal glasses form factor.

It also looked cyberpunk as fuck with the user having a glowing red dot in one of his eyes during use, at least to everyone else. I tried a bunch of times to google for what ever has become of it, because I was very interested in the concept as a wearer of glasses.

Does anyone by any chance know what I’m talking about? This would have been in the early to mid 2010s.

TLDR: Want my cyberpunk glasses. Pls halp

Now that’s a hot take. Why?

Wait is that a thing? For me the opposite is true, I can’t focus on what’s going on if there are subtitles. I’m always forced to read them somehow

I’ve never heard this guy speak before. Is this some sort of audio issue? Or does he actually sound like he rambles into one of those speakerboxes for throat cancer survivors?

It’s not witchcraft though. I too have put a lot of hope into getting my medication, but honestly it just keeps my mood in a healthy range and makes it a little easier to get on with things / stay on track.

It still requires personal effort and discipline to get anything done as I imagined

You ok

Imagine being born 10000 years ago where chances that you died before adulthood were significant and even a minor infected cut would likely mean your death, not to mention any more serious injury such as a broken bone 🥰

Don’t get me wrong I hate modern wage slavery just as you do but I also appreciate not being dead yet just because I had a rough accident three years ago.

Any show that tries to paint the federation as less than aspirational has entirely missed the point of trek, and the product is a stillbirth.

Pointing out flaws, or highlighting the morally grey areas like ds9 did is fine, because it still preserves the federation as a multicultural utopia.

E: always nice to get downvotes without further discourse. How does anyone consider “the office but in the alpha quadrant” star trek? I don’t want to watch random people doing a mediocre job in some bureaucratic apparatus while they wear trek uniforms. I don’t want to watch s31 as some sort of idiot CIA. I want to watch modern TNG.

A sense of wonder and optimism, the exploration of fantastic things never seen before. Engagement with philosophy and real world issues through a sci fi lense. A hopeful tomorrow, a ideological roadmap to utopia.

Why are you skipping over the alternative venues of revenue I suggested that wouldn’t be as problematic? Because without you couldn’t paint me as irrational, asking the poor corpo to not make more money than last quarter at their customers expense 😔

They can pay their employees just fine. They do this because the investors want their returns.

First of all, I don’t have a horse in this race. My media is stored locally and used only by my household. I really don’t give a shit if a corporation needs more revenue to satisfy their infinite growthTM.

My issue is with how they are doing it. Provide an extra service or function, introduce a higher tier with priority treatment or so. Thats fine with me.

What’s not fine is taking something away people used to get for free, because the shitty venture capital business model isn’t feasible and only provided these things to capture the market, and now comes the nickel and diming part of providing ever fewer services and functions for ever increasing amounts of money.

As for jellyfin, thats open source AFAIK. So why even mention that here as some sort of gotcha? If it enshittifies people will fork it and move on.

I’m just curious, why are you so vehemently defending a shitty move by a corporation? No matter how you tackle the issue, taking away a function that used to be free and evidently has no costs associated to the corp is a textbook example of enshittification.

It is pretty damn obvious how this will continue.

I suspected that, but why the hell is “proof of work” nothing of any use or value? That just seems so fundamentally absurd it doesn’t compute for me apparently

To this day, I have not understood what exactly is even being calculated, and for what real world application. I mean, I understand mostly what crypto is and how it works, but not why doing those calculations results in financial gain.

Is there something not clear to you in the comment? I can repeat it very slowly if that helps

Funny there is no russian aggression towards Ukraine being ridiculed

But I’m sure thats just coincidence, right guys 🙃

Apologies, I hadn’t considered the impact my comment might have on the urinary tract of innocent readers

Pretty cool, but I think I’d rather watch a teenager in baggypants break the laws of physics entirely by consuming multiple times his body mass

I will allow it because he looks very polite

It’s also extra fucked that he essentially experimented on what are now small children’s lives without any concern that it might severely impact them in unforeseen ways, for the rest of their existence. And all for questionable gain because he apparently didn’t really achieve the objective of making them immune to HIV.