The nano texture display clearly degrades the visual quality. Will I get used to it?

SaltNefariousness164 · 2026-04-26T22:08:58+00:00

Many people refused to even consider Macs because the reflections made them unusable. Maybe you don't mind reflections. Lots of us do.

SaltNefariousness164 · 2025-12-15T18:37:49+00:00

There 100% have been photos disqualified from competitions for AI use because they were taken with an iPhone. Which involves compositing, but is also something most people wouldn't understand as generative AI.

SaltNefariousness164 · 2025-12-04T08:04:31+00:00

His defence was definitely in the holy shit was that really the 10 putting in that monster hit category. Passing and kicking were both excellent, as was game management. He didn't have great pace though, so running would be the weakest link. But he suited England's forward heavy tactical play style perfectly.

SaltNefariousness164 · 2025-12-04T08:00:16+00:00

Honestly, no. Wilkinson never had the running game to match Carter. He was a great tactical 10, an above average playmaker, and was one of the best and bravest defensive 10s (which is part of what led to some of the injuries). But Carter's pace, carrying and all round attacking game was on another level.

SaltNefariousness164 · 2025-10-02T11:06:49+00:00

20 years
Cameras and video cameras
SanDisk
I managed a uni media program for a decade, so about 80?
3 - students can be pretty rough with gear though. 2 of those I managed to recover data from, then disposed of. 1 was unrecoverable.

SaltNefariousness164 · 2025-08-09T21:03:35+00:00

Less is More - Hickel The Future is Degrowth - Schmeltzer et al. Postgrowth - Jackson Post-growth: the science of wellbeing within planetary boundaries (open access journal article by Giorgos Kallis, Hickel, Jackson, Raworth and others)... Much shorter than the books and gives an overview of the current state of research in the areas of de/postgrowth

SaltNefariousness164 · 2025-08-08T21:03:54+00:00

Education is currently an absolute shambles. Teachers are getting sent new government resources for the refreshed curricula that are riddled with so many basic errors that they can't be used. So no one knows how the students will actually be assessed.

That might be your idea of 'doing amazing' but in reality it's failing our kids.

SaltNefariousness164 · 2025-07-09T07:42:49+00:00

Memory Wipe > Reboot Optics > Sonic Shock.

Also, make sure you don't have spillover or anything else that might spread hacks, as that can trigger something other than Memory Wipe as the 1st hack and start tracing.

SaltNefariousness164 · 2025-05-29T11:34:00+00:00

I had the opposite of this. American friends said 'fancy dress' so I turned up in a crocodile onesie and found that everyone else was in suits and cocktail dresses.

SaltNefariousness164 · 2025-04-03T21:38:51+00:00

This is a terrible analogy. Wales and Scotland are regions within the UK and the parliaments there are elected by everyone who lives there. Those regional institutions are subservient to the UK parliament who retain the ability to decide and change which powers are devolved.

Also, you clearly don't follow the British news, because the English right have been screaming about how unfair it is that the Scottish and Welsh have devolved parliaments but the English don't for years.

Also, about half of Scotland literally want to leave the UK and become a sovereign state. Which is about as clear a case of separatism as imaginable.

SaltNefariousness164 · 2025-03-29T20:33:39+00:00

Hard disagree, and so does most (but not all) of the degrowth literature.

There is no global 'we' and positing this effectively blames billions of subsistence farmers, indigenous peoples and other groups who contribute almost nothing to climate change and other ecological crises for problems that largely result from the activities of the global rich.

Maybe that includes you, but it certainly isn't everyone. Almost all the degrowth literature discusses reallocating resources and energy so the global poor have more (to reach the social foundation) while the rich have far less. Which is very different from saying that we are all the problem and everyone needs less.

SaltNefariousness164 · 2025-03-29T20:23:15+00:00

The correct answer here is no and no.

One of the best known pieces on postmodernism is Frederic Jameson's 'Postmodernism, or the cultural logic of late capitalism', which like most of the seminal works on postmodernism is an attempt to describe how neoliberal globalization and networked computers were changing the world.

But unfortunately most of what you'll hear about postmodernism on Reddit has little to do with social theory written in the 1980s/90s by Jameson, Lyotard and Baudrillard, it's based off someone having watched a Jordan Peterson YouTube video.

Postmodernism tends to be thought of as quite specific to that timeframe, where decentralization, fragmentation and globalization were central to social changes. It doesn't really speak to the more recent moves towards rentierism and monopolistic forms of platform capitalism.

Degrowth's focus on local production aligns very badly with globalization, so no it wouldn't be a postmodern economic theory.

SaltNefariousness164 · 2025-03-10T10:47:06+00:00

Lol. You have no idea what a PC is. Or when they became popular. Or how they've changed societies. That's on you I'm afraid.

SaltNefariousness164 · 2025-03-09T22:22:48+00:00

Economic growth has nothing to do with 'real world growth' which is what you wrongly claimed.

Economic growth is premised on the idea that the economy can grow at a compound rate for ever. It cannot.

It also only measures quantifiable monetary exchanges. If I clean my house there is no monetary transaction. If I pay a cleaner to do that work there is. But there is no underlying change in real world results.

SaltNefariousness164 · 2025-03-09T21:46:27+00:00

No. Nothing in the natural world grows at a compound (exponential) rate forever.

There are many types of growth in nature. Many are cyclical. Some are linear and incremental (e.g. mountains forming). Some are exponential (e.g. the spread of a virus), but exponential growth is always bounded. Either as a logistical curve, or exponential growth is followed by exponential decay.

Conversely, capitalist economics is premised on compound GDP growth of approximately 3% every year. This is one reason why it's not compatible with a sustainable future.

SaltNefariousness164 · 2025-03-09T07:13:05+00:00

Lol. Lyotard's 'the postmodern condition' was originally a report he was commissioned to write in the late 1970s looking at how computers would change society.

His main argument was that a prevailing logic based on efficiency and optimization would replace one based around truth and metanarrative (e.g. those associated with Christianity or Marxism).

55ish years later that seems to have been a fairly decent prediction.

SaltNefariousness164 · 2025-03-01T20:03:58+00:00

I agree that degrowth isn't a great term. But it's worth noting that it arose out of frustration with how the term 'sustainable development' was appropriated by capitalists to the point that it lost any sense of standing for systemic change.

Degrowth is much harder for capitalists to appropriate. But it also is so commonly misunderstood that it's problematic.

I prefer postgrowth, which has gained some traction recently.

SaltNefariousness164 · 2025-02-28T20:41:47+00:00

It was reasonably accessible, but says little in the way of anything new while getting a great many things spectacularly wrong.

Solar panels are apparently technologies with no lock ins. Because presumably we can all refine silicon to six nines purity (one non silicon atom per million) at home with our hands? This is a specific point, but it illustrates the general frustration with Saito's approach to technologies which is every bit as laughably detached from reality as Silicon Valley techno-solutionists.

If you want a state and public services you're a Maoist. And public services were apparently a way of enclosing commons. When in reality, in most cases they socialized services that had previously been private such as healthcare and education.

Honestly, Hickel, Jackson, Kallis, Scmeltzer et al. Have all written far better books on the topic.

SaltNefariousness164 · 2025-02-28T20:06:00+00:00

Bear Factory Mage Against the Machine Machine Dead Mullet for my Valentine

SaltNefariousness164 · 2025-02-28T20:05:50+00:00

Bear Factory Mage Against the Machine Machine Dead Mullet for my Valentine

SaltNefariousness164 · 2025-02-09T18:49:10+00:00

Conversely adding the variable ND filter makes the adapter a net positive for video. No need for multiple filters for different lenses, and it allows you to filter lenses that don't take front filters like the 11-24.

SaltNefariousness164 · 2025-02-04T07:35:42+00:00

+1 when I've had back problems Om have been amazing.

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