Maybe you’re not noticing the difference between 720p to 1080p is due to the decoding used. The rips with a lower file size often get there by means of compression, and some uploaders (such as YIFY) heavily compress the videos to where I don’t even notice much of a difference, however I’m going to assume you’re not downloading the 3GB (average size for HQ) 1080p film.
Then again eyesight plays a role along with display.

I wouldn’t bother with 4K usually, however once I upgraded to a 1440 monitor downscaling from 4K actually provides a fair bump in overall sharpness and detail (some films more than others), however the file size is usually over 10GB per film.

Someone I knew had a cat named Cali, in Arkansas a number of years ago. Had a brother named Fornia.

Cali looked just like this pic. Crazy coincidence.

I’m waiting for piracy. DRM hackers go brrrrrr

Different people feel comfortable with different names. For a while, and still today, many people refer to it as High Functioning Autism however many people find offense in using that term for themselves.

At the end of the day it is an autism diagnosis, and simply saying Autism often works fine. Most of the time I say I have Autism as it makes things easier for others if I don’t go on long explanations. For what it’s worth I was diagnosed as having Asperger’s Syndrome many years ago (in 2004), however I personally find no offense in the term ‘high functioning autism’ though only because it fits my own self.

I’m sorry, I’m really sorry… I love the tribute, it’s very sweet, but I really can’t stop seeing the cat version of the Ronaldo bust.

I’m glad I wasn’t the only one with this idea.

I remember when all of my friends would laugh at the iPod Nano, when it released as being super thin, due to all the people accidentally sitting on them or other easy ways in which they broke.

I would prefer it if manufacturers made phones with smaller screens, so I can actually use it with one hand without some janky workaround (like right/left handed modes on Google Keyboard).

I started downloading music, because it was free.

Over the years I’ve found many more excuses to justify it though.
P.s. Down with big corpo etc. etc.

Politics aside, im interested in how this will predict my gender. Many people mistake me for a woman, from text, and I have been unsure as to why. I’m intrigued to see what this would predict, for me.

Just wanted to give a tip, from someone who is happy with his Fire Stick: hold down the home button, on the remote, for an ad-free app drawer thing.

I usually just hold the Home button and select the app I want. Works fine if not a minor inconvenience to do when launching the device.

I’ve got a dedicated server I play with a few friends, and I got really stoned on the first day and just kept building a building for our base. Next thing I know I’ve spent six hours on 5 floors (not including an attic space and WiP rooftop garden… need to unlock more building stuff).

For the people in the comments not in the know: Rossmann is a respected voice for this sort of thing, even if this post looks like an ad. He’s not one of the bad ones (yet).

Does this mean playing competitive chess could prevent cancer??

Been enjoying Lemmy, so I wanted to see how Threads is. “It’s just going to seem like another instance, right?”
It’s Facebook with another skin. The posts are pretty much all the same sort of posts memes take the piss out of. Literally feels just like Facebook… Going to stick to Lemmy, myself.

I know this may sound like a joke, but ChatGPT is sometimes nicer than real people.

I’ve not had a conversation, I wouldn’t see the point at this moment, however I’ve had some friendly interactions when asking for help. The other day I asked ChatGPT what exercises would be good for a specific area of mental health. After the results, I said “thank you” and the response wasn’t just ‘youre welcome’, it remembered the conversation and added things like, “no problem, I hope your mental health improves and all the best!” (Heavily paraphrasing here).

It’s strange, though the premise of HER isn’t too far off I think. If someone like myself is finding the interactions to be more pleasing than real life, the future may very well hold the possibility for advanced relationships with AI. I don’t see it being too farfetched, just look at how far we’ve already come in only a few years.

I used to use a website called TwoSeven.xyz

This has been how the latest Mario games have felt to me, even that New Super Mario thing they were doing.

They’ve stripped everything out of Mario that made it fun, gameplay wise, for something that just looks ‘pretty’. These games feel more like tech demos than how I felt growing up with Mario games, and I truly and honestly feel that way. This trailer just looks like the same deal, and you’ve confirmed it for me thanks. Such a shame tbh.

I find it strange that they immediately called it a “better ReVanced”, when apart from the feed thing it doesn’t have nearly as many features as ReVanced.

Has anyone come up with an actual reason to switch? Because I have a feeling ReVanced is still better?

I use Stremio with the Torrentio sources.

Those are probably just newbies. My Reddit account is about 12 years old, and Lemmy right now reminds me of the good days of Reddit. It’s ramping up that way.

I think it’s great. Read about philosophy, memes, and get the occasional booba in-between. It’s good Internetting.