Should have just gotten a dog

Paranoia Agent on Blu-ray is presented in 1080i as a basic upscale of the 480i master with no attempt to clean aliasing (see power line). I think they should've just published an SD Blu-ray. It's still higher bitrate than a DVD and the TV can do better upscaling.

I wonder why its so common to see upscaled advertisement assets on the web. Of course now that AI upscaling is a thing its not super obvious until you look closely and you realize Jay Shetty is spelled P̵̧̛͈̳̗̦͛́̿̈́̉̉̏́P̵̢͙̗͉̫͖͖̼̰̤̏͛̏̈́͑̾͌͜͝ ̷͖̻̞̙̣̝̯̹̐͂͒ͅS̴̛͔̳̩̺̲̹̊͐̄͂͂̓ͅI̵͇͌̽̑͐̉̿̃̾̎͆̓̑̈́̃͠V̸̡̙́͊̾̾̉̈͗C̵̨̟̦̻̭̎̀̀͋̑̍̔̃̕ͅI̴̛̛̞̐͛͐͂̏̐͛́̈́̽͌͘͘ͅI̶̡̨̥̘͚̬͕͍̠̳̼̊̔̅̓͋̅͐̐̈́̈͐̇ͅ

Literally me

TDK Durabis coating is no match for random library patrons unfortunately

Well now I *have* to watch the Markiplier movie

Mickey 17 is kinda silly, but in a fun way. Though I wonder if they recorded all the voice lines ADR, it has that dubbed quality to it yet the native audio track is English. (1)7.5/10

For the other 5heads playing Blu-rays in VLC and want Java menus to work, Adoptium Temurin JDK 17 is seemingly the latest version where the menus still work. Make sure you set up your JAVA_HOME variable.

Went to Union City Library for the first time in a few years, the new checkout kiosks can detect titles instantly when you place them in front of the kiosk, no more barcode scanning. Turns out they've retrofitted titles with NFC tags, neat!

Samsung Music can properly read TRACKYEAR and LYRICS tags from FLAC but not Opus, even though both essentially use Vorbis Comments. I wonder if they have their own Metadata reader for FLAC files whereas they grab whatever they can from MediaStore for Opus.

I was not expecting a crystal radio arc in Ruri Rocks lol

Oooo Aluminium OS

LTT Labs forgot to mention that capacitive keyboard switches feature good feeling of oneness with cup rubber www.lttlabs.com/articles/202...

I finished The Copenhagen Test (2025) last night, I think it's a solid 7 to a 7.5. What bothered me was that IIRC they described a signal as Wi-Fi and then depicted areas without cellular signal as safe. Those aren't the same thing 🤔 May Season 2 launch while Xfinity still comps Peacock Premium

If even one person decided to step foot outside as a result of this it is for the better 😅

Regularly scheduled WALKMAN shill photo I've consolidated my music into 2 formats, lossless archival files that max out at 48kHz/24bit and 256kbps AAC since I can only tell the difference when I listen to メズマライザー and it's very minor. I think the low complexity of AAC might help battery life?

Back, trying to get up early at 6AM daily now and I think its been pretty great getting stuff done in the morning and then I can just slack off in the evening when I start to lose energy and not feel guilty about it lol Went for a walk this morning and the fog looks like steam escaping the earth

I Can't Believe They're Not JBL Tune Pros

New TECSUN PL-520 seems to be a refreshed PL-330 Identical specs but the LSB/USB buttons are combined to free up space for a new FAVOURITE button, the enclosure is now greenish gray to match the PL-320 with a kickstand that people keep asking for. Has USB-C, but if it's like the 330 no PD support

r/Android users love to complain about Western phones not using silicon carbon batteries but here's an interesting tidbit from the Waveform podcast, a Google engineer says they're weary about Si-C being unproven. Lower charge cycles, the chemistry causing the batteries to physically expand...

Why are they using LCD filters for simulated CRT footage in Fallout, and they're not even the same pixel density? Literally unwatchable

Guy who went to mime school: that’s a video. That’s a picture. That’s an octet stream.

New Start Menu, that's interesting. You can turn off the Recommended part now but I bet people will still find something to complain about. Well, you can't change the category for apps that it is unaware of. Steam is in Other rather than Entertainment.

Gotta 1up the Wicked theme for Google Pixel lol

Miniso ≠ Mini Daiso They have taiyaki puzzles where you assemble the red bean paste(?)

If true, it would be funny to see someone operate a version of this as a custom feed on Bluesky.

...that's CachyOS semi themed to look like Windows XP 😭

The Galaxy Buds3 FE and the Nothing Ear (2024)/(a) share the same charactetistic 8-10 kHz dip in frequency response, making me wonder if they all share the same (off the shelf?) 11mm dynamic driver.

2006 is 2002.2% complete.

Real

I was having trouble identifying the music with Google so I downloaded Shazam like an old head, Shazam is significantly better at detecting music dang

I was listening to KFJC this morning and I started to question my understanding of harpsicords

I can't believe I'm starting to take genuine interest in the plot for NIKKE. I really need to find the time to continue with the Campaign, it's been months since I've stopped due to insufficient power requirements but they have a Story mode now.

tricky Tony including a meme reference in his game 🤣

I took my PS Vita out of a cabinet to fiddle with and the tops of the joysticks have that soft touch coating and they're starting to become sticky 😠

Ooo wide battery icon they should do more of this and less cramming Copilot in random places

it was supposed to be this week but they canceled it. s3 is for another time I guess.

Reddit-heads responding with this when people ask about pirate websites is funny because you can easily find 20 of them with a single Google search Finding one that's user friendly is another thing

Heard NHK Radio Japan at 9560kHz while walking along the Bay Area coastline this morning Playing some old music, gave me WWII-era vibes

Going great here at the robot show

want

Hey I want a Wi-Fi icosagon

I don't mind the Discord "Quest" ads because I personally find them to be overwhelmingly interesting, more stuff to pad my mental watch list with. They Will Kill You (2026) seems like a fun movie.

I think Duolingo is good for drilling actually but the Energy system makes the ads unbearable. I was doing a section a day when they strategically gave me a preview of Super, then it ended and things became intolerable. So much for their mission of free high quality education.

I've learned today that Opus in an MP4 container is legal, Amazon Music allegedly uses it, and I can confirm it works great on Android, full tag support from MediaStore and all. Unfortunately there's no easy way to bulk switch containers for audio, ffmpeg doesn't get the tags across right.

nooo you don't get it, the inaudible ultrasonic harmonic frequencies are paramount to the music sounding the way the artist intended