For those wondering if DisplayPort is "as good" as HDMI:
DisplayPort supports far MORE bandwidth than HDMI and supports daisy-chaining video, but HDMI has Audio Return Channel, and wider adoption in home theater, and it seems easier to get longer cables for.
DisplayPort 2.1 can do up to 8k 85Hz without DSC or 8K 240hz with DSC (Display Stream Compression). It supports 32+ 1.5Mhz+ audio channels.
@anthropy ultimately, I think HDMI is good for what it was designed for – home theatre and AV. DisplayPort is superior for computers and gaming, but HDMI is quite adequate for everything else.
Went to the zoo over the weekend with my family. I always take my camera. This will be a short thread with some of my favorites. I had to focus manually on a lot of the shots because I was shooting through a fence or net. So I wasn't able to get great shots of the cub because he was running around too much. 😅
would you rather be hit by a part of the tree that is near the point of rotation, or far from the point of rotation? Because if you're hit far from the pivot, the tree is moving fast. But if you're hit near the pivot, doesn't the tree have more mechanical advantage?
@GlitchyZorua@patterfloof They can't federate. Not directly. Bluesky invented their own incompatible protocol.
There's some group of people wanting to make a bridge instance that talks both protocols, but that's not true federation and it seems unlikely to me it'll succeed. Our instance already voted to block it.
mastodon makes an update to automatically disable open registrations if no mod logs in to curb down on spam
techbro: it's time to leave mastodon for something else. the fediverse is a cargo cult with strict rules. i do not love this hashtag cancel culture and hashtag tone policing
@kopper I've seen articles talking about how the number of active Mastodon users is declining.
Besides the fact that "growth" is a capitalistic metric that only matters to economists and corporations, if it's shrinking because bad people feel unwelcome then that's a good thing
every new user being shocked that DMs aren’t actually private is kinda scary because it means that everybody just assumes DMs on other platforms are private
because they aren’t. the only difference between fedi and other social media is that fedi admins don’t have a vested interest in making you think DMs are private
@mel personally, I do find there's a big difference between "this faceless corporate money machine, which I don't trust at all, have access to my private messages¹" versus "My instance admins, who I've actually chatted to and seen like good people, have access to my private messages²"
1: and WILL access them, just as soon as they even think they know how to monetize them, if they haven't already
2: but why would they access them? There's no motive here