Arcoodaβs 2025 Display Lineup Changes
Arcooda has just listed their 2025-edition LCD arcade monitor replacements for sale and there's quite a few differences from the original announcement earlier this year.Bob (RetroRGB)
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Hello Friendica, once again
Maybe I'm fooling myself, but I feel like we might finally be on the edge of seeing widespread HDR uptake.
I recently discovered Gain Maps! It's a technique that allows existing file types such as JPG to display HDR content, but to also gracefully fall back to SDR if HDR is unavailable, or if the application simply doesn't understand gain maps. Basically, they store an SDR version of the file, but also store a "gain map" layer in the metadata of the file that gets applied to the SDR version, and transforms it to HDR.
Most modern phones can produce gain maps (though they don't always do so by default). Firefox and Chrome can both support HDR (though they're both in the early stages).
My TV, my monitors, my phone, all display HDR.
All that's missing is HDR content. We finally have all the parts of the framework to display HDR in play, and a backward compatible path to get there, so hopefully, finally, we'll start to see more content!
A girl can dream...
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Poor Kaity. She's struggling with everyone hating on The Veronicas when they appeared at number 3!
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"That's a weird thing to have your friends do. Collect your records and then change your number"
Quote from Kaity
I mean, I'm loving the Triple J Hottest 100 so far, but that means that the station is a very long way from what it used to be. Triple J never used to be my thing...
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Kaity and I went to a cafe for breakfast this morning, and when we went to leave and pay the bill, we found out that the ladies sitting at the table across from us had already paid for our breakfast.
We have no idea why, but my running theory is because I said "Hello puppy" to their doggo and gave it a scratch behind the ears!
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I was having lunch the other day, and I saw this lady with cool hair out of the corner of my eye.
I looked closer... This was the lady and her hair...
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Friendica
Friendica, why are you like this? 15 years it's been around, it's a super mature platform, it talks to Bluesky, peertube, the micro blog fediverse (mastodon/sharkey etc), the threadiverse (gup.pe, lemmy, piefed & mbin), it has amazing filters, sensible (and customisable) timeline viewing options... It's everything I could possibly want in a fediverse platform...
But somehow, I just struggle to love it...
I'm going to try though!
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@Droppie So, Friendica...
I love its timeline view and its feature set. But I hate everything else about it. It's also a real dog to run when it gets a bigger user base.
All of those things combined, mean that I've started using it, but I really don't want to open it up and have to moderate yet another space.
I would be open to adding a handful of people, but 1) the userbase would need to remain small enough that I can keep track of everyone and trust them to not need moderation 2) I wouldn't be doing much moderation on incoming stuff from remote instances (aside from defederating the worst of the worst) and 3) if it has technical issues, it won't get the same priority as our regular instances.
So, with all of that being said, if you're still interested, you're welcome to apply
Ta Ada. Oh wotta bummer, you've confirmed lots that i've already discovered myself from several European F instances over recent years π
It's also a real dog to run when it gets a bigger user base
It was this [seen only as a mere user, not knowing what was happening behind the curtain] that drove me insane, & ultimately caused me to abandon several of those "bigger" European ones. The latency just became too much to endure [eg, timelines sometimes hours behind (but commonly tens of minutes), new posts i'd try to send would often take 1' - 5' to actually send (not always, but too often to bear), manually reloading the timeline often (but not always) took some minutes to complete]. Even my one surviving instance, better than most of its forebears, still suffers bouts of this which makes me wanna tear hair.
Additionally, i began to suspect a possibility of fundamentally flawed database structure or processing, as one instance actually catastrophically destroyed itself & its owner opted to just abandon it, two others suffered multiple bouts of unreliability that took them offline for days at a time, & even my current surviving one suffered some calamity a few months ago & could not be repaired, though the owner was able to restore a backup from a few days before.
all of that being said, if you're still interested, you're welcome to apply
I sincerely appreciate the offer, but it seems not worthwhile now. My primary interest in sounding you out on this was that til now i'd not found any Oz / NZ instances that were Open, & that i felt i could trust. All those i had/have, were northern hemi as mentioned. One of my interests in trying an Oz one was to see if an expected latency reduction / performance increase might actually ensue... or not.
Ta & best wishes with it.
Testing testing. Is this thing on?
Posting from Friendica!
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