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.

So this is what my phone is made out of. Well I’ll be.

Prince William Pears. They’re so sweet and juicy!! So juicy it always dribbles down my chin when I take a bite.

There’s Lemmy chat now? How does that work?? Is it like IRC?

Going to see NOFX next month, during their final tour. I can’t wait to sing My Vagina out loud with a big crowd.

Hey man no spoilers, I just started Ghost of Tsushima the other day…

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.

Many people here are being incredibly pedantic about the words “social media”, forgetting entirely that “social media” is a term invented to describe a certain type of website. Forums existed before the term was being widely used, for example, and whilst they would fit a dictionary definition of the words within the term they were always considered a separate entity to what was established as being ‘social media’ (e.g.: Myspace, Bebo, Facebook, etc.).

I’m with you, OP.

Nice try FBI, but you’re not getting that confession out of me this easily!!!

My best mate has this. I’m always worried!

Is there anything, as a friend, that I should look out for to help?

Growing up I was constantly told to try to be like someone else, because I’m too weird.

There’s advantages to paying for video games, even single player such as cloud saves as one example. For multiplayer games you get online play with dedicated servers, rather than finding a workaround like LAN tunneling with pirated games.

You literally get nothing special from paying for porn.

I somehow give the impression that I know what I’m talking about.

I’ve blocked so many communities and users, that I’m scared to look at how big my list is…

I can definitely resonate with this.

I’m ‘old school British’ with my drinks, in the sense that I have far too much tea in a day. I’ve gradually reduced the amount of sugar, and now I’m down to one sometimes less than one teaspoon per mug (larger than a traditional cup though more common I suppose). I have most certainly noticed the same effect, as it has reduced my sugar dependency overall; I can taste sweetness in things much better now, and this only took a little while. Barely noticeable of an effort.

Here in the UK it took over 3 years, after the initial release of the iPhone, for it to even support MMS messaging. Most people around me had Blackberries until Apple actually gave reason for them to consider switching, which took years. It was largely considered to be like the iPods before it: focused on the fashion/‘cool’ aspect of it.

I would not say they brought technology forward, and I’d go as far as to say the strive to bring forward functionalities of the iPhones improved after Jobs (I understand this is a hot take and may result in downvotes, just my opinion based on local experience).

Thank you for the clarification on this, I’ll keep it in mind and noted.

It’s nothing surprising to me. This is what I assume Reddit was like before heavy moderation of subs many years ago, and what gets on the front page.

/r/trees used to be one of the most popular subreddits and used to frequently show up on /r/all (the ‘frontpage’ back then), followed by GoneWild communities iirc (at least that’s how it felt like, I mean Spez was a moderator for Jailbait after all) I think Lemmy just doesn’t hide it and so it’s easier for people to click on and such.

Same here. Tried Sync, felt odd and wasn’t to my liking so I went back to using Connect.

This is pretty much exactly what I was doing in the early 2000s, when we got our first family computer. Thank you for the nostalgia.