The real answer is because it’s default.

People use what’s the default. It’s that simple. Any knowledge of how images are encoded is kind of unnecessary information for most folks.

There are a ton of technical and usage-based arguments around image formats, and political complications, but ultimately jpeg’s eternal dominance comes down to people using their app defaults, and wanting stuff to just work. And PNGs are big enough to create technical issues or incompatibilities, sometimes.

There’s a balance.

If you have a “big” PC with tons of case fans and no ducting (so all the hot air just circulates around inside), it’s going to be noisy, no matter how fancy your case fans are GPU are. There are just too many fans, and most of them are trying to get the inside of the case reasonably close to ambient temps.

If you have a mini PC with a laptop fan, it’s just too small, so it has to spin very fast.

The “sweet spot” is SFF builds that duct everything, and throttle the parts. If you have 1 heatsink fan and your GPU sucking in ambient air, and you undervolt them, they’re near silent.

Maybe I missed the joke, but street corn is so delicious it’s unreal.

Try some if you’re in Texas. It’s a staple here.

Is the joke that its AI slop b/c the recipe is so wonky?

That’s actually cool.

There’s a point where modifications get so outrageous and unique that they can get away with this. There’s nothing special about a lifted dodge, but this. One doesn’t just casually acquire/maintain something like this.

I see what looks like nice double wishbones on the front too, and an okay height for its stance. It isn’t one of those crumby lifts that ruins the suspension.

When I migrate from this account, it will be to piefed. It just seems to be the future and have more features.

It’s got attention from hosters too. FYI there is a lemmy.world piefed instance now.

This happens to any fandom over time. The folks engaged enough to stick around so long tend to obsess over whatever the “original” is. They peel apart every little blemish of a new release under a microscope, before it comes out.

Toxicity breeds.

Compared to old forums, I think the structure of places like Reddit/Discord inflames it. It’s cultish.

So do YouTubers and such, as video algorithms likes punchy ragebait more than (say) nerdy lore analysis.

I first experienced this in the Avatar community, and seeing so much hate breed makes me sad.

See: the Korra/NATLA hate videos. The Reddit groupthink that parrots the same points, including straight up misinformation. Breathless worship of ATLA these days, waning interest in deeper lore like the novels and longfics. Even the idea of an upscale/touch up is shot down, because the video artifacts in the original are “perfect.”

And a lot of that history is archived. For instance, read through the comments in the Korra episode premiere threads, and it’s nothing like the fandom now.

But the pattern seems to be everywhere.

And I think it’s partially a mirage. I suspect a lot of fans (like me) are just not engaged with fandom social media. And many more are “dormant” and will come back whenever something big and new drops.

But with sports clubs, that a feature, not a bug.

It’s remarkable how consistently awful Microsoft stuff is.

I cite a comment from my Dad: “I don’t know what copilot is, but I don’t want it.” New Microsoft Feature = spam is literally trained into regular people’s brains now, like an animal that’s been repeatedly burned.

That’s actually very cool. There’s a lot of talk of molten salt energy storage anyway, and this just integrates it.

Maybe it could be built closer to other renewables or cities, and use a big vat to store heat from other power sources, when needed.

…Still, though.

AFAIK, the (silver?) mirrors on mounted servos that have to be kept clean are a pretty significant fixed cost.

Yeah.

At some point, mounting them statically becomes even cheaper than a tracking mount, I guess.

That was a bit of hyperbole… I didn’t mean a majority of men. Like a few particular jerks in a class, basically.

But they were so prolific that their ‘body count’ was pretty high. Hence I think it’s fair to extrapolate a sample as a justification of this meme, as even ‘a few’ bad eggs can have enough of a disproportionate effect to justify the stereotype.

Fun trivia:

Volvo, for a time, sold 60-degree, Yamaha V8s in their XC90:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvo_B8444S_engine

Engine geometry essentially determines sound, and a 60 degree V8 is very rare. Hence it gave what was supposed to be a safe, boring SUV a hilariously burbly pipe:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rSDtrCxpKKI&pp=ygUHWGM5MCB2OA%3D%3D

And that’s cool. It’s neat, and exotic; the engine earned that noise.

So many men “in the game” are literally like this. Especially behind their interests’ backs, talking shit with other guys. I witnessed way worse from my small former social circle, and even back then I felt kinda ashamed of my sex.

Just like modded Minecraft.

It would make sense.

Thermal concentrator cost is basically fixed: mirrors of a specific quality, tracking mounts, an eye of sauron cooling loop. That tech doesn’t change much. Same with parabolic pipe plants.

But the bulk of photovoltaic installation cost is the panels. And those get exponentially cheaper.

And scrambled eggs?

I mean, some of both curve up to Spain.

They usually peter out before then, but this is placed before they fizzle out.

Ehhhh, not in fall. Hurricanes sometimes curl up that way, along with a bunch of Saharan dust.

Could it be because attention-based algorithms/structures reward it?

https://github.com/vladmandic/sdnext