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  • tal@lemmy.todaytoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Generating art with the same style - HelpEnglish
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    18 hours ago

    You’re probably better off asking on [email protected].

    If you want to try there, I can throw some ideas out.

    Asklemmy, despite the oft-confusing community name that generates a lot of these sort of things, isn’t really intended as a general “ask any question” community, but for “thought-provoking” questions. Their Rule 5 excludes stuff like this.

    The mods tend to delete stuff like this; I’ve had a few questions that I’ve spent time answering and then had the post deleted with the answers, which is kinda frustrating if you’ve put effort into an answer.

    If you ask there, I’d suggest indicating which system you used to generate the image, as it’ll affect the answer.

  • tal@lemmy.todaytoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•How much of a game changer was USB-C for you, compared to other cables?English
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    2 days ago

    Well, for me, the selling points are:

    • Versus earlier versions of USB, it’s reversible. This isn’t a game changer, I guess, but it’s definitely nice to not have to fiddle plugs around all the time.

    • I don’t know if it’s the only form of USB that does USB PD – I’d guess not – but in practice, it seems to be pretty strongly associated with USB PD. Having USB PD isn’t essential, but it makes charging larger devices, like laptops, a lot more practical. I can lug around a power station that doesn’t need to have an embedded inverter.

    I still feel that it’s kind of physically small and weak compared to USB A. That’s an okay tradeoff for small portable devices that don’t have the space for larger connectors, but I’m kinda not enthralled about it on desktop. I worry more about bending connectors (and I have bent them before).

    So for me, I’d say that it’s definitely nice, but not really in a game changing sense. I could do the things it can do in somewhat-worse ways prior to USB-C.

  • tal@lemmy.todaytoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are some excellent YouTube channels you recommend?English
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    5 days ago

    I’ll second a couple of other things that people have mentioned, like SmarterEveryDay and CGP Grey.

    Hmm. What would I consistently watch new material on?

    General-audience military history. It’s not especially flashy, and you’ll see typos and such, but it consistently shows maps, which is somewhere that I think a lot of military history stuff falls over. And the guy has read the material for the stuff he covers, at least the stuff that I’m reasonably familiar with. There are much larger military history channels out there, and much blingier ones, but I’d rate this well for actually helping someone accurately understand the material covered. He does a good job of highlighting what I think decent books on the subject matter consider the important, salient bits. I’d say that he’s probably reading – and understanding – the major recommended books on a battle prior to doing a video on it. I’d recommend his videos on battles over any commercial documentaries that I’ve seen.

    There are other military history channels that I do watch, but I think that of them, that’s probably the one I’d recommend being worthwhile as a watch the most.

    Drachinifel – does naval history, especially gun-era stuff and British stuff – but while Drachinifel is pretty prolific, I wouldn’t rank his output as highly; he’s basically taking some high-level stuff from a quick read and putting it in video format. He’s not doing all that much reading per video. But he’s got a lot of stuff.

    The Operations Room also favors maps, but I feel like they tend to pull more of their material from personal accounts from individuals than I’d like.

    Kings And Generals has covered a lot of different conflicts, is flashier, also puts stuff on maps, but I’ve definitely seen stuff on there that I’d call erroneous. I’d watch something from them due to the scope of their material, but take it with a grain of salt.

    Hmm.

    I don’t really follow channels much, repeatedly intentionally come back to anyone. Like, to have a Web analogy, there are websites out there that I like, but very few to which I’d subscribe to an RSS feed, because even for places that have good content, I rarely want to watch a high proportion of anything that they’ve done.

    I can’t think of anyone that does software that I’d recommend watching (or, honestly, in general, video for that). I haven’t been all that blown away by video for international affairs stuff, not to the point that I’d explicitly recommend someone.

    • theslowmoguys does a lot of well-filmed very slow motion stuff. I wouldn’t go back to see something just because they’ve put it out, but they’ve got some of the better slow-motion footage of different things that I’ve seen. Fun watch.

    • Oh, forgottenweapons. This is pretty well-known in the firearms world, so it’s probably not a huge surprise to people who are interested in firearms. It originally focused on unusual firearms mechanisms, but I think that they’ve done a video on darn near every firearm out there now, so it’s kind of a nice place to get a video overview from an informed person of most firearms, short bit history, highlights unusual mechanisms of the thing. I definitely would not go out and try to watch through this whole thing unless you are some kind of absolutely rabid firearms mechanism person, but it consistently has good-quality, informed material. There’s a [email protected] community on the Threadiverse.

    • PerunAU is also probably pretty well-known. Guy in defense economics, good for a level-headed, high-level look at the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Shows a series of Powerpoint slides. If he comes out with a new video, I’d watch it; he generally doesn’t waste viewer time, and insofar as my knowledge extends, the information he puts out is pretty solid. I don’t have the knowledge to evaluate the validity of his opinions, but he’s pretty good at explicitly stating that something is or is not his opinion. There’s been a lot of people making a lot of videos on the conflict, and I think that he’s one of the more-worthwhile people to pay attention to.

    I feel kinda bad to heavily list military- or weapons- related stuff, as I certainly watch plenty of other stuff on YouTube, but honestly, while I watch other material, most of the cases where I think I’d watch new material from a particular individual falls into those categories. Like, there are channels spanning a wide range of things, that have put out great content, that I think is interesting, but they also put out a whole lot of other stuff that I’m not interested in. I might recommend a particular video, but not the whole channel.

    EDIT:

    • primitivetechnology9550. Guy goes out into the woods with nothing but his shorts and just using what’s available, constructs a “technology tree”, starting with something like a stone axe and moving up to iron production and increasingly-sophisticated structures. Pretty well-known, but I’ve enjoyed every video I’ve ever seen on there.