anethum

anethum wrote

Reply to comment by devtesla in "Somebody that I Used to Know" Miku/Sponge (Animated) by hollyhoppet

"i can't pay attention if it's not sang to me in a spongebob/miku duet" but for real: i think if your initial exposure to this song was like, passive (having it play in the background, on the top 40 radio and whatnot), you'd condition yourself not to listen closely; your minds files it under "pop dreg". listening to it in a different context allows you to pay attention to things that you didn't before, e.g., the god dangned lyrics

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anethum wrote (edited )

Reply to I put 88 HAMMERS on a PIANO by hollyhoppet

the end results sound pretty rocking actually, i like it

modifying the sound of the piano like that reminds me of the prepared piano (although one of the tenets of prepared piano is that the changes have to be perfectly reversible; in this case...)

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anethum wrote

Reply to idea for a revolutionary new iphone by twovests

i'm an exclusively android user (one of those annoying ones that still uses a phone from 2017 too) and the occasional moments where i have to use my sister's iphone i find quite humiliating. is this floating thing on the side the home "button". apparently it's not. how do you switch screens. what

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anethum wrote

Reply to found out my friend had his tumblr hacked. he had no idea by twovests

He casually mentioned that he keeps getting logged out.

this is actually a very difficult issue imo: it's hard to know what you should expect from "tech stuff", even more so now that stuff is more advanced and the black boxes get more complicated. was it supposed to act like that? who knows. i can't really do anything about it, so i'll just cope with it. you just end up with problems that you "cope with" and never get solved if not for almost random happenstances like casually mentioning it to a more knowledgeable person or reading about it somewhere else and going, "huh, it wasn't supposed to do that after all." it's also made harder that the problems are more intractable? it isn't very intuitive that an unupdated browser could leave you in danger of hacks and stuff; the browser works for browsing, after all. updating windows is an even harder sell: you want me to make windows bother me even more with stuff i don't want and maybe changing stuff that already work fine?

even though i'd like to think i'm pretty savvy, i appreciate that i'm highly stupid, and thus i'm susceptible to this too. stuff's tough

(a fun "savvy but stupid" story: a long time ago i destroyed my windows 98 installation because my 4gb harddisk was full and i tried to make space by deleting stuff from C:/Windows and, wait for it, System32. this was without prompting; i didn't have internet at the time, so i didn't get Epic Memed; rather, i Epic Memed myself)

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