Forest @forestjohnson@pixie.town

@notplants Ah sorry I didn't understand what you were asking at first.

AFAIK that lspci output doesn't positively identify the GPU you have, but from this PDF it sounds like it should be intel HD graphics 4000?

https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/withdrawnbook/ThinkPad_X230.pdf

And StackOverflow says the max res for that GPU would be 2560×1600 through DisplayPort

https://superuser.com/questions/1317793/does-a-thinkpad-x230-i7-support-a-4k-external-monitor

In general, as a very old laptop, it probably wouldn't be very usable with a high density screen even if the GPU did support it.

@notplants The lcd segmented displays on the old Nintendo Game & Watch have crisp edges 🤷

To actually respond to your question though, the metric you are looking for is "pixel density", similar to "DPI" (dots per inch) from the world of printing.

Celly Phones have really high pixel density screens. You could probably just peek at your friends' phones and see how they look to you, and then look up the model of phone online and see what its pixel density is, then compare that to laptop screens.

Apple is the main hardware vendor for super high pixel density screens on laptops. There are also some other laptops that feature 4k screens, but in general those are the kind of products that I would personally try to avoid as much as possible -- expensive blinged-out and consumer-oriented products that sacrifice functionality for impressive sounding specs.

Cuz here's the thing. The number of pixels goes up as the square of the pixel dimensions of the screen. So the finer the edges of the text get, the exponentially more power the machine will consume, the more complex the software to display things on the screen will have to be, etc.

I think apple actually renders a lot of non-text things at 1/2 scale to give the machines decent performance. When I play video games, even on my 1680x1050 display, I turn down the rendering resolution to make the game smoother. When I'm working with video, especially capturing video, again, I turn down the resolution a lot so that people who I am presenting the video to can actually see WTF I'm doing.

Personally I don't think all the problems that come with using a high resolution display are worth it. If you really just want a 4k display on a laptop tho, I'm sure there are some products out there you could buy, even used ones these days.

@dumpsterqueer Sometimes iphones used to upload heic images to websites (even tho I know they are generally not supposed to). IDK if they still do this but if so, I found/wrote some code that can read them and make sure they are rotated correctly https://git.sequentialread.com/forest/heic-converter-gui/src/branch/main/heic2jpg.go#L18

It uses the same wazero thing yall have been using

@aras

I'm no datacenter expert but I really feel like the market is wildly distorted.

We pay $160/mo to colo a 1U pizzabox w/ 100mbit internet service 10x slower than the gig I get at home.. And for that gig i pay $60/mo

It doesn't need to cost $700/mo to run a computer.

In order to get the performance of a cheap consumer grade SSD, Amazon charges a monthly cost of 100x that consumer grade SSD's purchase price. Sounds insane but its true, type 1TB and 50k IOPS into calculator.aws

And can't most of mastodon's "slowness" be removed by rewriting the outgoing federation to use nonblocking IO? There's probably never been a gotosocial instance this big, but I suspect if there was, it wouldn't need such an investment in compute capacity .

@reesericci What does LASA stand for?

I don't need alt text in order to access an image post, but for people who do, please put alt text on your images.

@hxrts This is one good way: https://streetpass.social/

At least in my experience, the fediverse seems to revolve around various different tight knit online communities. It's a lot slower & more tedious to build connections because the social graph is less dense. It's not like Facebook where the first time you log in, it shows you a massive page with everyone in your highschool or college class. I guess its a blessing and a curse. On one hand, my attention is directed by me, not by the platform. On the other hand, if I don't do anything, I'm just faced with a blank page; nothing to see.

Anyways,

On the bottom left you should see a set of links:

> "post.lurk.org: About · Profiles directory · Privacy policy"

Profiles directory will take you to
https://post.lurk.org/directory, which has an option to filter for just accounts on your instance, or accounts on other instances.

I guess the answer to the question "how to find people" might depend on how you got here, what your goals are, etc.

Blog post about my 1st home electronics repair project

https://sequentialread.com/bonavita-electric-kettle-repair/

@hisaac reddit.com/r/minneapolis is very reliable