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Do y'all like these "4K" Photos? ๐Ÿ‘€

(It's Guangzhou City btw... pretty sure I used to walked around here as a kid before we emigrated)

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[โ€“] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Those kids in the second to last picture should really be wearing helmets while riding their invisible skateboards.

[โ€“] SwifferWetjet@thelemmy.club 11 points 1 week ago

They're soaping, bro

[โ€“] WongKaKui@piefed.social 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I remember I kinds did some "parkour" on the ledge... (just walking on the ledge there not really "parkour" but its more fun to think of it as parkour lol)... Like you see that wheelchair ramp thing? I remember like just hopping over the barrier and on to the stairs and the back on the other side... kinda scary to think the on the other side of it is like a very high drop... ๐Ÿซฃ

Oh we used to play with these "Skateboards" in the plaza around the area... (still played this a bit when we were in Brooklyn NYC during the first few years when I was like 8-12, then just grew out of it... felt childish to me)

Also safety? Pffff my dad literally just turned off an electric circuit then proceeded to TOUCH THE WIRES without gloves to fix something...

Like what if the circuit switch failed? Where are the precautions? Do electritions do this? (He did not have a license in electricity stuff)

I was like: Aaaahhh dad don't die and leave me alone on this mortal realm... ๐Ÿฅบ

Luckily nothing happened

Also: OSHA is not a thing in China.

On a related note: My old apartment building would not meet western safety standards...

Do electritions do this?

Depends on how long they've been an electrician, sometimes they're in the game too long and get complacent. You're supposed to check it with a multimeter first though, if you want to be safe. If you don't want to be safe take a shower first, don't dry off, and bite on a wet sponge while you do it lmao.

There are special measuring tools to check it the power is really turned off after you flip a switch.

So no, electricians (who get to retire) do not do this! You check the tool before and after every check as well!

[โ€“] BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

High definition through finger grease I guess. Or, needs more CMOS.

[โ€“] WongKaKui@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago

It's a Galaxy A32 5G from like years ago...

I don't think she even cleans the lenses... I mean dust probably got inside the camera... ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

[โ€“] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago
[โ€“] Janx@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Was it downscaled through text or Lemmy?

[โ€“] WongKaKui@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sent to me via MMS, via international roaming...

Mom told my brother to send photos to me with his phone which is better(?) and he said he posted in WeChat... and just basically ignores me lol... dude hates having a younger sibling lol

But I don't have a WeChat account... (not sure if I want WeChat on my phone (corporate apps and all)... but like every Chinese Diaspora uses it tho ๐Ÿ˜•)

So many Chinese diaspora / Asian diaspora groups on Discord... aaahhh wtf I don't want corporate scanning my entire phone lol (can they even do that? sandboxing prevents that right?)

[โ€“] kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I setup an FTP server on my 5โ‚ฌ/month vps instance; and asked my sister to drop pictures there; in highest quality. And she does! I have a ton of pics of our dogs in 6000x4000 resolution

It's pretty easy to use, at least from android

[โ€“] Auster@thebrainbin.org 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This "blur"/"grease" looks like high moisture in the air. If that's the case, kinda hard to do anything about it from my experience.

[โ€“] Thteven@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

That's the "Asia filter"

[โ€“] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

Dirty lense would be an easier explanation.