WastedJobe

@WastedJobe@feddit.de
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"In bed with"=takes their money to have their search engine and lets you change it in 30 seconds while being completely open source

I don't see the problem.

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Knights of the Old Republic, Battle for Middle Earth

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It takes work off both the distro maintainers and the developers of the software, because they only need to provide a single package that works anywhere instead of packages for every single distro.

AFAIK to count as one play, a song needs to be played for more than 30 seconds (source: friend used to work at a record label), so to me it's surprising it has any plays at all.

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Absolutely. I would prefer they didn't have google as the default, but I'd rather have Firefox with good funding and google as default than firefox with very little funding.

How did he get performance based bonuses when his company isn't profitable?

There is a Wookie padawan in The Clone Wars and I absolutely approve.

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It's trying its best ok

Isn't arithmetic a class in Hogwarts and just a fancy word for maths (not a native speaker)? I think only Hermione takes it though and it's only mentioned in the books.

This entire thread looks like everyone who stopped using Linux over 2 or 3 years ago should have another look at it, so many (now) none-issues.

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Audio Engineer here. Not sure Ardour can open video, but it's a capable DAW and open source. Reaper is closed source but it can open (and even render) pretty much any video format. To actually seperate a single voice, you do need additional plugins though, no matter which DAW you're using.
I think iZotope RX could do it, but it is fairly expensive. I haven't seen any open source audio tools that can do this at all. It is pretty much guaranteed to require some kind of machine learning, as parametrically seperating by EQ or phase won't work if you have only one source signal (even with two or more microphones, it would be really, really hard).
A very good spectral editor might technically work, it would however take several days of manually deleting select frequencies on an almost single sample level and still sound bad, especially if the noise is nearly the same level as the signal.

This might not be everyones cup of tea, but metal and hardcore are full of protest music. Heaven Shall Burn for example is lyricly anti-fascist and environmentalist (live video because that show is fucking legendary).

Gojira also slaps.

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He's got a point though, these sound more like 'online article on tech website' phrases, less like a community post. Not meant to be insulting, I just like to analyse language.

Maybe more metal-adjacent, but amazing: Everytime We Touch - Electric Callboy

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"Dammit I just lost The Game"

You've probably heard people use the term wrong.

Trump doesn't have intellectual defenders.

It could change the pH of the oceans, making it harder for anything to live there. Plus, it might not store the CO2 for longer than 1000 years, which doesnt really solve the issue (I have a source for that somewhere, I think it was the IPCC).

Doctor Who Season Finale. I've caught the bug again after a couple lackluster seasons, they made a great choice bringing back Russel T Davies as showrunner.

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.wav files store volume levels (typically, but often higher) as a 16bit value 44100 times a second (again, typically, but often higher). This allows frequencies up to 22050Hz to be stored without losses. A lot of this is useless information, because most people don't hear anything above 16kHz, which only gets worse with age. Other parts of this might be useless information because of complex low frequency interaction with the inner ear which occlude some higher frequencies (psychoacoustics was a long time ago, can't explain it in detail). .ogg and .mp3 filetypes, among others, use that to simply cut frequencies that (probably) aren't heard. This process saves a lot of data, but results in lower resolution, especially in the higher frequencies (look up comparisons for 128kBit/s vs 320kBit/s MP3, you'll hear the difference immediately on pretty much anything other than phone speakers.)

If file size is an issue, .ogg is great, if quality is the most important, go for .flac, as flac files also don't loose any quality while having file sizes between the two, though compatibility might be a problem on older systems.

Define "serious gamer". I play almost everything on Linux with little to no downsides, especially in Dota2 and CSGO or single player games.

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It is history though. Erasing it from history would make it harder to study how insane that man was, which is immediately apparent in basically any part of that book. In Germany, Mein Kampf is banned except for educational purposes, eg in history class. Nothing conveys just how bad Hitler was as effectively as his own writing.

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GNOME. It doesn't let customization get in the way of me using it, but everything I actually need to change has an extension to do that, even on my Surface.

No order in particular:

  • Elder Scrolls 3-5
  • KOTOR 1 & 2
  • Dota 2
  • Mass Effect
  • Grim Dawn
  • Kerbal Space Program
  • Warframe
  • Age Of Empires II
  • Battle for Middle Earth 2
  • Counter Strike

If you're into metal/hardcore/etc at all, you should watch the documentaries Parkway Drive (Post-hardcore/metalcore band from Australia) has made, extraordinary stuff. This is the first one.

I also recommend chess.

How is Putin deciding to invade Ukraine (which he started in 2014 btw) largely Trumps fault?

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I think feminism isn't a particularly good term for equality, which is the actual goal. The real problem is toxic masculinity, which hurts women probably most of all, but also all men who aren't willing or able to exploit the system at every opportunity.

custom ROM

I'm using CalyxOS on a Fairphone 4, works pretty well, appart from getting Playstore apps from Aurora Store without a Google account (I search for apps in firefox and open the link with Aurora which is clunky but works). You can install a terminal emultor from F-Droid, not sure why you would tbh but I've found several.

I agree in principle, but knowing what people pay for a kb that doesn't even have a numpad I would raise the usefulness cutoff to around 100.

I'd at least make sure Star Trek Prodigy gets the seasons it deserves

You don't need distillation to make beer though, do you?

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Used it for a good while, but I moved to Nobara for more up to date packages. Might look into it again when Cosmic releases, it looks promising. I just hope they have some way to use Gnome extensions (or a replacement).

Define "green". In terms of CO2 it would obviously be horrible and incredibly stupid.

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I think those questions say more about the person asking them. None of these (except maybe the last one) ask about political views, interests besides technology, humor, or what they care about the most if it's not one of the things directly asked about.

Two halfs of a moon that dont get alomg make people battle on their behalf and everything is canon. Even bears with cowboy hats.

FUCK yes, so satisfying

Back to the Future
Raiders Of the Lost Ark
Star Wars
Alien
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Honorable Mentions:
Any of the LOTR Trilogy, Wrath of Khan, Dune (2021), Interstellar, Arrival, Avatar (2009)

Back to the Future
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Interstellar
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Empire Strikes Back

Honorable Mentions:
Any LOTR, Wrath of Khan, First Contact, Arrival, Dune (2021), Alien, Avatar, Inception, Die Hard

How is this so accurate 😂️

Still not a great idea to burn recyclable resources. The stuff that would otherwise end up in a landfill, sure, but most plastics can be used again in some way.