elucubra
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- Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 1 day ago:
Linux and all its flavors?
What’s wrong with libreoffice or anyoffice? For a large percentage of users, Linux is fine, especially as many applications have an online option. For the stuff I do, in Linux, online Office is more than sufficient.
An org I work with provides me with a 365 license, but I I’m more comfortable in Libreoffice.
Office is used bythe majority, but majority doesn’t mean they are right, they are simply more.
- Comment on Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch 1 day ago:
Arrrr
- Comment on Downsize Ender 5 plus? 3 days ago:
I’m talking about an Ender 5 plus, not a pro. The build volume is 350x350x400.
- Comment on What are your favorite open source 3D printers? 3 days ago:
Open source software only applies to software. Open source hardware, as OC mentioned, does not imply documentation, as long as all components are replicable, and readily available.
- Comment on What are your favorite open source 3D printers? 3 days ago:
It’s open source if there is no proprietary tech, and every single components is replaceable from outside sources. I have owned several 3rd gen printers, and currently keep an Ender 5 Plus, heavily modded. I could replicate the machine without much trouble, and not running afoul of any laws. The whole machine is based on prior art.
- Comment on Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74 3 days ago:
Didnt he also invent the Tesler car?
- Comment on What are the most useful things you've printed? 2 weeks ago:
If you don’t have at least a thousand benchies, temp towers and calibration cubes (mix and match allowed), you are not allowed here :)
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- Comment on Desiccant dehumidifiers are fascinating... but not for everyone [29:19] 2 weeks ago:
Humidifiers are simple and cheap. Maybe the cost of a 2 in 1 wouldn’t make commercial sense.
Also, it would probably need two water tanks, as I imagine you wouldn’t want to use the drain tank as a clean water source.
Just guessing here.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 2 weeks ago:
I have 2 4K tvs, one used as a monitor. I’m now rewatching some 70’s - 80’s shows. When the intro starts, I’m acutely aware of the low res, but as soon as the show starts, I get into the content, and I really don’t notice the resolution.
If you focus on the resolution instead of the content, maybe the content is not that engaging.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 2 weeks ago:
I also think that 1080 is fine for normal living room distance. In my case, though, I use a 42" 4K as a monitor, where I have the equivalent of 4 1080 monitors. No gaming, but for my use it’s more practical than multiple monitors.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 2 weeks ago:
Not ideal, but you can air gap the TV from the network, and use some small sbc, or even a firestick or android box. That’s what I do. Stremio?
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 2 weeks ago:
Higher res matters when filming, because you can reframe scenes in editing without losing resolution when downscaling the final result.
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 2 weeks ago:
I’m willing to sacrifice some of my valuable internet points here and be down voted to low hell.
I was going to make a comment along those lines.
They are, at the core, an ad company. Their motivation is to make money, and we are free to pay or not pay for their services.
The idea that we have a right to a non essential product for free is entitlement. They make a shit load of money, but also pay money to most content creators. Could they provide a service where they essentially just pay for costs? Sure, but no for profit Corp is going to do that, it has to make money somehow. While I’m all for peer tube, I really don’t know if it’s sustainable.
I wonder how many of the people who demand free access to services donate to FOSS Development.
Maybe some form of consumer co-op, where users essentially pay for operating costs, could be an option.
- Comment on Maduro says US warships with 1,200 missiles targeting Venezuela 2 weeks ago:
That’s a lot of ships.
- Comment on End of 10: Support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025. 2 weeks ago:
Just an FYI: Windows LTSC 2019 has an end of support in 2029
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 2 weeks ago:
Their arguments are kind of lame. To install APKs from outside the store is already an involved process that generally makes it harder for the uninformed to sideload. Make sideloading a bit harder, but possible. My xiaomi makes me wait and read warnings before installing APKs, for example.
- Comment on Taylor Swift’s new album comes in cassette. Who is buying those? 3 weeks ago:
Ok, first: You do you. Second: I’m not in possession of absolute truth.
But if I may, I’d like to share some of my experientially acquired knowledge.
On sound; I stand by my words. Why accept worse quality sound because the medium is inferior? Do whatever you want to post process, but having control. Want permanent “warmth”? Buy, or even better, build a tube amp. Pretty easy BTW. Want some sound characteristics? Get a proper equalizer and learn to use it. Want crackle? Well, really, that is something to discuss with your therapist… BTW, what all people call warmth is just a slight bump in the 60-80 Khz range. I like many old amps, and speakers. I’ve actually designed and sold a few bespoke speaker systems. Some vintage Klipsch sets, with a refoaming are still astounding, but sources have gotten way better.
Regarding photography; I bought my first SLR, a Vivitar XV1 ( A Pentax K1000 copy) in the 80’s. All manual, but with a built in light meter. From there I went on to a Pentax , then another, then Pentax’s first autofocus, and the worlds first SLR with a pop-up flash, often derided as a gimmick, but amazingly useful, the mighty SF1, I also had a Nikon F601 with a couple of lenses and a Old school 6x6 Bellows Zeiss. I’ve developed quite a bit. I kind of know my stuff.
Analog photography is not superior, but different. It’s absolutely true that the limited amount of film, and the cost of developing, promotes thoughtful composition, framing, and anticipation. Selecting the right film, understanding your lenses, and, crucially, undesrtanding that the most important piece of kit is the lens, 2nd the tripod, and then the body,
helps a lot in getting superior photographs. If you know what you want, understand your film, your camera, your kit, you can get results unmatchable by digital, no matter how much post-processing. What, why, how, are necessary ingredients in film photography.That said, I would think, compose, etc the photo in my mind, and then shoot bursts, the ask for a contact sheet, and choose what I wanted for prints. No need to gamble all on the speed of your index finger. Film was the cheapest variable in the equation, except for Kodachrome, the GOAT of films. Fuji makes some very good film, but Kodachrome was beyond anything.
Kodachrome 64, and occasionally 25, how I miss you! those films demanded discipline, but the rewards were astounding.
Yes, in some respects, film is still superior to digital, ***IF ***you understand the medium, kit, process, and thinking.
A digital compact? Fine, but get one of the later ones. Advice from someone who bought and used an Olympus 1.2 Mpx fixed lens in 1999. There is NOOOO redeeming value in an early digital, except… Yeah, NONE.
Anecdote: I recently saw a kid, floating around his friends, taking pics with an old point-and-shoot. The cringe was strong. I was thinking, "Jeez, kid! I’m all for film, but buy an actual reflex with a proper lens, they are cheap as fuck in second hand marketplaces!!
- Comment on Taylor Swift’s new album comes in cassette. Who is buying those? 3 weeks ago:
You may agree that “cost, quality, and convenience” are pretty damn desirable.
I do agree, and kind of miss, the anticipation for a record release, the listening to the radio (in my case the quality non-commercial programs, think BBC, NPR, and their equivalents) with the finger on the record button, the wonder of buying a new LP, and poring over the jacket, and the occasional included booklet, flipping through records at the store,and many other cool aspects, but I stand by the vastly increased quality and durability.
If you want the rituals (save the fucking chore and expense of cleaning records), CDs are a pretty nice compromise. Tactile, mainly manual, choice of playing linearly, as many artists intended, possibility of programming or shuffling, high quality, and many other choices. With records and even worse, cassettes, you are stuck with the artifacts introduced by a bad medium and bad equipment. Want “warmth”? get a decent tube amp. Better yet, build from as kit. Great experience, and if you want control over sound, buy and learn to use a proper equalizer.
- Comment on 80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed 3 weeks ago:
I may have been one of the lucky. With all it’s warts, the 80’s, for many young people, were a banger. Sort of the final bang of the 60’s and 70’s. Perfect? Nowhere near, but the music, social, artistic, and so many other aspects, were pretty damn cool, and for the young crowd it was mainly what mattered. Things like the fall of the Berlin wall, the perceived end of the end of the cold war and the nuclear Armageddon threat gave us a sense of optimism. Looking back there are things, like the Reagan/Thatcher tandem, that were setting the stage to the neo-liberal clusterfuck we live in, but our focus was elsewhere.
- Comment on makes more sense than this shit 3 weeks ago:
“Apparently” Shroedinger’s weasel?
- Comment on Taylor Swift’s new album comes in cassette. Who is buying those? 4 weeks ago:
I agree. The loudness is not what I dislike the least. Most 1st gen CDs were the work of love of sound engineers and producers, given near miraculous equipment, to produce records with unheard of quality. I own several. Dire straits Brothers in arms is one of these, a truly brilliant recording (The album itself is brilliant) The sound quality is truly astounding.
The whole thing took a downturn when they started compressing the recordings to fit FM frequencies. Why they didn’t do the compression at the FM station, and leave the uncompressed stream for us, is always been a mystery to me.
As for the range, it is generally pointless. Most people, even when young, can’t hear above 20 Khz.
- Comment on Taylor Swift’s new album comes in cassette. Who is buying those? 4 weeks ago:
That is by design. Unwanted noise is shit. A large part of the electronic pathways were noise and other unwanted signals removers
- Comment on Taylor Swift’s new album comes in cassette. Who is buying those? 4 weeks ago:
Shit! I forgot about the life -changing Need to spool with a Pencil
- Comment on Taylor Swift’s new album comes in cassette. Who is buying those? 4 weeks ago:
Older dude here:
There is no advantage to listening to something on a cassette, except for the vintage brownie points.
I did the analog to digital transition, and miss nothing. There was an intermediate time, when mp3s came along, and people were lowering bitrates to absurd levels, but digital is simply better.
All the people talking wonders about the “warmth”, “tone”, and other supposedly desirable qualities are very mistaken. What they are fawning over is noise, feedback, muddiness, lack of range, lack of definition, and so on. Vinyl records are shit. They make sound by literally scratching something.
The only advantage of tape was, at the time, it’s smaller size and portability, but sound was worse than records. I still have the last deck I owned, a marvel of technology of the time, a double auto-reverse TEAC deck with Dolby and Dbx noise reduction, auto azimuth, programmable, etc, which is objectively shit compared to a decent mp3 player, provided that the music is encoded in lossless, or large enough bitrate.
CDs were a massive improvement, and the pinnacle were DDD CDs, which were Digital recording, Digital mixing, and Digital mastering, meaning very little analog garbage was introduced in the process.
The objective for audio equipment is to be transparent, to not add or detract anything from the original performance.
- Comment on Microsoft breaks Windows reset and recovery 4 weeks ago:
“Thanks to Microsoft’s legendary approach to quality control, installing Windows patches these days is getting to be less like Russian Roulette and more like accidentally stepping on a rake left in the grass.”
Oooof!
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Oh, so thats where the expression seersucker comes form!
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No
- Comment on Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates 5 weeks ago:
Mmmmm.
- Comment on Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates 5 weeks ago:
My ex wife’s uncle was the director of the south American division of the arm that made coloring and flavorings of one of the big Food/Chem groups, Procter & Gamble, or unilever, or one of those. Can’t remember.
No one in his household ate any processed/ultra processed foods.
Do the math.
