Codilingus
@Codilingus@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 1 week ago:
That runs on chromium, which in Linux is HARD locked to 48000, so every single song will be resampled.
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 1 week ago:
Tidal on Linux is a crap shoot, which sucks because pipewire is awesome for HiRes music since it can change sample rate on the fly to match a source. Best bet is Firefox and their web player, and using the middle tier “high” that’s blue colored, and letting pipewire play @ 44100
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 week ago:
What’s wild to me is they’re making their own overlay for their PC games. Ghost of Tsushima is supposed to be the first release title with it. Do they not understand steam already has an overlay? I feel like 2 overlays would just compete and be obnoxious and possibly ever impact performance.
Also, why? If it is for co-op crossplay, just make linking PSN to Steam optional, and state it is needed for inviting/grouping with any PS5 friends. Then do what every other multiplatform game does and show 2 friends list in the game.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 week ago:
Steam only removes games from the store, and doesn’t remove games from anyone’s library. Those affected people, if they didn’t refund, will still have HD2 in their library.
- Comment on Missing surfers died from gunshots after attempted robbery, Mexican officials say 2 weeks ago:
Point Break?!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Even their middle tier quality CD level HiFi 16bits@44100Hz sounds sooo much better than max quality Spotify. Which is also included in their now 1 single price plan. Spotify maxes as 320 kbps, and an average lossless CD quality is around 1000 kbps.
I can definitely tell the difference.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
That app is pretty pointless IMO. I’ve been a budget audiophile for a little while now, and one of the features a music player needs is to be able to output the music at the correct bit/format @ the correct sample rate. Ex: 24 bit @ 96000, which is the highest quality a song can be from Tidal.
Pipewire has the ability to adjust and match the sample rate on the fly, so that no resampling happens and you get “bit perfect” playback.
Since that tidal-hifi uses chromium for its DRM to allow the max quality, it is permanently set at 48000. Basically no music on Tidal is 48k, basically every song is at least HiFi quality at 16@44100, and then a lot of recent music is HiRez capable of “up to 24@96000.”
So you’re basically resampling every single song somewhere along the audio pipeline, before it reaches your external music hardware, like a DAC/AMP stack.
- Comment on #justgradschoolthings 2 weeks ago:
God, that quote is forever my all time favorite. Never fails to make me laugh. Every once in a while I gaslight a friend, but like absurdly and obviously. Within a few minutes they ask, “wait, are you gaslighting me?!” And I respond with that quote, to their sighs and chuckles.
- Comment on Windows 11 just isn't enticing Windows 10 users to upgrade, and its market share is actually falling 2 weeks ago:
If you make the bootable USB drive with Rufus, a little window pops up asking if you wanna remove some of the bullshit, such as TPM and secure boot requirements.
- Comment on TikTok's CEO is feeling the pressure and users are freaking out 3 weeks ago:
There are non-scam companies on TikTok. I don’t use it but it’s easy enough to see. People use it to hustle their marketing and advertising, some people even hire to fill that role.
First example that comes to mind is from years ago, but a dude started and grew a business in Miami for selling exotic fruits that are unique to Florida to anyone online. Something like $100 for a seasonal, shipped overnight, cooler of exotic fruits with info/instructions. He got a girlfriend and she made their popularity explode using TikTok. The best way I can describe her videos is making it seem like you’re bougie if you subscribe to their seasonal boxes monthly.
Whatever she did worked though. Not a scam, you pay and get the fruit.
- Comment on MKBHD - Do Bad Reviews Kill Companies? 4 weeks ago:
I’d think a bigger difference is he’s a single YouTuber, the Verge and Engadget are actual companies with $ and man power.
- Comment on MKBHD - Do Bad Reviews Kill Companies? 4 weeks ago:
There’s a YouTuber who does gun reviews that I watch occasionally, and I wish other reviewers were like him. He pays for them with his own money, and Patreon money. If the gun is very popular he’ll do a short video and label it initial thoughts, and then eventually he’ll do a review after he’s shot 1000s of rounds with it over weeks and months. If he notices something wrong, he’ll look online to see if anyone else has similar issues and mention things like “I have an original model, which has problem X, manufacturer Y has since addressed this, and fixed it, and the community agrees it is no longer an issue. So look out for the first year release of X if you want to buy.” Overall he does an excellent job of separating his opinions from selling points.
- Comment on What would you like to see in a house IT setup? 5 weeks ago:
Wait, shit. I mean the OTHER z named one. Zwave
- Comment on What would you like to see in a house IT setup? 5 weeks ago:
For your CCTV lookup Frigate NVR, and grab a ~30 Coral TPU for it. Run your cameras with a PoE switch.
Home Assistant is THE gold standard for smart homes. ZigBee is nice too, since they mesh and aren’t the same wave length as WiFi.
- Comment on Ecuador's youngest mayor Brigitte García shot dead 1 month ago:
This gave me the mental image of the USA doing an easter egg hunt, and everyone they open they go, “damnit, another drug cartel!”
- Comment on Linux distro for selfhosting server 2 months ago:
Unraid is the GOAT when it comes to being headless for docker. They know how to walk the fine line of “this is too much. It’s bloat,” and “this is minimal and bare bones.” I seriously can’t hype them enough, and can’t do justice to describing their ease of use.
- Comment on Ex-Activision CEO Bobby Kotick looks to buy TikTok amid shutdown fears - Dexerto 2 months ago:
I like how it says “could,” when it’s been a known fact for awhile now, that they do this.
- Comment on Tidal’s subscription is getting simpler and cheaper — yes, you read that right 2 months ago:
I wish it was getting cheaper…I’ve been @ $6.35/month for their CD FLAC quality middle tier, with my veteran discount for a few years.
Has been perfect for my budget HiFi setup.
Now it’s nearly doubling in cost, and they won’t have the discount anymore…
- Comment on Passkeys might really kill passwords 2 months ago:
Good call, and I agree. I self hosted it but mine was offline, and would only update if I was in my house. Saw proton pass release, and made the switch since I’ve been using their services for awhile, now.
- Comment on Passkeys might really kill passwords 2 months ago:
Just a heads up for anyone, bitwarden can be self hosted using vaultwarden. All of the bitwarden apps and extensions will work.
Also, for anyone already using their stuff, Proton Mail rolled out their password manager. I like it so far, the free edition is good.
- Comment on Politicians Are Using Kids As Props To Pass Terrible, Harmful Legislation. Don’t Let Them Get Away With It 3 months ago:
I pay for one. I wasn’t aware ISPs ever provided them. TIL. I thought the comment meant they blocked usenets you pay for.
- Comment on Is Antivirus needed in 2024? 3 months ago:
Like others have said, Windows Defender, but also an ad blocker extension for your web browser. I’d recommend Ad Nauseam -which is ublock origin under the hood- and Firefox over Chrome. All of those are free.
- Comment on Politicians Are Using Kids As Props To Pass Terrible, Harmful Legislation. Don’t Let Them Get Away With It 3 months ago:
I still use Newsgroups for sailing the digital seas. 🤷♂️
- Comment on Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users 3 months ago:
You can turn off those requirements a few ways. IIRC using Rufus to make the bootable USB can, or something like Windows X-Lite which absolutely strips away all the M$ bullshit, like edge, defender, telemetry, bloat, and ads.
- Comment on Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users 3 months ago:
I found an excellent for me, half measure. Look up Windows X-Lite, they have a website. They offer 10 and 11 absolutely stripped of all the M$ bullshit and annoyances. Even windows defender can be removed.
Legit reminds me of a fresh XP install. Back to installing the vc++ and net desktop runtimes again, even.
I only don’t ditch windows because I love playing VR and occasionally Valorant. And Wayland isn’t quite where I’d like it to be feature wise for things like VRR and HDR.
- Comment on Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users 3 months ago:
I found an excellent for me, half measure. Look up Windows X-Lite, they have a website. They offer 10 and 11 absolutely stripped of all the M$ bullshit and annoyances. Even windows defender can be removed.
Legit reminds me of a fresh XP install. Back to installing the vc++ and net desktop runtimes again, even.
I only don’t ditch windows because I love playing VR and occasionally Valorant. And Wayland isn’t quite where I’d like it to be feature wise for things like VRR and HDR.
- Comment on New to lemmy, anything I should know? 3 months ago:
Nope.
- Comment on Riot Requires Kernel Level Anti-Cheat Software 3 months ago:
There’s a company that has AI powered anti heat and they claim it is amazing, but also claim very few companies people wanna work with them. A hint that they know their player count would suffer.
- Comment on Proton Mail says that the new Outlook app for Windows is Microsoft's new data collection service 4 months ago:
It’s in the works, paid users can test. Then it’ll be a free desktop client.
- Comment on Wi-Fi 7 Signals the Industry’s New Priority: Stability 4 months ago:
Big true, I happen to know network engineering so it was easy. And steam’s new steam link quest app makes it sooooooo simple and good. Legit never touched settings for it and it just looks and plays so nice.