wreckedcarzz
@wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world
- Comment on Fuck Microsoft 2 days ago:
Well, when you are approached by someone who doesn’t read nor understand the conversation or arguments brought forth, who then argues with you regarding said topic and situations - in which you have personal experience with - and who reiterates the same argument that is based on flawed data and assumptions, causing you to stay up for several hours as you try and explain the situation and points, while you grow more and more frustrated (see all points ststed above)… and at the conclusion of the conversation, they have added no value nor insight to the original discussion which, again, they didn’t fully understand… you let me know at what stage you’d be a bit frustrated.
Myself, I give people waaayyyyyyy too much credit, leeway, benefit of the doubt. Way too much. And most of the time, yeah, it’s a misunderstanding, they appreciate the kindness, everyone is happy. But others, it’s just malace, trying to harm me, break me.
I can be the nicest guy in the world, and people will still say I’m an asshole because they disagree with something, or they don’t understand what my core statements are, or any other number of reasons. I used to be that way, nice to everyone all the time, even those who used me, exploited me, manipulated me. I stopped being a pushover after I suffered my stroke, effectively losing function of half my body. After that, nah, not anymore. I wasted my whole life up until that point kissing behinds and getting shit in return. I don’t do that anymore.
I don’t care if you dislike me. I don’t care what you think about me in any capacity, frankly. It would all be wrong anyway, so why get worked up over it. But what I’ve learned in the twilight hours of this morning, is that all your aggravation pointed at me, isn’t my fault. And that is so… relaxing. Comforting.
Anyway, I’m finally off to bed now. The sun is rising, and I’m exhausted.
- Comment on Fuck Microsoft 2 days ago:
Forum posts and my own experience say that cards from Creative Labs and Asus, which both work correctly under windows, fail to achieve correct output above 2.0 (2.1?). There are almost no other options for pci add-on sound cards, being a niche market for the last 15 years or so.
So, unless you can point me to a card that I can purchase today and that has either a manufacturer-backed statement of compatability, or there are current owners who own that card, this conversation is over. I’ve given you way too much of my time, misunderstanding and misinterpret what is a basic concept and statement, such that you are not acting in good faith. I’d be happy to find a card that fits my quite basic requirements, but everything that I came across myself had reports of issues, or dead-end forum posts where no solution was reached.
So, do you have a card for me or not?
- Comment on Fuck Microsoft 2 days ago:
‘I cannot find an add-on sound card that claims compatability with Linux at a reasonable cost’ != ‘everyone with a Linux machine doesn’t have sound’.
Find me a pci sound card that can handle 5.1 channel audio over 3.5mm. I spent a couple hours several weeks ago and came up empty (excluding the aforementioned card for creators).
- Comment on Fuck Microsoft 2 days ago:
In my initial comment, I state that my situation isn’t typical, and that I’m outside the bubble of typical hardware and use case. I state why I use two sound cards. I state what is wrong with the drivers, my attempts to resolve it, my search for alternative hardware, and why falling back to a more basic setup in unacceptable.
I’m not ‘making a specific scenario’, this is my main machine I use daily. You are literally proving my point, about the ‘bubble’ of users that use basic hardware and think everything is fine, but those who use things that aren’t common hit snags and issues. And then you want to blame me for using hardware that I’ve used for years? Are you actually kidding me?
- Comment on Fuck Microsoft 2 days ago:
…no? I said I searched for sound cards that are made by other companies, like Asus, that also have similar problems. And then I looked up if there are any manufacturers that claim to support Linux, if which I only found one, and who charged an absurd amount of money since their target market is creators, not consumers.
Like, I’m not sure how to got to that conclusion, but it was wholly on your own.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 2 days ago:
See my other comment :p
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 2 days ago:
Yeah, lol, I figured it wasn’t a real thing but search turned up this immediately: www.getinboxzero.com
- Comment on Fuck Microsoft 2 days ago:
I can - they asked for an example, I provided one. Most users don’t need to use custom input controls, or aren’t running a home theater system. They are in the bubble of ‘typical’, and they don’t think about situations other than their own (why would they?), thus people like myself who don’t fit in the bubble struggle.
Also do note the fact that my sound card issue has been a known issue through forum posts for basically a decade. Like sure, eventually sure, but it’s been a decade now and my current experience matches that of years ago, so…
Also miss me with that fake sympathy. I’ve heard ‘it’s sucks what you’re going through’ or something very close to it, for yeaaaars now, and the inevitable ‘but’ just tells me ‘that was a lie but I wanted to pretend to care’. Every time, always the same thing.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 2 days ago:
Okay, I was curious what Inbox Zero is, and I went ‘ew’ at the ‘ai’ angle, but then I fucking lost it when I got to the prices. They went $18 a month (per user) on the annual plan, to:
- basically tags your email, which you can set up yourself using folders, and probably near identical through gmail or something
- get ai replies written up for you… which I think gmail also does now
- ’blocks cold emails’ which is just the spam filter with a fresh coat of paint
- ’bulk unsubscibed / archive’… you can do that in most modern email clients? I guess not in bulk but how many shitty newsletters and promos do you subscribe to, really?
- and an ‘analysis’ of your email…?
I do everything except the ai replies through cpanel and my email client, for free. Fucking hell, that’s almost 3x what I pay for my web/email hosting. And I don’t have to prepay for a year of service, and I get way more granular control over incoming messages. That service is highway robbery, and they have 15k users?! What the actual fuck. $18 a year, kinda high, but a fucking month…
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 2 days ago:
Rookie numbers
- Comment on Fuck Microsoft 2 days ago:
I’m disabled (one usable hand, among other things). I need my mouse software to be able to map buttons to keys on my keyboard (and it must have individual profiles per application, and it must auto switch based on the active window) for me to be able to play shooters and similar.
I have tried many times in the past 20 years to switch, but I always had to come back. I installed bazzite to help a friend transition from w10, and to be able to talk them through any issues they might come across. I used this opportunity to again see how doable it would be, temporary dual booting.
In addition to the mouse, I don’t use my mobos onboard audio, instead using two creative sound blaster cards - one for my surround sound (main output), and the other for voice chat or if I have to be quiet (late night gaming). The drivers for both cards fail - L/R channels work as expected, but RL/RR/FC/Sub are wrong. I tried for two days to fix it, overriding settings, trying different settings in the UI, different overrides, switch cards around to see if they work correctly when outputting to the other hardware… And searching online, this has been a problem for years, maybe a decade+ across many distros. Okay, so, it’s not a ‘fix’ but what if we get new sound cards… Asus has some… Aaaaand survey says they are shit in Linux too. What about looking for some Linux specific hardware? The only company I found had cards for $1k+, and geared more towards audio creation. Hell no, you’d have to be insane.
That’s a hard stop, as I’m not about to give up my audio system because of botched drivers thst are seemingly never getting a fix. But similarly, I have a ThinkPad with a 5G modem in it. I tried a dozen distros before begrudgingly settling on Kubuntu, as it was the only system that would actually work (see the modem, interact with it, fcc unlock after terminal commands, and actually transfer data).
Linux has this bubble of users who are the typical norm - they need the basics, and nothing more. Which is fine, I’m happy for them, but damn does the experience suck shit if you aren’t in thst bubble. I remember the days when I’d have to wrap windows wifi drivers to get online, or sleep wouldn’t work, or an update would brick the system (or grub, oh fuck me I’m having ptsd flashbacks) lll, or even stuff like stereo in and out would be broken out of the box. And there often wasn’t a guide to fix this shit, it was just ‘have fun’. It has come a good way, but there is so much that still needs work.
And, as my friend found out, while all his games were native or compatable via proton or lutris, some needed to be built from source… Even though the fucking dev offers executables for windows, and could easily do the same for Debian-based systems, ready to go for those users… But no, here are some half-assed instructions that are out of date, glhf. Ugh…
There’s a ton of other things, but those are recent - like, within the last 3-6 months recent, and are real world examples of why some have to stay chained to windows.
Now if anyone wants to patch the shitty drivers for my sound blasters, I could actually try to maintain and actually use the install. But until then, I’ve got to use what actually works.
- Comment on Google Revisits JPEG XL in Chromium After Earlier Removal 5 days ago:
🅱️ossy
- Comment on Google Revisits JPEG XL in Chromium After Earlier Removal 5 days ago:
You win this time, bigger thing!
- Comment on 5 days ago:
Smh chug the beer so you can see the road. Safety first!
- Comment on Google Revisits JPEG XL in Chromium After Earlier Removal 5 days ago:
So we made lossy the norm, but - let me blow your mind - what if we make lossy BIGGER?
- Comment on Change my mind 5 days ago:
Blocking them and then talking shit about the dumbass for years to come
🌌 🧠
so many people have got this treatment. it’s almost therapeutic.
- Comment on What does Gotye think about all of this? 5 days ago:
Barq >>>>> grindr. Only furs, haven’t had a single conversation start with a slur, almost everyone has a picture that isn’t just a blank photo or ‘another picture of someone’s abs’, you can view their kinks easily, no paywall, groups of all types to socialize with, convention and meetup information…
It’s been like 15 years now, but grindr was such an absolute dogshit experience that if I became the CEO of that atrocity, I’d immediately close the service. With jerry cans and molotovs.
- Comment on Good job! 1 week ago:
Oh fucks sake :(
- Comment on When they get the bill too 1 week ago:
inverts the image
well now I can’t read it >:(
- Comment on Where u at? 1 week ago:
“it’s what we use for our database, why not?”
- Comment on A man can dream, can’t he? 1 week ago:
…need to talk about anything? :p
- Comment on Dads be like 1 week ago:
Big if true
- Comment on A man can dream, can’t he? 1 week ago:
Some just don’t know the true euphoria of riding a femboy fox. Poor souls, they are.
- Comment on Dads be like 1 week ago:
But the other commenter just said he almost died? False advertising smh
- Comment on Dads be like 1 week ago:
Slam the brakes full-stop on the highway, reach over, open the door, kick her out, speed away. The adult version of “I will turn this car around”.
Right? …right?
- Comment on A man can dream, can’t he? 1 week ago:
Couple changes: polyamorous femboy hooters furry twink, any EV under 50k, and bad dragon lube instead of zyn
I could be more picky, but those are the major adjustments necessary
- Comment on Cloudflare blames massive internet outage on 'latent bug' 1 week ago:
The AI was the shitty code we wrote along the way
- Comment on iRobot’s revenue has tanked and it’s almost out of cash | "Roomba customers are understandably concerned about the impact these current financial troubles might have on their home cleaning robots." 1 week ago:
Line no go up if consumer has autonomy and awareness. Quick, marketing drones, put up more information about our amazing and very complex and totally unique super mega ultra cloud!
✨ profits ✨
- Comment on iRobot’s revenue has tanked and it’s almost out of cash | "Roomba customers are understandably concerned about the impact these current financial troubles might have on their home cleaning robots." 1 week ago:
Afaik there is extremely limited storage on these bots, so the floor plan is stored server-side. No cloud, no server, no no-go capabilities.
- Comment on iRobot’s revenue has tanked and it’s almost out of cash | "Roomba customers are understandably concerned about the impact these current financial troubles might have on their home cleaning robots." 2 weeks ago:
I have bought several in the last decade. I’m techy and disabled, and wanted to help out around the house. I have bought from multiple manufacturer but only purchase their top-tier offering, as I want to replace vacuuming, not just compliment it. We have pulled the manual vac out three times in 9 years.
The cheaper ones are meh, but the expensive ones can truly replace vacuuming and mopping. My issue is that, across… 5 brands, none of them have lasted longer than 2 years, often much shorter lifespans. I recently bought a Roborock with an extended warranty from RR themselves, something none of the others offer, so I’m hoping to be using it for several years to come.