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- Comment on Is Reddit banning posts with "join-lemmy.org"? 3 hours ago:
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- Comment on TV remotes should have an easy-to-find by touch "volume" toggle button that toggles between two volume settings. 5 days ago:
You’re not wrong in any way but I would just like to clarify in the most friendly way that the use of spectrum in audio context is frequencies and not amplitude. Compressing the frequency spectrum is not really desired unless for specialized lossy audio compression, which in turn is even more confusing the terminology because now compression is about reducing the data rate in a controlled degradation. Anyway, the proper terminology would be that the audio is dynamically compressed to a smaller range.
- Comment on Why was Rock 'n' Roll seen as the grooviest shit in the 50s when it's just averagely groovy (ie. unremarkable) today? 5 days ago:
Because of normalisation. The more you experience anything, the less spectacular it becomes.
Teenage kicks in particular needs something that is amped up from what was before. Hence evolution of music and culture has always been driven by youth.
- Comment on Is there a word, perhaps as 40-letter compound word in German, that explains this annoying social phenomenon? 1 week ago:
I can make up a compound word in Swedish for you. Osannolikhetsförlägenhet. Osannolik means improbable. Förlägenhet here means an embarrassing situation. So the word would mean something along improbability-embarrassment-situation.
- Comment on If donald j trump was replaced with a body double some time in the last 15 years, would you even care? 1 week ago:
That is some Temu garbage body double.
- Comment on Wi-Fi 7 Marketing is Lying About it's Biggest Feature 1 week ago:
Nobody cares about your history when you are spamming click baits for your videos. Raging about it not being appreciated makes you no favours either, princess.
- Comment on What Happened To WebAssembly 1 week ago:
It is used where it is applicable. For regular web pages it is overkill that only complicates everything with no gain at all.
- Comment on Wi-Fi 7 Marketing is Lying About it's Biggest Feature 1 week ago:
Click bait marketing of some shitty YouTube channel.
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- Comment on Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle – Dmitry Brant 1 week ago:
That is me putting it in embellished words of amusement instead of saying that the software ran numbers through the dongle if it was present so that the logic on the dongle would correct it but if it was not present it would allow the run and save except the altered numbers would have a unnoticeably tiny miscalculation that would accumulate over the numerous edits and saves during the project duration.
Because I assumed that people would put it together themselves. Which apparently most people did. But some people still need everything spelled out for them. Ironically those that credit themselves more intelligent than everybody else.
- Comment on Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle – Dmitry Brant 1 week ago:
Welp, I heard the story back in the mid nineties from someone that worked in an architect office. One save or a few without a dongle makes basically no difference but systematic license abuse will make you have to spend man hours to redraw the entire thing before delivering it to the customer. Considering how absolutely hysterical some corporate anti piracy measures were at the time I would not say it is not unbelievable, this being very early internet era and all.
I recall some other corporate oriented software that would after some time only print blank pages without explanation if it detected a crack, there were a few console games that would corrupt your entire memory card with all your saves from everything, and music software and VSTs that would spread a cracked warez version to “the scene” that would have a trojan do other nasty things to your computer as a pre-emptive revenge.
But you do you and have all the smarts. Who knows, I’m probably AI too.
- Comment on Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle – Dmitry Brant 2 weeks ago:
I’d imagine they got a lot of furious calls that turned into embarassment fast.
- Comment on Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle – Dmitry Brant 2 weeks ago:
I think it was AutoCAD that had the most diabolical dongle of all. Some ancient version of the software would seemingly work without the dongle, leading cheap offices buying less licences than installs and plenty of architects installing them on their home computers. Everything seems to work fine, except every save a tiny fraction of a decimal far far away is off. Way too small for anyone to notice. Until they have been working for weeks and months on a project. And then and only then do they realize that all the lines have been slowly drifting apart.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
It goes against your concept of the Fediverse. You are just as much trying to force your personal preference on others with this argument of slippery slope of Microsoft nonsense.
I think it is great if different instances have different profiles that cater to different audience instead of everything just being the same with different domain names. If it is all the same it may as well be a single instance and the entire point of federating is lost.
- Comment on Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse 2 weeks ago:
Register on a different instance and filter everything ml. It’s a life changer with the Fediverse.
- Comment on If someone tells you "you support socialism, yet you use products of capitalism", what would you say? 3 weeks ago:
Ask them why they drive on public roads.
- Comment on if portals are invented, will I be able to eat out myself? 3 weeks ago:
If magic fantasy tech is real can I magic fantasy?
- Comment on Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL 3 weeks ago:
What are garbage smart menus that can’t be avoided?
I’m not being funny. I’m still on a Panasonic last gen thin plasma FHD but thinking of upgrading to a LG C5 OLED when they are on final sale when this year models are rolling out. I’m only watching movies through the box connected to it.
- Comment on Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL 3 weeks ago:
Can’t you just use any modem TV and not hook it up to the interwebs?
- Comment on Without vowels there'd be no singing 4 weeks ago:
Rrrrr zzzzzssssnnnnmmmmnn nh nh nh
- Comment on YSK you can add a noAI version of DuckDuckGo to Firefox 4 weeks ago:
And you can use the three dots menu on each link in the search results to file that a result is AI slop or otherwise not trustworthy and also filter domains from your future search results.
- Comment on YSK you can add a noAI version of DuckDuckGo to Firefox 4 weeks ago:
Me too, but fair warning to double check on the links if it is something niche. Perplexity can not always be trusted to interpret limited information properly. It does a pretty good job on enough for me to use it though.
- Comment on FYI: Reddit trademarked some community names (Digg link) 4 weeks ago:
Mods are gonna mod.
- Comment on Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, thanks. I did it a couple of times with the free web dev vm of Windows 10 but it is only valid for 30 days so it gets annoying quickly. After identifying the chipset in some devices I’ve tried to get the Linux toolkit or just the flashing tool from the manufacturers but for whatever reason they will not give it out unless you are a customer of their chipset.
- Comment on Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever 4 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t this rather be the case of proxy hardware layer for any driver to talk to that gets forwarded to the USB port in Linux? I mean the drivers are not for PC component but for talking with whatever device and chipset is connected to the PC over USB.
- Comment on Most mouse pointers designs assume right-handed users 4 weeks ago:
The arrow doesn’t make sense…?
Oh! You have a tiny hand graphic for mouse pointer?
- Comment on Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever 4 weeks ago:
Any idea about USB drivers if it will ever be possible? I have synths and gear that needs firmware upgrades with flashers that only run on Win/Mac and I haven’t been able to get them to work with Wine.
- Comment on Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever 4 weeks ago:
Wine 1.1, now with AI integration
- Comment on 3.5" floppy disks were peak tactile feedback in storage: easy to stick in, drives had a button to immediately eject them, big enough to get labels, thin enough that stacks didn't take too much space 5 weeks ago:
Flashbacks of flipping around a 5¼" floppy disks that were actually floppy and manually spinning the cassette tape wheels while something is loading.
- Comment on I’m not saying that I agree with right- or center-wing views, and I do condemn transphobia. However, do you think there should be a distinction between critiquing beliefs held by transgender people, and engaging in transphobia? 1 month ago:
No, but you are attempting to critique it as if it was.