SreudianFlip
@SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on NieR: Automata Will Continue, Finally Confirms Square Enix as the Game Breaks 10M Units Sold 19 hours ago:
Sh no spoilers
- Comment on Without hierarchies/authority figures, the bootlickers would be totally lost. 🤠 1 day ago:
Huh, I guess you don’t know folks who have fox news on all the time, then. It’s pretty common in Alberta. The values are pretty in sync after years of that.
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 1 week ago:
Yeah the room is like a meta-cabinet.
Your speaker strategy has to consider listening style (sitting, working, watching, ambient, etc.) and build from there: big stereo, small nearfield, flooded or point source, placement like height angle and and close or far to wall, audio style, resonance locations, materials in and on surfaces, etc…
So two big towers or a bunch of wee little Kantos can be great or lousy depending on all that.
Or you could just buy a couple of cheap pure silver speaker cables coated with gold and everything will be great.
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 1 week ago:
In that sense the room is part of the transducer itself, yes, as the speaker cabinet supports the speaker driver, so do the walls and room size. Think of them as a system.
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 1 week ago:
Holy shit english has so many specific terms for dirt! It’s just jargon to urban dwellers.
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 1 week ago:
HugeNerd is correct, 90+% of audio quality is in the mic and speakers. Transducers make electro acoustics real, everything else is support.
Get really great used speakers cheap and an adequate amp just good enough to drive them. Your shit will sound excellent for anyone.
- Comment on How I imagine those crying "i tHouGHT StAr Trek WAs suPPosEd tO bE a UtOPia" 1 week ago:
Yes, in part, the struggles of a person inside a utopia would be difficult for an audience to appreciate, so The Culture novels and Star Trek both take the action to the margins, where things are messy and the struggles are more familiar.
- Comment on How I imagine those crying "i tHouGHT StAr Trek WAs suPPosEd tO bE a UtOPia" 1 week ago:
Starring “Book” from Discovery.
- Comment on Alternatives to Mattermost 2 weeks ago:
Had to move a small team away from skype/teams quickly so renting dedicated matrix hosting in Europe and not federating the instance has been working great, except for some issues like group calls over jitsi not working properly and users reluctant to learn more odd interfaces.
- Comment on Most of the misery in the world is the direct result of too much money in too few unscrupulous hands. This is not only the cause of the vast majority of human suffering, but also of climate change, wh 3 weeks ago:
She is not creating the system, but is in fact reinforcing it. It is by definition undemocratic.
I am glad she’s shedding the capital, but be real, she’s never going to shed enough to come back to the realm of ordinary humans. She married an oligarch, and by being an oligarch that temporarily embarrassed billionaires such as yourself stan for, she is a shining beacon of justification for the system as it is.
I hope that once I achieve oligarch status myself, that you and I can carry on this deep conversation!
- Comment on Most of the misery in the world is the direct result of too much money in too few unscrupulous hands. This is not only the cause of the vast majority of human suffering, but also of climate change, wh 3 weeks ago:
Uh, copypasta? Trolling?
- Comment on Most of the misery in the world is the direct result of too much money in too few unscrupulous hands. This is not only the cause of the vast majority of human suffering, but also of climate change, wh 3 weeks ago:
She’s unelected, and dictates the disbursement of a great deal of unearned funds.
Big picture, no nuance needed: it’s feudalist to let her make these decisions.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
so as a citizen, besides not buying their shit slurry, what is there to actually do about it more actively
Well there’s a vast landscape between ‘citizen’ and ‘not buying’!
As a participant in state and local politics, you do what you can. I learned during years of NGO work that the longest lever for the non-owner class is policy.
That means working on specific issues by directing persuasion to policy makers, and often you catch those flies with honey. Appeal to the cooperative side of politicians and bureaucrats, make them feel like leaders and other ego things. Also, usually, pressuring with risks, like looming financial or political losses. This seems like very unsatisfying work because it is far from the front lines and providing direct relief, but systemic change is easier when protests aren’t necessary.
Meanwhile it’s also possible to start the Transition to a new economy, without fuss. Cooperatives are all around you, join them. Find every little opportunity for mutual aid, and take them when you can. Make non-commercial transactions normal. Participate in repair cafés, and develop thrift economy, like clothing exchanges and toolshares and small buying clubs. Electrify and find more efficiency. Group study. Build small organizations and ventures.
And crucially, participate in a little Direct Action, for your sanity and honour. What that means, whether it’s food charity or illicit art, is unique to you.
- Comment on I CAN'T go outside without permission - is there any way I can help fight for a better world from the comfort of my bedroom? 5 weeks ago:
Antonio Gramsci is pretty relevant lately.
- Comment on The AI explosion isn't just hurting the prices of computers and consoles – it's coming for TVs and audio tech too 5 weeks ago:
cf. Children of Men
- Comment on Tips for moving from TrueNAS to Debian for a NAS? 5 weeks ago:
Again not reading what I wrote FFS! I did not call you uneducated but said you were kneejerking then said you are being anxious, because you were not reading the comment and making it about you instead of the previous commenter. It’s not an insult.
- Comment on Tips for moving from TrueNAS to Debian for a NAS? 5 weeks ago:
I didn’t even imply that, so I will now call you anxious.
I was defending people who write well and craft long detailed answers. Read it again.
- Comment on Tips for moving from TrueNAS to Debian for a NAS? 5 weeks ago:
Come on, some of us paid attention in school and actually format things properly while using decent grammar. Bonus if you’re an organized thinker. Definitely a touch grass moment, the internet is wearing on you.
- Comment on Be fabulous 1 month ago:
To be fair, sure, fuck the yank dominance of topics.
To be clear, though, this is a shitpost about how you can’t escape authoritarianism no matter your creed or country. Buckle up kids.
- Comment on Be fabulous 1 month ago:
Yep it’s just memes all the way down…
To material conditions
- Comment on Be fabulous 1 month ago:
Authorities gonna roll wherever they be
Different shoes toe the same lines
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- Comment on I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany 1 month ago:
Those are good points but Torino as Turin is complicated, some folks there still call it that in dialect etc. and historically, run by the Lombards and all that.
English is terrible at this, Venice is Venezia, if you can say pizza you can say that.
- Comment on Off the Rails 1 month ago:
OK but no-one knows for certain.
- Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated? 1 month ago:
I started by swapping floppies for PS 1.0, and used it professionally since.
Cut the umbilical last year. To replace it I need a few programs for different aspects of what PS did for my workflow, and it’s not 100%, but close, it’s waywayway cheaper, and now I can pollute my RAM with all kinds of tools at once without swap loading up hard.
Affinity did a pretty good job with muscle memory for switchers, though I don’t rely on it as much as I expected.
- Comment on Why do we produce so much porn? 2 months ago:
Indeed
- Comment on Why do we produce so much porn? 2 months ago:
Oh, read some Octavia Butler then! Brilliant and, well, kinda what you just said. The Xenogenesis series.
- Comment on Grok is spreading misinformation about the Bondi Beach shooting 2 months ago:
groak is your password too?
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 2 months ago:
Sam_Bass’s comments are mainly mildly contemptuous one-liners. Condescending is part of the persona, and when others interpret that manner as right wing, it seems to affirm sam’s misanthropy.
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 2 months ago:
I fully believe that you are antifascist in sentiment. I also see that you are asking people to show some skepticism about media that is obscure in origin and used to evoke strong feelings.
I was a media literacy activist for decades and this was one of the basic points, that framing can reverse the meaning of an image or video or even story. So you are essentially just asking people to show a little media literacy, which is laudable.
Your manner of argument, in a highly charged subject, is tone deaf, which is what seems to have triggered the downvotes. Righteousness is druglike, the veracity of the recorded action is immaterial, and we all need the narrative that punching nazis is normal. Plus, actual nazi propaganda techniques include sowing doubt about their existence, making false equivalencies, minimizing their transgressions, etc., and the tone deaf manner made it look like you were doing that.
