Carrot

@Carrot@lemmy.today

• ⁨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:

  I recently switched from 320kbps to lossless, and there are very few moments where I can tell a difference. The biggest one is in the cover of “Tom’s Diner” by AnnenMayKantereit. There’s a section of the song at 320kbps where it goes almost silent, other than faint whispers of the band counting out the silence, but in lossless you can hear them actually singing the song quietly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why didn't the mother just use her private doctor on her yacht?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, I understand that the judge didn’t do anything wrong, but the hospital was wrong to even try garnishing wages in the first place

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why didn't the mother just use her private doctor on her yacht?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair enough, I was just getting at the fact that this isn’t far from something I’ve seen a hospital do firsthand, and thus doesn’t feel like a fake story to me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why didn't the mother just use her private doctor on her yacht?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think he was served papers at one point around the 3-4 year mark, but just told the hospital he wasn’t going to pay since they already had agreed in writing he didn’t have to pay. He never went to court. I don’t know the exact process, it was never explained to my brother in law, but given they had a valid, unpaid bill of 8 years (and multiple attempts to get him to pay on record) was enough?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been struggling to accomplish this, and I’m familiar with self hosting. It’s brutal. But now that discord has shit the bed (even more) I think I can finally convince my friends to move to it, so I’m taking another crack at a matrix/element server

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why didn't the mother just use her private doctor on her yacht?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My brother in law had a medical bill that was supposed to be covered by insurance, but they didn’t pay. (A small-ish bill of a few thousand dollars) His bill was sent to collections, and they hounded him for years, despite him having in writing that the insurance and hospital both agreed that the insurance was supposed to cover it. After 8 years, they started garnishing his wages. This is when he decided to get a lawyer involved, and he was able to successfully sue the hospital for garnishing wages illegally. The hospital had to pay out 30K.

  All that to say, hospitals aren’t always acting intelligently or legally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After Years of Waiting Jellyfin Finally Lands on Samsung Tizen TVs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Literally just went through getting the app built /deployed for my parents and my partner’s parents using the old method a few weeks ago. I’m super glad the app is on the app store, but it’s just bad timing for me lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. All my IoT devices are on a network that doesn’t have access to the internet. To control remotely, I use a VPN. Even though I don’t think it’s technically necessary, I take the precaution of blocking connections to the big company’s APIs/websites for all my IoT devices, just in case.

  I wish this were easier for the layman to do. Some companies like Unifi make it pretty painless, but they are expensive and it’s really hard for the non-networking-savvy folks to know exactly which devices you need from them to have a working setup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘As usual, we do what Nintendon’t’: Peripheral firm ‘fixes’ Switch 2’s new Joy-Cons⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with the fact that they aren’t a great company, but anyone who’s shopped around for skins/decals knows that dbrand is a cut above the rest in terms of quality. I’ve stopped buying from them due to how they run things, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Straight up snorkin' it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My exact thought

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screw MS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can remap using AHK. I did it for my father in law a few months ago. AHK runs at startup, he doesn’t have to do anything

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Outer Wilds drawing I made⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They have a mode to turn off the creatures for exactly that reason. I haven’t tried it, but other than the spooky factor the creatures don’t add a ton to the game, so it probably wouldn’t lessen the experience. (There is a small thing, but it’d spoil some story elements if I were to say them here)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨KDE Plasma going all-in on Wayland and will drop the X11 session completely⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  lol I guess I don’t know enough to argue it either

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨KDE Plasma going all-in on Wayland and will drop the X11 session completely⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t base the choice of my OS on being able to play one game. KDE is a DE, not an OS. X11 is a window manager, not an OS. Almost always, I will use a Wayland (another window manager) session, but to play Oblivion streamed to my TV, I have to switch to an X11 session. The guy asked for any features that aren’t compatible with Wayland. I have one that I keep X11 around for, so I gave it. Given that you don’t even seem to understand what you are arguing, I’m confused why you piped in with probably the stupidest “solution” to my use case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨KDE Plasma going all-in on Wayland and will drop the X11 session completely⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not OP but I’ve got exactly one thing that doesn’t work on Wayland that works on X11. For whatever reason, Streaming Oblivion Remastered from Steam on my Linux desktop to my TV will not show video in Wayland, but does in X11. It’s literally the only reason I’ve got X11

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FOX BREAKING NEWS ALERT!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, I haven’t seen any evidence that Trump is straight. Evidence that he’s definitely not gay, sure, but no real evidence of straightness. Sure, he’s in a heterosexual marriage, but so is my wife and she’s bi, so that’s not much to go off of. He seems to pass legislation that harms the wellbeing of lgbtq folks, but it’s not uncommon for people in power to show disdain for lgbtq people while being one themselves. It’s also not uncommon for folks to experiment with their sexuality in their early adult years, even if he isn’t bi, that doesn’t take blowing someone completely off the table.

  The long and short of it is that I haven’t seen anything that would make me think Trump wouldn’t have blown some guy. It’s not hard to believe that he were willing to blow a guy, especially if it were a one-off thing he was trying in the spur of the moment at an Epstein sex party. It’s honestly a toss-up, and to act like it’s more or less likely to have gone one way or the other seems foolhardy here.

  Also, do you have links to anywhere that Trump has professed to being straight? I couldn’t find any personally, but if you have them then that would make it more likely this email was just a joke. But if you don’t have them I can’t help but feel you are doing the exact thing you claim to be against: spreading misinformation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drug deal⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, that and they taste completely different?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FOX BREAKING NEWS ALERT!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree, I really don’t like people saying it was Bill Clinton, there is currently only evidence against that claim. But your second statement seems disingenuous, as there isn’t any sign that it was purely a joke, either. A better way to say your second line without showing a bias would be to say that “There is no evidence to show whether or not it was a joke, or to be taken seriously.” To be clear, the quote from Mark Epstein was “For the avoidance of doubt, the reference to ‘Bubba’ in this correspondence is not, in any way, a reference to former President Bill Clinton. Any attempt to conflate that reference with President Clinton, or to read sweeping implications into them, misrepresents both the purpose and the tone of the original correspondence.”

  There are a few ways to read this response, one being that it was all a joke, one being that it did happen and Bill Clinton wasn’t involved, and Putin doesn’t have the picture, and one being that it did happen, Bill Clinton wasn’t involved, and Putin does have the pictures. Without further clarification, we don’t know for certain which of these is the truth.

  I do appreciate your desire to keep the facts straight.I know that it’s fun to jump to conclusions and speculate, but we are doing the credibility of anyone left of republicans a disservice when we spread lies. It makes it much easier for the Rupublicans at the top to spin a narritive that their followers can dismiss the things we say. I hate Trump as much as the next guy, but he does enough stuff to paint himself a hypocrite that there’s no need to embellish the truth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve priced it out for myself, and I couldn’t get a build that’s as good at that price, not on new hardware at least. Not sure how they worked out their numbers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You are also missing the huge advances they’ve made in their contributions to FOSS, like proton, FEX, arch, etc. Steam has done an insane amount of legwork to get Linux gaming off the ground. They are the one company that made migrating off of Windows and onto Linux a valid option for me, and a bunch of other folks. Linux was ~0.89% of their userbase in 2020, and since their contributions to these FOSS projects, it has gone up to 3.05%. That’s crazy, considering it had been at or below that 0.89% since 2016.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube deleting videos documenting Israeli human rights violations⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I highly recommend shelling out the $12 a year for a domain to tie to your email through Proton, that way, if Proton starts to enshitify, you can change email providers without having to migrate all your accounts to a new email. I am actually going through the exact same process, and I never want to have to do it again lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If websites are slow for you, this is why, AWS is breaking everything⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone with a little insider baseball knowledge, it was just a few hours down of DynamoDB and DNS. However, that caused EC2 to go down for ~1 day, which causes pretty much 1/3 of the internet to go down. Once EC2 sorts themselves out, then teams/companies (almost all amazon services use EC2 in the back end) that use EC2 have to get their ducks back in a row, and that can take any span of time, depending on how well their code was written to handle failures + how many people they are willing to pay oncall/overtime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for a good kindle reader alternative⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  E-reader support is still pretty clunky on Kavita, but doable. I normally host my books on Kavita, and then download them to my eReader, and that does a fine job, but it won’t sync progress across devices

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework supporting far-right racists?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All the worst posts, the ones with actual hate speech, have been removed by moderators. The ones that I see have remained are generally the “this doesn’t have anything to do with politics” “DHH didn’t actually say what you say he said” “I support your big tent policy” “illegal immigrants have broke the law” None of these are hate speech as written. I don’t like them supporting Omarchy, and I don’t agree with what the posts in support of Framework’s stance, but I would say Framework has moderated where necessary in that post

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you already pirate content, welcome to the rabbit hole that will simultaneously make your life way easier and way harder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet the first person to own over 40,000 paid Steam games⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While I completely agree that Steam is a pos for not letting you actually own your games, I personally keep mine all downloaded so that if Steam ever does something stupid I can run the DRM remover and still have all my games. This gives me peace of mind buying on Steam, but does take up like 10TB of space

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Important Notice of Security Incident⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Was on the fence for a long time, and I made the move just recently (after the pricing changes. Didn’t effect me since I was grandfathered in, but I saw it as a harbinger for worse things to come) With the creation of Wizarr, it solved my biggest problems with Jellyfin. I can just send an invite link, and it creates accounts for people on Jellyfin, Audiobookshelf, and Kavita, and lets me set up introductory guides for everything. Despite the menu UI/UX being significantly worse than Plex, playback is smoother, load times are shorter, and it can actually handle streaming to really slow internet speeds, something that Plex had a lot of trouble with.

  The only app I noticed missing was the Tizen app, but they are working on getting it approved. I only had one family member using a Tizen TV, so I just gave them an old chromecast to run off of instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨better than most I know in Florida⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My guy, expect to see shit when in a shitposting community, that’s the whole point. If you don’t like shitposts (not sure why you are saying it isn’t a shitpost, it’s literally a perfect example of one) then block the community and save yourself some cycles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Woah, i didn’t know that the effect would be so drastic. I want to point out to those struggling to get it to work that, as diverging mentioned, your arm needs to be fully extended. Also, the blind spot is about a thumb’s width, at least for me, and is only visible at a specific x/y axis location. Any deviation from that single spot will cause it to stop working. I could tell I was close to the spot when parts of my thumb would disappear, and just had to slowly move it around until I found the spot that looked like the thumb was gone completely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Post your homescreen⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am selfhosting! And yeah, I actually forgot there was a theme on the phone/messaging/camera apps, the theme just came with the OS and I haven’t bothered changing anything. The browser isn’t themed, it’s just the GrapheneOS browser Vanadium.