leftascenter

@leftascenter@jlai.lu

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Audio enthusiast seeking safety advice⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t have a power ground to prevent hums. There might be a marginal risk if something comes loose in the amp, but your modern electrical cabinet would have a differential switch to save you in that case. I remember my audio engineer degrounding one of my audio components when in had the issue.

  My guess for the audio ground is that older turntables had poorer electrical isolation and power lines were more noisy. For more technical explanations we need an old school audio engineer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Audio enthusiast seeking safety advice⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Antenna ground needs to be used for signal to be read properly.

  Turntable audio grounding (different from electrical power grounding) may help prevent hums when the common 0V grounding passes by the power ground.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android won't kill sideloading after all, but new verification rules will make it harder⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  My guess is they’ll enforeba xiaomi-style thing where you have to login, wait, go through hoops, wait again,…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are they different shapes?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  No baguettes aren’t used for sandwiches

  They are.

  www.lamiecaline.com/…/nos-sandwichs/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we need more users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you tried telling them inspiration comes from spice? Want some? First one’s on me?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we need more users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy is the left wing version of Truth Social

  I’d say a few instances are indeed, but overall I find it ranges from far left to centerish, where as TS ranges from far right.

  but make no mistake THE FEDIVERSE IS AN ECHO CHAMBER.

  VERSE IS AN ECHO CHAMBER…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I go crazy will you still call me Superman?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  • get near the white house
  • stop time
  • summon a 1lb rock of pure polonium 212
  • resume time
  • profit die. You summoned 1lb rock of pure polonium 212 and stayed.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It amazes me that people who can’t distinguish between ‘your’ and ‘you’re’ are allowed to manage people

  Don’t. In this case yes, but overall there are dyslexics who are great managers. And on a more sober note, I’d rather have a manager who is shit in grammar but works for the team rather than a PowerPoint manager.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It would be so funny if China colonizes Mars, then the Martian Colonists declare independence, and Mars become a new bastion of Freedom and Prosperity.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  almost the plot of “The moon is a harsh mistress.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A desktop running a low usage wouldn’t consume much more than a NAS, as long as you drop the video card (which wouldn’t be running anyways).

  Take only that extra and you probably have a few years usage before additional electricty costs overrun NAS cost. Where I live that’s around 5 years for an estimated extra 10W.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Clean the PC and change the fans. Fans make noise when old.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, with dosbox.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religous but was not Jesus pissed for people making money in churches? Didn't he flip tables and everything? Then how do churches nowadays explain the collection plate?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a case in the Acts of the Apostles where two people lie to the Church, and pretend to donate all of the proceeds from selling their land to the Church and drop dead. This wasn’t because they didn’t give it all, it’s because they publicly gave in front of many others as a show of holiness.

  Nope. Acts 5 follows acts 4 (the “But” makes it clear), and acts 4 is all about giving up your riches to live in a commune.

  That’s also supported by the teaching that rich people won’t go to heaven (unless you can pass a camel through a needle hole) and James.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religous but was not Jesus pissed for people making money in churches? Didn't he flip tables and everything? Then how do churches nowadays explain the collection plate?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Acts 4 along mark 10 are pretty clear that Christians are supposed to give it all and live in a community where “as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold, and laid them at the apostles’ feet: and distribution was made unto each, according as any one had need.”

  This is also supported by the teachings that literally states rich people won’t go to heaven (unless they give it away).

  So Jesus and early christians were all about living in a commune.

  Now, most modern churches come from a roman imperial implementation of an uprising religion at a time where different temple within polytheism were associated with concurring political factions leading to unstability. Christianity was authorized, then chosen as a state religion and accordingly structured. Things branched out from there, becoming a central part of international politics throughout the middle ages, then different flavors of christianity raising from protestanism (which remain globally a minority compared to catholiscism), but they are all structured towards their own goals rather than Jesus’s teachings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Only 22 countries have never been invaded by Britain⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Parts of probably, e.g. Gibraltar