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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using a VPN May Subject You to NSA Spying⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. That really jumped out at me. My very first thought was “Americans have privacy protections?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta and YouTube found liable in social media addiction trial; Ordered to pay woman $3 million⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  $3M to a single person. The real headline should be that this opens the door for hundreds of thousands of similar lawsuits, which will use this case as precedent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta and YouTube found liable in social media addiction trial; Ordered to pay woman $3 million⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  FUCK CLASS ACTIONS! Those are made to cater to the defendant, by consolidating a ton of independent lawsuits into a single one. It only makes the defendant’s job easier, while the individuals who were directly affected get pennies. Sue them directly, and make them defend every. Single. Individual. Case. You want to really make them hurt? The best way to do that is with a million individual lawsuits, not one big lawsuit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy's "Mildly Interesting" site is more interesting than "Damn, that's interesting."⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It really depends on what you’re planning on using it for. If you’re going strictly for accuracy, (and by that, I simply mean that the sound waves being produced by the headphones are as close as possible to the electrical signals being sent from your computer), I would suggest splitting your mic and headphones apart into two different devices. It’s worth noting that lots of users don’t actually want accuracy from their headphones. That’s why the debate is such a personal thing. Lots of gaming headsets will be decent enough for gaming… But that’s largely due to convenience (having a mic built into the headset makes playing with friends easy) and it severely limits your options in regards to audio accuracy. Most gaming headsets will be tuned for what companies think the average gamer wants, not what is accurate. Going from a set of gaming cans to a nice set of reference headphones will likely feel like they have less “punch” in the bass, (most gaming headsets are tuned to be very bass heavy) but you’ll likely notice more clarity in the mids and highs.

  The best accuracy is generally going to come from something like a set of studio monitor headphones. Something like the Audio Technica ATH M or ATH R series, or the Beyer Dynamics DT990 Pros will be solid and have good audio quality. Some companies (like the Beyer Dynamics I mentioned) even use easily replaceable head/ear cushions, which can help move them from “buying for my current setup” to “buying for life” status.

  For monitor headphones, they’re basically split into two different types - Closed, and open backed. Closed back is what you’re probably used to, with the solid ear cups. Open backed are going to have an open/mesh cup instead. The point of an open-backed headphone is that it more naturally emulates a live listening experience where you’re hearing a performance in a room, not just hearing a speaker recreating those sounds. If you can tolerate room noise, (or at least have your desk set up in a quiet area), an open backed pair will likely be more appealing. They’ll also likely be more comfortable for long-term wear, as they won’t trap as much heat and moisture.

  If you’re really considering a pair of monitor headphones, you’ll likely want an amp to go along with it. Your computer’s output will likely be underpowered for driving the bigger cones in a pair of decent headphones. Your computer’s output may be audible without an amp, but it likely won’t be very loud. And you’ll likely miss lots of the lower end, as the bigger cones take more voltage to move. Headphones are rated in ohms, and a higher rating means it takes more power to get the same volume level. There are plenty of audiophiles who will argue about which headphone and amp combos are the best, but it likely won’t make a huge difference for the average user. A basic amp rated at (or at least near) whatever your headphone’s ohm rating is will likely be fine.

  Monitor headphones won’t have a lot of the bells and whistles that you’d expect from a gaming headset, like an included mic, surround sound, noise canceling, etc… They do one thing, and one thing only: Make noise as accurately as possible. The expectation is that you’re going to be using them in a treated room meant for monitoring audio. For example, in a recording studio. So they ditch things like noise cancellation, because they expect you’ll have that built directly into your infrastructure instead. They won’t have an included mic, because they assume you’ll have a dedicated talkback system. They won’t have surround sound (unless you’re specifically using a pair made for mixing surround sound) because music is typically mixed in stereo.

  In regards to a mic, I’m going to say something potentially controversial: You probably don’t need a nice one. Believe it or not, most gaming headsets have good enough mics for the average user. A basic dynamic mic on a boom arm will likely be fine. There’s nothing wrong with something like a Shure SM58S, except for the fact that you’ll need an audio interface (like a Scarlet 2i2) to plug it in. But if you’re already in the market for a headphone amp, you can probably just get an interface that does both. Unless you’re streaming for a living and the quality of your vocal input really matters, you can use a basic USB mic or whatever cheap dynamic mic floats your boat. Your friends on Discord won’t notice the difference between a $50 USB mic and a $2500 condenser mic.

  Personally? I do enough audio at work. I don’t want to think about it at home. I use a Corsair gaming headset when I want a mic+surround sound, or Sennheiser HD 280 Pros (or my IEMs, if I’m feeling fancy) for listening to music. They’re comfortable enough for daily use, and I honestly couldn’t be bothered to set up a bunch of audio gear at home. My desk setup is already complicated enough as it is; I don’t need to complicate it even more with an audio interface or mic boom just to enjoy playing my games. Audio gear is a world of diminishing returns, where going from “bad” to “good” is usually pretty easy, but going from “good” to “great” quickly gets expensive, and you start stumbling across all of that snake oil I originally mentioned. Personally, at my own desk, I’m fine with just “good enough” quality gear. If I want to mess around with the really nice stuff, I’ll do it at work where the employer is footing the bill.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If someone opened a store and just sold stuff at cost, which undercuts every other competitors by alot. Would this not for the big corps to come way down on their prices?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This was basically the concept behind Cost Plus Drugs. Mark Cuban realized he could sell generic drugs at a basic 15% markup and $10 pharmacy+shipping, and drastically undercut the competition. Their drug prices literally list the breakdown of manufacturing cost, 15% markup, $5 pharmacy labor, and the $5 shipping on each page.

  He has been blunt that the business isn’t really about lowering drug prices. That is certainly a bonus, but he’s not doing it to be magnanimous. He simply realized that the markup on drug prices was so mind-bogglingly absurd (oftentimes over 2500% markup) that he could undercut the market by thousands of dollars and still make a tidy 15% profit.

  Patient drug prices in the US are insane, and he is simply exploiting that fact to undercut everyone else on the market.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a shame, because KH2 is pretty widely regarded as the best in the series. If you stopped with Chain of Memories, I wouldn’t blame you. The gameplay for that one is definitely… Uhh… Divisive. But KH2 was when the series really hit its stride.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy's "Mildly Interesting" site is more interesting than "Damn, that's interesting."⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a weird phenomenon where subs get homogenized and less accurate as they get popular. It’s because posts and comments are ranked by user votes, not accuracy. So as subs get popular, pandering to the average user works more and more.

  I work in professional audio, and there is a lot of misinformation, disinformation, and snake oil in the audiophile world. And I was fairly active on a few audio related subs back when they were niche. But as they grew, the snake oil inevitably ended up at the top of the comments more frequently.

  It’s because someone peddling snake oil can get upvoted by the masses if they make it sound believable, and stroke the average reader’s ego just a little bit. If a situation requires in-depth technical knowledge about how something works, that post likely won’t appeal to the average user on a popular sub. But someone offering snake oil in an easily digestible format will get upvoted just because the masses believe it.

  Let’s say someone posts a troubleshooting question on a technical topic. The problem isn’t something the average user would encounter, and just using surface-level knowledge will get you nowhere. Now let’s say there are two answers: One is correct, but highly technical. It flies over the average user’s head. The other is incorrect, but is presented in a way that the average user feels like they learned something from it. On a niche sub, the first answer (correct) would be upvoted. On a popular sub, the second (incorrect) would be upvoted.

  People want to feel smart, not be smart. If you’re reading a highly technical post that you don’t understand, you don’t feel smart. Because if it’s too technical, it’s all just going right over your head. And that doesn’t feel good. But if someone posts something that seems technical but is really just surface-level stuff that anyone can understand, it will get upvoted by the average user. On a niche sub, there are enough experts to bury the incorrect/surface-level posts. But on a popular sub, those experts get buried by the masses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026 (my article!)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, Japan was actually surprised when American game devs started using X for confirm. They never even anticipated that it would happen, because the X/O symbolism is so heavily engrained in their society that it was glaringly obvious to them that O was confirm. Their original intent was always to use the Nintendo layout for confirm/cancel, but then western devs misunderstood the buttons and swapped them.

  To them, an O is like a checkmark or thumbs up emoji. Imagine if an American console maker developed a console with a thumbs up button, and Asian devs started using the thumbs up button as Cancel. You’d probably be pretty fucking confused too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026 (my article!)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Out of curiosity, how does it compare to EmuDeck? I haven’t personally used RetroDeck, so I was wondering if it had anything that would make me switch from EmuDeck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cyberattack on vehicle breathalyzer company leaves drivers stranded across the US⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably the part where keeping everything local would allow the driver to easily bypass the device. Splice a few wires, and boom. But if it is doing some off-site verification, they’ll be able to immediately know if the device is disabled. Similarly, they could do things like monitor the car’s location in real time, and have it throw up a red flag if the car is moving but the driver hasn’t performed a test. That would be a sign of tampering.

  It also allows them to know if the driver fails the test, which is important for probation/parole reasons, where not drinking is often a condition of release. So if they fail the test, it should automatically alert their supervising officer. Can’t do that if it’s all local.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨covid.gov redirects to lab leak conspiracy insanity⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s a reminder that the Spanish flu didn’t even start in Spain. Spain was simply the first country to stop hiding their death numbers, so every other country blamed them for it when they started posting news about the deaths.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to have a usable domain without a VPS or a static IP address?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I personally prefer to keep things running fairly light. I’m not running a 99.9% uptime server with hundreds/thousands of users, so I can tolerate a 0-5 minute downtime every few days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to have a usable domain without a VPS or a static IP address?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What you’re looking for is called Dynamic DNS. I use Cloudflare for my DNS (which feels a little like making a deal with the devil) and Cloudflare-DDNS to automatically update my DNS records when my WAN IP changes. Basically, the container checks the current WAN IP, checks the current Cloudflare DNS records, and pushes a change if they don’t match. It runs every few minutes, and then rests again until the next check. I’m sure other DNS providers have similar ways to set up DDNS.

  It’s not a 100% foolproof thing, because your WAN IP changing will take a few minutes to update. But a few minutes of downtime is much better IMO, when the alternative is needing to manually VPN into my server (if the VPN even still works, since the WAN IP changed), and troubleshoot it every time the IP address changes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A communist and an anarchist walk into a bar..⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is extremely heavily moderated in favor of communism, so it is a very big echo chamber. Everything seems very calm and respectable as long as you don’t dig too deep, because any dissenting opinions quickly get removed. So there isn’t a whole lot of argument that happens among .ml users. But checking the mod logs tells a very different story.

  Also, it’s the only instance that the lead Lemmy dev uses, so anyone who wants to stay up to date on lemmy’s development is forced to federate with .ml. There have also been some controversies about the dev putting dev donations towards running the instance, which ruffled a lot of feathers from people who want to support the dev but not the instance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of us are old enough to remember when your games would sound different depending on which sound card you had installed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Guessing you’re German? It is used in place of the Palestinian flag, because it has the same colors. Since Germany is terrified of being labeled antisemitic, (and Israel immediately jumps to “you’re an antisemite” whenever anyone disagrees with them,) the German government has their tongue all the way up Israel’s asshole. So the German government labeled it antisemitic, (and started trying to propagandize their population to believe so as well, by equating it with Nazis) because they don’t want any Germans making headlines by using the emoji to support Palestine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Share this with 5 people or it gets ya⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That one time when he made cheese and it broke the ship⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a big stretch, considering she wouldn’t even be old enough for middle school when she died of old age. She aged faster than a dog. Her entire character was originally developed to give viewers a new perspective on the concept of time. She was portrayed by (and acted as) an adult even though the character was only 2 years old. She was inexperienced and naive due to her age, but that was also largely due to the fact that she (along with her entire race) was kept as part of an uneducated slave society for her entire childhood.

  Neelix was possessive and jealous, (which are perfectly valid criticisms by themselves), but calling him a pedo is difficult. There are several age-related criticisms you could make without resorting to outright pedo accusations. For instance, Neelix appeared to be in his late 20’s/early 30’s (by human standards) when the series started, and Kes was only ~19-20 (again, by human standards). And most people would cringe at seeing a 19 year old dating a 29 year old. So there was a marked age difference between them, even if she was above the age of majority for her race. But again, her character was meant to age extremely quickly. IIRC the writers original concept was for her to age the equivalent of one human year every two or three episodes, but that was scrapped due to the actress developing an allergy for prosthetics, (which meant they wouldn’t have been able to do proper age makeup in the later seasons). So by the time they actually started dating, it’s possible that the relative age gap would have been closer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The surreal joy of having an overprovisioned homelab (2025) - from Anubis creator⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorta like how people complain about bots scraping Lemmy, even though federation already exists as a standardized protocol for distributing data. Like any scraper who wanted to efficiently scrape Lemmy would just spin up their own instance and let federation do the scraping for them. It would even have the added benefit that they could set their server to ignore delete requests, so deleted posts/comments wouldn’t get automatically removed from their server. And then they could scrape as much as they wanted without impacting anyone else.

  But they don’t want to do that, because it would require the smallest modicum of forethought. They don’t care that scrapers are trashing the Internet and causing massive bandwidth issues for hosters. They just want the data, and they want it now. All of those “bots are flooding my server and eating all my bandwidth, so legitimate users can’t actually access the site” complaints are for other people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reporting an absence⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, it’s unfortunately not that easy in the US. Not only can police use your property for this… They aren’t liable for any damage they cause while doing so.

  Lech v. City of Greenwood Village is a relevant national case. Basically, police demolished a neighbor’s house while executing a warrant, and then refused to reimburse the neighbor. There is a Takings clause of the 5th amendment, that says the government can claim eminent domain and take private property, but they must provide just compensation for the property that was taken… The homeowner tried to argue that the demolition fell under the Takings clause, and therefore he was entitled to just compensation. The Supreme Court ruled that the police had no obligation to reimburse, as long as the damage occurred due to official police power. The SCOTUS essentially ruled that official police powers (like executing warrants, chasing suspects during an attempted arrest, or standing standoffs) do not invoke the Takings clause. Even if the powers were not directed at the person whose property was taken. So cops have carte blanche to use your shit as long as they can justify the use as part of executing an official police power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Being trans only bars you from service if you’re actively undergoing treatment (like HRT), so no it isn’t as “simple” as you make it sound.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fragging. It often isn’t done with literal grenades.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, people don’t realize that Project 100k was a thing during the last draft.

  You think your autism is going to get you out of the draft? Have you ever met a marine? They’re all on the fucking spectrum. And if your autism is too noticeable, they’ll fast-track you straight to the front lines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What are you, a cop? Anyone who is actually planning to dodge shouldn’t be posting their ideas publicly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Put the shoes on⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me of what an EMT once told me. She mentioned that every EMT inevitably learns two very important questions to ask whenever you encounter someone who is naked in public:

  1. Do you know you’re naked?
  2. Do you want to be naked?

  Those two questions will shed a lot of light on the current situation, and will let you gauge how the next 15 minutes is going to go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meirl⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This saved my mom just the other day. She sat for an extra second at a green, and the car behind her whipped around to pass her. That car almost got t-boned by the fucking bus that ran the red light. If she had gone as soon as the light turned green, she would have been directly in front of the bus. But she noticed the bus wasn’t slowing down at all, so she waited.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re correct. Pihole works at the DNS level. Since YouTube hosts their ads on the same servers that host their videos, blocking the ads with DNS would also block the videos. Which I guess it technically works to block YT ads, but that’s a little like saying “set a man on fire and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hah, I typoed. Fixed now. I shouldn’t comment before I’ve had my coffee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, I’m also squarely in the “good for them, it doesn’t really affect me in the slightest and they deserve to feel safe” boat. But I also have a sneaking suspicion that the guys like us aren’t the ones who would be upset about this. The Venn diagram of “men who care about this” and “fucking creeps” is probably close to being two separate circles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Long story short? You should kill the container and change your related passwords/API keys. The dev tried censoring it for a while, but couldn’t keep up with the posts. They eventually nuked the entire sub and deleted their Reddit account. They also privated their GitHub and changed their username.