Damarus
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- Comment on Notepad gets AI features like Summarize, Write, and Rewrite, using local and cloud models. 4 days ago:
I’m usually very defensive of Windows. However, a few days ago I wanted to take some notes in Notepad and it kept changing up what I wrote. As this has forever been the most simple text editor imaginable, it took me a good moment to realize, that they implemented auto-correction (which we know is a lie anyways). The ridiculous thing is, nobody but tech people uses Notepad anyways and I can’t imagine that they want these slop features in it. The value of it was the simplicity and that is now lost.
- Comment on Do you think conservative feel the same need to burn it all down as everyone else felt when trump won again? 1 week ago:
That’s not what they said.
- Comment on What are you guys using to sort and name music? 1 week ago:
Highly customized Picard, I find that I get the most accurate metadata with it.
- Comment on Spotify Add Lossless Audio(24-bit / 44.1 kHz FLAC) for Premium Subscribers 1 week ago:
You can read up on my setup on the other comments. As an Audio Engineer you should know better or come with proofs.
- Comment on Spotify Add Lossless Audio(24-bit / 44.1 kHz FLAC) for Premium Subscribers 1 week ago:
Prove it
- Comment on Spotify Add Lossless Audio(24-bit / 44.1 kHz FLAC) for Premium Subscribers 1 week ago:
Of course there technically is a difference, you can easily see it with any tool that can render a spectrogram. Humans cannot hear this difference though, so there is no point in streaming the extra data.
- Comment on Spotify Add Lossless Audio(24-bit / 44.1 kHz FLAC) for Premium Subscribers 1 week ago:
What equipment do you have? My main setup is a Motu M4 with two Adam Audio T5V and multi point room correction done in REW. For headphones I’m mostly using DT 770 Pro 80 Ohm (there’s different drivers depending on the impedance and these sound warmer). I also have a sizeable collection of IEMs with ratings up to a B- on the crin list.
I can hear sounds up to about 16k. I cannot differentiate good lossy encodes from lossless audio.
- Comment on Spotify Add Lossless Audio(24-bit / 44.1 kHz FLAC) for Premium Subscribers 1 week ago:
So in other words you may as well have guessed randomly and gotten the same result. I’m against lossless streaming because my bandwidth is a limited resource and it will take longer to load the same track with higher bitrate. As there is no audible difference, there is also no practical reason to choose it.
- Comment on Spotify Add Lossless Audio(24-bit / 44.1 kHz FLAC) for Premium Subscribers 1 week ago:
Which is filled to the brim with snake oil advertisers who want to separate gullible people from their money.
- Comment on Spotify Add Lossless Audio(24-bit / 44.1 kHz FLAC) for Premium Subscribers 1 week ago:
Sounds like you just want it because it is possible. If that’s the case, I’m fine with that. There is however no perceptible difference in sound, ABX tests showed that many times.
- Comment on Spotify Add Lossless Audio(24-bit / 44.1 kHz FLAC) for Premium Subscribers 1 week ago:
You can hear a difference between 320 kbps mp3/aac/vorbis and lossless? Can you prove that with an ABX test?
- Comment on Spotify Add Lossless Audio(24-bit / 44.1 kHz FLAC) for Premium Subscribers 1 week ago:
I might be out of the loop. Who wants this exactly? There is no audible benefit from lossless audio. I rip all my music to lossless files but that’s archival. There’s nothing to archive with streaming services.
- Comment on AdGuard is yet another app to block Windows Recall 1 month ago:
I’ve heard about that but haven’t noticed it myself. It does sound annoying.
- Comment on AdGuard is yet another app to block Windows Recall 1 month ago:
Yeah the control panel revisions took some getting used to, but now I think it’s not so bad. I know where to find everything but I can see how it’s frustrating for others. What’s most important to me is that I have local admin rights on my work PC and can customize it to my liking. Many companies lock their devices down heavily, and I don’t want to deal with that.
- Comment on AdGuard is yet another app to block Windows Recall 1 month ago:
I’m currently sticking to Windows 10 on my private machines but already on 11 on my work computer and it’s fine with an alternative start menu. I’m also looking forward to the better HDR features on 11.
- Comment on AdGuard is yet another app to block Windows Recall 1 month ago:
No I don’t want Linux or any other OS. I perfectly know my way around with Windows and so many of my regular tasks depend on tools made for Windows. I have used Linux desktop in the past and have many friends and co-workers who use it as their main OS, but it’s just not for me.
Besides of course this recall stuff gets blown way out of proportion like every time Microsoft makes a bad move. All of my computers don’t even support recall and when they eventually do, I’ll just disable it in one of like four possible different ways.
- Comment on JD Vance gets suspended from Bluesky 'just 12 minutes after first post': reports 2 months ago:
Yeah it’s inescapable really. Many people probably are more up to date with American politics than those of their own country.
- Comment on 10 years later, no one has replicated Rocket League's mojo 2 months ago:
Rematch hasn’t released yet, but a few public playtests happened. While there are some strong similarities to Rocket League like controlling a single player, the walled arena and having a form of boost, it’s still very different and hasn’t yet given me the same thrill.
Rematch does not have the verticality, and so it’s missing a whole dimension (and multiple degrees of freedom) of skill expression. The arena is significantly larger, as it’s built for more players, which results in a much slower game. It has the potential to be a very solid new esports game, however I can’t see it pulling away many players from Rocket League.
- Comment on Android 16 is here 3 months ago:
At least it doesn’t have super distracting glass effects everywhere.
- Comment on Fuck cars 3 months ago:
It’s a trend in road cycling at least. You completely degrease the chain and then dip it in a special hot wax. Apparently it lasts longer than oil and doesn’t attract dirt.
- Comment on Fuck cars 3 months ago:
I do have to oil the chain on my bike every now and then though. (I know about waxing, haven’t made the jump yet)
- Comment on Release v0.6.11 · open-webui/open-webui 3 months ago:
Oh, it does show up on desktop, not on mobile however.
- Comment on Release v0.6.11 · open-webui/open-webui 3 months ago:
Another GitHub project with no screenshots
- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies 3 months ago:
It’s also 80€ in Europe. Everyone I talked to is waiting for the price to drop, including me.
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 4 months ago:
I don’t think that, as Microsoft hasn’t done a lot (any?) of that stuff in recent years.
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 4 months ago:
WSL allows me to develop in a Linux environment while still enjoying my very custom Windows setup and programs that I am used to. So no, WSL did not make me choose a side, but instead allows me to get the best of both worlds at once.
- Comment on Metamorfuckthis 4 months ago:
It’s a reference to The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.
- Comment on EA SPORTS™ WRC - Development Update: We are pausing development plans on future rally titles. 4 months ago:
As a casual rallying fan this really sucks. I hope this won’t be the death of licensed rally sims.
- Comment on How can we make lemmy have more relevance? 4 months ago:
By not letting AI slop take over