Damarus
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- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 11 hours ago:
But they haven’t yet
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 13 hours ago:
Works great to me, I pay nothing, why would I change that?
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 1 day ago:
Okay you can now control the shadow casting behavior of every single entity in the game individually. Happy?
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO Puzzled by People Being "Unimpressed" by AI 2 days ago:
It never fails to amaze me, how much C-level people are disconnected from reality.
- Comment on Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’ 3 days ago:
I would primarily understand it as being free of generative AI (picture and sound), which is what is most obvious when actually playing a game. I’m personally not against using LLMs for coding if you actually know what you’re doing and properly review the output. However at that point most will come to the conclusion that you could write the code manually anyways and probably save time.
- Comment on When you wake up, how long does it take for your brain's "OS" to "resume from hibernation"? 1 week ago:
How long does it take from what? We don’t hibernate or reboot, what do you mean?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Displate already announced a custom case
- Comment on 'I think we're in the fight of our lives': Fired Rockstar employees and IWGB are confident the GTA 6 developer will be held accountable for its alleged union busting 2 weeks ago:
It’s absolutely real.
- Comment on Pansexuality 2 weeks ago:
Oh wow, a joke about queer people, how original
- Comment on Rockstar Games Employee Calls Out Studio For Spreading “Disinformation and Lies”, Union Busting 2 weeks ago:
That is my observation too. Money is no longer the end goal, it’s now the means for unlimited power play with the general society.
- Comment on Ah, progress. 3 weeks ago:
Man I’m still kinda bummed they disbanded right before I would’ve had the chance to see them live. I had my tickets for almost a year I think.
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- Comment on Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like 4 weeks ago:
No they won’t, because I’m not stupid enough to buy a ridiculously overpriced fridge.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 4 weeks ago:
MAGA is a group of people in the US. This phenomenon however is worldwide, and nobody in other countries is going to use a US reference for it.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
The release window for Arc Raiders could not be worse. Right between Battlefield 6 and Tarkov 1.0. Also a few weeks ago Arena Breakout Infinite released, which is also a very competent extraction shooter, that I had lots of fun with before Bf6.
This activity is a good sign for Arc Raiders, however it’s only a free playtest while the full release will cost 40€. How many of those players enjoying it now will actually cough up this much money for a game in a genre with many failed games before it? Dark and Darker was hugely popular during its last playtest and rapidly declined after the paid (Early Access) release.
I hope that they’re successful with Arc Raiders. I think the extraction genre is super interesting and needs more healthy choices that are not Tarkov (which has so many problems of its own).
- Comment on I spent 20 minutes on it and could never figure it out 1 month ago:
Boat
- Comment on can we now "safely" auto upgrade immich? 1 month ago:
But that’s why we have semantic versioning. Automatically apply minor versions and fixes, but notify for major versions.
- Comment on Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs 1 month ago:
None of those come close to the features Discord has.
- Comment on Notepad gets AI features like Summarize, Write, and Rewrite, using local and cloud models. 2 months 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? 2 months ago:
That’s not what they said.
- Comment on What are you guys using to sort and name music? 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
Prove it
- Comment on Spotify Add Lossless Audio(24-bit / 44.1 kHz FLAC) for Premium Subscribers 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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.