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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Energy Demand Can Keep Fossil Fuels Alive, Tech Backers Promise World’s Two Biggest Oil Producers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh cool, I can’t think of any potential issues with oil companies prioritising AI over human customers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re also SOL if you have a couple of decades of music projects in various DAWs (though predominantly Ableton, plus a decent number of Maschine & Reason projects, for me) using all sorts of VSTs from over the years. I keep several versions of some VSTs installed so I can open older projects, and those older versions are never getting patched to fix broken Linux support by the developer, even if a more modern version does get fixed. It’s all got to come from wine devs, which frankly probably have more important issues to focus on.

  I’ve tried a few times to get Ableton working with all my plugins and MIDI hardware and it’s always been an exercise in madness ultimately resulting in failure and usually a lost weekend. It particularly doesn’t like anything with my iLok key involved, last I tried a couple of years ago.

  I happily run Linux elsewhere, but my main desktop is going to mainly run Windows for the foreseeable future unless something drastically changes. At least my projects aren’t all in Logic!

  There’s also some software I use for my photography that didn’t properly work on Linux when I last tried (e.g. GPU features in PureRAW are the main thing I remember), but I think there’re some alternatives there I’d look at if I could get the audio production stuff working perfectly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Haribo gummies are so hard you can use them instead of rubber bullets.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you need to get your Haribo from somewhere else, they’re generally a pretty pleasant level of gummy. The only time I can remember them being hard is when they’re super old

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Okay, who had Trump loyalty pins for Apocalyptic-Bingo this Sunday? Games just getting started, stay tuned!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How long before he tries to get his head put on the flag

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do European Leftist call their government's right wing despite having free healthcare?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Right wingers believe everything should be up to the individual, you should get no help from anyone else. Typically with the ironic championing of corporations over people.

  Left wingers believe we’re stronger if we work together in the public interest.

  Healthcare is just one small slice of the political pie, which is such an obvious human right that only the fascist fuckos you have over there think it’s up for debate

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The photo I upload is grey no matter what size or format⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What did you shoot the picture on?

  What happens if you pull the image into an image editor?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suggestions for mouse only games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say most RTS games I can think of can be played with just a mouse

  Older diablo-like ARPGs didn’t really rely on the keyboard too much IIRC, the modern ones do tend to rely on the keyboard a bit more

  If you don’t mind older games, basically the whole genre of point and click adventures is this by definition

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Royal Mail trials postbox with parcel hatch, solar panels and barcode scanner⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems like a good idea, but I worry this will be used as part of an excuse to close more community post offices

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seeing a lot of copium but am I fucking crazy? The market would have to do more than just recover for people to recoup their losses?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, you’re completely right, I was more going for not impossible, but it’s even more luck than I realised

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seeing a lot of copium but am I fucking crazy? The market would have to do more than just recover for people to recoup their losses?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, impossible to do with certainty.

  But people are paid to try and do it at investment banks, and with enough outsider knowledge they can often get it right

  Of course that’s practically just gambling at a much greater scale

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some countries you’ve visited that shocked you with unexpected friendliness?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Turkey is an amazing country with amazing people in it

  The unfortunate part is their leader is the opposite and is currently holding their country and people hostage

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like you’re after hackaday and similar specialist blogs

  General tech sites will mostly cater to the tech the general public care about, enthusiasts don’t bring in the ad money comparatively

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨community work is revolutionary⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I never actively sought this life, but I can definitely advocate for it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shenmue beats Doom as the most influential game of all time in BAFTA poll⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah 100%

  This was a public poll after all so it smells a bit like fandom bandwagoning

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clean butt⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Japanese toilets are so far beyond what we’re doing anywhere else in the world it’s not even funny

  Wtaf have our toilet scientists been doing for the last century in the western world?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨James Bond is responsible for many wasted vodka martinis⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Although apparently Cocchi Americano is very close, and therefore a good choice versus the more common substitution of Lillet Blanc

  I’ve yet to personally get my hands on a bottle though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨James Bond is responsible for many wasted vodka martinis⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even a gin martini is a bit of a mid cocktail IMO

  There are plenty of much more interesting spirit forward cocktails out there

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We refer to jeans as "a pair of jeans", but the only thing that there are two of is the legs, it's still only one item of clothing.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t wear one leg each from two different pairs of jeans and go about your daily business.

  Well not with that attitude you can’t! I can think of several ways to accomplish this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Reddit died June 2023

  I don’t know why people are still playing with the corpse

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ticketmaster may have violated consumer protection laws | The UK’s CMA weighs in after the Oasis reunion tour ticketing fiasco.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ticketmaster only exists to reduce the income of musicians.

  The musicians would exist without Ticketmaster

  The venues would exist without Ticketmaster

  The crowd would exist without Ticketmaster

  They only extract value

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨papa I need the borger⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  oh no

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meat flavored with a hint of fruit sounds alright. But fruit flavored with a hint of meat sounds gross.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tomato is a fruit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was about to remark how this data backs up the events we’ve been watching unfold in America recently

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s SSB, But Maybe Not Quite As You Know It⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Big thanks for providing this extra context, that made it a lot clearer for me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ultra Gullible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They did those starter sku users dirty

  But yeah this was Microsoft’s strategy for a while (and may still be): they attempted to push small business users to their server products for running servers by limiting the ram and core counts on the non-server skus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are entertainers paid so much?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Firstly it’s a fraction of a percent of the pool of people working as entertainers that get paid anything close to a comfortable salary—many don’t even make it a few years and make basically nothing before they change careers.

  The successful ones get paid a load basically because the people that invest in funding TV shows & films know that you can generally multiply your investment by attaching a household name to the project. Now this is for several reasons, firstly a household name will generally actually be a good actor. Secondly, people recognising a member of your cast means they’re generally more likely to watch it. Finally, there’s the effect on the rest of the casting—some studios might take the opportunity to push the compensation of the “no-name” actors down because they have an opportunity to work with a star, others might go the other way and use the first star in negotiations to get additional starts signed on to the project.

  So essentially, the big projects make a lot of money, and executives attribute a significant part of that generated value to having the big star involved.

  There’s also the negotiation factor on long running shows, main characters end up in good negotiation positions for more money if a show is successful and their character isn’t easy to kill off. This is also why Netflix tries to cancel stuff before the 3rd season—that’s about the point who holds the power in negotiations shifts away from the studio.

  Tl;dr capitalism

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s SSB, But Maybe Not Quite As You Know It⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve not really touched radio stuff in a long while now but here’s my attempt.

  Single sideband (SSB) is a radio transmission technique for sending audio (often voice, but many data modes use SSB too) whilst being pretty efficient with the use of radio spectrum. Think like FM and AM modes on a consumer radio, except those approaches take up a bit more bandwidth compared to SSB, so you can’t pack as many stations into a radio band without interference.

  And this is where I might be completely off the mark, but this novel approach is interesting compared to the more conventional approaches due to the reduction in the complexity of the components needed to do this and a reduction of waste power. As the other approaches involved essentially generating a double sideband signal (I can’t remember what the technical term is, but part of me thinks this might be standard AM) and filtering out the (typically) lower mirror band.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NYC Mesh: The Future of the Internet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really in a situation where I can watch a video without potentially annoying someone right now, but

  A municipal mesh network isn’t a bad idea, but I worry about what security measures are in place, effectively securing a wireless network with hundreds of independent stations feels like it wouldn’t be trivial.

  And surely this will need a WAN gateway to the internet somewhere, so it’ll only be as reliable as the route to that uplink.

  This might have all been addressed in the video though, I’ll see if I can find an article about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Download a Lemmy conversation as a PDF?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably true, worth pointing out I browse with the “old.” theme when I’m at my computer which doesn’t come out bad at all given it’s pretty basic HTML (just tried it on my phone too, which is something I wasn’t sure would give a good result)

  You’re right though, it would be a good pull request to the Lemmy UI to add a print stylesheet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s SSB, But Maybe Not Quite As You Know It⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The linked article is a jargon festival, but that’s to be expected given the topic. I still found it pretty interesting despite not fully understanding it