The_Grinch [he/him]

I don’t really understand still but thanks for trying all the same.

I’m glad to hear I’m not the only one thinking it!

Do you think it could be done by diffing a few of the different language tracks?

Try clementine/strawberry music player on your laptop. They scan your music library and apply a volume normalization value to each track.

I have a semi-related question if you don’t mind. People often complain about the voice tracks in movies being hard to hear, especially if you don’t have a speaker for the center channel (but even then I have trouble)

Why haven’t they solved this problem by packaging the voice track separately on the bluray/stream so you can turn up the volume of the voices only without blowing your ears out when the music hits?

I explain it roughly as “Veganism is when you believe that the combined values of non-human animals’ freedom, rights, freedom from pain and suffering, ecological impact of factory farming of animals, social impact of slaughterhouses, societal impact of allowing a class of “lesser” commodified sentient beings propping up and holding space for other axes of oppression, public health impact, and personal feelings of guilt at very least might be any amount greater than their value when made into a burger, or shoes, or glue. Everything you associate with vegans (diet) is a logical consequence thereof”

It doesn’t seem to help anyway because they still keep asking a bunch of seemingly obvious questions that verge on sealioning, but it at least seems to keep the conversation on track.

Being vegan (like arguing in defense of any minority) is a crash course in what suspender-slapping, exclusively crowd playing, bad faith, debate nerd, and fake arguments look like. Once you genuinely pick up one cause on even one axis of oppression, you quickly learn to see through a lot of bullshit. I believe veganism to be the most effective of all for exposing this.

They’re just going to do this with the TPM and similar chips that windows 11 semi-hard requires, and android, iOS, mac OS have already, anyway. The website will refuse to display if any modification whatsoever has been done to it, and any browser that refuses to comply to their standards will be blocked. There will of course be a couple hacks to get around it, but eventually they will close those leaks too. The open internet is very soon coming to an end.

I don’t know why you think corporations aren’t effectively micro-governments themselves, ones that don’t even put on the show of democracy, beholden to essentially no one but their shareholders.

Yeah, I see why you were being called a bootlicker.

The EU is good when they’re doing good things, and bad when they’re doing bad things. Someone has to reign in international corporations and their anti-consumer anti-planet bullshit.

people … who argued against me have no one to blame but themselves. You really think people agreeing or disagreeing with you on the internet have/had anything to do with it?

Even the people who love him hate him!

It’s definitely gotten more wasteful lately in particularly. You could run 8.1 on any computer that supported Vista, and IME it was even a little snappier, but 10 and 11 have each been significantly worse.

i3wm on a 32bit IBM thinkpad is still instantaneous-response-fast

We have gemini, IPFS, and usenet to my knowledge.

That’s why in ny opinion it’s criminal that for most high school math stops before calculus. Calculus wraps up so many loose ends and replaces rote memorization techniques with understanding. Why exactly is the area of a ___ = (formula)? Calculus answers that.

The quadratic formula too, calc replaces it. In fact if I had my way with the curriculum we would skip that one entirety in algebra. I’d also throw in a statistics class, which would directly impact just about everyone’s lives, but that’s another matter.

I never learned my times tables either. We don’t teach them anymore anyway.

No, I’m actually agreeing with you completely. I can see why you took it that way though. My fault.

Sometimes what they’re teaching you isn’t what they’re teaching you.

Maybe you don’t need to know how to find the exact surface area of a cone ever again, but the idea of unwrapping a cone to measure the surface area leaves an impression of a technique for deconstructing a problem, or that problems can be deconstructed into simpler parts at all. It also leaves you with a feel for roughly what the surface area of different shapes would be.

Using a protractor teaches you how to measure accurately and use tools.

Cursive and recorder teaches hand eye coordination, and music is just fundamental to human beings.

Then again maybe you do need to find the surface area of a cone one day, and you could probably go ahead and work out how that would be done even if you don’t remember exactly.

What’s the counterproposal for a curriculum? I’m genuinely curious here, not trying to jump down anyone’s throat. What would school look like without these things?

Everything is like… connected, man.

That’s exactly what I’m saying. The reasons all exist on the spectrum from “we have no reason to care” to “We have every reason to make this difficult for you”

Or btrfs with snapper snapshots you can roll back to. Either way I suspect hard drive corruption. That’s usually what it is for me (although I do lose power with abnormal frequency)

I believe in the conspiracy theory that the reason connecting devices directly to each other anymore without doing a bunch of backflips through third parties is more or less intentional. If you could send a file to your friend sitting right next to you with some sort of wifi-direct or bluetooth or even just via usb-C cable that is seamless and actually works, it would impact every web service from facebook to onedrive. You also have a chilling effect on what kinds of data you’re going to share as well.

That said, tailscale is the ticket for me. The client is BSD licensed, and there exists a self-hostable server which is floss (headscale). Works like airdrop but better.