Sometimes, about once a month, a great day occurs where all 30 seconds arrive consecutively. Those days I get a whole week’s work done in less than a minute.
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flubba86@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Spotify is finally launching support for lossless music streamingEnglish21·7 days agoFor tracks I’m familiar with and play often, I can usually tell the difference between 128kbps and 192kbps on an MP3. In very rare cases, with the right song and the right earphones, I can discern 192kpbs MP3 from 256kbps. But I definitely can’t tell a 256kbps MP3 from FLAC. The Wikipedia article on audio transparency says that MP3 becomes transparent on average around 240kbps.
I’ve recently started using the Opus codec. It is higher quality at lower bitrates than MP3. Opus is considered transparent on average at around 160-192kbps.
Personally, I’ve been re-encoding all my FLACs to 192kbps OPUS for storing on my smartphone where space is limited.
flubba86@lemmy.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's a popular game series that you just can't understand the hype for?3·8 days agoI got the first Pokemon game (Pokemon Red) when I was 14 years old. I never watched the anime. Back then the game was revolutionary, I’d never played anything like it. The goal of collecting all Pokemon, gaining experience to level up, evolving to make new Pokemon, selecting and organising my squad, it really played into my young brain chemistry. I finished it multiple times. I got a game boy link cable to trade Pokemon with my friends and battle them at school. Thats exactly who the game is made for.
I also played and finished Pokemon Silver, and Crystal. But after that I stopped playing them. Too similar, too repetitive, too many different Pokemon to know and remember, mechanics got too complicated.
flubba86@lemmy.worldto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Chhoto URL v6.3.0 is out now: A simple, blazingly fast, selfhosted URL shortener with no unnecessary features; written in Rust.English3·17 days agoI agree with you, a simple minimal url-shortener does not need 2FA.
flubba86@lemmy.worldto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Chhoto URL v6.3.0 is out now: A simple, blazingly fast, selfhosted URL shortener with no unnecessary features; written in Rust.English3·17 days agoThis would require configuration with a whitelist of which OIDC IdPs to trust. Otherwise anybody could self-authorise a OIDC token (using their own IdP) and use that to log in.
flubba86@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•AI bro discovering imaginationEnglish2·17 days agopeople who can just make shit up and see it in their heads, how do they get anything done? I feel like id just be imagining stuff all day long
Yep, that’s literally what daydreaming is. People do it all the time, especially kids at school. I spent most of primary school exploring fantasy worlds in my head, while the teachers were trying to snap me out of it.
This reminds me of how when I go shopping for eggs in the supermarket, they are sold in sizes of Large, X-Large, and Jumbo. Nobody wants to face the humiliation of buying a carton of small eggs.
flubba86@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 watersEnglish92·19 days agoNo. This makes no sense. Are you seriously saying if you saw an order for 18,000 waters pop up on your monitor you’d just say “that’s fine” then spend the next three days straight filling cups?
If I were the manager of the store, I’d hope my employees would have the bare minimum critical thinking skill to ask someone first.
At the store I worked in, everyone would be given at least 12 hours notice of a catering order. We’d have everything prepped ready to go, and expect the order when it arrives. If one popped up without notice it’s definitely a bug, and we’re definitely not making it.
People don’t like to be preached to, or converted to something they know nothing about, especially if they’re happy with what they already have.
Yes it would be nice if there were more members on Lemmy, but I prefer if people make their own choice to seek it out themselves.
My only gripe with this telling is that a rotten tooth is not the same thing as an abscess.
flubba86@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What’s a small thing you do every day that makes life noticeably better?5·1 month agoBruh… If I get less than 7.5 hours sleep, I’m tired all day. But if I get more than 8.5 hours sleep, I’m also tired all day. There’s the magic window of time in the middle where I wake up relatively refreshed.
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flubba86@lemmy.worldto Linux@lemmy.ml•What problems does Linux have to overcome to get more users11·1 month agoYeah, I grew up in the 90s where schools and offices had physical filing cabinets full of folders and files. And in the late 90s when learning computers at school those same concepts were reinforced in the computer file system. So files and folders within the context of using a computer is ingrained and seems obvious to me.
But kids these days are born with iPads in their hand, they use Chromebooks in primary school, and all their files are automatically saved to the cloud and immediately available on all their devices. How would they ever learn the concepts of filesystems? It’s not taught at school. It’s not relevant to anything they do.
It used to make me so frustrated (it’s a simple concept!) but now I get it. Maybe it’s not as obvious a paradigm as we thought. Maybe there are better ways of organising files (eg, tagging, keywords, filtering) that are more human. Or using namespacing (ns prefixes, curies). Or even using non-local universal identifiers (ipfs locators). It makes me wonder if we might eventually even move away from hierarchical-directory based filesystems at the system level too.
flubba86@lemmy.worldto Linux@lemmy.ml•What problems does Linux have to overcome to get more users2·1 month agoCame here to say this. My workplace used to offer a Linux workstation option (which I opted in for 9 years), but they had to remove that option to fulfill new security and management, compliance standards. They need to be able to manage exactly which applications are installed on a system, which binaries are allowed to run and when, the exact settings for every application, the exact version of the OS and the specific updates, and precisely when updates are installed. All of this needs to be applied based on the user, their organisational division, their security groups, clearance level, specific model of device, etc.
I know that using a combination of Selinux, Kerberos, and something like Puppet can get you close in the Linux world, but Microsoft group policy has been around for 30 years and is well understood and just works.
flubba86@lemmy.worldto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•My earphones' cable has been oozing sticky goo for over a year nowEnglish2·1 month agoI know what I’m about, son.
Lol. Okay Ron Swanson.
Pypy is often considered the “best” alternative Python implementation. In some cases it can be much faster. But it’s often one or two versions behind, and not 100% compatible, and of course it doesn’t work with native Cpython extensions.
Man, you’re basically saying “I want to move to a new country, but I don’t want to lose any of my friends, I can’t change my job, I don’t want to learn a new language, I want to bring all my furniture and appliances with me, and we just had a new baby a month ago so I’m sleep deprived and don’t have any spare time. How do I do it?”
My favourite use of this meme was in a recent episode of Tor’s cabinet of Curiosities. The episode was talking about Wikipedia’s lewdest editor. There was a famous Wikipedia editor who was a little too obsessed with creating hundreds of new very detailed wiki pages about super specific boob-related topics. About half way through the episode about the career of this editor, Tor started a sentence with “As he breasted boobily across Wikipedia…”. At that instant I felt the had meme achieved full power. I had to pause the video and bask in the beauty of it.