trompete [he/him]

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Cake day: October 16th, 2021

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  • Wait, if the game volume is 1%, and the system volume is 50%, shouldn't the resulting volume be 0.5% of maximum? Do you have that amp setup from Back to the Future?

    Sorry, I'm joking. To be more helpful, this reminds me an old problem PulseAudio introduced (and then disabled) on Linux some years ago, it was a feature called "flat volumes". The idea was to avoid the need to have two volume adjustments (if only one application used the sound card), one a per-application one (done in software) and then another from the sound card, which is wasteful and can result in lowered audio quality if one is set very low. So they got rid of the per-application volume in the case that only one application was playing audio.

    But the result would be that, if an application (like a game) changed it's volume (by setting the application volume), it would in effect set the hardware volume, resulting in this kind of sudden loud noises even if you previously had your system volume set all the way down.

    Maybe on your system it works similar to this "flat volumes" feature and maybe that can be disabled somehow?


  • Notice the flags are just copy and paste jobs. The artist wants the audience to understand that war propaganda is just an oversaturated, cheap reproduction of a simple template. That the choir of voices all telling you the same thing is nothing but an illusion. It's all just one voice, copy and pasted all over.

    The Simpsons seemingly exist inside a void, staring blankly at you as you stare blankly into the emptiness of their expressions. It is frightening. Confronting! It dares the viewer to face what he may not want to: That there is nothing there! It's all a lie.

    Once you look beyond Marge, the focal point, you notice that something is not quite right. The drawing becomes cruder towards the edges, as propaganda tends to look when you look more closely into the details and circumstances. This also creates the impression (quite deliberately) that the artist gave up on this assignment, his professional self-respect, and life in general. Like he wants to say: Please Xi Jinping! The Simpsons yearn for freedom!



  • Low-end coffee hand grinders have gotten a whole lot better in the last 15 years or so.

    Many years ago I bought what was a widely recommended coffee hand grinder made by Hario. It had a ceramic mill. It's frustratingly slow and tedious.

    Got a Timemore like two years ago, which has a stainless steel mill and they added some teeth into the mill design, which does sort of a rough shredding of the beans before they go into the lower fine milling, which makes this super fast and quite low effort. Takes less than a minute per cup. It's also prettier and just better designed in every way when compared with the Hario. According to reviews the resulting grain consistency is pretty good and it can go quite fine, fine enough for espresso even, though I wouldn't know anything about that.




  • They just kicked out a pro-Palestine activist, Ramsis Kilani:

    The Landesschiedskommission is thus following the logic of unconditional support for the State of Israel, in accordance with German Staatsräson, which it has put above the right to existence of and equal rights for Palestinian people.

    The current development of the mass killing of the Palestinian civil population, which has also been confirmed by Amnesty International as a genocide, was given no import in the judgement of the context of my statements.

    So Die Linke thinks Israel has a right to exist, and that armed resistance against a genocide is illegitimate, and anybody who disagrees with that gets thrown out.

    So "Red Hitler" isn't too far off here.


  • Anything used for internal Android usage will be formatted completely differently from the standard FAT32/exFAT, which is most likely what's going on. It it wasn't detecting the SD card it probably wouldn't ask you to format it.

    A reader from 2011 is almost certainly SDHC (spec from 2006) compatible and likely also SDXC (2009) compatible. Also I vaguely remember something about being able use bigger cards on older readers in an out-of-spec sort of way some situations.

    Edit: Also looked this up SDHC readers can read/write SDXC cards, only slower it seems. And I think what I remember was that 4 GB cards worked in many devices that only supported OG SD standard, which was only 2 GB.




  • I've been playing Dark Souls for a couple weeks on and off. First time playing any game like that. Took me a long time to get any idea what I should be doing, but I'm getting the hang of it. I think I'm in the mid game now.

    That game is obtuse af. It gives off a vibe similar to a difficult, shoddy, cryptic retro game sometimes, but a lot of it is obviously designed with excellent attention to detail. So is all of that intentional? I don't know. Even if all or most of it is intentional, I'm not sure it's actually good design.

    I do like it though.



  • I feel like contributing to this megathread by updating you all on frankly inconsequential and stupid internal German politics, and it makes me feel dirty. But here it goes anyway.

    The FDP (liberal party) blew up the socdem-green-liberal coalition (Ampel, meaning traffic-light) and the media got hold of their internal powerpoints of how they planned this for months and referred to it as "d-day" and the final stage as an "open field battle" and now they're outraged because of civility and bad faith or something.

    So this might backfire on the FDP which I hope it does, but also none of this makes a lick of difference since all involved are neoliberal freaks and genocidal maniacs. It's just lib infighting.


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    tofoodThoughts about enameled steel pots?
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    2 months ago

    Those dutch ovens are usually cast iron, so much thicker and cast (poured into a sand mold) and not pressed into shape from a sheet of steel, like the pots I'm talking about. Both get enameled with some kind of glass. I think that process is similar to glazing clay/porcelain, but there's no clay involved here.




  • trompete [he/him]tolibreLinux laptop suggestions?
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    2 months ago

    Companies like RedHat buy Thinkpads (the professional ones like T-series and whatever the others are called, not the cheapo consumer ones) to run Linux on. So they're better supported because Linux devs also use them. And you can get used ones cheap because lots of companies buy these and sell them second hand after a couple of years. They're sturdy and usually in decent shape still.

    Battery life is what it is. I'd get something with integrated graphics, that'll be better for battery life and out of the box support.

    Do check on the internet if other people are having problems with the specific laptop you consider buying. There's always a chance that something is broken with any specific model.