JovialSodium

joined 7 months ago
[–] JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

I've heard of one of them and consumed content from none of them.

[–] JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 3 weeks ago

I'm not familiar with the brand, but general ideas that come to mind to troubleshoot are:

  • Disable secureboot if enabled. Understanding you'll lose that security feature of course.
  • See if there's an option to mark your storage as removable in the installer (--removable flag in grub iirc). My (pretty old) motherboard does not seem to respect attempts to add uefi entities but it happily boots off a "removable" uefi install.
[–] JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

According to the plan linked in the article https://mailchi.mp/press.kamalaharris.com/vice-president-harris-lays-out-agenda-to-lower-costs-for-american-families this tax credit would be for low and middle class families. Which I agree with and like. Help those that need it.

Edit: copy/pasta of the relevant bit: "Vice President Harris is proposing a new plan to get tax relief to more than 100 million Americans. Her plan will expand the Child Tax Credit to provide a $6,000 tax cut to families with newborn children. Unlike Trump and Vance, Vice President Harris is committed to ensuring no one earning less than $400,000 a year will pay more in new taxes."

[–] JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

To an extent. But it wouldn't surprise me at all if sometime in the near future they force the use their own DNS servers within their browser instead of respecting your network configuration.

The best solution to circumventing Chrome's bad behavior is to not use it.

Edit: speiling

[–] JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

True. Yet another linchpin.

Edit: spelling.

[–] JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org 26 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Signal is centrally hosted thus it's proverbial rug can be pulled.

[–] JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

As long as the record is in good condition, I find the sound comperable. I've played the same song on a high bitrate digital audio file and on vinyl and I found both equally pleasing to listen to.

I have a Fluance RT80 turntable, and am using the built in preamp. It's connected to a home audio receiver (Sony STRDH590) with a 2.1 speaker setup (Polk Audio Monitor 60 Series II Floorstanding Speakers and a Polk Audio PSW10 10" Powered Subwoofer). A pretty midrange setup in others words. And I'm no audiophile, so weigh accordingly.

Edit: I realized you asked specifically about streaming. This link https://support.spotify.com/us/artists/article/audio-file-formats/ indicates that Spotify does up to OGG 320kbps/AC3 256kbps which is comparable to my personal audio library. So, statement holds.

[–] JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I got caught up in the vinyl revival, so I enjoy collecting that media. But even then, I consider it more of a novelty.

Generally speaking though, I prefer locally stored digital media without DRM over physical media. It's just more practical.

That being said, I'm glad that physical media exists and hope it continues to be made. Choice is good.

[–] JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I can easily believe these types of continued enshittification will help drive more users to Linux desktop usage. But that will still be a small percent.

People have to know and care about the problem and then be willing to put in the effort to understand what to do. That combination is pretty limiting.

I'd love to be proven wrong, though.

[–] JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Ublock origin has cookie banner filters. I didn't have this problem, I assume that's why.

Edit: autocorrect

[–] JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I wonder what the use case is going to be for these? Article doesn't seem to say. Seems to me like it'd be a good solution for short haul driving. Not so much for long haul given a 150 mile range.

Edit to add: It'd be cool to see a stronger push for a better DC fast charging nationwide come on the heels of something like this. But that's probably overly hopeful.

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