@dcc This GIF and not the one of Big Lebowski being thrown a coffee mug at? This is the thing I expect from you the least! :marseyemojismilemoutheyes: @SAKURARadiochan
@Dudebro For women it also goes out of the window real fast — they realize that shooting videos of how they shove VLC up their asses gives them mental health issues, but they have to keep on as it becomes their source of income and finding other source of income gets too problematic at this point — the longer you do it the less valuable skills you have (there are exceptions of course and there are those who use money earned by shoving VLC up their asses to educate themselves — but this takes an insane amount of willpower, very few are capable of this), and going for some low-income job would lead to a drop in quality of life at this point. I have a theory that OnlyFans is popular precisely because of this — not because people want to see gitls' tits and asses — there are pictures and videos of tits and asses all over the Internet for free. Subscribers like to watch girls (and in rare cases boys too) develop mental health issues. @roboneko@rees@Tony
@dcc apulse solves this problem for me — last time I did videoconferencing with Firefox was a few months ago, but it used to work. It might give you a tiny lag, but it's barely noticeable during video calls and otherwise works perfectly. Definitely worth checking out! @david
@cjd > I'm selling the domain as pre-blocked Does this imply a discount or a premium? 🤔 Living in such interesting times when even this its unclear 🤭 @dcc@Senator_Armstrong
What systemd (its udev part in particular) has given us are (very straightforward and) "predictable hardware based identifiers for ethernet and WiFi devices" (instead of such confusing shit as eth0 and wlan0) :marseyemojirofl: And it might seem that it only happens in some complex configurations, when multiple adapters are used, but here's the id of the built-in network card in my PowerMac G5: enP1p4s15f0 — I swear, when I have to use this somewhere, I can't even remember it, I have to either copy it or write it down. But okay, however old it might be, it's still an SMP-capable dual CPU workstation and theoretically it can have very complex configuration and when this hardware was in its prime I might've wanted to have more network cards in it. You know what the identifier of the sole wired network interface in the Mac Mini this instance runs on is — and it isn't theoretical this time, this thing will never have more of them unless they are virtual? It is enP2p0s15f0 Pretty neat, huh? Brilliant solution for the problem that in absolute most cases have never existed :marseysmug2:
@phnt , I feel bad for making fun of your point behind your back so I'll just CC you here.
@dcc > How does that change audio quality? It doesn't, it's about CPU utilization and the rest of the post was about it in case you haven't noticed :marseysmirk: > Usb is a digital output, the fiber audio bs does thing to the 1 and 0's Man, what are you talking about? It carries digital signal that is PCM-encoded — literally the same that gets sent to your USB soundcard after audio file gets decoded. It was originally limited to 48 kHz, but it was since then extended and now there is even a protocol to negotiate the sampling rate, it can now carry a sync signal — nothing is happening to your ones and zeroes unless you cable is damaged, the only issue you might encounter is jitter if flawed clock is used on the sending end, but there are strategies to work that around and it shouldn't be a problem when there is sync. It's the same DAC principle — digital signal gets sent and then converted back to analog by your amp/receiver and then sent to your speakers or headphones, it's just more simple as no USB is involved. If you like your USB card who am I to judge — enjoy! But if you think that it's the only way to get digital audio out of your computer… Well, it's not, deal with it :marseyshrug: @kaia@newt
@dcc > Everyone uses usb for audio I don't :marseysmug3: > its digital to audio it makes no difference what connector it uses Connector doesn't make the difference of course, it's lack of DMA that does — USB devices can't have DMA. Or I don't know, maybe now they can — they keep changing this thing perpetually adding everything and the kitchen sink to it. But in the past they couldn't and Firewire was a much better choice. > A dac is a dac and usb dacs are mostly the only ones that even have outputs for good amps. Yeah, but you can also use digital output — even soundcards built into motherboards often still have optical outputs, no need for USB. For playback I mean, when you need multiple inputs it's not an option, but neither it is what consumers do. I know that it's what a lot of people use, but USB is still absolute shit for audio — if one was designing a bus for audio specifically, no one would ever come up with USB. Firewire was great, but even when it was still a thing it was mostly popular among audio and video professionals, only Sony and Apple laptops had a Firewire controller and maybe a few high-end models by HP and Dell too — for mass consumer this was never an option, that's how USB cards came to be. In side-by-side comparison USB sucks horse's ass: it consumes extra CPU power just for IO, which is bad when you need it for something else like mixing and have a dozen of tracks in that mix — it used to be a really big deal when CPUs didn't have the computing power they have today). Some professional cards even had dual Firewire/USB connectivity, in case you wanted to have decent card, but decided to cheap out on computer — so you would later have an option to rethink, but keep the card. @kaia@newt
@newt It, sure, is no top of the line equipment and as I mostly listen to CDs, I barely use built-in sound for anything other than movies — in which case quality isn't the cornerstone, but I can't say that it's noisy in either of my laptops, including very old (ancient? medieval?😅) ThinkPads — of course you have to explicitly mute all the inputs: CD, mic, line in — and at times even more obscure shit that codec might support, but is rarely even wired to anything — this shit is usually what picks up the noise. I dunno, maybe some soundcards' kernel modules dont export these and they aren't available in mixer software, getting rid of noise in this case might indeed be problematic 🤔 @kaia
@newt > USB DAC I know it's just another one of my idiosyncrasies, but I still bear a certain disregard for using USB for sound, I mean it's perfect for mice, keyboards or printers, but something not offering DMA? For audio? :marseyyikes: I do realize though that there is little choice at the moment as Firewire is effectively dead and I don't think I've seen any widely available Thunderbolt offerings, using Thunderbird enclosure with PCI cart is clunky too, but I still don't like the idea of using USB for it :marseysigh: @kaia