That would be reported.

Friends don’t let friends be root.

Just to clarify: the “much smoother” is subjective and might be an oversimplification, but the “not using Gnome” part is correct.

Personally I don’t use any Gnome extensions and have much preferred Cosmic to the old Pop Shell. YMMV.

Linux user here. What’s a friend?

DE completely depends on your workflow. The way you do things directly impacts what DEs you’ll like and which ones you won’t.

I’m with you on KDE: I respect it and it clearly seems to be one of the most feature-rich DEs, but I’ve had trouble actually using it regularly.

I have been using Cosmic DE for the last 6 months or so. I love it because it seamlessly blends tiled and non-tiled workspaces in an effective way. Part of me really enjoys the simplicity of things like i3, but part of me just wants floating windows. It fully depends on what I’m working on and sometimes just my mood, so for me, the seamless blending in Cosmic has felt perfect.

But how important is DE? Tbh I think it is the most important part of a setup, because you interact with it more than any other piece of the system.

I’m really tired of seeing this idiot quoted.

Nah, mine’s the original NES Super Mario Bros. underworld theme.

“Boner boner boner” “Boner boner boner”

Damn. RIP. She was one of the comedy greats. Pretty much unmatched timing IMHO.

Yeah, no argument there. But I would argue companies do that kind of thing already for various reasons (many having to do with taxes).

Overall, I don’t think it’s a good argument against regulation to say “let’s regulate less because people will cheat”. People will always cheat.

Really need to start calculating settlements like this as a function of profits. Otherwise this is just factored in as a business cost and does not actually apply as a consequence.

$135 million may seem like a lot to regular people, but it’s not for Google. If we are letting these tacit monopolies stay in place, then the kid gloves at least need to come off when they’re being dealt with. Scale up consequences so they are appropriate for the size of the corporation.

This guy fucks

If these robots actually function well: fascists with robots at scale is really not the timeline you want.

If.

To me, it can be hard to pin down what makes a movie “great” because the criteria change from genre to genre, and much of it is more of a subjective whole than an amalgamation of objective parts.

But, there is one metric my family uses to decide, unequivocally, if a movie was “bad” or not: if you watched it and it doesn’t lead to conversation, it was a bad movie. That means it didn’t spark any curiosity or need for discussion or even stand out in any way. Minimally, it wasn’t worth thinking about once it was over. I don’t mean short comments like “this effect was neat” or “I liked the part where…”, but substantive discussion of 5+ minutes.

By extension, movies that lead to discussions must be good, simply because there was “something about it” that spurred discussion. The specifics of that x-factor don’t really matter by this metric.

One thing I find interesting about this approach is that movies that many agree are objectively bad can lead to discussion if they are also unique or even just uniquely bad. And this approach says such movies are actually good, and I do agree with that.

The ones that end up consistently bad are big franchise films that are always same-samey, or other low-effort films that are mostly derivative.

Right wing influencers… Oh, the guys obsessed with the question “what is a woman” while never having met one in real life?

“Works on my machine”

I totally agree it’s just vibes. I’m sorry if I suggested otherwise, but most of my point is about audio being subjective.

If everything is subjective, then some people will like tape.

I totally agree that CD should be better.

I really wasn’t trying to make a point, except that a simple search shows that the debate about VHS vs CD exists.

I don’t think it comes down to either one being objectively better.

This is why the debate still exists:

There is no analog audio format that can rival a 32bit 96KHz PWM recording, and that’s not even the best digital recording available

Analog audio is not sampled. By definition, it includes more data than any sampled version.

Now, the benefits of the sampling in terms of reducing format noise or similar are (subjectively) up for debate.

Totally agree with things sounding better if you introduce noise. I suspect it has to do with sampling, and maybe is not well understood.

Fun fact: if you add some hisses and pops and a little bit of compression to CD audio before playing it, some people (me included) will say it sounds better.

Exactly. It is subjective. It’s not about right or wrong.

I think there are things (like above) where the measurements are misguided. But at the end of the day, even that doesn’t matter.

Agreed. Main issue is “better” is subjective and doesn’t always mean the same thing to different people.

I have dabbled in other tape formats, and one thing stands out to me about the compact cassette (not VHS): most people used them in the car, where conditions were bad for cassette storage. Car cassette players also tended to have poorer quality mechanisms and heads. As a result, many people remember the format being bad, when in fact, it was more about their use case. A quality home cassette deck with a quality cassette (e.g. type II or chrome) stored in the right conditions is capable of extremely good results.

Not sure if there is something similar with VHS audio, though. Very different format. I just know there is a debate, but it could be entirely bogus.

There’s a weird debate about the audio quality on VHS. Under the right conditions (right tape, right player, right source) it could be shockingly good – perhaps even better than CD audio, despite not being remembered terribly fondly.

If you really want to wow the ladies, be the one guy with a music collection on VHS.

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