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Trump Serves Up One Last Insult to Working-Class Voters in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

"Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a trade unionist."

US Christian right celebrates after prophecy of Trump win comes to pass in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

But if a critical mass of people call you a cat, then that's just how language works.

Apparently, the mods at Linuxsucks are really sensitive? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

I'm all for it. All publicity is good publicity in this space. Open criticism is the first step to better open software.

Apparently, the mods at Linuxsucks are really sensitive? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Lol that's actually hilarious. So but, why not comment on your posts too? Each post is just sitting there with an empty comments section.

“This Is a Collapse of the Democratic Party”: Ralph Nader on Roots of Trump’s Win Over Harris in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is why I'm hoping that all the impending hardships reflect poorly on Trump's term, and he can merely serve as the Hoover to an FDR-like successor.

Would be great if we avoided all the unnecessary deaths along the way, but we wouldn't be human if we didn't insist on learning everything the hard way.

SteamDeck TOP Played list. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I recently put a dozen hours into Witcher 3 while using my steam deck on a couple long flights. I'm pretty sure it synced correctly when I finally got home and connected to wifi. Maybe it didn't work at one time, but I'd be surprised if it still doesn't.

Hey Lemmy give me an album to listen to in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I don't see any of The Avalanches on there. All their stuff is good, but if you haven't listened to them, probably start with the original Since I Left You album.

For reference, I discovered J Dilla - Donuts when trying to find more stuff like The Avalanches.

What's an example of something that was just done right the first time round? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yeah, that QI clip came to mind when you mentioned it, but to your point the shape that we consider "fish-like" shows up a lot in water. Even whales and dolphins figured out a similar shape, despite them not being fish (though they might still be etymologically related if you go back far enough?)

Ok, I can buy that the shape of a crab is probably optimized for a certain lifestyle.

What's something unique that you carry on you every day? in c/[email protected]
What's an example of something that was just done right the first time round? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I'm not an expert, but my understanding is that the science indicates all mammals have a common ancestor. Not certain about fish, but I think that's a similar case?

To me, the surprising part about carcinisation is that, the form of a crab seems oddly specific, but non-obvious. I mean, I look at the form of a fish and think, "yeah, it makes sense why that shape would be favored in water," but I look at a crab and think "guess that's just what worked out for your ancestors. Tough luck, buddy." But apparently it's not just bad luck, it's a common strategy.

What was the last skill you learned and how? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Oh yes, I was joking, that is definitely a talent outside of my wheelhouse.

What was the last skill you learned and how? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

That sounds less like a skill and more like a very unfortunate freak accident.

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Open casting alternative (by Amazon?) (www.trustedreviews.com)
 

I'm curious what people's thoughts are about Matter. This is the first I'm hearing of it.

I've been trying to find a way to replace my old Chromecast Ultra (because Google), but I really like having that little cast button show up in apps, even on the phones of guests. But from what I can tell, Google killed this functionality on open alternatives (ex. Raspicast) with a lockdown to the Chromecast spec.

I'm hopeful that Matter could be a way to have my devices cast streams to each other in a standardized way that wouldn't require me to rely on Google/Apple/Amazon/etc. Maybe even Newpipe could get in on the action?

I don't know how it will work, or if this "Connected Standards Alliance" (which is apparently used to be the ZigBee Alliance, also news to me) will still have to greenlight specific devices despite it being "open", which would rule out Newpipe. I would assume the official YouTube apps will be particularly resistant to supporting Matter.

Anyone have any experience here? Has anyone else successfully replaced their media device with something open that also works with the casting button in apps?

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qpwGraph vs wireplumber vs pipewire (sopuli.xyz)
 

I'm trying to wrap my head around the pipewire ecosystem. I think it's great that we're getting a fully featured audio system with all the upsides of pulseaudio and jack, and none of the downsides (that I know of), plus a bunch of completely new features. However, I can't help but think it could have used a little more vision in its interface (or maybe just qpwGraph).

From what I've read, my mental model is that pipewire holds the graph, while a "session manager" manipulates it (create/modify/remove new nodes/ports/links/etc). That's fine. I also understand that wireplumber is such a session manager, and despite having a really convoluted config syntax, it does its job (I assume).

As a simpleton, though, I'm drawn to the wysiwyg interface of qpwGraph, but it's not clear to me how it's supposed to fit into pipewire's vision or how it interacts with wireplumber. It seems to render the current pipewire graph as it is, it can create/remove links between ports, but also it's not a session manager (right?).

I suspect that whatever I can do in qpwGraph I could also do using just wireplumber via conf files and the cli. But dragging my mouse between nodes is so much easier than learning a new syntax. But then I also don't understand what "Active" and "Exclusive" mean. I'm guessing that if Active isn't checked, it won't do anything at all, but if Exclusive isn't checked then...maybe wireplumber can override it? Does that mean if Exclusive IS checked it's able to override wireplumber (look at me, I am the session manager now)? Is that why, if I have a qpwgraph active that links VLC to both OBS and my headset, I hear/see a delay of the link to my headset when a VLC process launches? First wireplumber decides where it should link, and then qpwGraph modifies it several ms after?

I feel like it's currently not clear what qpwGraph is in pipewire terms, but it's also clearly the most intuitive way for someone to use pipewire right now. I think it would be best if qpwGraph was either a standalone, fully featured session manager (not to be used in combination with wireplumber) or just a front end for wireplumber rather than talking to pipewire directly.

Thoughts? Anyone else confused? Am I missing a piece to the puzzle?

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404 when trying to access a new community? (sopuli.xyz)
 

Hi, I'm sure this is just a noob lemmy question. I saw on /c/[email protected] that there's a new YouShouldKnow community: https://sopuli.xyz/post/675270

But when I search for it through Sopuli, it doesn't show up, and if I use the ! link in the top comment, it returns a 404 from sopuli. It seems the sopuli server doesn't know about the community yet, how is it supposed to find out about it? Thanks

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Any time I tell my reddit friends about lemmy (sopuli.xyz)
 
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