teawrecks

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[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 190 points 21 hours ago (13 children)

Lol they said that and my first thought was, "what, is there a risk of some billionaire CEO bursting into the courtroom to exact revenge?"

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

I mean...can we really ascribe a political ideology to someone who specifically demands to not be taken seriously? If they were going for "right-wing", then they are their own worst critic.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

— Michael Scott

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Democracy: the worst form of government except for all the others.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

To be fair, it's entirely possible someone else made a post about this topic with an non-sensationalized title, but no one engaged with that one. Including us.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Come on and slam

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This link gives a 404 now. Archive anywhere? Was it legit?

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Good. I want more of them to do it. Let's get past the phase where people still try to rationalize ways in which it's not what it literally is.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'd venture to guess this isn't the first time Linus has had to deal with devs who have ideological disagreements and one quits. It's not also his job to keep that from happening. What he said is true, there's a process they have for maintaining Linux, and it doesn't involve flame wars on social media.....it involves flame wars over email 😅.

But seriously, if a devs are going to get upset at each other and rage quit, it's not Linus' job to play mediator.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"Um, yeah, but we could have already known everything thousands of years ago if we had just made any effort. AI is just a worse version of what evolution already made between my ears. We could have already blown the planet up 70 years ago. The beginning of time is sooooo 13.8 billion years ago, YAWN!" - OP probably

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 15 points 3 days ago

This service isn't for CEOs, it's for upper middle class people with recency bias.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I'd like to request that you please read my posts in full before responding, and don't skim it and assume you understand the jist of what I'm saying. This method is failing you.

I think your COVID denialist is showing a bit

I'm not saying covid was equivalent to the flu, I'm saying that for the vast majority of cases, it didn't progress to be life threatening. That's just the data.

My point is, that makes a big difference when you're talking about people who ignore data and don't have empathy outside their in-group. What they see every day matters more than what anyone tells them, or what theoretical people are experiencing. And once the full economic impact of these executive orders becomes felt, it's going to affect almost everyone far more than a being "out sick" for a couple weeks. They won't have jobs, they won't be able to afford food, it's not something they will be able to ignore.

If you seriously think the red states...are going to ever come around to acknowledge that they were swindled by this loser and turn on him en masse, I'm not sure what to tell you.

Again, his core base will buy into his rhetoric for sure, they'll get grifted to their grave. But his core base didn't get him elected, people voting against inflation did, and rhetoric won't put food on their table, that's why Harris lost.

Those who voted against inflation are on their last leg as it is. 10 years ago 70% of the US was living paycheck to paycheck, 5 years ago credit card debt began to spike, today the general population holds more debt than our entire GDP. Most people simply don't have the luxury of being complacent during this term. Protests today won't fizzle, they'll progress into civil unrest. And Trump has made it clear by the amount of power he's consolidating under the executive branch that he has no intention of ceding power in a future election, so he's going to be the one most people blame for the situation. Not his base, but most people.

 

I'm curious what, if any, guidelines people self-impose to try and engage in a productive way online (both on Lemmy and elsewhere). "Netiquette" if you will.

A couple of rules that I think are good practices, but still see too often, are:

  • don't pile onto the most downvoted comment. Kinda like don't feed the trolls, but it's more about not letting yourself get rage baited. Instead, downvote them and move on.
  • don't give a non-answer to someone's question. Ex. if someone asks how to do X, don't answer with, "Why are you trying to do X? You shouldn't want to do X. Do Y instead." Instead, explain what it would take to do X, and then offer Y as a possible alternative and why it may be a better option. But assume they already know about Y, and it doesn't fit their use-case.

For that last one, finding a thread where someone has asked the exact question you want answered, only to find a thread full of upvoted non-answers is up there with the dreaded "nvm, I figured it out - 10y ago".

 

Just ran across this in the newcommunities discussion. Figured I'd jump start a thread for people to chime in on.

  • What have you been playing lately?
  • Anything you're looking forward to?
  • What do you wish you could play, but never have the time or players?
 

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?

 

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?

 

Hi, I'm sure this is just a noob lemmy question. I saw on /c/newcommunities@lemmy.world 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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