I always find it amazing when you hear these insights into the downfall of once huge companies. It’s incredible how terrible some people’s judgement can be and a lot of these successful people are riding on luck rather than intelligence it seems
I had a Lumia with Win Phone (I forget the exact model & sw version) and thought it was great - it was super fast, lightweight and the battery life was decent but there weren’t many apps out there, at least not in comparison to Android
I think the fact that it’s very chemically stable is likely a factor as well so it can be stored for effectively an infinite amount of time & it won’t degrade/react, it’ll still be gold.
It’s definitely not as exciting as it sounds. It applies a large current through some graphite rods which causes the carbon to evaporate & deposit on a sample sat underneath. It’s used to coat electrically insulating samples with a conductive layer of carbon for electron microscopy.
What is a good FOSS Android app to scan documents and immediately convert them to pdfs? On Microsoft Lens, you can take multiple scans and also merge different ones together to create a combined PDF. Thanks.
Personally I don’t know of any specific research but afaik the reason why our voices sound terrible to us when recorded is because they’re missing the bass that’s transmitted through the skull, i.e. they sound higher pitched on recording. So I’d try increasing the amplitude of the lower frequencies on the EQ, it’ll take a bit of fiddling to get the right balance.
Weekly social thread
Howdy partners, how are we this week? Anyone sunburnt?
Bluebells in Dundee Botanical Gairdens (feddit.uk)
Sorry fae the delay @Olap, here are the bluebells as promised!
That time when Microsoft bought and killed Nokia phone unit (www.theregister.com)
When bad management meets bad software, even great hardware is useless
Poultry enterprise in California to pay $4.8M after employing children to work with sharp knives (abcnews.go.com)
The wage settlement is one of the largest ever reached for U.S. poultry workers....
what's your solution for translation and dictionary on linux and android?
I hate my current solution....
Woke rule (derp.foo)
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Me when my friends complain about Twitter/X being a cesspool (sh.itjust.works)
Another post by Fediverse gang
China is hoarding the world's gold (www.newsweek.com)
Share your coveryourtracks score! (coveryourtracks.eff.org)
What score does your browser(s) get?...
Craziest/most "exotic" devices able to run Linux?
Something like a thermostat or a smart fridge – have you seen any? If so, please share with a video or two.
FOSS Alternative to Microsoft Lens? The development of OpenScan has been halted for 3 years. (github.com)
What is a good FOSS Android app to scan documents and immediately convert them to pdfs? On Microsoft Lens, you can take multiple scans and also merge different ones together to create a combined PDF. Thanks.
What does it take to tune an audio recording of one's own voice and match it to the way we hear ourselves?
Is anyone aware of techniques or research on this?