You mean the conspiracy theory that somehow the World Bank isn’t there to do it’s real job, provide loans to poor countries to aid their development, but instead part of some grand scheme to rob poor countries of their resources?
Because what you claim to be well documented isn’t actually objective fact. It’s more construing mistakes these institutions definitely did make to be something they very much aren’t.
On one smaller sub that participated in the blackout people were seriously accusing mods of rigging the votes to stay closed for longer. Of course nothing actually indicated that, and neither did they present any evidence, they just couldn’t stand not getting their content.
I’ve been using both for a good while by now, Linux is good but damn I know that’s a sacrilege but I still like Windows.
Granted, I heavily customized my Windows install, made all the adjustments I wanted and threw out most of the nagging garbage and my locked down work computer is definitely worse.
Windows just… works most of the time, and it’s fluent and does what I want.
At the end of the day, most of the direct user interaction with an OS “directly” is task bar, start menu and file manager. And for all of these things, there’s a lot that annoys me on Linux. In Windows, I’m very happy.
Just to give one example. I like the individual entries in the taskbar to fill the entire width dynamically. If there’s one entry, it fills the entire taskbar, you get what I mean. On Windows, that’s a registry tweak. On KDE, that’s basically impossible. Like, I’m sure somewhere in the source code for the panel there’s a way to rewrite that, but frankly, that’s close enough to “basically impossible” for me.
It’s one thing to have differing views, but I’ve seen enough attempted reddit migrations to be relieved that the popular communities in the fediverse so far haven’t been about crazy racist stuff or other extreme right bullshit....
What is the cost of free health care? Where is it paid for?
Taxes.
What is the result of lower taxes (the right wing is for lower taxes for everyone, not just the rich - your 1% claim is an outright misrepresentation of their views): more money that can be used to invest.
That's funny because the bottom 50% already just pay 3% income tax on average.
And if you ask me, what they do matters more than what they say they would do but don't. (Just to be clear, what they do is handing more money to the extremely rich and making poor people poorer, and lying about it.)
Also it's just straight up wrong. "More money to invest"? Less money for the government to invest, so it either has to borrow more or cut spending. And you can go on about "government bad" all you want, the vast majority of countries with the highest standard of living don't have very low taxes, quite the opposite. You can guess what kind of countries have extremely low taxes.
Fuck off to your sad shithole, nobody has any obligation to be nice to Nazis. To the contrary, every decent person should feel obligated to strongly tell them to fuck off. You don't have a space here, we don't want you here, you are not welcome.
That’s a recent quote from Reddit’s VP of community, Laura Nestler. Here’s more of it: This week, Reddit has been telling protesting moderators that if they keep their communities private, the company will take action against them. Any actions could happen as soon as this afternoon.
It's funny that this "slightly different viewpoint" when pressed for details basically always ends up being hardcore racism, homophobia or other great things.
I would at least touch on VOY, it needs a bit to get going, just like TNG I suppose, but it's solid. And the big, big payoff is watching DS9 after that. DS9 is fantastic, but it only gets better with the context from VOY and TNG.
First, DS9 is straight up better. Peak Star Trek in my opinion, so it's nice to end on a high note. Again, not that VOY is bad or anything, but if DS9 is 10/10 Star Trek VOY is more like 8.5/10.
Second reason is world building. Really there isn't that much overlap as far as specific parts of the story is concerned, it's more that DS9 is so great because it turns some things that are taken for granted on their heads. VOY is useful because it kind of goes into that direction a little bit, with the conflicts that necessarily arise on a small ship far from home, and because you literally just learn more about the world/universe, whatever you want to call it, and the more context you have the better DS9 gets.
Very minor spoiler, both shows feature conflicts with the Marquis and the contrast, as well as the lack of contrast on how these conflicts are handled is very interesting.
Just recently got this Hifi Walker H2 and so far I like it. Stock UI was trash but Rockbox solved that issue. At first I was skeptical of needing a dap with how good phones are these days but I'm satisfied. This thing sounds so good and is powerful enough to make my 6XX sing. Plus the customization of rockbox really appeals to...
Slow, crashy, dim screen, only support for outdated standards, no latest Bluetooth, no support for big SD cards, low output power, mediocre battery life, high noise floor, the list goes on.
Even the ones that cost hundreds are super slow and come with like Android 7. Maybe Android 10. I whish I was joking. And many don't have all the features any basic $150 phone would have. And they feel worse to use than a $150 phone.
A lot don't really have the power to drive beefier headphones. And a lot have a high noise floor. So basically, they only work with high impedance high sensitivity headphones. Just pure trash.
A DAP should be a useful replacement for my phone and not require a dongle. Sadly, that seems to be a very high bar to meet.
I made a DIY cable for my Sundaras and they turned out fine, but next time I want to try for thinner cables, with four braided cores instead of two thick dual-core wires. On top of this, I plan to apply that knowledge towards IEM cables too....
It tends to be difficult to get good prices on quantities suitable for DIY projects locally, so AliExpress is your friend.
All cables are snake oil in the sense that the "quality" doesn't matter. Resistance can still change the sound, but cable length and thickness play by far the biggest role here, the difference usually isn't big, and not every headphone is impacted. The guy over at diyaudioheaven actually measures frequency response changes with different source impedances and for most headphones it's either nothing or an extremely minor change in bass response.
And yeah, the independent ground is the important element that makes balanced cables different.
We've seen this spiel a few times, companies want to move to the cloud and then don't because it's ridiculous and plenty of things are just fine on local machines.
I don't lend this any more credence than all the "we'll all be gaming in the cloud in 10 years" crap when stuff like GeForce Now was popping up.
As the fediverse continues to grow, let's reflect on some of the things that we disliked most about posting/lurking on reddit and what we can do differently now that we have a chance to build something new.
Well usually the people who get mad about it are the exact same people who want to participate in these communities. "Free speech" to them just means being a racist shithead on the internet without consequences and there is no reason that should be tolerated. Quite the opposite, we should strive to make these people feel as unwelcome as possible.
Is how easily mods have caved in once the admins threatened to remove them. I had thought we'd see quite a few cases where Reddit would have to step in an replace entire mod teams (effectively killing the community). But it seems like that hasn't happened at all - the closest we've got is mods being reordered....
The instance seems to be mostly right wing trolls. I know defederating is unpopular but I don't think much is to be lost in this case and it can save the mods some headaches....
Why wait until it becomes a problem? The_Donald literally started as a joke brought over from 4chan. It grew and over time it basically went from "too small to do something about it" to "too big to do something about it" (to Reddit admins at least). Why even give these people a platform? We don't have any reason to give them space to grow.
Der Typ dreht doch gerade völlig am Rad. Sagen das es einem egal ist und tatsächlich egal sein sind zwei paar Schuhe.
Taten sagen immer mehr als Worte und z.B. mods rausschmeißen weil sie nicht spuren zeigt meiner Meinung nach schon das Spez der Arsch auf Grundeis geht. Ganz zu schweigen von den Interviews.
Ne, der will nur so hart wie möglich vermitteln das es kein Problem ist und die Proteste nichts bringen weil jeder der das glaubt ihm in die Karten spielt.
Soll nicht bedeuten das der Protest auf jeden Fall Erfolg hat, aber wie er handelt zeigt eindeutig das es sehr wohl ein Problem ist. Cool bleiben sieht anders aus.
I really like KZ iems, but lately I think I'd be better with fiio, e ne though I haven't bought any. Are they really better or is it just the brand name?
That depends on what you want. Most KZ IEMs are rather v shaped. What do you want to improve? There's nothing wrong with being fine with what you have and the best IEM in the world isn't necessarily of much use if it doesn't suit your taste.
Not that that wasn't obvious from the start but it's good he's pretending less and less that it's about cost instead of him just wanting to kill third party apps off.
Lemmy.world Hexbear Statement
Update:...
Reddit's Traffic is Down 3.36% Month-Over-Month, According to SimilarWeb (lemmy.world)
SimilarWeb has just released traffic estimates for June. According to these estimates, Reddit’s traffic has seen a 3.36% month-over-month decrease....
Outlook suddenly started opening links in Edge, disregarding my default browser settings (www.theverge.com)
Current-era Microsoft continuing to push the boundaries of consent....
ich🏖️iel (discuss.tchncs.de) German
OC Unlike previous attempts at trying reddit alternatives (like Voat), kbin and much of the lemmyverse doesn’t seem to be plagued with extreme far right buffoonery.
It’s one thing to have differing views, but I’ve seen enough attempted reddit migrations to be relieved that the popular communities in the fediverse so far haven’t been about crazy racist stuff or other extreme right bullshit....
“Reddit cannot survive without its moderators. It cannot.” - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
That’s a recent quote from Reddit’s VP of community, Laura Nestler. Here’s more of it: This week, Reddit has been telling protesting moderators that if they keep their communities private, the company will take action against them. Any actions could happen as soon as this afternoon.
The Star Trek 'Where Should I Start' guide
##"Where should I start?"...
What's your opinion on DAPs? (lemmy.world)
Just recently got this Hifi Walker H2 and so far I like it. Stock UI was trash but Rockbox solved that issue. At first I was skeptical of needing a dap with how good phones are these days but I'm satisfied. This thing sounds so good and is powerful enough to make my 6XX sing. Plus the customization of rockbox really appeals to...
Anyone have tips and resources on DIY Cables? (beehaw.org)
I made a DIY cable for my Sundaras and they turned out fine, but next time I want to try for thinner cables, with four braided cores instead of two thick dual-core wires. On top of this, I plan to apply that knowledge towards IEM cables too....
Microsoft wants to move Windows fully to the cloud (www.theverge.com)
What were some "bad habits" on reddit that we should try to avoid bringing over here?
As the fediverse continues to grow, let's reflect on some of the things that we disliked most about posting/lurking on reddit and what we can do differently now that we have a chance to build something new.
One thing that's surprised me about the Reddit shitshow
Is how easily mods have caved in once the admins threatened to remove them. I had thought we'd see quite a few cases where Reddit would have to step in an replace entire mod teams (effectively killing the community). But it seems like that hasn't happened at all - the closest we've got is mods being reordered....
Bloodborne-like game releases on the Bloodborne-less PC, modders immediately try to turn it into Bloodborne (www.vg247.com)
The longer Bloodborne goes without a PC port, the more games with hints of Bloodborne will be turned into Bloodborne by modders.
Hey could we defederate with exploding-heads.com/
The instance seems to be mostly right wing trolls. I know defederating is unpopular but I don't think much is to be lost in this case and it can save the mods some headaches....
Interview mit den Mods von /r/de (www.heise.de) German
Sie stehen Alternativen wie Lemmy pessimistisch gegenüber:...
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman isn’t backing down: our full interview (www.theverge.com)