How dare he zip past the congestion with a low-density vehicle instead of contributing to it, wasting fuel (whatever type) and making things worse for everyone like a proper, respectable, carbrained citizen?
Almost as bad as subways, I tell you! Those bastards take a whole chunk of people past the traffic at once, the audacity 😤
Sarcasm aside, I do think people need this angle pointed out to them: Low-density transport options for those where they make sense help those for whom it doesn’t. The more short-range traffic happens on bikes, in busses and (light) rail, the more space there will be on the streets.
@26:07 he says as a business he’s considering Linux on his computers because of Windows privacy violations. It’s great to hear someone with such a wide audience talking about using Linux.
He could take a bit of a gamble, do some Linux as a comparison and see if that draws viewers too, maybe some attention from those that are curious about Linux but not enough to actually delve into the topic themselves (or deterred by the reputation of Linux being complicated).
Choosing a suitable distribution might be a challenge, particularly because some distro elitists will inevitably come to dunk on his choice and he might not want the comment section to be clogged by distro wars (particularly if the majority of viewers, as you suggested, are Windows users and will find that off-putting).
They’d have to almost unanimously decide that being entirely unanimous is no longer required, bending the rules to change the rules, because that is the only way to unfuck themselves. Let Hungary object, but if they’re alone, write it into law anyway. What are they gonna do, leave? I guess if their membership is no longer useful to Russia, they might.
My use case is splitting audio into separate channels in OBS for Twitch Streams so I can play music live without getting my VoDs struck. If my approach is entirely wrong for the use case, I’m happy to scrap the whole thing and sign it off as learning experience....
What would the combine sink be for? Joining the two loopback sinks into a third? I don’t see where I would need another sink.
Or are you saying to replace the loopbacks with combines, each being recorded by OBS while also forwarding the audio to my headphones? I can try that. I will have to see if it still allows me to change the volumes separately for OBS and my headphones.
If I wanted to persist that setup, I would have to add it to my config. Given I’m trying to migrate to pipewire, what would be the equivalent pw config setup? I could just put the command(s) into context.exec, but is that really the “proper” way instead of using pipewire modules?
The pulse sink environment variable worked perfectly. My apps now launch with the correct sink set. That solves the bulk of my issue. The other thing is just an occasional nuisance. Thanks for that pointer!
For future readers looking to set separate default pulseaudio or pipewire sinks for individual apps, this his how I accomplished it.
If you’re using pipewire config, sink_name will be called node.name in the capture.props of the module.
For flatpak apps, I used this per-user override only for my current user: flatpak override --user --env=PULSE_SINK=(sink_name) (full application name)
For example: flatpak override --user --env=PULSE_SINK=live_sink com.spotify.Client
For steam games, insert the respective environment variable into the launch options if you already have some, or otherwise put PULSE_SINK=(sink_name) %command% in there.
Steam Tinker Launch maintains a gamecfgs/customvars/(Game ID).conf config file for each game to set custom environment variables in, which you can most conveniently find through from the launcher’s Main Menu > Editor > find the customvars entry. In there, just put the line PULSE_SINK=(sink_name) and you’ll be good to go.
And then there’s me, just barely Z, office job, heading for lunch at 12 with my boss, his boss and some other colleagues, chatting about whatever (not work), eventually getting up to head back to work around 1250 because some of us have meetings at 13. My boss asks me if I want to grab a cup of coffee with him, we end up sitting in the break room for another half hour, eventually turning to work topics too.
On my timesheet, I write lunch 1200-1230 for the legal minimum 30 min break. My boss signs it. Nobody bats an eye.
Sure, I’m incredibly lucky, but I’d wager being in a unionised company in a country with fairly strong union protections (Germany) does some work too. If my boss started being a stickler for rules, I’d be talking to my union rep, and that just doesn’t end well.
They’re scared enough of the union that, when a round of negotiations failed to achieve the result they were hoping for and the union put out notice (as in, flyers in the break rooms) that they’re considering the threat of strikes, the CEO immediately announced raises retroactively effective for the whole month, “as a show of goodwill”.
Previous negotiations have also resulted in flat one-off payments even for working students. A 500€ tax-free bonus might not sound like a lot if you’re making 4k+ net, but for me it was half a month of wages.
Also, I have 30 days of paid time off, on top of bank holidays and unlimited sick leave (provided I submit a doctor’s note on the third consecutive day). One coworker was sick for over half a year.
I’m autistic and sometimes struggle with detecting sarcasm and satire. Occasionally, I miss things others would obviously consider a joke, while at other times I fail to register that something is actually serious.
Neither of them are super frequent, but compounded with difficulties reading subtle cues and the shame of being called out it’s enough to induce some insecurity: How many times have I been wrong and never knew bcause people glossed over it to save me embarrassment or I failed to read their reactions?
Short of explicitly writing that it’s a joke, there’s always some insecurity, and particularly since the embarrassment of “I was serious and you’ve now made a social blunder” is usually worse than the light ribbing of “that was a joke and you’re oblivious”, it often feels safer to err on the side of caution for me and ask.
I’m not saying that’s the case with the other person (given they already blamed it on inebriation), but it’s a possibility that I feel more people should be aware of.
(It also doesn’t help that it’s election season here and the streets are lined with the capitalist party’s adverts explicitly saying “Finally end this red-green government”)
1: Technically, that’s “damn awesome”. The more literal translation of fucking would involve the word “fick”, the most idiomatic version “verfickt geil”. I don’t really see it used even in rougher slang, so I feel like the general equivalent in terms of usage would be “verdammt”.
Still reading the article, but I felt compled to comment on the level of detail:
Both [fighter jets] […] reached supersonic speeds, which generated sonic booms on the way to the Puget Sound area. [emphasis added]
Are these sonic booms relevant to the actual incident? Probably not. But the author decided it was part of the events and decided to include it and I find that endearing.
That may well be the reason they were noted in the first place, but the article makes no further mention of them if they were relevant, so it’s still an editorial choice whether to include that detail. There is no informational value to it, it doesn’t affect the rest of the article, just a minor note “fast plane make boom” because it’s cool.
The solidarity issue version of the Prisoner’s Dilemma: If enough of us cooperate, we can get away with it, but if we don’t hit that mass, we’ll get fucked for it. The strictly dominant strategy is to defect, because the outcome isn’t as bad if the others defect too.
The difference is that the Prisoner’s Dilemma deals in absolutes (two players with the same two choices) whereas the issue at hand has nuance (some of us have more debt, some less, some ot us can more easily shoulder the initial burden imposed by being the first to get sent to collections, the outcome doesn’t strictly depend on total cooperation or even on numbers alone).
Also, the Prisoner’s Dilemma assumes the prisoners have no way of communicating and no loyalty toward each other. We can communicate and coordinate.
Sorry, irony didn’t translate well there. It was supposed to be a parody of the binary mindset “I don’t wanna think about nuance and individual differences, just enemies and allies”.
Also, forgive my cynicism, but I’m not confident that every middle school teaches that level of critical thinking. I’m not actually sure we even touched on that in high school. I’m from Germany, but my school was rather centrist with respect to the Overton Window at the time. Much of history was painted rather black and white and avoided complicated details about morality.
'Cayse everybody’s so scared
We don’t wanna go there
We don’t wanna make a move
We got our lives to lose
Screaming in the dark while
We just play our parts out
And I play along
Like I don’t know what’s going on
You’d think that would be reasonable, but you forgot the critical component: Pie charts are simple, line charts look like maths, Important People like looking at pictures they pretend to understand*. So you gotta have a picture, but it has to be simple, so a pie chart it is.
The content or informative value doesn’t matter as much because the person trying to present it doesn’t actually care about the information. They’re just there to sell good news, using some pretty numbers and pictures to support their point so it doesn’t look made up.
Source: A data analyst way too cynical for how recently I started working in the field.
*until they’re trying to present it to people that have the audacity to ask actual questions and they suddenly pull me into a telco to explain what they’re seeing, then interrupt me mid-explanation with a half-assed understanding of it and put me in a bind between correcting them or just letting them work on false assumptions
The NYTimes is once again trashing the most promising mobility innovation of the 21st century (lemmy.ml)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/16133154...
Italy’s PM says fascism is ‘consigned to history’. Not everyone is so sure (www.bbc.com)
They line up in military-like formation: a thousand strong, most dressed in black, some with tattoos on shaved scalps....
Trump trial live updates: Trump says 'Mother Teresa could not beat these charges' as jury deliberates (abcnews.go.com)
No way did trump say that!...
Steve with GN Considering Linux (www.youtube.com)
@26:07 he says as a business he’s considering Linux on his computers because of Windows privacy violations. It’s great to hear someone with such a wide audience talking about using Linux.
EU ministers fume as ‘outrageous’ Hungary yet again blocks military aid for Ukraine (www.politico.eu)
A large number of EU resolutions on Ukraine are being blocked by Hungary, said Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis....
Pipewire default playback sink per app
My use case is splitting audio into separate channels in OBS for Twitch Streams so I can play music live without getting my VoDs struck. If my approach is entirely wrong for the use case, I’m happy to scrap the whole thing and sign it off as learning experience....
Quiet Nourishing (i.ibb.co)
Hoo hoo. (lemmy.world)
Bribery schmibery. Make them pay for their stupidity (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Brought to you by this week’s dumb required corporate training.
How rude! (lemmy.world)
In Australia, a Cessna light aircraft's engine failed, but the pilot managed to steer it away from residential buildings. (streamable.com)
Don't let your dreams be memes ✨️ (mander.xyz)
Borrowers, especially the young, struggle with credit card debt in potentially bad sign for economy (apnews.com)
Taoiseach tells Israeli public: ‘IRA was never the people of Ireland and Hamas is not the people of Palestine’ – The Irish Times | Ghostarchive (ghostarchive.org)
Passionate (sh.itjust.works)
A very confusing graph posted by the GovBC account (lemmy.ca)
I appreciate the graphics that they post, but this one was… Bad....