“everything that is not my world view is wrong” - see if fixed that for you, you did not need to be so verbose.

Not sure why you picked a beef with cargo bikes with everything else. Every day I see those, carrying kids, groceries… I was impressed with this dude on home depot… but I digress. You might not know Canada as you pretend to.

You again spreading bullshit so confidently incorrect.

The thing you praise about FPTP is called district, riding, etc… it is very common in many of the PR systems implemented around the world. Also, PR is not a single thing, it is just a catch-all term for systems that try to not silence voices.

What about all your fantasies crossing the floor? Do you think that do not happen everywhere? Lol.

Seriously, at this point you are just being intentionally malicious.

When I moved 100% to Linux, I could still use all my hardware. There are plenty of vendor-agnostic projects for major brands, like Logitech and Razer. But for me, it was all plug and use.

Most software are just gimmick for lights and equalizers. I have a DAC from soundblaster like that. You can get vendor-agnostic on Linux, like EasyEffects, that offers the same equalizing features, and I can get profiles from other people.

As others said, don’t buy “gamming” branded garbage, you can often find the same product cheaper from an audio company, like those Razer microphones (they were good, I have 2 I got from goodwill and both are plug and play).

If you insist on getting gamming junk, some you just need to configure once with their app, and then you can plug it anywere. You might find vendor-agnostic for those.

Audio is very important for gaming, but not all game is made equal. While you can get low latency for visuals, a lot of games use codecs that adds a huge delay in audio. Bluetooth will just make it worse.

A bluetooth headphone, is just a headphone with some extra electronics jammed in there, adding weight and making it harder to fix, and usually more expensive than buying those components apart.

My checklist depends on the hardware and use (gaming, relaxing, production), I am more worried about internal components, how often they break and how easy to fix, but in general:

Headphones:

• Light, for gaming I like extra light. I also prefer open. Both helps with heat/fatigue, and the last to pinpoint things happening in the game.
• Detachable cables, easier to fix. Preferable not proprietary, just because they are cheaper to find extra.

Some people decide on the sound signature based on the games they play most.

I like audio-technica and hifiman entry level headphones, I read some people complaining about recent hifiman. Also, notable IEM : Sennheiser IE 200 (maybe with tape mod).

Mic:

Really depends on what you are recording.

If it is just for gaming, while you are playing and talking with people, do not use a mic on top of your table.
You will just annoy people while typing.

Either use an arm, a headphone mod, or a lavelier.

DAC:

Most motherboards nowadays come with chipset better than entry level DACs. Just make sure they are not branded as “USB interface” as those have huge problems.

Issues like electronic interference are a thing from the past. If you find, avoid that motherboard brand.

If you really need a DAC, check their chipset.

For your case:

If after reading everyone’s suggestion, you are still leaning on bluetooth.

Get a wireless DAC with mic, and plug the headphones/IEMs to it.

If the timing is important, do not use bluetooth. If you require bluetooth, do not use other bluetooth equipment nearby, the more devices you add the more latency and loss you have. Also, look into IEM bluetooth, they come with mic, are lighter. Or if you need a headphone, look into wireless DAC.

People, please open the article before spouting non-sense. There are some cool images and videos that would make your life a lot easier.

They did not ask chatgpt to convert files like the news a few scrolls up about converting pdf to slideshow.

They are using statistical models to figure out ink from fibre on ancient burned scrolls, from x-ray and CT scan data. Then other techniques to unroll them, so scientists can read and compare with other works.

Pretty much going from this

To this

This Steam Next Fest killed Unreal Engine for me.

Every single game with that splash screen ended up as a slide show, and not even prettier, I play 15 years old games that look better than most games I saw coming from UE5.

I used to recommend Unreal 4 for everyone, but they are already going for 6 without optimizing the 5.

No need to upgrade, just give a chance to other games, devs and engines that cares for their customers.

I got into Cassette Beasts a while ago and notice all Godot games run well on Steam Deck and my older hardware. Cry Engine looks beautiful and still run well on stuff.

Linux gave extra life to so many computers. I still have a core 2 duo running Void.

Sadly, I can only open two tabs on Firefox. But it is great. For some games thought, I can only run stuff on hardware that came after 2012.

Wow almost 20 years! Kudos.

future proofing

I understand the sentiment, but this wording was always a marketing ploy for people to spend more than they need and it was never useful.

When I was young, we were having so many innovations that there was no need to overpay, in two years you could get something twice as powerful for half the price. Even less if you could get used.

Then it took a halt, by the time I needed more memory. It was cheap to get a DDR3 + mobo + CPU than filling the empty slots on my DDR2 motherboard.

I failed for “future proofing” a few times. Extra memory slots, multicores and 64bits that windows and programs struggled to see, PSU with 4x that power I needed, when I needed it most of the plugs already changed.

I lived through a bunch of hardware shenanigans, some were shrugged, some were caught and received a slap on the wrist.

Now, more than ever, people should buy what they can afford and properly dimension their hardware for their current needs, not some future fantasy. There are communities over here that can help them with that.

There are no big innovations either, mostly exaggerated hardware usage for no apparent reason to force buy new hardware that does not do much either.

My rule of thumb for games early last year was if you cannot build something better than Steam Deck for cheaper, get the Deck, but now it is all crazy.

Awesome, I love it, Lucy. Thank you for creating it.

I would just disagree with the little to no story. I feel like dungeon crawlers have the most compelling stories because they are deeply attached to gameplay rather than exposition.

That is why Deloitte, PwC, Tata, … and the list goes on, exists. They were the gig economy before the likes of uber, door dash…

I worked for a multinational a long time ago and learned 2 important things:

• Some countries have strong labour laws, and a judiciary that bites. The company was sued and had to compensate those contractors similar to employees, including severance packages for people that were dismissed.
• One of the main unions (some unions cover a sector of the industry in a country rather than a single company) brought up terms related to contractors, to ensure they would have similar benefits, and they manage to get a few in during the collective agreement, sadly it only affected people in that region. It was ridiculous, some RH firms were paying people 10% of what they were billing us. It was cheaper to hire them straight, but for silly reasons we were not allowed to.

Wow, thanks for the link, I bookmarked it. When it mentioned it was a satirical article, I was not expecting a masterclass. 😅

Michael O’Donoghue was a writer and editor – as well as an author, playwright, radio writer, filmmaker, satirist, scribe, essayist and commentator. He was an editor and writer at the original National Lampoon, and a writer on Saturday Night Live in its early years.

Not sure if you mean the crossover between Jojo and Cromartie, but I could only think of that conversation in the train, going like the root comment said.

Sorry, I am still bad (and lazy) at Krita.

I imagine you haven’t dabbled in Korean web novels, or some humour/parody comics.

Your Zbijgl and cat food lines are better than a lot of stuff I read before. Honestly, in the right context, they could work on something from Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Shining.

I can almost hear them in an episode of JoJo or Cromartie High School

my favmamort

😅 Sounds cute.

Edit: today I will call someone my favmarmot to see their reaction.

It took me a while to realize he was a crazy con man, to my fault, it was only when he started meddling with stuff I had some understanding. Around the same time, he was investing in movies and making cameos: Thank You for Smoking, Iron Man…

But people were already pointing that out from his time on Paypal. And you can find stuff even before that. So no,

He was crazy/con man even before Tesla.

There is no excuse. Just because there was a time that he posted rainbows and talked about climate does not sane wash his actions, it is just that he was targeting another kind of people. Just like companies rainbow their logos during pride month.

I feel seen! Thanks for the link.

It might give them better ratings. With so many artists boycotting Eurovision, the line-up this year is feeble. I used to go through the playlist barely without skipping, now only a handful of songs are interesting.

Example of the boycott affecting the choices. From the 16 artists competing in Portugal’s nationals final, only 2 said they would not boycott, guess who is representing PT, by televote, in Eurovision now? And the (lack of) quality shows. Put them side by side with any harmonic group from Eurovision, and it feels like when they had a regular guy competing in the swimming Olympics. They have no charisma. They cannot interpret the song, it is supposed to be about love and longing, but they just look and sound tired and confused on the stage. I don’t worry much about the quality of vocals because usually competitors improve that a lot by the performance day, but still.

Anyway, Lemmyvision is way more exciting!

Thanks for raising awareness on forced labour in Canada and sharing the sources! There are plenty on the rest of the world too.

They also destroy the environment (on top of the car polution) Ford, GM and Nissan are one of the worst. There was Greenpeace report a while ago about the Amazon Rainforest, I cannot find the orginal but found a similar https://news.mongabay.com/2012/05/u-s-car-manufacturers-linked-to-amazon-destruction-slave-labor/

Even before EVs were a thing, I was already worried about the cars in Canada collecting and monetizing my data, including things unrelated to the car. I think the worst was Nissan that disclaimed collecting sexual activity data. But every single car company: Ford, Volkswagen, BMW… you name it.

https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/blog/privacy-nightmare-on-wheels-every-car-brand-reviewed-by-mozilla-including-ford-volkswagen-and-toyota-flunks-privacy-test/

scrapped the digital services tax

did PP give them to you

Of course, it is a young troll account cosplay as a USAsian 2 party system being rude all around.

Edit: Guess someone was scanning my profile for upvotes (https://lemmy.ca/post/64456317)

Yes! Thanks for the recommendation.

I watched the first episode, and it is almost like they threw everything about animation in that episode. Very enjoyable to watch those styles and colours.

Thanks for the recommendation, I watched the first episode and it is great. It got very weird at one point, I was afraid what was going to happen to the little girl, but I am glad how it turned out.

The intro and outro music on the episode are great too.

I consider S1E7 to be one of the best episodes

Great to hear that, a lot of those animations come out strong ointhe first episodes but let me down later in the series.

edit: the S01E07 hit me right on the feelings. And the animation was superb, that first person run under the rain gave me shivers, felt very real. And every episode so far the music was spot on.