yeah lol, I’m often plugging in slightly high impedance headphones that it just can’t drive very well. it’s never seemed worth it run run a dac or get a special pair of phone headphones. i rarely use it that way anyway.

but yeah, pretty much every time i plug them in i have to confirm i want to hurt myself before it will allow them to be set to a useable volume.

and yes, i do still have a headphone jack, they are still out there if you’re willing to not get a super expensive phone.

and all of those numbers combined will still be less than 5% of users.

brother, 99% of users will never even consider installing their own os. the issue isn’t that Linux is hard to install, the issue is that pretty much anyone brave enough to even mess with their operating system is either already on Linux, a boomer, or trapped by professional software that isn’t available on Linux (that’s me, a videographer)

the only way Linux is breaking out of extreme obscurity is if it starts coming pre-installed on commercially available and desirable hardware. the steam deck did more for Linux in a single product launch than the entire decade of combined efforts before that. before the deck i would have said it was simply never going to happen, but who knows. maybe it’ll be up to eccentric billionaires that never went public with their companies to push the Linux future we all want.

i didn’t say they were equivalent, i said they’re both blights that remain in the past. terrible things that cause mass civilian casualties for decades after the conflict.

one can still be worse than the other, but anyone that uses them should be punished.

or how about this, both of them are terrible for this. i strongly support Ukraine’s right to defend its borders, but landmines belong in the far distant pass. if Russia drops a bioweapon on kyiev will we follow suit? i sure fucking hope not.

grow a spine and actually believe in something for yourself. landmines are wrong, no matter who uses them or why they are used.

the second anyone was allowed to use houses as an “investment” to gain wealth we basically guaranteed this. obviously anyone with a lot of money tied up in housees is going to try and make their value go up. once we got multinational billion dollar conglomerates involved it became child’s play for them to make that number go up through infinite methods of varrying complexity carried out by thousands of people working together with billions of dollars behind them.

this problem is inherent to a housing market that people are allowed to speculate on. we just need to make that stop entirely. limit house ownership. no one needs 100 houses. especially not companies. if that results in less rental houses than desired, we need to build more apartments. apartments are different beast, but if the cost of houses are lower then it will be harder to inflate rent if they can afford a house instead. this may result in some people who want to rent a house, but not an apartment, unable to find that. that’s not a big problem. they might just need to rent an apartment instead. certainly it’s much less of a problem then the current state of no one being able to afford housing.

the rich don’t need this vector for growing their wealth. they have enough others and are doing quite alright at it. the world will function just fine without mult billion dollar corporations investing in buying properties for the sole reason that they think they can extract wealth without contributing anything. houses should be for living in, not for extracting wealth.

yeah, the lies are blatantly obvious to anyone that has actually followed and understood politics since before Trump. the longer you look at it the more obvious and undeniable the bad faith obstruction by the Republicans is. the only people who understand that and support them genuinely believe they’d be better off without the government telling them what not to do, or are full Christofascist warriors that want to create Gideon or whatever.

i mean, making bad decisions because you fell for a lie is pretty much my definition of dumb.

yeah this is a mfw format. mfw my mom is watching something Lowkey interesting and i have to pretend I’m not watching.

what is, “aes”? it’s usually best to define niche acronyms when using them in a general community.

the article you linked doesn’t help, it’s too niche for Google to help… autocratic ethnostate? authoritarian election trick?

i mean, this story sounds like it’s from pre-release testing, or maybe a trade show demo showing a pre-release build. it not working this way in the release version just makes sense, and doesn’t mean this is a fake story.

it was absolutely backed by science, regardless of what people like Joe Rogan say…

must be nice.

Google bought Waze forever ago and cannibalized what they wanted from it then killed the rest with the worst ads I’ve ever seen on a driving app. it straight up gives full screen ads every time you stop. you’re not allowed to look ahead on your route at a stop light without interacting with the ad.

i managed to block the ads, but it still pulls up a full page black screen where the ad is supposed to be…

i mean, this is one way to win a war. the other is with bombs and death. Russia chose to enter this war, it shouldn’t be surprised when it affects its citizens.

no one should get to keep their war over seas and out of their own borders.

imagine a future where we could stop wars by just taking people’s jobs…

i mean, are there ever consequences to the companies? how often does it actually affect their bottom line?

it keeps happening because companies doing very little to stop it because they have little incentive to.

i mean… I’m basically the only American i know that has actually chosen to walk as a real way to get somewhere in the last 5 years.

the idea that most Americans literally never walk anywhere isn’t inaccurate. especially for anyone living outside of a city.

it’s about the hardware requirements. most Windows 10 machines CAN’T be upgraded.

oh man, when the entire fleat gets stopped in place and it’s a massive problem because everyone went flying and now zero g is making their blood pool badly even with minor injuries… they turned what most shows would’ve shown as a minor inconvenience and showed how awful it would really be.

except tht artists, which is more the fault of the rights holders in this case really…