I think that if I were Google, Meta, and Vodafone, I'd go build an app to measure a phone's lifetime playing video and then promote that as a benchmark. Things that are the path of least resistance to measure tend to get measured more than those that are a pain to measure.
Thank you kindly, good sir.
The theme song gives off Western vibes
I'm not familiar with it, but:
Honestly, I'd happily post to a LessCredibleDefense, but nobody's yet created it, and I don't want to moderate a community and do one myself, so I'm using NCD as the closest thing until someone up and does it.
Reddit had three "tiers" of seriousness:
Credible Defense: This expects material to be cited, have people who really know what they're talking about. This is kinda stifling, and a lot of people can't really engage in conversation at this level.
Less Credible Defense: Weakens those requirements. There is currently no equivalent to this on the Threadiverse.
Non Credible Defense: Shitposting, memes
Does there need to be an LCD yet? I don't know. Personally, I don't think that there's enough traffic to warrant breaking out a lot of communities
like, there just isn't a large-enough userbase for most video-game-specific forums that existed on Reddit to exist, not enough users to keep them alive. I think that there's a better case for an LCD than them...but even NCD doesn't have a whole lot of traffic today, and CD is basically a ghost town.
The charge read: "On February 5 2023 you possessed an extreme pornographic image, which portrayed, in an explicit and realistic way, a person performing an act of intercourse with an animal, namely a fish, which was grossly offensive, disgusting or otherwise of an obscene character, and a reasonable person looking at the image would think that such a person or animal was real."
^ Disgusting garbage of no cultural merit
Wikipedia: The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife
The work influenced later artists such as Félicien Rops, Auguste Rodin, Louis Aucoc, Fernand Khnopff and Pablo Picasso.[15] Picasso drew his own private version in 1903, which was displayed in a 2009 Museu Picasso exhibit titled Secret Images, alongside 26 other drawings and engravings by Picasso, displayed next to Hokusai's original and 16 other Japanese prints, portraying the influence of 19th century Japanese art on Picasso's work.[16] Picasso also later fully painted works that were directly influenced by the woodblock print, such as 1932's Reclining Nude, where the woman in pleasure is also the octopus, capable of pleasuring herself.[17][18]
^ Influential classic work
In all seriousness, if France winds up on their own on another European joint fighter project and there wind up being three European fighter projects (Dassault's CEO, in the past, threatened to just walk out the door and do an update of the Rafale, which seems like a bad idea for France if it's a serious threat, the FCAS with the remaining members and now maybe Sweden, and the UK, Italy, and Japan doing the GCAP), I am skeptical that Europe is going to have the kinds of funds needed to produce globally-competitive fighters. And fighters don't get developed every day, so this is talking about the state of defense for quite some time.
Not only that, but France wants a CATOBAR-capable fighter, unlike basically every other potential partner/customer in the world except maybe India, so I'd expect that they face an uphill battle on exports.
After all, enterprise clients soon realized that the output of most AI systems was too unreliable and too frequently incorrect to be counted on for jobs that demand accuracy. But creative work was another story.
I think that the current crop of systems is often good enough for a header illustration in a journal or something, but there are also a lot of things that it just can't reasonably do well. Maintaining character cohesion across multiple images, for example, and different perspectives
try doing a graphic novel with diffusion models trained on 2D images, and it just doesn't work. The whole system would need to have a 3D model of the world, be able to do computer vision to get from 2D images to 3D, and have a knowledge of 3D stuff rather than 2D stuff. That's something that humans, with a much deeper understanding of the world, find far easier.
Diffusion models have their own strong points where they're a lot better than humans, like easily mimicking a artist's style. I expect that as people bang away on things, it'll become increasingly-visible what the low-hanging fruit is, and what is far harder.
I'm not totally sure I follow.
If you're playing to whatever sound device you want, but it's not coming out the output you want (e.g. headphones and/or speakers and you want the other), the mixer program you use probably has an option to select the output. I haven't used plasma-pa, but with pavucontrol, it's in the "Output Devices" tab. For each device, there's a "Port" drop down.
Looks fine to me. I don't use KDE, but searching, it looks like KDE Plasma's audio mixer is "plasma-pa". The "pa" there will stand for "PulseAudio", so at least at one point, it'll have been based on PulseAudio. I dunno if it talks natively to Pipewire now.
kagis
https://old.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/v8hbyb/something_like_plasmapa_for_pipewire/
If you have the pipewire-pulse compatibility layer installed (which you really should), plasma-pa will work without any problems. Right now there is no pure PipeWire equivalent of it.
That was three years ago, so might be out of date, but at least then, it still used the PulseAudio API, so it may need pipewire-pulse to be active. In any event, I don't think that it'd hurt to have pipewire-pulse.
I'd check and make sure that pipewire-pulse is active too, and if so, try using plasma-pa to have PipeWire set the volume to whatever it is that you want set to. I assume that once you've set a volume with PipeWire, PipeWire will handle restoring it next time you log in. It does on my system.
there's no need to install pavucontrol but all i need to do is set up alsamixer to make the audio work
If you want to fiddle the audio at the ALSA level
the hardware
you can, but my guess is that in 2025, unless you have some kind of exotic need, what you probably want is for PipeWire to be setting the volume.
On my system, I use pavucontrol and pipewire-pulse
using pavucontrol doesn't entail using PulseAudio. If you really know what you're doing and you're confident that you want to go bare ALSA, then you can probably go have systemd run a script at boot to run an alsactl restore command. I am pretty confident that that's not what you want to do.
It looks like there's a native console PipeWire mixer in Debian in the form of pipemixer, and I'd imagine that KDE Plasma probably has some sort of graphical mixer that either can talk natively to PipeWire or uses the pipewire-pulse PipeWire emulation of PulseAudio.
EDIT: Basically, you probably want:
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|Sound Card|
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| ALSA |
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| PipeWire | <- You interact with the audio stack at this layer
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EDIT2: You should probably see that a user-level pipewire is running if you log into your KDE environment and open a virtual termainal and you run:
$ systemctl status --user pipewire.service
It should say something like:
Active: active (running) since Tue 2025-09-02 00:27:11 PDT; 1 week 6 days ago
If you have the PulseAudio emulation support active, then ditto for:
$ systemctl status --user pipewire-pulse.service
I don't use KDE, so I don't know what the KDE mixer program is called or does, whether it talks natively to PipeWire or uses the PulseAudio interface, but KDE Plasma probably puts some sort of volume control in a system tray or something. And it'll probably use one of those two APIs to talk to PipeWire.
EDIT3: Basically, the only times I'd have been wanting to run things through ALSA directly were:
When it was introduced but before any standardized sound server was deployed, so maybe early 2000s.
Until JACK and later PipeWire showed up, talking directly to the hardware was a way to keep latency low for real-time processing, so there were some reasons you might want to do this if you were using pro audio.
Early PulseAudio was pretty broken, so I wound up using ALSA in preference to it.
But that's all pretty much ancient history now.
Setting aside Trump, I have no idea why people who can apparently be mostly reasonable about, say, cars subscribe to utterly batshit insane views about diet and health and buy into all kinds of snake oil.
I'm not saying that there's no magical thinking with cars
"my magical fuel additive" or whatever
but I have seen more utterly insane stuff regarding what someone should eat or how to treat medical conditions than in most other areas.
It's also not new. You can go back, and find people promoting all kinds of snake oil when it comes to health. Some of my favorites are the utterly crazy stuff that came out when public awareness of radiation was new, and it was being billed as a magic cure for everything.
I get that not everyone is a doctor or a dietician. But you'd think that any time you see someone promoting something as a fix for a wide, unrelated range of conditions, that it should be enough to raise red flags for someone, layman or no.