[-] thejevans@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 hours ago

Oh 100%

Also, people are influenced by the beliefs of their community, even if they don't agree on everything.

[-] thejevans@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 hours ago

For those instances, I'd suggest that it has to do with a few factors:

more rural areas tend to be more right leaning,

https://source.washu.edu/2020/02/the-divide-between-us-urban-rural-political-differences-rooted-in-geography/

right leaning people are more likely to be more racist,

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/08/12/deep-divisions-in-americans-views-of-nations-racial-history-and-how-to-address-it/

and right leaning people tend to be more uncomfortable with things they are unfamiliar with

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S019188699900135X

[-] thejevans@lemmy.ml 18 points 10 hours ago

My experience in the US is that as soon as you leave a densely populated area, the good, interesting food options drop off a cliff. In car dependent suburbia, these are often the best they have

[-] thejevans@lemmy.ml 2 points 22 hours ago

Yeah, I need something to collaborate with my partner in realtime. We've got a hacky setup in Obsidian using dataview to join separate notes to a read-only one, so we don't have collisions, but I would love something better.

[-] thejevans@lemmy.ml 11 points 22 hours ago

Soundiiz -> last.fm or spotify playlist -> Newsbin or torrent + lidarr

[-] thejevans@lemmy.ml 2 points 22 hours ago

If it does now, that might be an option. It didn't when I got rid of Apple music.

[-] thejevans@lemmy.ml 2 points 23 hours ago

That is true. Waydroid might work. No idea if you can get lossless through that.

[-] thejevans@lemmy.ml 7 points 23 hours ago

I don't think the Apple Music Windows app does lossless or hi-res either

[-] thejevans@lemmy.ml 15 points 23 hours ago

I know you said you don't want to switch, but I was in a similar situation, switched to Qobuz, installed qobuz-dl and navidrome, and now Qobuz is just an input for my self-hosted streaming service.

[-] thejevans@lemmy.ml 7 points 23 hours ago

As soon as one of these Obsidian alternatives has real-time collaboration and a mobile interface, I'm ready to switch.

[-] thejevans@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 days ago

I think about this a lot, and my take is that Linux is waaayyy better if you have perfect or close-to-perfect knowledge of how the operating system works and what software is available. Similarly, I think an argument can be made for Linux being better if all you need is a web browser and you're not using really unusual hardware.

Where things fall apart is for people who have very specific needs that are complex, even if they only need it 1% of the time, and they don't have the technical knowledge to solve it with the power-user tools available. Microsoft has spent decades paying developers to handle these edge cases and ensuring GUI settings discoverability.

At the same time, schools and workplaces have taught people the design language of Windows, and the network effect of having so much of the world's end-user PCs running on Windows means that there are vast resources available targeted at people without technical knowledge. At this point, for better or worse, Microsoft's design language is the global default for non-technical people.

If a person never has to touch a setting because all they need is a browser, they don't hit any friction and they are happy. If they need to do even one thing that requires them to dig into settings or touch the terminal, the difference from Microsoft's design language is enough for that one frustrating experience to give them a bad taste in their mouth about Linux as a whole.

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submitted 6 months ago by thejevans@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I'm having an annoying issue with pipewire. I have a Scarlett 8i6 audio interface. I have it set to Pro Audio so that I can access all the input and output channels, and I have virtual devices defined to allow applications to access groups of channels as discrete devices.

For some reason, all applications keep automatically switching to my secondary (mono) output. I can sometimes get them to switch to my primary stereo output, but it's only ever a one-off and they will switch back when the current media is done playing. any thoughts?

config:

context.modules = [
    {   name = libpipewire-module-loopback
        args = {
            node.description = "Primary - Focusrite Scarlett 8i6"
            capture.props = {
                node.name = "scarlett_8i6_primary"
                media.class = "Audio/Sink"
                audio.position = [ FL FR ]
            }
            playback.props = {
                node.name = "playback.scarlett_8i6_primary"
                audio.position = [ AUX0 AUX1 ]
                target.object = "alsa_output.usb-Focusrite_Scarlett_8i6_USB_F8CEK2H1B8391D-00.pro-output-0"
                stream.dont-remix = true
                node.passive = true
            }
        }
    }
    {   name = libpipewire-module-loopback
        args = {
            node.description = "Secondary (Mono) - Focusrite Scarlett 8i6"
            capture.props = {
                node.name = "scarlett_8i6_secondary"
                media.class = "Audio/Sink"
                audio.position = [ MONO ]
            }
            playback.props = {
                node.name = "playback.scarlett_8i6_secondary"
                audio.position = [ AUX2 ]
                target.object = "alsa_output.usb-Focusrite_Scarlett_8i6_USB_F8CEK2H1B8391D-00.pro-output-0"
                stream.dont-remix = true
                node.passive = true
            }
        }
    }
    {   name = libpipewire-module-loopback
        args = {
            node.description = "Microphone - Focusrite Scarlett 8i6"
            capture.props = {
                node.name = "capture.scarlett_8i6_mic"
                audio.position = [ AUX0 ]
                stream.dont-remix = true
                target.object = "alsa_input.usb-Focusrite_Scarlett_8i6_USB_F8CEK2H1B8391D-00.pro-input-0"
                node.passive = true
            }
            playback.props = {
                node.name = "scarlett_8i6_mic"
                media.class = "Audio/Source"
                audio.position = [ MONO ]
            }
        }
    }
    {   name = libpipewire-module-loopback
        args = {
            node.description = "Instrument - Focusrite Scarlett 8i6"
            capture.props = {
                node.name = "capture.scarlett_8i6_inst"
                audio.position = [ AUX1 ]
                stream.dont-remix = true
                target.object = "alsa_input.usb-Focusrite_Scarlett_8i6_USB_F8CEK2H1B8391D-00.pro-input-0"
                node.passive = true
            }
            playback.props = {
                node.name = "scarlett_8i6_inst"
                media.class = "Audio/Source"
                audio.position = [ MONO ]
            }
        }
    }
    {   name = libpipewire-module-loopback
        args = {
            node.description = "Mix - Focusrite Scarlett 8i6"
            capture.props = {
                node.name = "capture.scarlett_8i6_mix"
                audio.position = [ AUX2 AUX3 ]
                stream.dont-remix = true
                target.object = "alsa_input.usb-Focusrite_Scarlett_8i6_USB_F8CEK2H1B8391D-00.pro-input-0"
                node.passive = true
            }
            playback.props = {
                node.name = "scarlett_8i6_mix"
                media.class = "Audio/Source"
                audio.position = [ FL FR ]
            }
        }
    }
]
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submitted 6 months ago by thejevans@lemmy.ml to c/technology@hexbear.net

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/11820406

Do not use 2 letter country TLDs!

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submitted 6 months ago by thejevans@lemmy.ml to c/technology@beehaw.org

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/11820406

Do not use 2 letter country TLDs!

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submitted 6 months ago by thejevans@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/11820406

Do not use 2 letter country TLDs!

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submitted 6 months ago by thejevans@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

Do not use 2 letter country TLDs!

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submitted 11 months ago by thejevans@lemmy.ml to c/technology@beehaw.org

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/6395416

Faced with new laws in California and other states, big tech lobbyists want to sign a "Memorandum of Understanding" to prevent "a compliance market where lawyers drive the decisions."

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by thejevans@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

Faced with new laws in California and other states, big tech lobbyists want to sign a "Memorandum of Understanding" to prevent "a compliance market where lawyers drive the decisions."

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submitted 11 months ago by thejevans@lemmy.ml to c/battlestations@lemmy.ml

I moved halfway across the US this summer. It's taken me a while to get my office/workshop put back together, but today I pretty much finished it.

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submitted 1 year ago by thejevans@lemmy.ml to c/foss@beehaw.org

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/4506191

I've used sleek as my primary todo.txt UI for a while now, and I'm really happy with it. If you are interested in a simple, but useful way to put together a todo list in plaintext, the todo.txt spec is a great way to handle it, and sleek is by far the nicest GUI I've found.

About a week ago, I ran into a minor annoyance with an edge use-case that I have, and I wrote about it in the sleek github discussion page. Within 4 days, the maintainer of the project had a new build ready that fixed my issue. Nobody else said they needed it, but they took the time to add the feature I requested and now my workflow is that much easier.

I know not every project is like this, or can be like this, but there's no way that something like this would get added at anywhere near this pace in proprietary software. I, for one, am super grateful that software like this and the people that maintain it exist. Thank you.

Please check out sleek!

sleek is an open-source (FOSS) todo manager based on the todo.txt syntax. It's available for Windows, MacOS and Linux

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submitted 1 year ago by thejevans@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

I've used sleek as my primary todo.txt UI for a while now, and I'm really happy with it. If you are interested in a simple, but useful way to put together a todo list in plaintext, the todo.txt spec is a great way to handle it, and sleek is by far the nicest GUI I've found.

About a week ago, I ran into a minor annoyance with an edge use-case that I have, and I wrote about it in the sleek github discussion page. Within 4 days, the maintainer of the project had a new build ready that fixed my issue. Nobody else said they needed it, but they took the time to add the feature I requested and now my workflow is that much easier.

I know not every project is like this, or can be like this, but there's no way that something like this would get added at anywhere near this pace in proprietary software. I, for one, am super grateful that software like this and the people that maintain it exist. Thank you.

Please check out sleek!

sleek is an open-source (FOSS) todo manager based on the todo.txt syntax. It's available for Windows, MacOS and Linux

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It looks like a lot of people want to self-host Lemmy. Would having an ActivityPub relay setup for those instances to subscribe to, instead of them all subscribing individually to the bigger instances be feasible? I've only seen discussions online about relays in regards to Mastodon. Has anyone attempted to set up one for use with Lemmy instances?

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submitted 1 year ago by thejevans@lemmy.ml to c/fuck_cars@lemmy.ml
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