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9point6

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  • Eggs versus Cereal

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  • It's partly your pallet will have matured, and partly they don't stuff an additional two thousand calories of sugar into each box anymore

  • Booting from a vinyl record

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  • There's a joke here somewhere about how you should master your boot record

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  • We just can't rule it out

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  • Depends how big they explode

    Beyond a certain point, there are explosions that only really start being a problem at the point of explosion

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  • America. I shouldn't need to tell you that trees exploding is a sign we're not on the right path

  • How much is your monthly average mobile/phone data usage?

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  • Ah sorry, I wasn't clear

    6GB average per month

    I think it was one month 3, another 10 and one about 5

  • How much is your monthly average mobile/phone data usage?

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  • So apparently I'm averaging about 6GB on mobile data going by the past 3 months, and according to my router, 90GB the past 30 days on my phone via WiFi, though I imagine some of that is probably LAN traffic.

    Gotta say the on WiFi number surprised me

    I have unlimited data, so I don't usually look at this stuff haha

  • Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever

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  • It's always possible, the bulk of the hardware Linux supports is proprietary stuff that someone had to reverse engineer at some point.

    Whether a given niche piece of hardware, gets support for a non-essential-to-normal-operation feature such as firmware update support, is down to if someone is interested/motivated/determined enough to do the reverse engineering, write the driver and get it merged into the kernel.

  • Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever

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  • Yeah I think there are a few Linux compiled VSTs out there but IIRC there's very little host support for them in native Linux, let alone into a host running under Wine. CLAP is probably what we should be banking on tbh since it was designed with Linux support in mind from the start.

    I'm also not a big fan of iLok or any similar DRM, but if they're going to enforce draconian licensing restrictions anyway, being able to move my key between machines and use all my licenses is actually a pretty valuable feature. Compared that to (let's say Waves) stuff that will only let me license it on a single machine, and limits the number of times you can remote-revoke to a couple of times a year.

  • Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever

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  • It can with the addition of WineASIO, but unless this release has focused on fixes for this setup (which it may have done!), we're still not ready.

    I tried during the summer (albeit with Ableton rather than FL) and it's still quite high latency which turns into weird noise and artifacting if I try reducing the buffer size (with much larger buffers than I typically use on windows).

    YABridge for native DAWs is getting better though at least, this time around I got a few more of my VSTs working, I still have zero luck with any of the VSTs with licenses that I have on my iLok key.

    I can't wait for the day the guys working on this finally crack pro audio properly, it's literally the only reason I still run windows on my desktop.

    And since every time I mention this problem, I end up having to say this in a reply to someone: To anyone suggesting I don't use Ableton or my VSTs that don't work (of which there are hundreds), I've got two decades of Ableton projects that I can open up in windows and pretty much carry on working on it as if I created it yesterday. That's before going into the fact I've spent a lot of money over the years on licences for this stuff, so being able to continue using it is more important to me than my operating system choice. Until I can do the same in Linux it's gonna have to be a dual boot situation.

    That said when I next have a weekend with nothing on, I'll try this latest release

  • Tech Billionaire Forced to Rename Humongous Yacht After Realizing It Spelled Something Horrible Backwards ["Izanami"]

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  • I was gonna say surely you'd not be both so stupid and evil to actually do this intentionally

    .... Then I read it was one of Larry Ellison's kids

  • Trump says U.S. shouldn't have midterm elections

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  • So the reason he's come up with is literally just he thinks he'll lose?

    That's a very good reason for there to be an election, Donny

  • Minnesota Is Just the Beginning. California and New York Are ‘Next’ | The Trump administration appears to be planning to leverage the same playbook used in Minnesota to go after other blue states.

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  • California and New York should withhold federal taxes then

    Gonna be hard to pay for goons if you've got no money

  • [Help Design Lemmy] Joinlemmy website and New User Onboarding

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  • Fair play, I was more coming from a place of you maybe wanting to do something about that if you're gonna have a button that sends people to a random instance.

    I should have said at the start btw, thanks for all the work you guys do

  • [Help Design Lemmy] Joinlemmy website and New User Onboarding

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  • I thought about the ping-instances-from-different-regions, but figured it would be impractical to do this for every country, and would potentially end up hitting false positives/negatives around bot detection tooling such as the cloudflare captcha screen with some instances.

    Definitely not a simple one to solve!

    NSFW instances are already excluded from the list.

    You may have a regression in prod then, I added that point to my comment because I got lemmynsfw at the top of the list on one of my refreshes somehow

  • [Help Design Lemmy] Joinlemmy website and New User Onboarding

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  • I guess you are in the UK

    How did you guess..! haha

    I imagine we're one of the main demographics affected by this in terms of Lemmy traffic share, but I'm sure there must be other countries that face similar blocks

    The country blocks are tricky [...]

    Yeah I had a bit of a think to try and come up with a practical solution that was less of a manual exercise, but I couldn't think of anything simple. The other solution I came up with is much more involved, where Lemmy offers geoblocking as a built-in feature to allow the instances to self-report their geoblocking config in a consistent way.

    If it's too impractical/too much of a maintenance burden to solve, we will probably have to live with it, but I wanted to raise it for visibility regardless.

    What do you think about renaming the button "Join a server" to "Instance selection wizard" or similar?

    So from a UX point of view, I went for the most obvious CTA to get me started from my perspective.

    Just had a look again and the quick join is behind the hamburger menu on mobile, so I'd say add a CTA for that of equal prominence next to the wizard CTA.

    I'm not a copy guy so I'm not sure what's the best wording to use to make the two options distinct. It needs to offer the "sign me up quick" Vs "I want to customise my choice" user journeys clearly

    Brainstorming, perhaps the "just sign me up" button could even take you straight to the sign up page of the random top instance in the list. Perhaps with an self-redirecting interstitial page to let them know where they're going if that's not super old-school

    Another semi-related issue, perhaps you want to consider down-weighting nsfw instances in the list too, as I'd guess the average user would probably not otherwise choose one of those as their home instance.

  • Closing programs

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  • Okay that took me by surprise

    I'll be sharing this

  • [Help Design Lemmy] Joinlemmy website and New User Onboarding

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  • Because I've not looked at it since I signed up 2.5y ago, just went through to see how many clicks to get to a sign up page.

    5 clicks is maybe slightly on the "too many" side. Perhaps language selection could be auto selected by browser language and/or default to multi.

    Though randomness highlighted a 2nd issue that might not be especially visible. I got Lemmy.zip as my top suggestion so I hit the sign up button and I was greeted by a "blocked in my country because my government are idiots" page. Now I understand why the admins have made that choice, but for a new user who stumbles onto Lemmy by accident, does the 5 clicks and gets greeted by a user journey terminating error page, it's probably going to result in a fair amount of bounce.

    Now I know it can't be perfect given instances don't declare by API where they are available, so I guess it would need to be a manually curated list, but maybe a feature to push instances down the list if they're geoblocked in the user's IP country

  • Closing programs

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  • kill, and I swear to god if you're still there when I ps, I'm getting out the -9