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moseschrute

@ moseschrute @lemmy.world

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  • Solved Problems (by kplx)

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  • Yeah. Most of the modern prerecorded tapes are still crap. Although maybe like 20% of the pre recorded ones sound decent, surprisingly.

    Cassettes were never designed for music, from what I understand. Instead, it was a format that music adopted later. Considering that, cassettes can actually sound really good imo. But I do have the luxury of using type II tapes. Type 1 isn’t bad if you have a really nice deck and a really good recording.

    But isn’t there a whole lot more to this story? I believe cassettes were responsible for getting many underground artists started, who record labels would have never signed. I also heard a story where disregarded tapes set for recycling made their way from USA to other countries. Those tapes influenced music in that country, and they never would have been if they were another format.

    That last point isn’t about audio quality, but it always seemed like cassettes didn’t get the respect they deserved imo.

  • Solved Problems (by kplx)

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  • I saw Blink earlier this year. They were great!

  • Solved Problems (by kplx)

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  • Counter counter point. Your brain hasn’t been as fried by technology as the youth (I’m Gen Z). Streaming has trained our brains to never listen to full albums. Having to rewind is kinda the point. You’re way more likely to listen to an album from start to finish. Phones are overrated.

  • Solved Problems (by kplx)

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  • Gen z here. I don’t feel like I’ve earned the right to talk about cassettes as a youngster, but a Type II cassette on a well maintained dual capstan deck and a well biased recording sound pretty good. Add a touch of Dolby type b noise cancellation and it’s even better.

    Specifically, I’m using a Yamaha k-1020 deck ($350 refurbished), and Maxwell XL-II 90 tapes ($5-10). I’m running a proper audio interface into the cassette deck. Since I’m using my phone, I have the luxury of rapidly skipping around an album on my phone while I’m checking levels for an entire album. And I’m using a 3 head deck, so I can hear exactly what’s being recorded in realtime.

    You might read that and be like “that’s too much work”, but that’s kinda the point imo. Why do people still do film photography when it’s more work than digital? (I also shoot film lol)

    Admittedly, things fall apart a little when you move to portable cassette players. Modern players are kinda crap. I haven’t gotten my hands on any vintage walkmans yet.

  • White House adds plaques below Biden and Obama portraits calling them ‘the worst President in American history’ and ‘divisive’

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  • Wonder what he’ll add to this exhibit next

  • More code = more better

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  • Probably Microsoft: You’re hired! Go work on GitHub

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    ‘I Shed My Blood for This Country’: U.S. Army Veteran Born In Jamaica, Living In U.S. for 50 Years, Jailed By ICE After Not Using Turn Signal

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  • Yeah idk. I have an older veteran in my life who has suffered greatly from PTSD and substance addiction. It’s hard for me to not feel sorry for him. Don’t get me wrong, there are many I do not feel sorry for depending on their current attitude. Maybe I can’t be objective here, but I still think a blanket “good riddance” to all of them is wrong.

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    ‘I Shed My Blood for This Country’: U.S. Army Veteran Born In Jamaica, Living In U.S. for 50 Years, Jailed By ICE After Not Using Turn Signal

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  • I’m not saying they deserve none of the blame, but often you’re recruited into a system around 18, they offer to pay for you’re wildly unaffordable college education, and once you’re in, it’s illegal to leave before a certain number of years. It’s the blanket statement that frustrates me. Surely there are 18 year olds who are just trying to survive financially. They still deserve blame, but the system is predatory.

  • Notepad++ updater installed malware

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  • Idk if you have professional experience writing tickets, but this is very well written. Most people just write “the screen is blank” lol. It will take me a little time to dig into this, but that you for the instructions!

  • Notepad++ updater installed malware

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  • Blorp lets you edit markdown directly. Theres an icon button to switch to the raw markdown editor (look for the M⬇️ icon). I assume you’re not using Blorp, but for anyone else reading this.

  • Notepad++ updater installed malware

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  • Blorp dev here. I would love to fix this bug. If there’s any chance you could type out instructions to recreate the crash, I’ll get this fixed ASAP.

  • IDGAF

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  • Yeah it’s pretty much just me. Except for the app logo, which was done by @lay@piefed.social

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  • I think what’s happening is the app is refreshing in the background, and it’s not smart enough to tell the difference between initial launch and background refresh. I would either have to think of a solution to tell the difference, or have a toggle to disable automatic refresh entirely, so you always have to pull to refresh. But even I solved the refresh issue, I think it will still throw you to the top of the feed :/

  • Sword of up

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  • The earth is flat, but its flat in spherical spacetime. Checkmate atheists

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  • This might be tricky then. I’ll do some poking around and see if there are any obvious performance improvements I can make. But no promises

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  • Is it worse on posts with more comment? What happens if you open a post with 0 comments?

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  • Anything specific or just everything? Admittedly, I don’t spend enough time testing Blorp on older phones.

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  • What was the dealbreaker with Blorp and how can I make it better?