True about the DAC, but if I am out and about I am not sure I don’t notice that much, and Bluetooth is so much easier. I know the degradation on bluetooth.

But I do have a high quality DAC cirrus based USB c dongle for when I want it to sound good.

I do notice that for the price, this whole device is really not much more than a high quality dongle so that’s pretty good.

I remember carrying around a walkman with a tape. then a walkman with a cd. then a small mp3 player, and then finally a phone.

I simply do not understand why people want to go backward. So inconvenient.

I can take my phone and stream music from my server. If I really want to I can download to the phone (simple drag and drop KDE connect style or syncthing if I want to go that route). I use only FLAC by the way.

Does nobody remember how annoying moving files around actually is?

I don’t have ads on my phone, and I can turn off everything else if I want to only have it as a music player for a period of time. Adding another device just seems silly.

Edit: worth saying: thanks for posting this though, I am interested in seeing gadgets and it is an interesting design and has unique features.

Got me curious. Quick search and I found three windows drivers that had keyloggers hidden in them. Go figure it was HP!

• HP Notebook Keyboard Drivers: Keylogging code was discovered in the SynTP.sys file, which was part of the Synaptics Touchpad driver shipped with certain HP notebook models.

• HP Audio Drivers: Researchers found keylogging features within the Conexant HD Audio Driver (specifically version 1.0.0.46 and earlier) used in various HP laptops and other Windows systems.

I didn’t watch the video, but maybe they said how this done.

If it installed silently, it must be getting pulled in via Windows update right? Where Microsoft just sees this a regular old driver for a device I would imagine?

I have an LG monitor, maybe about 5 years or older. But I don’t have windows so I assume it knows nothing.

EDIT: Nevermind. I went and watched the section at the beginning, and yep that is exactly how it is done. Does windows not even vet what a vendor hands them as a driver? Perhaps they don’t care, but this seems like an easily exploitable route.

He is saying those streaming services wont allow HDR even if Linux itself is capable. Which is why he could set sail to recover that functionality.

lol.

All my complaining about Ubuntu and yet I kind of liked Unity. I had it on a guest computer and a laptop for awhile.

I actually liked the orange colors. I liked the fonts. I even liked early unity as an alternative to gnome back then.

But it just kept changing!

Failing studios due to their mad rush to build out streaming services, taking on massive debt, and trying to shuffle that debt around. Doesnt help that they don’t pick up movies that are worthwhile and instead try to follow formulas. They want intellectual Property for a long term franchise, park ride, and merch. Consolidation desires IP.

For example on major movies: I saw someone on Nebula say everything that went into making The Barbie Movie was what made it work. But instead of focusing on what THAT was and making a different movie, they immediately start thinking: milk the Barbie movie for a sequel and more merch and a Barbieland.

Point is: they made shitty decisions. I am not sure AI will help because they will still do the above and just pay less people.

At least thats how I see it.

I could see AI being used as a story board, sample scenes, something like that. Beyond that, nah I don’t even want to see it.

Started with their first release. So broken compared to everything else at that time.

Now on new releases to this day it still throws weird errors or doesnt work as expected AT INSTALL. Usually reboots will fix some of those issues, sometimes I don’t even know if they are real issues, but it just shows Canonical doesnt make a very good product.

Then sooner or later, with Canonical not able to keep an idea longer than 6 months, something else will break. Its just the Ubuntu way.

Seems like their server version is better, I can’t really complain about it. I don’t have to interact with it much, but it behaves a lot better.

Also, Xbuntu and Kbuntu somehow fared better than Ubuntu, much less problems.

First? Redhat.

Used? Gentoo, Debian, Mepis, sidux, peppermint, mint, fedora, cachyos, puppy, damnsmall, evil entity, suse, opensuse, Slackware, arch, and who knows how many more.

Using right now: Debian, fedora, cachyos, opensuse, Slackware. Different distro depending on need and device.

Favorite? Real soft spot for mepis, it made it easy back in the day. Fedora right now: it always just works, there is nothing to do just update and move on. Also Debian. Because Debian.

Worst: Ubuntu. Such a piece of crap, always breaking since first release.

Needs to survive? Are you kidding me? Good stories, good direction. You don’t need 47 million dollars to make a movie.

Can you show me that “the movie industry is in free fall”? I have seen many fantastic movies lately.

I guess you could consider AI to be a form of animation, but I really don’t see them improving anything if they keep churning out the same crap for the big budget movies.

Its weird that he really was on the forefront once because he did physical effects with interesting camera shots. it felt new and different.

AI is not going to give you that, it will suck. CGI sucks already too.

Oh well not like he is relevant. A new hope was at least interesting, but its been nothing after that anyways.

I agree. Doesn’t do anything it would be better to get people to buy stock in the company and vote on what you want. Get enough people and you can make change.

But that process is also… Gross. And expensive.