Congrats Klossie, good of you to board the Lemmy space(craft). Nice to see the overall appreciation you get here.

Always stay in character! Absolutely hilarious, I love it.

We do have a lot of rain, specially in this time of year, but we have something here that is called a schoonloopmat which cleans/dries your shoes quite good. That together with hard wooden floors throughout the house makes I never take off my shoes at home.

I’m not American and I always wear shoes in the house. Why the fuck not?

There’s one thing that’s preventing me from doing exactly that and that is, as a non-native English speaker with tinnitus, the constant struggle to find good subtitles that are properly synced. My lazy ass just wants to enjoy a movie at a normal volume without having to force myself to be super-focussed in order not to miss the whole goddamn plot of the movie.

I agree completely that this can have negative impact on discussions, stimulate karma farming etc. So I’m all for it to hide it. Would be nice though to completely skip it from the UI (of in this case Boost).

I really don’t understand why companies use these tactics. Makes me instantly hate them and leave their website/cancel purchase processes etc. never to return again unless it’s absolutely completely unavoidable. Rather pay a bit more than dealing with scummy/scammy businesses.

100% still closeted

I don’t entirely agree with you. Comparing the same song in MP3 or FLAC on the factory-fitted audio system in my car (2023 Skoda Octavia Combi) already makes a huge difference. Of course the difference is smaller when using 256 or 320 kbps MP3, but even then FLAC just adds that extra bit of depth and “openness” to the music

FLAC files are typically larger than MP3, because with MP3 roughly 90% of the original file is discarded on encoding, hence lossy compression. At decoding the codec tries to restore this 90% out of the original remaining 10%. This sounds worse than it actually is, but you understand why MP3 is considered inferior by audio purists.

On the other hand FLAC uses a different compression technique that reduces the original file by 30-50% but without any data deletion, hence lossless. So, original file let’s say 100MB as .wav, compresses to 30-50 MB IN FLAC and 6-10 MB in MP3.

I gladly sacrifice the additional storage to get noticeably better quality audio.

My old and trustworthy Kenwood KRV75R receiver. From around 1985 and still rocking!

In the end all religions boil down to one thing. Power and dominance (specifically male dominance) over others. “My religion is X and you have to do as I say because MY fairy tale book tells me bla-bla-bla, so YOU have to obey.” Fuck all religions who use their shit stories to oppress others.

Scale-wise not perhaps, but on percentage of destroyed buildings in a particular (small) area it’s right up there I think.

Praise to her work, but that just looks like a really bad AI image.

EU to the rescue, again.

“My russia”!? Hey guys, I think we found Putin’s nick here.

Very knowledgeable and spot-on comment, at least as far as the Dutch situation is concerned (can’t really judge for the English). This is the kind of stuff I come to Lemmy for, thank you!

Getting downvoted just for asking for some civil discussion… I’m getting some “good” old-fashioned reddit vibes here.

Atrocities are perpetrated on both sides. That doesn’t excuse either of them nor does it justify committing them.

This is a very little uplifting news in the otherwise immensely sad dystopian reality that is Gaza right now. Fortunately there are still some people who actively show some humanity over there.