MentalEdge @ MentalEdge @sopuli.xyz

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I am.

How would a pedal that opens a door towards you work? Unless it's like a handle for your foot?

Makes sense.

Is that a thing?

Feels like something door closers make irrelevant.

You'd think fire code would require exit always be push, because that makes evacuating smoother.

If you have a bunch of people wanting to go through a door, you do not want them the be pull.

Even while orderly, requiring a crowd to step back to provide the space for the doors to open is not ideal.

Haven't seen that.

You can also push a door open with a foot as you take a step forward.

It's trickier than using an elbow, as it involves the balancing act of putting your weight on the door, which will give way, before allowing your foot to actually land. Do it wrong or with a door that's much lighter than you thought, and you fall over as you deliberately shift your weight off the one foot you're still standing on :D

I initially started doing it to push open doors while holding stuff with my hands, but now I kinda just walk into doors and open them with a foot as I do.

You shouldn't be touching any handles upon exiting a bathroom.

The door should be push to exit, so you can open it by pushing with your elbow.

If there's a "right" amount of sleep, I've yet to figure out what it is.

Was definitely on by default on my device.

Personal data is still accessible, if the app you choose to pin is something like the dialer, or your mail app, then yes, you can obviously access contacts and emails. The feature doesn't block the pinned app from accessing everything it normally accesses.

As for opening other apps, this applies to stuff like links or launchers. If the app has links somewhere, you could open your default browser app. It does not allow you to "escape" the pinned app to anywhere else in the system, unless the pinned app has a way to launch other apps the way launchers do.

The feature could certainly use improvement, but if it were only useful with people you trust, it would be pointless.

It's obviously intended for situations where you have to let someone use your phone, and don't want to give them free reign. With people you trust, you wouldn't need something like that.

It's far better than nothing, and is in fact part of android.

It is.

Apple has "guided access", android has "pin app".

I only have experience with the latter, it works by opening the task management view, and selecting "pin application" on a running app.

That then locks the device to that app. To access anything else, it has to be unlocked as if the screen were locked.

They seem to be what Tidal pretends to be.

Apparently Tidal finally ditched MQA and went back to flac. How they ever went in for it with how shit it it turned out to be with some basic investigation, I have no idea.

And they let you buy the music outright, too!

Recently quit youtube premium due to the price hike finally hitting my country. I've been using yt music for my listening.

Since that went away along with yt premium, I dusted off my old music file collection (mix of itunes and bandcamp purchases, cd rips, and soundcloud downloads).

Discovered Qobus looking for places to buy my favorite music to update my collection.

I used to keep my entire collection on my phone, but I opted to start using ytm since I had it and my collection got too big...

But now, I have to say I am blown away with how nice Symfonium+Jellyfin (or another music server) is to use!

Last time I looked into it, nothing handled dynamically keeping a portion of your music on-device for offline play this well!

Yes.

Especially over on !catposting@lemmy.blahaj.zone and !meow_irl@sopuli.xyz

There is on mine.

I just pet him a bit a pull him closer, and pretty quick he's opting to snooze right along with me.

Oh, I don't either, but making that fact clear can be fun sometimes :D

Please tell me that whenever people commented "he must be twice your age!" you simply nonchalantly replied "triple, actually".

Wine unfortunately can't be used for that kind of stuff. Programs run in wine cannot communicate directly with hardware in the way they can on windows.

Not yet, at least, but the implementation is in very, very, very early stages. As in, people have just about started figuring out how it could theoretically be done.

Also, easyeffects can be used to apply audio processing, if you want to. (Should be in basically any distros default repos)

I don't use any effects on the output, as they sound great, but I do use dynamic range compression on the mic for the benefit of my friends.

It levels out the loudness, so whether you whisper or shout, you sound the same level of loud. That way they can hear you even if you speak quetly, or don't get their ears blown off if you loudly swear in frustration.

Doing the same on windows was way too much work to ever bother with, on linux, easy peasy.

Endeavour OS, here. I didn't have do anything in particular to get mine working.

You might need to use a windows system to verify that it's working at all, could simply be broken.

The other option is that they're on an old firmware that works differently for some reason. You'd need the EPOS software on a windows install to do an update.

I feel this so much it hurts.

Some people are TERRIFIED of devices.

They look at the UI like it's the cockpit of a fighter plane, with a thousand buttons, some of which make things explode.

Unless they know exactly what to do, they won't even try anything.

Nevermind that UIs are usually designed to allow a user to figure them out by just prodding at everything and seeing what it does.

Linux drivers are usually part of the kernel nowadays, or sometimes get loaded as kernel modules.

Either way, most distros should just come with the audio drivers that implements the support for these. Generally, being open source, linux drivers implement support for everything the devs can figure out, rather than making a separate one for each piece of hardware that's out there.

If you're on an older kernel, that might be it. I remember when I got a DS5 controller I had to use a kernel newer than 5.15 because that's when support for it was added to the game controller driver.