WaterWaiver @ WaterWaiver @aussie.zone

I once met a person that never drank water, only soft drinks. It's not the

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I've been using PipeWire this year on my Void Linux laptop & desktop. It's been mostly OK but has a few problems. For years I have been using plain ALSA (with no custom configuration) because pulseaudio causes me regular issues across multiple machines (mostly silently failing).

Pros:

• I don't have to use Chromium for my mic to work on online video conf (WTF Firefox)
• "EasyEffects" lets me quickly fix crappy youtube audio (bad gain normalisation, way too much sibilance) with a minimum of effort.

Cons:

• Sometimes breaks all audio until I manually restart it (hey, just like pulseaudio. This problem never happens when using ALSA straight)
• First time setup is complicated, involving environment variables, dbus user session buses and multiple daemons (running just pipewire isn't enough). Why can't it handle this all itself? Surely it should notice if these things are missing and just fix it itself? Compare this to straight ALSA where you (1) do nothing and then (2) everything works (except Firefox mic support)
• I can't have multiple audio outputs all unmuted at the same time. Eg my headphone output and my rear speaker output. If I override this (using alsamixer) then it gets forgotten next boot anyway, it seems to be out of scope of PipeWire's understanding.

Can you describe the issue? I don't use Discord (and I presume the problem might depend on what browser you use).

To add to this: "level design" typically covers things like the design of paths through the level (both physically and plot/objectives) and visibility of paths affecting player thinking and choices (ie making it clear to the player how to progress, not get lost). These are "big scale" things, not fine detail.

"Gameplay design" typically covers things like movement, interaction and item/skill progression mechanics. The are "small scale" (or for inventories & skill trees: "no physical scale") things.

In practice the two terms do often overlap quite a bit, so you can argue basically anything to be in either category.

Absolutely gorgeous article.

I had no idea our sushi rolls and banh mi were so divergent. How long until "Australian Banh Mi" is a thing overseas?

To be pedantic: gameplay design, not level design, but I guess the two overlap quite a bit anyway.

That looks super frustrating :|

I just finished the last level of Perfect Dark (released in 2000 for N64). The hardest part was right at the end (boss fight with rockets being fired at you, one hit and you're dead) and there are no checkpoints. I repeated this same level so many times and had to read a walkthrough in the end -- it turns out I was stuck at a red herring.

"Locking in" VOCs smells suspicious and possibly scammy. A lot of VOC molecules are small and volatile (as per the name), so they will diffuse through thin layers of things like paint.

Paints emit VOCs too FWIW.

It might be better to ask a chemistry forum, they'll be able to give you reasonable answers and suggestions, not hearsay (like what I'm giving) or marketing (what the salesmen say).

In the mean time if you're worried about VOCs: ventilation prevents buildup, reducing exposure.

Weight capacity is usually specced on the brackets, not the track itself. I normally use the 17cm ones which are supposedly good for 100kg each.

That summary seems ok. What did it miss?

What style of shelving? Wallmount or freestanding?

I've decked 3/4 walls in my room with twintrack shelving. It requires screws in the walls but lasts forever and can be reconfigured. Bunnings sells it, shelvingshop.com.au is a bit cheaper (but you still have to go to Bunnings for the wooden shelf boards).

Of course not necessarily an option if renting.

I know the difficulty of this. Being sick (or slightly sick or tired from recovery) puts you in the worst position possible to try and make these decisions. Shouldn't a fit person be making important decisions like this?

I vote staying home and resting, so you can work better tomorrow.

Wouldn't community support always lag product releases?

Sorry for my phrasing, I just realised that I don’t have a real choice in the matter with how mobiles are these days.

Yes, it's frustrating.

Captain Tardigrade, defender of the multiverse! Warning: has gore

Why is this being downvoted? Isn't that what Google did? Started using XMPP openly, then locked it down over time and made it harder for people outside their ecosystem?

Behind every driverless car is a team of humans with xbox controllers.

Me having some datasheets that claim one thing doesn't mean it applies to everything and every implementation. Your prof might be right.

Do you have more info?

The minimum specs I've seen for NAND flash chips are 10 year retention time at room temperature.

Being powered on isn't enough to change this, the firmware would have to be actively reading, erasing and writing blocks of data to refresh them. I'm sure there are some that will do this, but it would increases some other data loss risks, wear rates and power draw; so I suspect (?) it's not universal.

Then it stopped working with Windows Server so there went that loophole

It's annoying when software compat breaks.

Why do you need windows server for this? RDP works on desktop windows, just with the limitation of "1 seat".

Also I was using an out of date version of Windows Server just to maintain MYOB functionality which in hindsight seems like a bit of a silly sausage thing to do.

Normally I'd say that's perfectly fine, just keep it isolated. Sadly that's not how you would use MYOB: you need to have bank statements open (in a web browser) and documents from various people in your company (in an office suite), not to mention ways of getting those documents (network shares or worse).

There are some virtualisation solutions that make the windows of apps in the guest appear as (individual) windows of apps in your host. It's been a while since I've read into it, but it will probably be much more convenient than the traditional VM-in-one-window approach. Especially when juggling multiple things.

N.B. to anyone reading this: ask your isp to "opt out of CG-NAT". Talking about IPv6 may confuse the staffer you're talking to, it's partially related but not the fully picture.

I would hazard that if you're going to move something to monopoly control: don't make it for-profit like the NBN is run. Make it a proper government service.

(The NBN's debt has to be paid off by the NBN, so they have to try and keep finding ways of paying it off. As opposed to just making it normal government debt and running the service as best as you can for the people)

EDIT: to quote the article itself:

Mr Gregory said Optus and Telstra have likely concluded that building highly advanced safeguards to their infrastructure and software is too expensive and have been allowed by the government to prioritise profit over the reliability of the service.

^ I'd be worried that putting it in the (existing) NBN's hands wouldn't necessarily address that.