aleph @ aleph @lemm.ee

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Understandable, although in my experience Endeavour has been as stable and easy to maintain as any point-release distro by simply 1) using the LTS kernel instead of the latest Arch kernel, and 2) using snapper/btrfs-assistant for backups, just in case.

Before I did #1, the most common problem I had was something breaking after a kernel update, but now my system has been running as a daily driver without any breakages or failed boots for over 8 months straight.

One of the devs over at the Endeavour forum did a write up that I think are some great tips to follow if you want to run a stable Arch installation:

https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/how-to-run-a-stress-free-endeavouros/49769

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Yeah, same. Whenever I try out another distro I find myself having to work harder to get things to set up the way I want, compared to Endeavour. Having the AUR at your fingertips makes you spoiled, for sure.

Source is RT straight from the mouth of the Russian Investigative Committee.

Smells like pure Kremlin propaganda, tbh.

Thanks for the write up. I also looked into running Resolve but the lack of AAC/MP4 support was the kicker.

Funnily enough, my personal experience aligns with yours - Fedora and I just seem to fundamentally dislike each other. I've tried it several times, as it looks good on paper, but I've had significantly had more issues with it than I ever have with Arch/EndeavourOS.

Mint and Endeavour are pretty much the only distros I'll ever need, I've come to the conclusion.

It's funny that this article doesn't mention the one company that pretty much single handedly created the need for this legislation in the first place.

Lol, I'm not saying that brickwalling the mix to achieve a certain effect isn't a thing, but at the extreme levels of compression and clipping apparent on that track, it's unlikely that a FLAC would sound even remotely different. Apparently the band agreed - in 2020 they issued a remaster which seems noticeably less crushed:

Incidentally, I saw Sunn O))) live once. I can still feel my bowels shake.

Killer samples do happen, sure but vorbis at Q9? I'm highly dubious. That track in particular just sounds badly recorded to begin with. If you have that same version in FLAC i would be interested to see some ABX test results or test it myself.

For archival purposes, though, I agree FLAC is the way to go.

Seriously? Fucking hell, that's depressing.

Yup, although that doesn't stop some weirdos out there claiming that CDs sound better than FLAC.

Don't forget digital music stores like Qobuz and www.bandcamp.com.

Artists get more money when you buy their music outright instead of stream it.

This is correct, although it's not the bass that is limited on vinyl; it's the dynamic range compression (or 'loudness') in general.

This. People assume that because it's "compressed" it must sound flatter, less dynamic, or just vaguely worse than uncompressed audio, despite the fact that audio compression specifically uses psychoacoustic models to remove the bits of data that our human ears and brains cannot hear to begin with.

Expectation bias is a helluva drug.

Yea, with the lack of mod tools here you don't have that many options really.

You guys have my sympathy. I'm a pretty strong critic of Apple and their products but I'd never go out of my way to interfere with communities of Apple users. That's just kinda pathetic.

Unfortunately, I don't see that there's much you can do about this apart from strictly moderate the comments section and just try to ignore the up/downvote discrepancies.

Can't say I've seen much evidence of questionable moderating in this community so far.

Worldnews@lemmy.ml, on the other hand tho? Wew lad

Am I living in a backwards world where Linux uses the invasive complicated way and Windows uses the private simple way?

I mean, you chose xfce and that's a DE which makes you do everything the hard way anyway.

Both KDE and Gnome have the functionality you're looking for straight out of the box.

Ah, that's because GTK4 and libadwaita severely restricted custom theming. They may be ways around this but I have no idea because I use just adw-gtk3 as my theme so all my apps look uniform on Gnome.

So I guess you'll either search for a way to hack this or just stick to GTK3 apps if you don't want the stock GTK4 look.

Blackbox

You are less comfortable with schools being able to deal with sensitive situations in a nuanced manner than you are with forcing them to adopt a single, narrow, sledgehammer approach that could put many students in harm's way?

That's a rather peculiar take.