lemmyknow @ lemmyknow @lemmy.today

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Your mom thinks your music taste is good? Dang. Mine just be like "wtf we listening to" (it's Polish) or "Not German" skips. "We hearing Japanese, now?". I did kinda get her somewhat into modern popular hispanic music, I think. Or at least helped in some way with that.

ESC?! Hell yeah! I only follow the finals, though. I generally go in without spoiling much for myself ahead of time, so it all ends up being a fresh listen (other than when I already heard the song elsewhere, like Viva l'Italia, which I've heard before knowing it was part of the ESC)

I don't really watch the nationals either. I did once, for Spain (the finals). I was gonna do it another year, for Spain (not sure which year came first tbh), but the one song I knew ahead of time, by Rakky Ripper, did not make it onto the finals :(

Honestly, I wonder what the best way to enjoy ESC would be. Following semis? Nationals?? How much should I invest myself? But then I think it works as is, and would be too much work following everything. Plus, a lot more options to my already large pool of artists and music.

Well, sometimes if my mind is too active, I can have a hard time falling asleep. I end up thinking too much or too "hard" and my brain can't rest. I sometimes just listen to music to fall asleep. As I focus on a song, my mind can drift asleep. Either that or I try and just not think, so my mind can rest. Sometimes I legit gotta go "welp, time to sleep. Silence, now" and just be quiet to try and sleep

Honestly, i'm not entirely sure what Flatpaks are all about. Not sure I could explain them. But I use them. I've used apt. I've even used Pacman and Yay in Manjaro for a few years. Now, I also Flatpak (no longer on Manjaro, though. I no longer boot to a blank screen every 6 months or so! Very nice!)

Wow, I too can silence my mind. I think. Since I often think consciously, I can just stop and enjoy nothingness, which surely is interesting. Sometimes the contrast between thinking a lot and just plain nothing is quite interesting. Can go badly, though, when someone expects me to say something and I don't have anything to say. They must be on their own side just waiting, thinking I'm crafting something. Meanwhile, if anything, I'm on my side thinking of not thinking, or just plain empty, experiencing the akwardness. It's been some of the most awkward situations, when I'm done speaking and they wait in silence, like I'm not done yet. Yeah, my answer wasn't very long, and you may want more, but I'm just done on my side. Do I need to vocalise an End of Line character?

Ooh, Alpha channel. Forgot of that. That is a nice one. Love me some alpha channel.

So, what would you say is best? If someone wanted to save an image, which format would you recommend? I usually go with PNG. JPG if I want bad quality on purpose (drag quality slider to minimum for extra compression)

The Vengabus… is coming.

Wow, did not expect a match! I do also sometimes just flat out talk to myself, or say stuff aloud. Not sure that necessarily classifies into the topic of "thoughts", but whatever.

The Rich Have Their Own Ethics: Effective Altruism & the Crypto Crash (ft. F1nn5ter)

Oh, I think I'm familiar with that "chorus" (?). Maybe it was featured on Djs From Mars' The History of Hip Hop. It was also sampled in Timmy Trumpet, Marnik & Ely Oaks' Sound of da Police (with DES3ETT)

Not sure who KRS One is, but that was rather insightful. Never thought of it like that

That isn't really what I was questioning there. I was just wondering what makes race. One might associate, for instance, skin colour to race. But skin colour is more of a… idk, a range? It's not just two different things, black and white. There are darker skin tones, and lighter ones. It's a scale, really. So if we were to take skin colour as defining race, one would have to draw a line somewhere, where one becomes dark enough to be deemed Black (assuming you're taking skin colour as the indicator for race, that is). And that doesn't even account for other races one might see. If one, for instance, were to imagine Asian as a race (idk if it is. Is it?), Asians are (generally) white, no? As far as skin colour. Like, what is it that defines a race?

lossless recompression of existing JPEG Uh… how does it make a JPEG lossless? Or is it lossless in that it makes a JXL out of a JPEG without affecting the original JPEG quality (i.e. no further loss beyond JPEG's)?

Being able to turn JPEGs into JXLs and JXLs back to JPEGs is cool, though

What's with the AVIF thing? Yet another I am unfamiliar with (all I know about image formats is JPG = worse quality, PNG = better quality, GIF = animated (and something WebP. Idk much about that one either))

Also, in my research, I've found something about the distinction between lossless JXL vs lossy JXL. Seems like you wouldn't be able to tell if the image is lossy or lossless just from it being a JXL

Mexico == cartels????!?!!!?!??

Mate, this is just sad :(

Wishing her the best! (I have no clue who she is, though. But it doesn't matter. My wish stands)

As for the other "fellers", I shall make no such wish

Edit: this also applies to each and every similar situation. Doesn't matter the victim or the perpetrators. All the best to trans people, and no such thing for the phobes

"Last Person To Leave The Office Gets A Banana." Mr. Feast, 2025

Why are they trying to make it happen, and why it no work? Is JXL better than PNG? Maybe I need to do some research to better learn the difference

Interestingly, I downloaded GNOME's pride month wallpaper to see what it looked like, and the files were JXL. Never seen them in the wild before that

Now if anyone don't mind explaining, PNG vs JXL?

Well, I use IronFox. It's essentially a fork of the now-discontinued, Firefox-based Mull browser. It's a privacy and security oriented browser. It's not on F-Droid, afaik, but it's on the Accrescent store