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Good god I remember doing this like 10 years ago. I don't remember what I did, only that it was a nightmare. I only hope the situation has improved.

https://blog.desdelinux.net/en/pulseaudio-como-cambiar-a-mono-en-lugar-de-stereo/ this looks like something similar to the solution I came to in the end. Here's some more information https://askubuntu.com/questions/17791/can-i-downmix-stereo-audio-to-mono and this https://askubuntu.com/questions/71863/how-to-change-pulseaudio-sink-with-pacmd-set-default-sink-during-playback/72076#72076

Good luck.

That's just Instagram. The american dream, which is to be a company man and work the same job til youre 65 and live in a house with a nice yard and 2 cars and all that is still around, it's just out of reach for most people whereas it wasn't a generation or two ago.

Because they aren't a "do anything to win" party, you've answered your question.

Or, not entirely. Politicians in general take whatever stances they need to strategically to win. There are some hills that people will die on, and politicians know that, and pick the strategy most likely to guarantee their success. They all pander to someone.

The issue with abortion is the overstepping of boundaries of morality. Most people do support abortion rights, but the extreme on the pro abortion side is pushing it to the due date. Most people think that's infanticide. So you've got a situation, people support reasonably early abortion, but if it's all or nothing between no abortion or baby murder people dont like the idea of baby murder. Strong conservatives know this and so they highlight laws and bills like the one in Virginia a few years ago allowing for abortion up until the day before the due date, even relatively liberal people see that and it keeps the issue contentious. It's not a losing issue when regular people see infanticide on the horizon.

Look, I once got everyone I know to switch to matrix (Riot, before element) and they depracated the client, made everyone redo their encryption keys, it was a huge mess. Nobody will ever listen to me ever again about a messaging app because of what new vector did with riot.

Matrix is too janky for people. Use something else. Simplex, signal, whatever.

Beyond that, the key is breaking this "one more app" mentality. Why is it so hard to have an app on your phone? These people would install the Starbucks app for a single free milkshake in a heartbeat. This expectation that everyone and everything can be done in one app is absurd, and it's marketing by the big companies to lock people in when there's no reason for it. your phone runs apps. What's the big deal?

And that starts with you. make yourself available on multiple different messengers as possible. Don't say "I use matrix", youre being inflexible. Use everything that doesn't collect your contacts and spy on you. Use telegram, but tell people telegram isn't encrypted. I personally have matrix, XMPP, session, signal, simplex, telegram, and I even have a discord but I never use it. I fall back to email if I have to. Be flexible if you expect others to be, be available to communicate with in as many ways as you can privately to incentivize people to switch, give them options and let them pick.

Most of us still use it that way. We took it back already. Join us.

This is great in theory, but in practice federated networks fragment and it's never one big network. Theres almost always some federated path between two servers but often it is long and unpredictable, and the way AP works there's no way to hop across more than one connection between them. You wind up with almost every server that cannot see some content on the network and often enough practically isolated federations.

Well, these don't really apply to Lemmy or fediverse microblogging, but interoperability and censorship resistance. These mostly apply to things like XMPP and standards of federation that are widely adopted.

Im honestly not a fan of federation the way Lemmy and mastodon and the like do it, because the servers aren't really communities truly, theyre interchangeable choke points in an amorphous blob. The servers are just there because that's how they built it and aren't really a positive with regard to UX. But, in a system where different servers focus on themselves first, like forums for example, where the users primarily use them to interact on their server, federated architectures enable communication between these communities and that's great. That's how I use Lemmy; I'm primarily on the server I want to use and interact on, and I venture out and engage with others on other servers, but that's not how most people use it, they just pick a server and everything after the @ is meaningless, they're here for the network, and a federated model is not conducive to good UX if the network is the draw.

For things like the fediverse and threadiverse as it's been named, where the network itself is the draw and not the server in particular, I much prefer a nostr like architecture where the servers have little to no bearing on participation and just relay posts and other interactions.

https://codeberg.org/mister_monster/youtube2peertube

I made this to help people solve this problem.

More on the "I want all my things in only one app" complaint, this is a marketing tactic by companies like YouTube. It's not a reasonable expectation. If you want to watch videos, they'll be on the video host that hosts them. Imagine if all the websites were on one website. That would suck, just like youtube and reddit. Just get over it.

We do have a technology to help us though, it's called RSS. You can subscribe to just about anything using it, including youtube and peertube channels. Any website that doesn't have RSS is not worth subscribing to.

Funny story, when they first legalized it in Colorado but before issuing licenses, I was there for a weekend and there was a guy selling "I❤️CO" bumper stickers, but where the heart is a weed leaf, for 50 bucks a piece that come with a complementary eighth. He delivered like a pizza guy.

Eyebuydirect.

Online you have to know sizes and what not, you can get a vague idea what it will look like on you, they let you use your phone camera or webcam to get a better idea. But you can't beat the prices, glasses in the US are ridiculously priced.

How does them paying for it make it more ethical? If I buy a book and put it on libgen does that make it OK then?

I have never, ever heard of a library rebuying the same book every 8-12 rentals, ever. What do they do with the old ones?

Because their minds are immersed in noise.

Archival of information and software that is no longer available, such as NES games.

Any and all book piracy is ethical. It's just like a library. If libraries are ethical libgen is ethical.

Yes.

That's very much wrong, you can't read english.

"It's summer what do you expect of course it's going to be hot"

The constitution creates the supreme courts. The Congress can make inferior courts.

It's a hosted community generated CSV index of torrents and their titles that you can fuzzy search and host locally, no torrent site needed.