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In my house, this look means 90+ minutes not late with dinner. After that, every look at them prompts a lap around the room, under every obstacle, whining at max volume.
2024 > 1985
FTFY
Unused to wonder if the radio announcers that are always reciting the station call letters found that the letters stopped sounding like individual sounds, and the whole recitation became a sort of "word" for them. Like "You're listening to 102.9FM WBLM!" Did it stop being "double-you bee ell emm," and turn into more of a mashup of "dubbleyabeeyelmm"?
True, the difference is pretty subtle, especially to a listener, but I wonder strange things sometimes...
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Not really doing a great job finding the right place for your posts. You broke three community rules posting this here; rules 1, 2 and 9. Perhaps you should try a comics community?
I have a tiny 7yo girl kittay that rubs on the laptop screen so often and aggressively that two things have resulted.
- The corners have gross, brown buildup from her gums, drool and dander
- She earned the nickname Gubba, for "gum rubba"
You've got me thinking about it, but I still just come back to, "this doesn't affect me." But it would affect me if LW was to defederate, which has already been discussed dozens of times in the past. If I look at the ML modlog, I just don't see evidence of what is being claimed beyond this incident. Rule 1 is being misused and a mod or mod team are being assholes. That sucks. I don't think it means that the posts and/or visibility of content of thousands are at risk in the way being presented.
currently 1,019 upvotes vs. 92 downvotes [...] suggests that most lemmy.world users who are aware of the issue do care.
I equate that more to the crowd yelling, "yeah!" more so than carefully considered agreement.
Thank you for having this discussion. I'll continue to ruminate on it. If it means anything, when I read the OP by SpaceCadet, I subbed to LW or other large-ish communities for the ones I follow at ML in hopes that they grow.
I appreciate your reply. I agree with the principals and ideals, but I just don't get worked up over every bit of outrage out there. I used to be a real worked up individual, willing to throw everything I've got at anything that didn't fit with my ideals, but I'm older now, and sometimes I want places where I don't have to fight for every inch of ground.
I don't disagree that the mod actions are worth highlighting. I disagree that defederation is the first and only solution. It reads to me like some users argued with mods about topics known to be hot-button over there, on a post guaranteed to be controversial, and a temporary ban occurred. That action and its reach is worth discussion.
I don't agree that the users should go to the biggest lemmy instance and try to soap box their POV in order to trigger user outrage in hopes that they pressure the admins to enact some vengeance on an entire instance in the form of defederation. I disagree even more since the source of the outrage is not a user at LW, and wouldn't be affected in any way by the proposed defederation. What they really want is for their subbed communities to move away from ML.
SpaceCadet coming here suing for defederation is barely different to me than the mod that banned them from unrelated communities. "Someone I disagree with did a thing I don't like and I want to flex on them," is what I see from my POV. I don't care they got banned. It seems like a foregone conclusion that would happen there, and I've known that since the first fifty posts about how Dessalines and Nutomic behave (on social media and on github) were posted.
If I follow their weird rules, I won't get banned. The implicit rules include not talking shit about topics cleansed by glorious fascist leaders? OK. I don't care. I have no interest in changing the hearts and minds behind the eyeballs on ML. I'm not on a crusade to fix the world one post at a time. I'm browsing while my game loads, or the water boils, or on the bus.
What I care about is a few idealistic users posting picture evidence of a clear power-trip ban and expecting admins to defederate. That's the corruption of the marketplace of ideas. Silencing the entire instance for thousands. For all we know, half the users on LW would like to learn more about their point of view, if only to dismiss it as wacky and untenable, but not only do they lose that opportunity, they lose the opportunity to engage with unrelated communities, of which there are several that are more active than anywhere else.
At the end of the day, its a lot easier for anyone up in arms about this to block and move on than the workarounds required for the majority who don't care and want to stay engaged in the communities they are subbed to. They'd have to make accounts elsewhere, or even at ML.
Call me apathetic, but I just don't care about this fight.
As a user subbed to multiple communities there, I never see this stuff. Ever. I stay far, far away from news and current events though. I actively seek news from sources, not aggregation platforms.
I would prefer to have the option to interact with those communities rather than have a few users brigade the admins into defederating. There's a reason one of the SCOTUS cases that is cited as binding precedent in freedom of speech cases relates to the distribution of Communist propaganda. The marketplace of ideas is meant to be freely available to all, not curated by the most opinionated or noisy.
Re: DuckDuckGo:
You can sign-up and manage your aliases from any browser on any OS
But not on the TOR or Mull browsers on Android:
ETA: I use both DDG and SimpleLogin. I recently bumped up against the ten alias limit in SL, but I prefer the ease of creating outgoing aliases in their dashboard vs the DDG method of manually typing with underscores. That said, they both come in handy and I have dozens of DDG aliases that helped me break my dependence on gmail as my single email provider. Never tried Addy.
Joke's on you, Google! I uninstalled the Play store weeks ago!
I'd use the find command piped to mv and play with some empty test folders first. I'm not familiar with Nemo, though I've used it for a short while. I've never tried the bulk renaming features if they exist.
Depending in how much variation you have in the preceding underscores, REGEX may be useful, but if its just a lot of single underscores you can easily trim them with a single version of the script.
Edit: corrected second command typo. I think there's a rename command I haven't used in ages that may have args to help here too, but I'm away from the PC
If you dare, you can automated it with some simple scripting. If I had more than 20 or 30, I'd probably go that route.
Yeah, that sounds like a better long-term solution for you. Once you change your workflow, you shouldn't have to do it again anyway!
Not a fix, but a workaround I use when symbols and punctuation are treated this way: I use lowercase letters to precede folder names to get the sort I want.
aFolder1
bFolder2
Not elegant, but it works in your case. You could also try other file managers, like Thunar to see if they manage sorting differently
Now that you mention it, I think I can tell yt-dlp to give me vorbis, but it might still entail a conversion.
Thank you for the comment. I have libopus0 1.3.1-3 installed. While I can play back opus files in strawberry, there are many missing integrations, like metadata cover art, and also audio level normalization seems to skip my opus files completely, as evidenced by viewing scanned files in the playlist with the "integrated loudness" or "loudness range" columns visible, or in the context tab if configured to display loudness parameters. Until I can get that sorted, vorbis is my go to.
Thanks also for the tip about variable bitrate. After reading some more about both codecs, I realized my constant br isn't doing me any favors, and both excel when it comes to vbr. I'll also dial back to the 6 or 7 vbr level and go from there. Honestly, my process to develop the conversion that "worked" for me was to take several 320k mp3s from way back in my collection and do a CBR conversion to vorbis that resulted in approximately the same file size, or slightly smaller. Not a very scientific benchmark. I just stuck with that when converting from opus.
Thanks again!
PS I added my current conversion string to my OP. I'll share my results back here after I trial the new one.
ETA: I think I recall now that some conversions using variable bitrate would fail because the source files didn't match up to the bit depth or some mathematical multiple of the source bitrate or some such thing that confused me, and was fixed by switching to a constant bitrate. Course, I could have it backwards. I do that a lot these days...)
Thx for this comment.
My main drive for self hosting is to escape data harvesting and arbitrary query limits, and to say, "I did this." I fully expect it to be painful and not very fulfilling...
God bless Steve Gibson! Security Now! I used Spinrite back in 92. I've used his other utilities (when they were relevant), and ShieldsUP too. That man is a treasure. Thanks for the link. I know he gets it.
On second thought, while this is great, I need to block all updates in this PC.