Eyedust

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  • I 100% do. I think mp3 is a good compromise of sound and space. It’s also the format I’m used to. Just like how people swear by physical record. If I’m at a get together and hear mp3 quality, I’m at home.

    That being said, I have my absolute favorites in flac for my iPod 5th gen video I rebuilt. The 5th gen’s dac, Wolfson, is a solid little dac for the day and age. Got Rockbox loaded up and I’m ace, but I’ve hard saved all the Apple firmware for every model in case the time came to sell them. Old iPods could be an investment someday and I own every gen in multiples.



  • EyedusttoLinux@lemmy.mlHelp for searching a new distro [SOLVED]
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    I second this. A bare-min install of a majority of distros is going to do you more favors than looking for a distro that is made to be minimal. Honestly, minimal is going to rely more on your DE/WM than distro.

    I also agree that Arch is going to require more learning curve if you don’t have any experience with it, but that’s up to you if you want to put time into it. If you do, I’d recommend vanilla Arch or if you want a GUI installer with a lot of DE/WM options then I’d opt for EndeavourOS.

    I concur with Void, but that also may have a learning curve. I like Void, but I haven’t tried it myself. I hear nothing but good about Fedora and openSUSE these days, too. I played with NixOS and I really like it, but you will spend months messing with Nixlang before you can really do anything with it (but its really fun to play with).




  • Mullvad has a lot of perks. Like I mentioned, no deals for buying yearly. Get it month by month for the same price. No account connections. You get an ID number and that’s it. That ID is your password and username. Pay with nearly anything. Crypto, card, money services, even mail in physical cash.

    There’s a lot to love about it, and it hands down has some of the fastest tunnels I’ve used. Nord was always half my internet speed no matter what I connected to. You don’t even need Google Play if you want to use it on android. It’s open source, so grab it right on F-Droid. Easily supports any OS. If you don’t want a GUI, there’s a CLI alternative, too.

    This advertisement was not paid for by Mullvad VPN.





  • Yeah, but for every dictator there’s countless intelligent revolutionaries. Especially when it comes to the internet.

    They’re really shooting themselves in the foot trying to deny us/force overcharge the very thing they use to make us complacent in the first place: media.

    If they were smart they’d ignore this bill. It would just bring attention to their attempt to essentially seize the internet and for what? For us just to get around it again anyway?

    Not to mention if they enforce US VPNs to conform it’ll just result in more currency leaving the country. No wonder this fucking floundering economy is all our fault.

    Governing is like holding a marble to the table with your thumb. The more you press down, the more likely that marble is to shoot out and break your shit.



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    There will forever be a part of me that thinks I’m annoying and I should just shut up. If I go drinking with family and friends I will wake up the next day and remember the small weird things I say and I will break out in cold sweat and the only thing that helps is mentally imagining swords piercing from both collarbones in an X pattern while I’m chained naked to the ceiling. I try to feel them.

    I only feel better if I’ve sufficiently punished myself enough in my mind, which takes about three days. My daily moniker is “I’m sorry”. My mother gets mad at me for saying it too much, my girlfriend and my sister have expressed “being fed up” with me asking if I did anything stupid the night we drank before.

    Thing is that I know I’m an extremely happy and friendly drinker. I just feel embarrassed that I talk too much. But if I try to be quiet people start to ask me if I’m okay, or else say that I’m being boring.

    Being an ex-extrovert really is your crucifix after you’ve embarrassed yourself into becoming an introvert. I used to have the world in a box… now I’m hiding in a box in the world.