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  • bizarroland@fedia.iotoTechnology@lemmy.world•EU fines Meta $840 million for ‘abusive practices’ on Facebook Marketplace
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    1 day ago

    I was going to say, it’s starting to sound more like the EU is just taking kickbacks in a circuitous legal manner rather than via a shady under the table deal with men and trench coats exchanging packages of unmarked bills.

    I mean, in the last 5 months how many times has the EU fined meta or google?

    If you really want to make a message that sticks, you ban the danger sites from operating in your collective and then fine them for their past misdeeds.

    If you want to be seen as lenient, you then set down a list of objectives that the site must adhere to in order to be reinstated in the collective.

    Anything short of that is just lining your pockets. I mean, what is the money being used for?

  • bizarroland@fedia.iotoLinux@lemmy.ml•I'm thinking of building a PC - any advice?
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    2 months ago

    I’ve noticed that when I am specking out a new computer I typically fall into the trap of wanting the absolute best computer I can get for the money.

    I’ve always been on the cheaper side, so I have found myself spending days or weeks researching various parts at various quality levels at various prices.

    It becomes a huge drag.

    Set the budget that you’re comfortable with, find the motherboard that has the features that you want, then get a CPU that fits in that price range, a case that fits your use cases, and then if you’re going to splurge on anything splurge on the power supply as a good power supply can last you through multiple computers.

    If you have to save money somewhere, save money on RAM as you can always order more or upgrade the rim that you have relatively inexpensively. Maybe if you’re going intel, purchase an i5 CPU and then consider upgrading if you max out its abilities or you find yourself frequently running at 100% utilization.

    And don’t overlook pre-builts. There are lots of refurbished computers that you can purchase for far less than the cost of the individual parts that have all of the minimum specs that you want in exchange for little things like only having a single stick of ram or having a low quality SSD.

    There’s nothing that stops you from upgrading later should your use case change.

  • bizarroland@fedia.iotoLinux@lemmy.ml•What Linux distro surprised you the most?
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    2 months ago

    Kubuntu.

    The prevailing wisdom used to be that if somebody is tired of Windows and wants to switch you would send them to Ubuntu. Having used Ubuntu and Debian and Mint and Pop! OS and CentOS and Red Hat and Fedora and Kubuntu, Kubuntu with the new KDE plasma desktop seems to be the most Windows like while still retaining the Linux flavor OS that I have used so far.

    Ubuntu by comparison is slow and convoluted and those are huge turn offs for neophyte Linux users who want to get away from Windows.

  • bizarroland@fedia.iotoMemes@lemmy.ml•Who ever thought it sounded good this way? I think it's because headphones weren't widely used back then.
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    2 months ago

    Exactly. Plus the common use of mastering at the time was to optimize the recorded audio for printing on a vinyl disc, and if the grooves were too deep or the transitions too sharp it could cause the needle to skip out of the track.

    If your average listener is going to be listening on a mono device then a smart thing to do would be to pan one thing consistently to one side and the other to the other as the mono needle isn’t going to care where it’s getting its vibrations from. That would give you more resolution and more depth for the cut, as long as the final disc was only played in mono.

    I’m not saying that’s the case for every recording but I’m pretty sure it has happened quite a few times back then while they were still figuring everything out.