What does the red PANIC button on the keyboard do?
I'd expect it to be a synonym for Escape, inspired by the mechanical keyboard subculture.
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The landing page scrolls with 2 fps on my phone, making it completely unusable.
I wish there was a browser setting to disable CPU-heavy CSS filters in Firefox to fix pages like this one.
Hackbraten commented on Cassette tapes are making a comeback? theconversation.com/casse... · Posted by u/devonnull
I have sealed TDK MA-XG in mint condition. Stored in a dry, dark place. Do you say that they are degraded now?
Your metal tape might be fine if stored well. Chances are you're never going to unseal it anyway.
There are, however, reports of degraded batches of the TDK SA series [0] and other brands.
Hackbraten commented on Deprecations via warnings don't work for Python libraries sethmlarson.dev/deprecati... · Posted by u/scolby33
A deprecation warning is not actionable for typical end users. Why don't more warnings include calls to action?
Instead of a warning that says, "The get_widget method in libfoo is deprecated and will be removed by November 30", the warning could say:
"This app uses the deprecated get_widget method. Please report this bug to the app developer. Ask them to fix this issue so you can continue using this app after November 30."
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Mozilla still doesn't get it.
Hackbraten commented on Cassette tapes are making a comeback? theconversation.com/casse... · Posted by u/devonnull
> but it is really hard to make a good sounding cassette
It is unfortunate that cassettes are the lowest fidelity consumer medium (of modern times). But there is some room to optimize within that space. If you are curious:
The cassettes available today are Type I, Type II ("high bias") and Type IV ("metal"), each being higher fidelity than the last, but not all portable players supported these types of tape.
Dolby B/C noise reduction could improve the dynamic range of tapes a bit, but again not all portable players supported this.
The ultimate was "dbx", which dramatically improved noise reduction and dynamic range ("tape hiss" was essentially inaudible), but now you're in the territory of needing dedicated rack-mount equipment to record and play your tapes.
My dad was a bit of an audio buff, so I got to experience these things as a kid.
Edit: according to gemini AI:
* Type I had a dynamic range of about 50bB (roughly 8 bits)
* High quality tape with Dolby B, C and dbx yielded roughly 65, 75, and 85dB SNR (about 11, 12.5, and 14 bits)
So you could get pretty close to CD quality, but not quite.
> The cassettes available today are Type I, Type II ("high bias") and Type IV ("metal")
That statement feels a litle misleading. The only type of cassettes produced today is Type I.
Everything else is new old stock, where you might end up with a decades-old, chemically degraded cassette.
History shows that the best way to resist, in these circumstances, might be to let them in, and then blow them up in the streets and countryside until they leave. It's cheaper and (morbidly enough) probably has a lower human cost.
Wouldn't that require military training, too?
Thought this was a browser for my e-reader
I was hoping for an Animal Crossing themed browser where instead of an AI assistant, we'd get Tom Nook.
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Duracell gummies (AA battery shaped) would be pretty cool
That would be incredibly dangerous. Infants and small children would get used to the sight of adults eating batteries and before long, one would end up swallowing an actual battery and get seriously injured.
It reads decently in landscape mode, and i’m on a small screen (iPhone se 3rd gen).
It shows me only seven lines of text at a time [0], too few for me to read comfortably, let alone make sense of e.g. diagrams. Firefox on Librem 5.
