LaggyKar

LaggyKar , 11 months ago to android in Google wants to reduce hearing loss with Android 14's latest safety feature

Android devices sold in the EU display a warning when headphones are connected and the user tries to raise the output volume level above 85 dB

No the don’t, they pop that up when you try to raise the volume above some arbitrary percentage. What volume that corresponds to depends on the audio hardware, it might be barely audible. And now they’re apparently gonna make that crap even worse.

LaggyKar , 11 months ago to android in Google wants to reduce hearing loss with Android 14's latest safety feature

They can’t do it for wired headphones either, hence why the current automation volume reduction sucks

LaggyKar , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to android in Google wants to reduce hearing loss with Android 14's latest safety feature

Especially when you’re driving and it suddenly reduces the volume to the point where it’s barely audible, forcing you to fumble around with your phone. And now that’s apparently gonna happen even more often.

LaggyKar , 11 months ago to programmerhumor in TIL about the greek question mark ;;;;;;;;;;

Rust does. But you get:

<span style="color:#323232;">error: unknown start of token: u{37e}
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> --> test.rs:2:30
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  |
</span><span style="color:#323232;">2 |     println!("Hello, World!");
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  |                              ^
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  |
</span><span style="color:#323232;">help: Unicode character ';' (Greek Question Mark) looks like ';' (Semicolon), but it is not
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  |
</span><span style="color:#323232;">2 |     println!("Hello, World!");
</span>

LaggyKar , 11 months ago to technology in Mozilla will open Firefox for Android for more extensions

It’s about damn time

LaggyKar , 11 months ago to linux_gaming in PSA for people trying out Wine/Proton for the first time

My experience with hasn’t been good, as it failed to read some files properly, while ntfs-3g can read them just fine.

LaggyKar , 11 months ago to technology in The new Sony Walkman costs more than you think, here's why

No, the product page mentions the “DSD Remastering Engine”, which says the same thing as the article. They probably just mean they’re using a 1-bit DAC, and are trying to pass that off as a selling point. Although the article did lose the “1-bit” part.

LaggyKar , 11 months ago to technology in The new Sony Walkman costs more than you think, here's why

you’d need to have 3D location information available about the individual sources in the audio

Isn’t that what Atmos is supposed to do. Although currently we don’t have personalized HRTFs for it.

LaggyKar , 11 months ago to technology in Comparison XMPP/Matrix

I don’t think it’s that meaning of “private” that’s meant here. It’s private as in personal, rather than an organization

LaggyKar , 11 months ago to technology in AWS: IPv4 addresses cost too much, so you’re going to pay

At least Tele2 supports IPv6 on mobile, not sure about others

LaggyKar , 11 months ago to technology in Comparison XMPP/Matrix

Why does it call XMPP “Chat Standard”?

From the perspective of private users, WhatsApp is the benchmark

Not entirely, there is also Discord

LaggyKar , 11 months ago to selfhosted in RSS feeds

You can subscribe to Lemmy via RSS

LaggyKar , 11 months ago to technology in If Google succeeds with the new DRM policy, will that affect functionality of browsers like firefox which uses a different engine?

However, if they do implement it, which I imagine they would if this API actually becomes widespread,

The problem is, is not really possible to implement it in a truly open-source browser, since anyone compiling it themselves (including distro maintainers) would fail the check unless they perfectly match a build approved by the attestor. If it differs from the approved version, that’s specifically what WEI is intended to prevent.

LaggyKar , 1 year ago to technology in Apple already shipped attestation on the web(DRM), and we barely noticed

Google’s proposal also has sites serve content to clients without the attestation, or at least so they claim in the repo (thus the proposal to make the check deliberately fail sometimes, so websites won’t rely on it. Of course, there is no guarantee it will stay that way, Google could change that policy whenever they want.

The main difference is really in Google’s dominance on the web. Sites can’t start requiring Safari, but they can start requiring Chrome or Safari.

LaggyKar , 1 year ago to selfhosted in How do you archive your e-mails? What format should the archive-files have? eml? mbox?

What does the Thunderbird logo have to do with this?