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Rai ,

That’s absolutely terrifying.

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Lawl I use a 4670k/16GB DDR3/1070 as my backup VR machine! It plays most basic VR games (even Alyx) at 90FPS, it’s wild! I’ve got a backup 2070s I wanna put in but I’m hella lazy. I also have a backup 1080 but I don’t think it fits in like, any cases (318mm)

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This was 2014 so those were fairly high end specs at the time

I think you’d have paid about 800-1000USD for those back then

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Mmmmm lobster bisque

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me after installing my bidet

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Welp my Scorched Earth char is out I guess

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1k hours of demo, many doing Highlander tourneys

Thank you, unemployment

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I fully did it like eight years ago and I don’t miss it at all.

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Torrent if you don’t lawl. Flac forever.

Also I know lemmy is DAE HATE APPLE but Apple Music is the shit, they have ultra high quality lossless for the base price and a gigantic selection. They don’t pay artists WELL, but they’re near the highest paying per stream. (I think tidal might actually be the highest)

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I’ve never heard of that format, that’s hilarious.

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Apple Music fucking slaps, after getting some fancy headphones their Spatial Audio is insane. It’s a novelty, sure, but damn if it isn’t fucking dope in some songs.

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Content: I strapped a camera on my face and got drunk and harassed randos in a country I’m not native to

Art: I wrote a song and played almost every instrument and also directed, shot, and edited the music video over the course of years*

Rai ,

so brave

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Interesting! I have an iPhone but I don’t use iCloud for anything because I don’t want my nudes online, and I don’t play games on my phone so I don’t have any use for Apple one hahaha

I’ve only failed to find one artist on Apple Music so far (DZK, an edgy YTMND/SA rapper from the mid-2000s) so I just torrented his music.

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I’ve heard this song a thousand times growing up and never actually listened to the words. Wild. Good stuff.

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That is some VERY juice background info. Thank you hahaha

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The excellent podcast “Search Engine” has a couple recent episodes covering this, the history of Google and how it became the core of the internet, and their bullshit AI shenanigans. Highly recommend.

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Do you have an iPhone or an Android device? Folks usually access them on phones! They’re just basically audio stories, fictional or nonfiction, informational or INCREDIBLY STUPID, but hilarious.

If that sounds fun, I can recommend some things!

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I’d you’re on Android, you have an app called Android Podcasts. If you’re on an iPhone, I highly recommend the free app Overcast because it’s infinitely better than Apple Podcasts.

What kinda stuff are you interested in? My podcast list is mostly comprised of non-annoying true crime, interesting tech stuff, and the dumbest comedy garbage I’ve ever heard (and I very much love how dumb it is.)

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I loved Apple Podcasts until a few years (maybe almost a decade ago…) when they really wonked up the interface. I tried a couple different applications, but ended up on Overcast. It has a fantastic interface and gosh darn LOUDNESS EQUALIZATION (“Voice Boost”, they calls it) so podcasts that have both quiet and loud parts or aren’t mastered well are actually listenable in like, a car.

I’ve seen Apple podcats recently and it got better! But I still think overcast is vastly superior.

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Absolutely! “How to survive the media apocalypse (part 2)” is a deep dive, you don’t need to listen to the first episode (but the first part is also very interesting!)

Also “How much glue should you put in your pizza?” is a follow-up to the aforementioned episode!

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Thank you! I was misinformed. I had the first two android phones but switched to iPhones after my partner got theirs, and because phones stopped having physical keyboards, I hated the way Android typed. It’s better now but with a stock system I’m more into privacy now. I’ll keep AntennaPod in mind for reccos in the future!

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My GAWD I fuck with that

Sounds amazing

New FPS Built Using Doom Tech Is Better Than Most AAA Shooters (kotaku.com)

Things aren’t looking good for me. I’m a few levels into Selaco, a new FPS out now on Steam, and I’m stuck behind a bar as a group of sci-fi soldiers unload their rifles and shotguns into my hiding spot. I’m also low on health. So yeah, a bad spot to be in. I take a deep breath and try something....

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When PUBG was just coming out, it was absolute jank city and I LOVED IT. I was driving a motorcycle and my partner was in the sidecar, and we were suddenly jettisoned into space, apropos of nothing… flat ground.

We laughed but it was also a bit sad, as only about eight other people were left.

We fall down from space and land… and we don’t explode. We don’t even bounce. The motorcycle is on fire. We have taken no damage. We get off the motorcycle and walk away, laughing our butts off.

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What’s this exchange from? I feel like I’ve seen this somewhere, but maybe not?

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Thank you! I haven’t seen that since the late 90s. Chris Farley was such an incredible man.

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My org got Lastpass, and they’re like “you can use it on your home computer too!”

Yeah absolutely not doing that.

Then the data breach happened. Very happy I didn’t do that!

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Yeah, but not Lastpass. And I wouldn’t use the same password manager’s account for work AND home. I use BitWarden at home. My work switched to 1pass after Lastpass was breached.

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Nahhhh I’ll just use fully separate things. BitWarden works great

Even if it’s a separate thing there a data link SOMEWHERE that says Rai-at-work also buys a lotta shit from Bad Dragon

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Ring Fit Adventure’s endlessly positive encouragement really helped my partner and myself during COVID.

…also the daddy from bara dragon as well

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Based and incognito private mode pilled

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Firefox and WebKit for all!

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Love my PiHole but you’re hella correct

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Agreed, but also

How can you not kinda love it

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I hope to hear you* on Darknet Diaries hahaha

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Your explanations really are poetry.

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I have an old-ass iPhone XS and don’t run into this issue. But mine has a LOT of storage so maybe that helps?

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Most cuttable expense? Yah security lawl

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That video is A ART

When I started driving and my friends or partners would be like “can I play a song I love on your nice sound system” and they pulled up YouTube (this woulda been like late 00s to mid 2010s) it LEGITIMATELY SOUNDED LIKE THAT TO ME.

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Similar here, but I don’t do google and I hate Spotify lawl. I do download for my collection, but I’ve also subscribed to Apple Music because I don’t wanna fuck around with putting music on my phone, I mostly use my phone for podcasts.

But I just for some headphones that use spatial sound and holy shit is that fantastic. I have like five nice pairs of open-back fancy headphones and now I’m using my probudz all the time because it makes your music sound 4.5D and you can look around if you want and it sounds like you’re at a concert

Rai ,

HEAVILY recommend Sennheiser HD560s.

I love my Grados and other Sennheisers and I’ve tried some others that need amps, but I always come back to my 560s. They’re the best price for performance of all I own. If you’re patient, I got mine for 180USD.

BUDGET? Looove my Grado SR80e. Under a hundred bucks for some REALLY nice sound quality.

These are all open-back, so you’ll get a really good soundstage but they’re not great for loud environments. But damn do they sound good.

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Absolutely! I also love my pair of 599, they’re much less expensive retail but I can really feel the difference in the 560s (weirdly named, the 560s are superior). I think I paid 130 for the 599s.

The 560s have slightly better sound quality but they feel much better to wear for long periods of time. That all said, the sound quality difference is very very small for flacs, so if you find a good deal on 599s and you’re not wearing them for 6-10 hours straight (which I sometimes do) then you can totally save the money.

Both pairs don’t rest on your ears, and they both have ONE cord going to the left ear. My biggest complaints about my beloved Grados is they DO rest on your ears and they have cords going to both ears, which get all wound up and touch my chin/cheek which my ADHD ass does not appreciate the tactile…ness of.

As an aside, my partner isn’t an audiophile and I had them listen to my favorite headphone-testing-song (Tipper’s “Cuckoo”) in flac, with my 560s. I started the song and they’re like “I’ve heard this song before” and by the end their eyes were DRIPPING. I never realized sound could be so… extradimensional, and it really hits goodly.

Quick edit: oh and the Sennheisers have removable cords which can lock in, which is amazing because they come with a shorter cord and a LOOOOOONG cord you can switch out as you like.

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If you remember me, please let me know how you like them! And listen to cuckoo.flac and feel the little sizzles that tickle your ears and be like mmmmmm that’s some sizzles

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Ahhhh I’m confusing when I talk about them because I pluralize them too! My favorite pair is the 560s, or pluralized, the 560s…s. I found the 560s pair on sale back when I was on Reddit at /buildapcsales/ like a month after I bought a pair of 599 (actually 599 SE) and fell in love with them.

I looked it up and actually got the 560s for a STEAL at 160USD, so I think anything below 200 is a good deal.

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I miss those. And eyeblech. I wish Lemmy had some of those.

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To be fair, we’re talking about Reddit ten years ago.

And when that was banned, we got eyeblech and NSFL__

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What’s AIO?

I’ve always hated AITA sooooo much. Everything is so fake and the idiot comments make me want to gouge my eyes out.

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I ALWAYS do the audio captcha. Fuck image clicking.

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