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Seems like obscurity is kind of an essential component to successful archival work. Art being preserved through capitalism's daily attempts to burn the digital library of Alexandria won't be achieved with flashing neon signs directing as many people as possible to the archives.

Using someone else's IP, such as claiming that something you're distributing is an episode of their show, most certainly qualifies for a valid DMCA takedown notice.

I literally don't set up my voicemail, and I typically don't listen to recorded audio that gets messaged to me. Texting is functional and doesn't leave me some anxiety-provoking message that I have to sit through and digest without saying anything. If a conversation needs to happen in voice, text to say that and see if it's a good time.

Wild that people just ring a personal phone number unprompted in 2024 without that being an established routine.

That said, I also remember when it wasn't at all weird to show up to someone's house and knock on their door. Things have really changed.

Moving blankets are a wonderful solution. Hang them over your windows and enjoy the quiet. Get thick ones. Uhaul has good ones.

Yeah, that's the bit that gave me the bro-y vibe, honestly. That and Brave. Also like, not that it's necessarily a bad thing that I can see his muscle veins through his shirt, but that's often a component of that particular corner of Joe Rogan-NFT-Bitcoin-Tesla.

But yeah, that makes sense. It definitely feels very sudden and artificial, which makes me wary.

Why are y'all spamming this Rossman guy suddenly? I had never heard of him before two days ago, and now I've seen posts about him every single day.

Seems like a bro-y tech dude. He promotes Brave and references sexual assault when talking about the behavior of software vendors with their customers. Honestly he gives me kind of a shady vibe on top of that.

So like, why is Lemmy suddenly full of his fans? What's going on?

No, no, no. This is all wrong. USB has a spin of 1/2.

Trick the billionaires into going to space, then blow the ship up in orbit?

Is this why Windows has started opening all my chromium apps in edge? They fuck up constantly and it's really making me want to ditch windows.

If I understood Jack audio as well as I understand Voicemeeter, and if I could get my damn push to talk button working properly in Solaar I'd be done by now.

If anyone has a solution to the edge thing please help.

If it were actually the mid 2000s, I'd be okay for an insane amount of time with just Flash and Audacity. Today, probably the first Baldur's Gate.

Oo or an snes emulator with Shadowrun.

I feel like fraud is a big risk for, what, less than $100/mo? You can do better.

They're literally an insurance company. They have lawyers coming out of their ears.

That depends on what you want out of them. If you want to minimize the amount of stuff you're carrying around as your top priority, sure, phones are great. But if you want ease of use for a specific task without unwanted interference? They're not always the best.

Like, if I were doing any sort of meaningful photography, I'd want my actual camera. It's easier to shoot with, it allows for more control, and no notifications or phone calls are going to suddenly interrupt a shot.

When it comes to a music player, it's mostly good, but what if I want to keep listening to music while doing other stuff on my phone, or while talking to someone? Phones are pretty bad at that sort of multitasking. There are certain websites I can't read while listening to spotify, because something completely inaudible takes over the sound channel as soon as I load the page.

As to making phone calls? The number of dropped calls or calls with one-way audio is absolutely absurd, and not something I ever ran into on older dumb phones.

Convenience ultimately depends on use case. It is nice to always have some kind of camera on me, even if it's kind of a half assed one. Ditto to a computer, a music player, and a phone. But they're definitely not more convenient to use.

There's a reason dials, macropads, tablets, midi devices, and things like that are popular. It's usually a lot easier to control physical stuff sitting in front of you than it is to interface with some abstracted UI. Like, typing is so bad on phones that it spurred the creation of contemporary AI.