Notices by artemist (artemist@social.mildlyfunctional.gay)

hot tip: if you want any music to sounds like hold music then run ffmpeg -i $source -y -vn -acodec amr_nb -ab 7400 -ar 8000 -ac 1 -af "volume=-1dB" $dest.amr

would you still love me if i was a WORM (write once read many)

@hipsterelectron @ireneista @puppygirlhornypost2 oh god, i was looking at ble and learned that, until a few years ago, authenticating devices on reconnection was optional

okay, the actual reason everyone's using wireless headphones is because apple removed the headphone jack because they hate you (yes you) personally and none of the android phone manufacturers can think for themselves

this post inspired by me only having wireless headpones with me since no one cares about noise-isolating over-ears, especially not wired ones.

fuck it, buying a dt 700 pro x now since that seems like it's about as good as i'm going to get for "wear all the time becuase the world is loud" headphones unless i can find someone to make me custom in-ears that don't cause pain when i wear them for 5 minutes

wireless headphones:

• turn them on
• pair them with your computer
• a2dp doesn't work, so turn them off them off and on again
• a2dp still doesn't work, so unpair and repair them
• after 3 tries, they start working again
• watch a video, all the audio is like 500ms delayed
• wait until they run out of battery
• throw them in the trash

wired headphones:

• you plug them in
• listen to music/watch a video, audio has no perceivable delay

wow i can see why everyone is using wireless headphones now

dedicated to the brave reverse engineers

@winocm love autoconf checking for all the super basic c library functions but not dealing with actual os-specific behavior (environ is exported by libc.so.6 on linux but crt1.o on freebsd)

@nota in the US the pharmacist generally puts medicine into their own bottles and then sticks a label on, and they can't be bothered to actually emboss the label because of course not

@nota yeah but removing pills from blister packs can make your fingers sore so it's impossible to say whether they're good or not

@nota i don't love the massive cost difference, but it's not like the us has particularly cheap medication (i often find ibuprofen in europe several times as expensive as in the us)

@gsuberland @nota A bottle of 500 200mg pills is around 7USD here. I guess it's a per-country thing, I saw 5-10x that in Germany

i love how my landlord's management company is so incompetent that they can't increase my rent:

our lease expired on 31 december, we've been implicitly month to month since.

in april they said they wanted to increase our rent on 1 may, i said that was illegal and they have to wait until 1 august.

they sent me a renewal, which i signed. they then said there was a typo and asked me to sign a new one.

i signed the new one and they haven't countersigned or increased the requested rent payment on the website.

i suspect that i'm allowed to pay the old rate until they countersign the lease, but i'm not sure, i should probably ask a tenant union

@gsuberland it was sent via "adobe acrobat sign" so it would be a pain to edit

@q3k @wolf480pl i think systemd supports using mac address in interface names but doesn't by default for some weird reason?

well, after some painful goodbyes to my catgirl, it's time to take a lot of trains
my first one: J from [redacted] to Jamaica

2: annoying expensive train to JFK terminal 4. At least it accepts contactless now.
I was surprised to see it going nearly 100km/h, though.

(Couldn't get a photo because I had to rush to catch it)

Also why is there a silent alarm?

oh cool they gave me actual ticket stock this time
(A check in either saw my CPAP bag and had to go talk to their supervisor and reissued my ticket. I'm not using my CPAP on the plane but I guess they wanted it to be listed on the manifest)

time to fuck up my emotions by playing the song i associate most with departing on a plane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLvrTeE7S6A

(departure isn't for another 75 minutes but I thought of it)

"her dress was the colour of a European Union passport"

(it's a bit closer in person, lighting is weird)