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\\ (slash@pl.starnix.network)'s status on Friday, 17-Oct-2025 20:02:11 JST 
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@piggo @kaia slop is the current meta, it's fine -
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\\ (slash@pl.starnix.network)'s status on Friday, 17-Oct-2025 16:44:30 JST
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@kaia can you stream it though? Imagine piping that feed into OBS with an overlay, what a cooking show. -
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\\ (slash@pl.starnix.network)'s status on Friday, 17-Oct-2025 16:26:44 JST
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@solidsanek mine didn't roll until I ended up getting one of those plastic mats that bite into the carpet for them, now they're downright annoying sometimes -
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\\ (slash@pl.starnix.network)'s status on Friday, 17-Oct-2025 16:24:34 JST
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@solidsanek mine are never anything so fancy, hard plastic double wheels -
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\\ (slash@pl.starnix.network)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Oct-2025 07:49:12 JST
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@SuperDicq I thought they were totally removing that with the new update, is there still some obtuse way to get away with it (and does massgrave still work?) -
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\\ (slash@pl.starnix.network)'s status on Thursday, 25-Sep-2025 06:48:23 JST
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@Alex @kaia bread goes bad pretty quick, that's definitely a gamble -
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\\ (slash@pl.starnix.network)'s status on Monday, 22-Sep-2025 06:39:47 JST
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@Mitsu all those notes but none that Tom and Jerry aren't Looney Tunes -
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\\ (slash@pl.starnix.network)'s status on Saturday, 20-Sep-2025 08:50:57 JST
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@icedquinn I agree with you- the way that wayland is similar is instead in the way that it's being used to starve X from continuing to exist- and that, too, is largely at the mercy of IBM, which is potentially a huge problem in the long term. Earlier this year when the Xlibre stuff started, it turned into a giant drama campaign suspiciously quickly, because it just started out as someone pointing out "my change commits to fix X code are being ignored, so I'll fork" which is totally ordinary behavior in open source. It very quickly snowballed into an attempt to stomp any continuation of X into the ground- and when you look at the plans to naturally drop X support, and how much time and effort is invested into Wayland, I get why.
I think its hard to ignore that through that funding and effort, there are multiple biases to keep in check. There's economic- you draw a paycheck from this work, you've spent years on it, your career or perceived expertise is kinda staked on it, you don't want to admit if early decisions out of your hands might've gone the wrong direction, or if something needs more work and will cost more money to the boss. Then there's also just the personal bias where you've committed so much time and energy, that it's really unpleasant to admit that something just isn't working still. So there's both an economic bias with the power of a company behind it, supercharged by the emotional bias of anyone who has committed all their time to it and just doesn't want to see that work go to waste.
That's kind of what I'm talking about- strong personalities deciding to do things another way and create solutions they haven't seen can be a great thing in open source, but at some point without care they can become a gear in an economic machine with attached interests that don't actually benefit the project it started as. When competition is healthy, and in particular when scope is narrowed and designed for interoperability with other projects, that is less likely to occur, so my bias is against projects seeking that level of influence/irreplaceability so quickly, or ever. -
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\\ (slash@pl.starnix.network)'s status on Saturday, 20-Sep-2025 08:26:51 JST
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@icedquinn I don't hate it, I even use it- but I am still wary of how fast it grew into the roles of other projects, enveloped their functions and made interoperability more of a headache. I feel that way about a lot of projects that behave this way- gnome, wayland, etc. I might still use them, but I don't like when there are too many of them it changes the nature of the ecosystem they're in. Sometimes those changes can be gamed by commercial interests as well, through the allocation and diversion of funding to nudge certain initiatives and starve others- and decisions like that can be made without input from or regard to the community too.
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\\ (slash@pl.starnix.network)'s status on Friday, 19-Sep-2025 08:40:02 JST
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\\ (slash@pl.starnix.network)'s status on Friday, 19-Sep-2025 07:35:29 JST
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@icedquinn I mean sure, but that first build up period even if labor is replaceable, it's still costly to the business to actually carry that threat out. Startups don't generally get another chance for a reason. Thus my point, not very good venture capitalists. I'm not denying that they're shortsighted and greedy- I'm just asserting that these particular ones are bad at what they do, numbers game or not. -
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\\ (slash@pl.starnix.network)'s status on Friday, 19-Sep-2025 07:29:42 JST
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@icedquinn Then they're not very good venture capitalists. Labor is considered capital for a business too, a startup needs to attract and retain employees if it has any shot. -
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\\ (slash@pl.starnix.network)'s status on Friday, 12-Sep-2025 22:45:55 JST
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Another week gone by. -
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\\ (slash@pl.starnix.network)'s status on Friday, 12-Sep-2025 06:59:31 JST
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@kaia motorola bringin that razr back -
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\\ (slash@pl.starnix.network)'s status on Friday, 12-Sep-2025 06:36:58 JST
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@icedquinn the interface was last week's assignment, which turned out to be a pointless acquisition until I found out about today's assignment (a preamp, the interface doesn't have the power to boost the dynamic mic) and now the phantom power feature the interface has is useful. -
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\\ (slash@pl.starnix.network)'s status on Friday, 12-Sep-2025 04:23:38 JST
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Gotta run to the local music shop for *the last time*™ (attempt number 3 or 4) to get what I need to get this microphone recording in Ardour. -
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\\ (slash@pl.starnix.network)'s status on Friday, 12-Sep-2025 04:17:40 JST
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@icedquinn I really tried with Luanti, but there's some kind of serious issue with the render backend and I can't get it to render anything but the player's hand whenever the postprocessing pipeline is turned on, doesn't matter which GL its using. Posted about it on the discord, never got a response. -
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\\ (slash@pl.starnix.network)'s status on Thursday, 11-Sep-2025 04:25:55 JST
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@tk one is HDR and has a built in profile so I can't match it to the other -
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\\ (slash@pl.starnix.network)'s status on Friday, 29-Aug-2025 08:04:00 JST
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@icedquinn @mia that's because on top of the sponsorships, the CDNs hosting the podcasts are stitching in local ads midroll for the podcasts and many of the hosts seem to be none the wiser to this phenomenon. Very annoying and I wish I knew an easy way to banish that stuff since I listen a lot to podcasts when I commute. -
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\\ (slash@pl.starnix.network)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 11:06:35 JST
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I'm back for a while. Haven't been checking up too frequently lately.
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