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@Skepticat This cat got married just a couple of days ago, he can no longer sit there peacefully 😿

@Klaatu
> China is thinking in terms of the very long game here

Apparently! Pay attention to the date, this was before Macron started voicing the same: US preventing EU from carrying out independent policy and how he would work together with China towards peace 🤨

@DotardTed

@safiuddinkhan This is the Hitler picture that broke my brain today 🤪
Translation: "A demonstration of real courage: this man refused to stand up and do a Nazi salute — he was executed for that by Hitler himself in April 1945"

m0xEE boosted
The old MacBook Pro I use now has a weird keyboard issue: sometimes "k" and "l" keys stop working — sometimes they work normally for extended periods of time, sometimes you have to press them multiple times alternating "k" and "l" to make them work again. I'm pretty sure the keys are fine, probably a microcrack in the ribbon cable, but, as I use a lot of software with vi-like bindings, you can imagine, it's really annoying.
And I think to myself: maybe I should just order a new keyboard from AliExpress? And I go to iFixIt to see if it's easy to replace and see this: sixty nine screws just to detach the keyboard? And there is a plethora of steps before I even get to this one. Oh, screw it! Pressing the keys to make them work again isn't that bad 😅

@Cara Unfollow them, open Network Monitor in Firefox (Ctrl+Shift+E), follow them again, find that request in the list and resend it.
Useless enough advice? 🤪

@DotardTed Those, who were responsible for anti-air will have an interesting "encounter" with their higher ups tonight. Probably also without lubricants 🤭

@duponin Bookmarked, thanks!
I had used a different one, but it stopped working since then, you can still place your request in queue, but it never gets processed, looks like backend is broken.

@duponin Also, sorry for asking it here, but this instance does not have DMs. Is there any free software that does this glitchy animation effect that you have on your avatar image? Maybe a GIMP script? I did it using some online tool and then chopped the watermark off with ffmpeg, but I'm pretty sure there is an easier way.

@duponin My religion forbids me from passing ReCAPTCHAs with bicycles and motor cycles and now Google only gives me them, like they are doing it on purpose 😢

@neural_meduza У очень многих они уже в настоящем.

@neural_meduza
«Не доставайся же ты никому!» — заявил глава дипломатического ведомства.

@gemlog Japanese shouldn't be that hard to learn I think, I had even tried it myself. Not much harder than English and it borrows a lot of English words, learning kanji is the hardest part IMO, but also most fun.
And you are right, people do appreciate small things like that. Nowadays it's often emphasized how Russians don't want to learn other languages, that might be true for a lot of people, but not the ones I know personally, a lot of them know languages other than English and Russian.

@gemlog Fun story!
> We all just want to communicate.
That's right! Some are better at it than the others: some keep thinking over, will they be able to get through with what they say, some don't care — half an hour passes and they are already using some sort of pidgin like they know the language well 😄
I'm probably somewhere in between: "Oh, I think I've used incorrect tense here… Fuck it, native speaker probably won't read too much into it and won't even notice" 🤣

@gemlog
> salamat
🤣
To be honest, when I was watching it for the first time, and that was long time ago, I was certain that they have made that language up. But no, actually that show had a lot more Indonesia/Malay references.

And yes, you are right. I can even read some German in a sense that I get general idea what it is about, but I'd never dare speaking it 😅

@mario Firewire used to be great for peripherals like audio interfaces and digital camcorders, it made possible for external devices to have direct memory access, which was questionable from security perspective but removed the latency entirely. Unfortunately, even when it was hands down better than USB in every way, it was only available in expensive devices and high-end laptops so remained fairly unpopular and was eventually taken over by USB when it achieved higher bandwidths.

@mario

@EricZhang456 had been experimenting with running Windows DAWs in Linux using Wine and it worked quite well — I think that is what I should try. Running Wine would be problematic because I'm running a musl flavour of Void, but having a glibc chroot would probably do the trick… All right, I'm just a lazy ass 😄
With tech, anything is possible, all the problems boil down to someone being lazy.

@mario When you deal with audio, latency is very important, I think general purpose VMs are not up to task. On top of that, I'm fairly certain it's impossible to pass a Firewire device like my audio interface down to guest OS the same way you can with USB devices. I know for sure it wasn't implemented in Parallels Desktop because soon after VT-d was introduced which made something like that possible, Apple had released MacBook Air, which had no Firewire and no one cared about it anymore 😔

@neural_meduza Опять реальные новости! Живут в телевизоре можно сказать 😩

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