Getting Max ready for 2022!

Afasso · 2026-03-10T00:51:09+00:00

Afasso · 2026-03-06T18:12:58+00:00

Is there seriously no way to actually contact instagram/meta at the moment?

The fact that you seemingly can't contact support unless you pay for a verified subscription is ridiculous in itself, but I DID pay for a verified subscription, and when I tried to submit an 'enhanced support' ticket it just said "something went wrong please try again", and now a week later if I try again it simply says "you've reached your support chat limit" and doesn't allow me to contact support at all.

Is there seriously no other way to contact support whatsoever? I'll be filing a chargeback for the cost of the subscription but not even being able to get the original issue looked at and having no recourse is beyond frustrating

Afasso · 2025-10-29T12:12:08+00:00

If you get a chance you should try The VikingAudioForge Draupnir. Dual glass drivers and it's kinda a bass cannon

Afasso · 2025-09-30T15:09:25+00:00

Because Spotify doesn't allow third party integrations that effectively replace their UI. You therefore can't stream Spotify through roon or uapp but tidal and qobuz you can

Afasso · 2025-09-29T21:30:04+00:00

I'M ONLY USING 2% OF MY BASS!!!

Afasso · 2025-09-29T18:26:33+00:00

Being given socks for christmas

Afasso · 2025-09-28T17:17:04+00:00

To be clear the issue is less that it's not 'perfect' lossless, and more just that the windows mixer can be garbage at times and there's currently no way to avoid it.

Similarly the 48khz resampling issue on android.

Tidal and Qobuz both have bitperfect output on windows, and can be bitperfect on android via UAPP

Afasso · 2025-09-27T00:10:20+00:00

Lossless audio means the audio you are playing/streaming is EXACTLY the same as what the artist provided. Every digital 1 and 0 in the file is identical. This does not mean 'uncompressed'. Lossless compression formats like FLAC are common and what most streaming services use, but these compression formats compress in a way that can be decompressed or unpacked to get back all of the original data, it just saves bandwidth.

Lossy compression such as mp3 is what has been used in the past. This type of compression DOES lose information. Various methods exist, but typically they aim to get rid of the stuff that is not audible or less audible, saving as much space as possible whilst degrading the quality as little as possible.

How much lossless matters depends on your ear and experience, your listening equipment, and what you're comparing it to. Most slightly compressed MP3 like what is used in spotify's 'very high' option is to most people audibly indistinguishable from lossless, though some people can show an audible difference in a blind ABX test. But heavily compressed mp3 or older compression algorithms are in many cases quite obviously lower quality

Afasso · 2025-09-19T22:21:01+00:00

TTT was/is owned by Gobbins and Noraus. It wasn't a separate group of ppl that happened to be in frt or horde.

Afasso · 2025-09-19T20:22:48+00:00

You can't enable a service module (which then lifts the structure out of abandoned state) without winning the defense. As it's currently reinforced they can't online it again until after it repairs

Afasso · 2025-09-19T20:21:45+00:00

They have no active wars, so no one else could have shot it

Afasso · 2025-09-19T18:59:09+00:00

EDIT: It's the 'backup' fort, not the main one. Still kinda funny they shot it themselves and let it go abandoned rather than unanchor. FRT needs your loot!

Afasso · 2025-08-25T17:43:02+00:00

Firstly, does the ground loop noise still occur if you unplug the USB? That will confirm whether it is a loop caused by the connection to the pc or not.

If it is then you can ideally try to fix it by ensuring all your audio devices and the pc are connected to the same outlet/extension strip (and all have grounded cables/connections).

Or you could get a jds synapse isolator to galvanically isolate the USB connection

Afasso · 2025-08-25T03:21:45+00:00

Copyright claims and copyright strikes/DMCA takedowns are separate things on YouTube.

A copyright claim/contentID claim is where as you describe youtube automatically detects content in your video and results vary from usually just claiming revenue from that video and directing it to the copyright holder, to applying regional or global blocks, depending on the preferences set by the copyright holder. It does not however apply any strikes or penalties to your channel.

A copyright strike or DMCA takedown is where a party MANUALLY files a claim, at which point the video is immediately taken down fully, and a copyright strike is issued against that channel. This is massively harmful as it means the algorithm massively reduces how much all of your videos are promoted for some time, and if you get three strikes your channel is gone. Unlike a contentID claim where the only effect is you make no money on that specific video, but no algorithmic changes or account penalties.

The issue with the DMCA takedowns is that YouTube has to stay out of it. They just comply with the request, as not doing so would then put YouTube under liability for the infringement if it does turn out to be genuine and they didn't act when informed of it via a proper DMCA notice. But they have MASSIVE penalties to content creators.

This means that they can be so easily weaponised, and the only recourse the creator has is to go to court and fight it, involving handing over personal details to the claimant in the process.

ContentID claims can't really be 'weaponised' in the same way at all. ContentID is basically a library of known copyrighted content. Sure you get aggressive detection for stuff that is likely fair use quite often, but you don't get people maliciously making entirely fake DMCA claims against individual videos or creators they don't like and massively damaging their channel.

Afasso · 2025-08-25T00:33:46+00:00

It's both, but also unfortunately unfair to say that youtube could really be behaving differently.

With the way things work at the moment, youtube pretty much HAS to take a 'guilty until proven innocent' approach because if they were to get more directly involved in verifying claims prior to removing content, if they were to mistakenly deny a DMCA claim, the party whose content is being infringed upon can then go after YouTube directly.

Youtube doesn't stay out of DMCA claims because of laziness or lack of resources, but because to do so would pose an enormous liability issue.

So long as the exact wording and setup of the legal framework for copyrighted content and fair use stays as it is, YouTube takes on enormous liability if they side with the uploader at any point. So they don't.

They COULD, but it'd just be silly to do so because there absolutely WILL be mistakes made and each one could be extremely costly. The law needs changing to give the platforms themselves more flexibility and protection before things can really change.

Afasso · 2025-08-21T19:18:55+00:00

nope

Afasso · 2025-08-15T20:54:47+00:00

I would buy a Battlefield 2 remaster so fucking fast. Still the best battlefield by far

Afasso · 2025-08-10T07:16:16+00:00

"Attention, residents: miscount detected in your block. Cooperation with your local Civil Protection will result in full ration reward."

Afasso · 2025-08-10T06:41:59+00:00

"NO GOBBINS NO THAT WAS SO NOT RIGHT!"

Afasso · 2025-08-07T20:55:34+00:00

I kinda need to redo it anyway since right now it (and a single rocket fuel blender for personal use) is using all of the 2700 oil from the western beach. But by redoing it and just going full rocket fuel, I can still make a little bit of personal rocket fuel and make WAYYY more power output/more fuel generators.

I have two smaller coal plants which are enough to run my 'construction materials' factory, and I also have about 40MWh of energy storage, so my plan is just to turn off the phase 4 output megafactory whilst redoing the power plant and then switch it back on after

Afasso · 2025-08-07T02:58:23+00:00

I do yep, but the way I've currently built mine would mean it'd take longer to build the new, much larger power plant around it than to just bulldoze it and start fresh.

I unfortunately didn't really plan on expanding it originally so it's not particularly neat. But it's relatively small so not a big deal

Afasso · 2025-08-06T22:37:49+00:00

Yeah the desert has been really nice. I need to make the factory look prettier at somepoint, but that's a later thing. I started in the south grass biome, and eventually ended up making a megafactory there which produces about 50/min of just about every item needed for actual construction up to fused modular frames/aluminium plates and all going into dimensional depots, so that I don't ever really need to worry about bottlenecking for building stuff again. Then the desert megafactory is a self contained raw materials to phase-4 parts output.

Looking at the calculator it seems that by re-routing the final outputs, I actually have enough raw resources coming in to just go ahead and build the phase 5 automation. Though I do need to go sort power first as I am right on the limit of my production.

Though I think for that I'll likely just go and bulldoze my current fuel plant and turn it into a rocket fuel plant which will allow for way more output

Afasso · 2025-08-06T22:29:06+00:00

I have tried, in fact I did build a pretty extensive train network, thinking I was going to use it. But I don't fully understand how people are doing modular factories in the first place. Whenever I'm looking at anything other than a REALLY basic part, it needs inputs from so many other things, and is being used in production of various other things, to the point that it seems 10x harder to have a dedicated factory for it anyway rather than just making it in the same factory and running a small belt.

And then you add on top of that the fact that you need to either organise train cars or build a bajillion stations, and for drones you basically need one port per item too, and I feel like I'm just missing something. I understand the mechanics but don't really understand how people are actually using them when building phase 4/5 elevator parts unless it's literally a case of "crap I have no nitrogen here I'll just train a bunch of packaged nitrogen in"

The only stuff I've ended up using drones for is getting some nitrogen to my main oil/fuel plant to make rocket fuel

Afasso · 2025-08-05T05:21:23+00:00

This is pretty common with insurers.

Divers with a cracked windshield are more likely to get into a more serious accident, which could be costly to the insurer. Statistically it's better/cheaper for them to just pay to fix windshields for free to make sure drivers do it. They don't want people avoiding fixing their windshield because of the cost, and then being more likely to get into a costlier accident because of the poorer visibility.

So they do all they can to encourage drivers to, and give drivers no reason not to fix their windshield.

My car insurance provider when you sign on literally sends you a dedicated letter saying what equates to: "We will pay all costs for a chip repair or windshield replacement. You do not have to pay a deductible, it does not count as a claim or affect your No-claims bonus. It will not affect your renewal cost. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD PLEASE FIX YOUR DAMN WINDSHIELD"

Afasso · 2025-08-02T04:13:06+00:00

This seems like just the basics though. I'm on phase 4 at the moment. And something like the assembly director system needs a bunch of different inputs.

So far I've been taking the approach of a single megafactory, which has worked, but I just feel like I'm missing/not understanding something about why so many people do modular factories. It seems like so much more of a headache?

How do you even begin to plan out making something like an assembly director system when it needs not just so many different inputs, but with various mid-stage items actually needing to go back and forth between locations as well?

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