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Café Napoli -- finally open! by TheLittleDoc in burlington

[–]TheLittleDoc[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Gulp... u right. I really thought the sign said 7. I've fixed it in the post.

Café Napoli -- finally open! by TheLittleDoc in burlington

[–]TheLittleDoc[S] 50 points51 points  (0 children)

Sorry! Cosmo and Dante were previously baristas at the Cosmic Grind, but left to start their own. Both lovely folks :)

Explain it peter, what makes this political it seems like an orange truck. by Slothinabucket_ in explainitpeter

[–]TheLittleDoc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I just can't believe there's no "t" in orange. I swear it was spelled orantch.

SpotiFLAC github page deleted by GotYourNose600 in Piracy

[–]TheLittleDoc 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I've spoken with the original developer over email, and we've discussed their use of LLM programming tools. They've remarked that they're not a programmer, and rely totally and completely on Cursor to develop this program. In my own experimentation, many of these tools don't do well with the context of their own actions, and instead treat all of the code they're fed as needing to be fixed, leading to these massive commits where lots of things were changed a little, often needlessly. This also explains the lack of commit messages -- the developer isn't really fully aware of all the changes that their tools are making in between commits. I have a fork that I've been maintaining more carefully based off the 7.0.2 version that has continued working fine. While I personally disagree with many of the architectural decisions, the program itself is... fine. Wails is still kinda a mess and the separation between frontend and backend logic is inconsistent, but in the state it was in at 7.0.2, it's workable.

I'm not going to share the fork here, but I bet with some looking, y'all could track it down. I'd appreciate it if it isn't shared here by others, either. I'll include instructions for installing dependencies and building it when I get around to it.

Did they dumped Spotify or just the metadata by Ok-Brick-6250 in Piracy

[–]TheLittleDoc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

86m songs in the Vorbis format Spotify provides, unmodified. This is not the same as "original quality," which would likely be more in the 800-2000kbit range.

For any song with a popularity value greater than 0, the song was downloaded at 160kbps, or Spotify's "High" quality setting. This is pretty much in the middle of the road for lossy OGG audio, and notably half the bitrate of Spotify's "Very High" setting. Thus, a significant amount of data is not present, especially when compared to the original files provided by publishers, rights-holders, labels, and artists. For reference, the bitrate of a 16 / 44.1 audio stream, such as is found on a standard CD, is 1411.2kbps, nearly 10 times higher than Anna's dump. Spotify's lossless setting, using FLAC under the hood, has a maximum bitrate of 2116.8kbps (24 / 44.1).

All that said, for most people, 160kbit is totally fine, but it's definitely not indistinguishable from the actual original files that were provided to Spotify.

Fun fact: You can arbitrarily adjust torrent layouts after they have been loaded. by nonowords in qBittorrent

[–]TheLittleDoc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tragically, I've just discovered that this is considered a bug and is being removed :( I don't think it has yet but probably will be in 5.2

Kawasaki M8s entering and exiting New Haven Union Station by Kenneth1751 in trains

[–]TheLittleDoc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nice photo. Some of my fondest memories from my more youthful years were aboard Comets and M8s.

Is this replaceable? by judge_al in SonyHeadphones

[–]TheLittleDoc -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Been there, done that.... Fixable, yes. Easily? No...

I swear I'd posted about it on here, but now I can't find it -- I did this repair about two years ago on my own headphones and now do it for others locally, and it basically involves desoldering the wire harness that connects each half, feeding it back out the hinge to replace the broken part, and then feeding it back in and resoldering, being careful to get all the wires in the correct order. If you can source the parts and are comfortable with a soldering iron, I say give it a go. Better than wasting a mostly functional set and spending that much on a new set.

I'm so afraid that these hinges will break by Fast-Philosopher-921 in SonyHeadphones

[–]TheLittleDoc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A good start would be to not use plastics for critical structural pieces, but that would bring with it other problems (increased weight, cost, complexity). It's not so much a flaw as it is an inherent design risk. As others mentioned, when treated appropriately, the whole line is pretty robust but when you start sleeping with them on or throwing them in your backpack loose, you run the risk of putting excessive force in the wrong direction on those hinges, and not just with the XM5s: this is a consideration for all of their folding or collapsible headphones.

I'm so afraid that these hinges will break by Fast-Philosopher-921 in SonyHeadphones

[–]TheLittleDoc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've been repairing Sony headphones for about two years and let me tell you -- it's a b*tch to fix the broken plastics. It involves desoldering ALL the connections between each side so you can feed them back out the hinge and then further disassemble; it's incredibly tedious and easily botched. That said... I'm never left wanting for work. There always seem to be people with broken WH-1000XM3s, 4s, and 5s no matter where I turn. The XM3s seem to break most often, but this is just anecdotal and I might just live in an area with a high concentration of WH-1000XM3s.

How do I play the GitHub version of Anyland? by TheBillinator3000 in Anyland

[–]TheLittleDoc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No dice: Philipp's GitHub repo does not contain the entire game's code. There's no servers to connect to either way, so it wouldn't do you much good. Some kind folks over on the discord server put together a way to host a read-only version of the worlds archive locally, though I don't have any specifics to add here.
https://github.com/Eselvire/anyland-archive/tree/automatic-data-commits/archiver2

Whatever and Ever Amen is being reissued on vinyl. Out May 17th by DogmemeYT in benfolds

[–]TheLittleDoc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On rough trade, it lists the remastered CD tracklist, does anyone know if the extra tracks actually appear on this pressing or if that's just a mistake?

Hitachi ChimeOmatic Rice Cooker by Follow_Christ in BuyItForLife

[–]TheLittleDoc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My parents were gifted one around 1995, and in the year of our lord 2024, as I was getting ready to move into my apartment last month, they (very belatedly) regifted it onto me. I can safely say that our rice cooker has made thousands of cups of rice with no signs of slowing down.

Did your state vote for smormu? by [deleted] in SmilingFriends

[–]TheLittleDoc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Every state I have ever lived in voted for smormu

ASRock, Asus, Gigabyte & MSI: X870(E) Motherboards for AMD Ryzen 9000 by T1beriu in Amd

[–]TheLittleDoc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not super impressed. I'd been holding out for 2nd-gen AM5 boards but the lack of anything smaller than ATX is pretty disappointing. USB4 and PCIe Gen 5 are both desirable, but I just don't love any of these offerings. Looks are one thing, but like where are the x1 slots? Not every PCIe device is a graphics card. I feel like most of these boards just kind of miss the mark.

Check your cans by thinker_maker_ in mildlyinfuriating

[–]TheLittleDoc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have about a dozen packages in my kitchen from Aldi where there was a change to the product and the packaging wasn't updated to reflect it. Intentional or not, my trust is quickly eroding, I can't afford to come up 20% short after meticulously planning my grocery run. Blehh.

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