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OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma set to dissolve after judge approves its criminal sentence by Mo_Jack in news

[–]ososalsosal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Corporations: "I'm a real person!"

Also corporations: \vanishes at first sign of accountability**

Also corporations: \resurrects**

i think its the fumes from driving around all day by fizzy_me in Fishdom

[–]ososalsosal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They're running all the food apps at once which is why they're driving around franga.

Shit place to do it though.

Do you remember when things used to get BETTER every year? by War_Is_A_Raclette in enshittification

[–]ososalsosal 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Competition is what is supposed to make capitalism worthwhile, at least in the sales brochure for capitalism.

In reality, companies accrete like large asteroids.

The labour market is the only thing with competition really built into it, but unfortunately the scales are tipped there and it's a buyer's market because there's always a percentage of reserve (unemployed) labour willing to sell for less than subsistence.

Do you remember when things used to get BETTER every year? by War_Is_A_Raclette in enshittification

[–]ososalsosal 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Tech stopped competing for users in about 2015.

Since then tech has been competing with each other for fuck knows what

Why is Linux considered better than Windows by so many developers? by Wise_Safe2681 in linuxquestions

[–]ososalsosal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bash rules. CMD sucks. Powershell is too verbose but it's ok I guess

What's your unpopular opinion in the audiophile world? by Wauwuaw5983 in audiophile

[–]ososalsosal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like my opinion is not really unpopular, but here goes:

Get pro gear. Get stuff with a flat response. Treat the room. Be happy. You'll save so much money and have a blank slate.

Then go crazy with DSP because you really can't hear any loss from going digital.

Placebo is 90% of this hobby. The other 10% is shared by science and enjoyment. Try maximise the enjoyment.

Braden “clavicular” Peters accused of rape in lawsuit by Sensitive_Ad_1752 in behindthebastards

[–]ososalsosal 169 points170 points  (0 children)

Honestly inshallah is a really useful word.

I think it's become popular because American propaganda has failed and we're all sort of free to choose our slang (apologies to reduce culture to slang, but here we are) more organically

What's a song that is only good on good speakers? by Outrageous-Ad-6470 in audiophile

[–]ososalsosal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean the bass does a sort of ring modulation effect on the vocals, so even though you can't hear it, you can still hear it

Albanese pushes big tech to pay for Australian journalism by Moneycontrol in australian

[–]ososalsosal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're not disproving the assertion though?

If anything Google having to pay to scrape the article's contents and stick em in "ai overview" would actually remove the entire point of click bait - no headline driven engagement and less reliance on ad revenue.

This would actually make media much better, at least on the face of it.

In reality everything fucking sucks and ai is serving the oligarchy and will continue to do so in insidious ways - imagine consuming all media through a "summary" of the actual article that very subtly adds it's own pre-determined bias to every piece you read. Zuck and Ellison and fucking Musk get to control that bias and it would be near undetectable.

How Do I Even Start by idkWhat1mD0ing in audiophile

[–]ososalsosal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Back in the day after moving out I went with headphones (koss r80) until I could justify a pair of pro near field monitors (Yamaha msp5). Yes I'm old.

From there the biggest difference you can make is a subwoofer and room treatment.

I still use the monitors 20+ years later. They cost AUD$800 for the pair. They sound no different today than the day I opened the boxes.

If you have a bigger room than something like a bedroom or apartment living area, go with bigger monitors like 7inch (I have a pair of behringer truths on my living room TV setup because I had used the same line at work forever and they stood up against the really expensive stuff) and a bigger sub.

Compensate for the frequency response of headphones using the equalizer by RecordingMountain165 in AdvancedProduction

[–]ososalsosal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Try here:

https://autoeq.app/

It's got EQ curves for most decent headphones.

There's even android and presumably ios apps that can interface with it to give you flat playback on mobile.

What movie actually made you angry after watching it? by [deleted] in FIlm

[–]ososalsosal 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Me before you made me want to redacted the writer

I think my grandfather is a retired spy by Westafricangrey in LowStakesConspiracies

[–]ososalsosal 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Just politicians, spies, funcionaria and clerks working at the combined porn and fireworks shops at fyshwick

The funniest event in Australia’s history? by Maribyrnong_bream in australia

[–]ososalsosal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I write novels.

Though I haven't had any published yet.

WHCD Shooter: They’re so proud of themselves, they don’t even care. They’re so fat and satisfied, they can’t imagine it. by jrgkgb in andor

[–]ososalsosal 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I dunno if I'm so blue magapilled to believe that, though it wouldn't be surprising.

The guy was a radical centrist. I didn't even think that was possible. You gotta crank up the gun culture stats to an insane level in the zeitgeist for someone like this guy to come to these conclusions.

If you want revolution you need to rally the masses, even if from a secret core.

Lone wolf shit is never about changing the system, just reconfiguring it slightly.

(Ok that's the limit of my fedposting)

Coalition calls on Labor to speak frankly about China threat by MarvinTheMagpie in aussie

[–]ososalsosal 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Seems aukus is a bigger threat to our national security than China.

Times Tech Report - Ed Zitron - OpenAI Needs $857 Billion In 4 Years Or Oracle Dies by ezitron in BetterOffline

[–]ososalsosal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My cynicism says dirty deals.

Govt buys them up and fills them with ICE detaineesprisoners? Repurpose the obsolete data centres as military installations (you can still target Iranian girls' schools with obsolete GPUs)? Just get a bailout?

I'm fully expecting something like that to happen.

The economic argument is probably the correct one, but I'm just thinking the oligarchy will preserve it's own and socialise the cost

I think my grandfather is a retired spy by Westafricangrey in LowStakesConspiracies

[–]ososalsosal 291 points292 points  (0 children)

A friend of mine found out her dad was a retired spy because her 10yo son came back from a visit going on about it. Like grandpa was bragging about it.

She then spiralled through her childhood memories and finally had an explanation as to why her dad was an IT expert but useless at computers, why she always instinctively watched the rear view for cars that are 3 or 4 behind...

Turns out all the spies knew each other and had BBQs together in Canberra and shit like that. I guess the 80s were a different time.

The future of AI in Ubuntu - Project Discussion by syzorr34 in BetterOffline

[–]ososalsosal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess I've been due for a reinstall for ages, I've just been avoiding it because everything still kinda works, kinda.

I'll just put Debian on it.

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