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My understanding is the SYS is pretty transparent though there will be a slight degradation in the sound quality—there always is when you’re manipulating sound in the analog world. But it’s not bad for a 50 USD device (from forum reviews, not from personal experience). You could spend a lot more...

Received 6/24/22, 54 cycles, 88% maximum capacity. This is the M1 MacBook Pro 16”

While it’s true that you could place stands under the ‘center’ speaker, that would depend on how high the 55” monitor stands above the desk. There could be just enough clearance for the monitor over the reclined speaker but not enough clearance if placed on top of sound absorbent material. I do...

Placing the speaker on its side on a desk runs the risk of resonating on the desk.

For best results, all three speakers should be identical and at the same level. Most home theater setups aren’t conducive to this arrangement but it’s the ideal.

I have three toons holding names in Classic but I played Vanilla so thoroughly when it was considered current content and I really don’t want to go back to it.

Elon is bitter because he was only going to donate more to OpenAI if they gave him leadership... While OpenAI's mission creep seems to be a bit of a mess, Elon is in full sour grapes mode. IMHO. EDIT: I should have read to the end of the thread before posting this, as you've basically just...

We have a downtown store here that has a crypto ATM machine. Since I don't trade in crypto I've never bothered to look and see what coin it trades in.

I used to really like Gnome and despised KDE way back when but when Gnome 3 came out I became a huge XFCE fan. My current desktop is KDE but XFCE has just enough graphical goodies to not suck and not be bloated at the same time. As far as market share is concerned, I'm glad it's getting more...

I’m very partial to the 805s and 704s as I’ve heard hours of them. Without knowing which pair of B&Ws you have it’s really hard to recommend an upgrade. If you’re only considering an upgrade because of other people’s opinions, then you’re doing it wrong.

I’ve tried many of the distros and keep going back to Debian proper. If I ever activate my main desktop again I’ll probably try out Manjaro as it seems like an interesting foray into the Arch world.

I haven’t tried this but here is something from StackExchange: ffmpeg -i audio.m4a -c:a flac audio.flac This is simply a container copy from ALAC to FLAC without translating to a lossless -> lossy -> lossless conversion. M4A is Apple’s default media container. The M4A could also contain DRM...

My understanding is the DT-770 was designed around 250 Ohms and it’s why it’s more linear. I don’t know that is really the case as my wife has the 80 Ohm version that I’m currently trying to break in which sound really good to my ears, though the bass seems to be more extended than my Sennheiser...

If I can get away with it (i.e., length), I use standard zip wire.

If there’s any gravity they should fall over, eventually! I’ve sometimes had to cast Sense Star Stuff just to ensure that the enemy standing up over there is really dead instead of someone I missed coming into an area. One thing I’m glad they haven’t touched: If you ‘accidentally’ hit their...

If you're in the middle of a bugged quest, the patch won't fix it. You'll either need to start a new character or go to NG+ and hope it's resolved there. So, it's looking like I'll finally be moving through the portal soon...

I do a lot of manual saves and also quicksaves. There’s a setting that also quicksaves for you upon certain conditions—I have mine on default still. However, sometimes you don’t find bugs until you’re pretty far into a sequence, like my discovery of the payloads trait bug, you may have to go...

I’m waiting for the patch to migrate to live before trying it. I hope it fixes the most egregious of the bugs I’ve encountered, though I’ll hazard a guess that it hasn’t changed how the Payloads trait ‘works’.

Neither the Eris 3.5s nor the Edifier MR4s should be used for mixing. Listening? Sure, maybe.

Patch delayed until ‘end of this week’ to the Steam beta channel. Hopefully it will be out of beta and officially released before end of the month.

Companies are going to the rental/subscription model to get around the first sale doctrine (in the US). It’s a pretty shitty maneuver and we shouldn’t reward the companies exhibiting this behavior.

Apple power brick only (USB-C to MagSafe ending). I'm pretty old-school in that I have no other USB devices attached. HDMI to (usually) my wife's 49" TV is the only other connection.

My work MacBook Pro is now showing 77% charge but this is after a few weeks of not rebooting the machine. The battery life is at 88%. This is after about a year and a half of service, mostly plugged in with the occasional off power brick computing.

Good. I have two of the Into the Unknown quests bugged.

I have a mid-2010 Mac Pro that is still in perfect condition but can’t run the new versions of macOS because it’s missing a Metal-compatible graphics card. If it were my personal machine I’d purchase a 480 or such AMD card and be golden (until Apple removes all Intel support from macOS) but...

You’re talking to someone who used to run Darwin… Nice try at being condescending, though.

Ideally, your front left/center/right are the same speaker but this will only work if you have a sound transparent projector screen or if your screen is far enough off the ground that the speakers slot in under it (which will probably ruin immersion). Subs without ports are generally going to...

OpenSSH is no longer being installed by default on Linux, true. It used to be on every version of Linux I was using prior to the discovery. It was also installed by default on OpenBSD (which I used quite often way back when). Just because something has source available doesn’t mean that...

You mean this kind of open source eyes? https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vulnerability-affects-all-openssh-versions-released-in-the-past-two-decades/

We used Plextor CD burners to submit gold masters. No other drive was as reliable at the time...

Use Sidecar (built in to macOS) to use your iPad to either act as a separate display or mirror an existing display. Some people have managed to use Sidecar with a Mac Mini as a sole display (don’t ask me how!).

Since you want to make this personal: Fuck you.

Do any of your speakers accept balanced inputs? You’d probably do yourself a favor by going USB or Toslink out to a preamp and then balanced to the speakers. Apologies if this has already been suggested upthread.

I never played Skyrim or Fallout...

1) I honestly don’t give a flying fuck whether or not you take me seriously. My opinion and rating are just that: My opinion and my rating. 2) I had already given the game a 6/10 rating. It didn’t change to 5/10 because of ‘da feels’ but because of bugs I can’t escape out of. The game has been...

You can get all but one in a single “game” and one power is dependent on your quest choices in “High Price to Pay” if I remember correctly.

I'm downgrading my rating of this game to a 5/10. After about 300 hours of game play, I have come across a game-breaking bug that I simply don't want to roll back to an old save for. I'm working on the "Power From Beyond" quest line and the temple I'm supposed to find is not visible. It's...

I started out trying to modify the Razorleaf but ended up just building one from scratch to get a feel for the builder: While it's lacking in the storage department, it's pretty well equipped for combat.

At what level are people here starting their first NG+ play through? I’m 76 (~260 hours) and I just started the Unity quest. I deliberately played this game without companions, even taking the Introvert trait, and now I’m being berated by my non-companions for game choices. :rage...

My only real ‘annoyance’ (and I put it in quotes as it’s so easy to fix) is it continually will change my scaling from the recommended 125% to 150% or 175%.