Eine Dunkelziffer wird es bei sowas immer geben.
Aber wenn dir das als aller erster Gedanke kommt, ohne vom Fach zu sein, dann ist davon auszugehen, dass die Menschen deren gesamter Job es ist sowas herauszufinden, das vermutlich schon bedacht und (i.d.R.) bestmöglich mit einberechnet haben.
Man. Those poor souls. Sent by some wanker who neither knows nor cares about them, just to die for some bullshit game. Their one chance to experience anything wiped out for eternity.
People trying to learn german are such fucking troopers.
German has terrible grammar
Verbs ending in -ieren are conjugated in participle II without a leading ge-. Examples for "schneiden" and "rasieren":
Ich habe mich gestern schnitten. ❌
Ich habe mich gestern geschnitten. ✅
Ich habe mich gestern rasiert. ✅
Ich habe mich gestern gerasiert. ❌
Most germans don't even know german grammar and are just doing it (mostly) correctly from intuition.
You can Block WebRTC via uBlock.
From my understanding, this, along with setting Meta on fire, may mitigate the issue.
At work we have bad documentation dept. Almost nothing is fully documented and most of the documentation is either outdated or has never been up to date (or accurate) in the first place. Old documentation is deleted without checking if it is still relevant… ect.
But somehow someone actually wanted Copilot to magically fix everything.
Luckily enough people seem to get that this won't work, so our manager resorted to ask us in a team meeting if anyone had ideas for problems that "AI" could fix. It's insane.
People keep telling me that the drainage holes on planters are not there to drain me, but the soil. But that's totally nonsensical. I mean, if the soil needs to be drained, why water it in the first place?
Anyway, how does one get their dick unstuck from a particularly sexy terracotta planter?
If you have any key depressed, for any reason, including but not limited to having taped a key (eg. ctrl) down, Teams will register you as "available", rather than "away".
Boah. Sowas hatte ich auf einer vierspurigen T-Kreuzung. Da gab's auch "Fahrradinfrastruktur".
Man wurde per Schotterweg vom normalen Weg inklusive Ampel und Verkehrsinsel runter gelotst und durfte abwarten, bis eine Lücke im besagten vierspurigen Verkehr war und musste dann nur noch diagonal über besagte vierspurige Kreuzung fahren. Total easy. Danke für den Schotter und die abgeschalteten Ampeln.
Immerhin konnte man aus einer Richtung auf die kreuzende Fahrbahn fahren, da mittels Drahtesel den Induktionssensor auslösen und durfte dann auch mal bei grün fahren ohne Angst um's eigene Überleben zu haben.
But what will I do now in my free time, if I'm unable to spend it clicking "reject" 874 times (real number btw.) for "legitimate interests".
It's amazing that the faster Ethernet gets and the more powerful network devices become, the fewer things we can do.
Why wouldn't just about everyone get the ability to print on the device whose sole purpose is to print things? If everything is set up right, you can even set per-user policies so Jarrett doesn't waste ink printing 50 AI pictures of kittens to hang in his soulless office cubicle.
Das ist'n bissl her, aber ich bin mir sehr sicher, dass das James Hoffmann mal in einer Factory Tour erläutert hat.
…hoffe es ist OK, dass ich das nicht raus suche. Müsste dazu jetzt deutlich zu viel Videomaterial anschauen.
Auch wenn 80% Zucker die Fairness nicht verdient haben: "löslicher Bohnenkaffee" bezeichnet die wasserlöslichen Bestandteile des Kaffees.
Beim Kaffee kochen wirft man halt sehr viel Bohne weg. Der lösliche Bestandteil ist hingegen das Bisschen, was man am Ende tatsächlich auch trinkt. Wenn ein Konsument nun seinen Löffel Instandkaffee ins Wasser kippt wäre da ohne Streckmittel deutlich mehr Kaffee im Kaffee als, wenn man denselben Löffel Kaffeebohnenpulver nehmen würde. Also streckt man das Ganze, damit'n DAU auch mit seinem normalen Portionslöffel die korrekte Dosis hinbekommt… und der Hersteller freut sich zudem über billiges Volumen.
Wenn's 'n guter Instandkaffee ist, dann ist der Kaffee sogar gefriergetrocknet und außer, dass die Hersteller natürlich die Extraktion stark optimiert haben, sollte es annähernd ähnlich schmecken… bis auf die volatilen Komponenten. Die suchen halt das Weite.
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Eigentlich erzähle ich das auch nur, weil mich Sebastian Lege aufregt, wenn er Erdnüsse durch'n Extruder schiebt und dabei so tut, als laufe im Teleprompter gerade zwei Dirnen und eine Tasse. Ich mein DIGGI. DAS SIND ERDNÜSSE UND EDELSTAHL. WAS ZUM FICK IST DAS PROBLEM? ERDNUSSFLIPPS WACHSEN HALT NICH AUF BÄUMEN.
"Eine neue Studie des arbeitgebernahen Instituts der deutschen Wirtschaft (IW) […]"
Cool.
Wo du gerade hier bist., Chef, ich hatte dich, sowie den Softwareverantwortlichen vor zwei Wochen mal angefaxt, weil unser letzter Windows XP Rechner inzwischen abgeschmiert ist und unsere Software auf leider keiner aktuelleren Version läuft. Gibt's da inzwischen was neues? Achso, und wir brauchen für den Fernkopierer neues Thermopapier. Unser Lager ist inzwischen alle und der Hersteller seit 1970 Bankrott.
It must be some sort of hobby. Especially with the Elitebook series.
The G1 had a bad charging curve and tended to produce spicy pillows. HP fixed it with a firmware update, and since the G2 had mostly the same design, they were fine.
Then the G3 came out, again with an incorrect charging curve. HP fixed the problem. The G4 were fine.
G5? Bad charging curve… wanna guess if the G6 was affected?
I add oil, just enough to barely coat the pan, and then tap a teeny drop of tap water from my finger onto the pan. Once the drop pops (if it got touched by the oil) or simply boils away, I can start cooking.
Additionally: butter. Butter somehow doesn't stick for whatever reason, even if the pan isn't fully heated up yet.
My guess is that if most things "just work", Linux may be fine. I mean, there's a whole second laptop available and I'm reachable most of the time. I just don't want to play support all the time.
I'm also not that worried about locking things down. The parents can't even lock down Windows properly and have resorted to restricting internet time via a router setting. It's MAC based, and I think if the kid figures out how to change MAC addresses, they deserve a little extra Roblox time until the parents notice.
At the moment I think I'll sit down with them and we'll set this thing up together. That way I can teach them a bit about the differences and show them cool things like ad blocking or Steam and see how they do by themselves … and then make my (hopefully final) decision.
I would just like to say that I really appreciate everyone's contributions so far; even the little off-topic discussions.
But you are completely misjudging the situation. When I spoke of "first assumption", said they "know their way around Windows" and stated they found ways around prior parental locks, I was actually referring to the fact that "my kid" hasn't even been born yet. We've just slipped two iPads in, one with a YouTube-Kids Elsa Gate loop and the other constantly doom scrolling TikTok and Twitter.
I'm definitely not talking about someone who is a several years older than I was, when I got my first internet connected PC.
Sarcasm aside; they are more than old enough, according to their actual parents. They had a phone for quite some time; same for a Windows notebook. I just happen to have a better notebook laying around, but feel like Windows is sort of shit, and I need a little help with judging if Linux is the right call.
Just want to add to the difference in experience:
I leaned Linux, because I wanted to learn Linux and as such I was fine with stumbling a bit from time to time. They want a working computer that does Roblox and homework and don't care much about the rest.
I daily drive Silverblue (and the terminal is not useless >:c), and in a vacuum I would probably install Silverblue or another atomic desktop. But I worry about Windows compatibility.
Imagine the feeling when "you just click the .exe and everything installs itself" works for everyone but you. It doesn't matter that downloading executables from random websites is way worse than a proper package manager in pretty much every way.
It's still alienating. Going along with everyones technical dept may still be a nicer experience, because at least it doesn't require the effort of doing something different.
That's what I'm worried about.
I need to install an OS for someone whose first impulse upon seeing a screen is to touch it, because they are young and their first assumption is a touchscreen.
They know their way around Windows and Windows is probably tought to them at school, so Windows might actually be the smart move… but I fucking hate it.
Is ZorinOS or similar polished enough that I can leave it to someone whose tech literacy is centered around Roblox, TikTok and evading parental locks? I don't want to normalize the Windows-bullshit. But I don't want their first Linux-experience to be frustrating.
TLDR: The Corsair Virtuoso Pro is good and becomes pretty impressive with a bit of EQ. If you need a microphone, I think this is pretty ideal, especially for the price. And even without the need for a (btw. detachable) mic it's still pretty good. Somehow.
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About two months ago, I stumbled across a post on a German blog about Corsair Gaming, Inc's Virtuoso Pro. A gamer headset from a gamer company for gamers. Please excuse my snark, but that raises just about every red flag I can think of.
But somehow, it did pretty good in Igors measurements. Rtings also measured it and it still did well, but other than those two, there's just not a lot of good information on the thing.
About three weeks later it got a bit cheaper (130,-€, instead of the usual ~160,-€. It was 110,-€ last year too). Not exactly cheap, but fine for the assumed performance, and the included microphone solved a problem with my current setup.
By now, I've been running it for a month… and it's good. Not only is it good out of the box, it takes well to EQing. Which, for me, is the absolute kicker and opened the doors to combining it with pretty a cheap Fiio JA11 / JCally JM12 with flashed firmware as they come with built-in PEQ via Web-USB interface (the app is a burning pile of trash btw.) and microphone pass-through, just a lack in power. But the Virtuoso Pros are pretty sensitive anyway making it a pretty perfect match.
I'm currently running them with this EQ:
Preamp: -5.7 db Filter 1: ON PK Fc 20 Hz Gain 4.8 dB Q 0.6 Filter 2: ON PK Fc 150 Hz Gain -4 dB Q 0.8 Filter 3: ON PK Fc 1500 Hz Gain 2.9 dB Q 2.3 Filter 4: ON PK Fc 2700 Hz Gain -2.5 dB Q 2.8 Filter 5: ON PK Fc 3900 Hz Gain 6 dB Q 1.8
Here's my reasoning for this, if you are interested.
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First of: My preference is a good amout of rumble falling towards some warmth and then basically just Harman 2013.
If you check squig, you'll notice a big boost towards the bass. This is a decent call by Corsair, as open-back headphones tend to underdeliver in sub bass and a boost here can hide this effect to some degree. I just dislike the bump and would much rather push the sub bass via EQ.
Then there's a dip, a sharp rise, followed by another dip, I wanted to smooth out. This is mostly for clacky, metallicy, poppy sounds and some over-tones. I guess it "adds presence" to some instruments.
After 6-8k the measurements get wonky anyway and depend on the exact geometry of ones ear and head. As such I never really touch these anyway and the Virtuoso Pros do good here anyway.
But that's my ears. You better tune to your set. ;D
Imo, there are just two problems, both having to do with microphonics:
Corsair somehow thought a nylon sleeved cable was a good idea. Visually, I agree. Microphonically, it's terrible. I don't have a huge problem with it, but both the mic and the ear cups easily pick up any noise that comes with any movement of the cable on pretty much any surface. This is stupid. Secondly, unless you're a horse, the microphone has to be bent into an L shape. The arm is just too long and the microphone is prone to plosives. Not a good combination - even if the L-bend makes it easy to fix.
Other than that; I'd say they are pretty good headphones… with a microphone! Which is rather perfect for my use-case, where I switch from PC-gaming plus voice chat to my phone plus music and mix and match tasks as they come.
Edit: words & phrasing
Last year I managed to fertilize a single flower on my cherimoya tree, which is a bit difficult as the flowers are female in the morning and turn male in the evening. This year I will hopefully be able to have the tree in a south-facing window. So I'm hoping for proper fruiting next year.
Also, strangely enough, cherimoyas seem to do well in an indoor environment and don't seem to have any pest issues at all.
About two years ago I read up on chitin as a possible pest control/deterrent as I was always struggling with mealybugs and thrips, especially in spring, and buying IPMs was getting quite expensive.
I had the most problems with my banana tree (thrips) and my kumquats (mealy bugs). But since I added insect frass (in my case sheddings and droppings from zophobas) in the fall two years ago, this problem disappeared almost miraculously. Since then I have added a small handful every spring and haven't seen a single thrip or mite on any of my plants.
Sooo… idk, it definitely gets a "worked for me".
The plants are: a cherimoya, kumquats, figs, a banana, two monsteras, and a bunch of pitahayas (although the cuttings are only 1 year old and haven't found a permanent home yet), hoyas and a small pineapple.
Looking forward to hear everyones experiences with this!
I finally managed to pollinate my cherimoya!
For the uninitiated: Pollinating cherimoyas is a bit tricky, because their flowers only bloom for a single day. During this time, they are initially female and can absorb pollen, but only turn male in the evening to harvest pollen from.
To pollinate them successfully, you have to sacrifice at least one flower, take its pollen and hope that the next flower opens before the pollen is no longer viable.
TLDR: Citrus keeps turning black and oozing resin. But I can't find the problem. I thought it must be root rot, but they look perfectly healthy:
Long version: Because my first and second citrus trees fell victim to root rot, I started using a very airy substrate made of pine bark, perlite and some humus/worm castings in a 5:1:1 ratio for all my plants (figs, pineapple, cherimoya, monstera, etc.) with little adjustment. You may recognize this as 'aroid mix'. But it works surprisingly well in my indoor space with a west-facing window and terracotta planters (and my tendency to overwater).
But I can't wrap my head around citrus.
It always starts with rapid growth, followed by very suddenly dropping and crisping leaves, black stems and finally death.
I thought I must be root rot again, which I need to mind during winter. But today, when I dumped my fifth (!) tree, I found only perfectly healthy roots and nice smelling substrate.
I think it must be a pathogen… but what? I am at a loss. I keep killing my citrus trees and I don't know why. :'(
EDIT: replaced "5:1:1 mix" with "5:1:1 ratio" for clearification.
One of my smaller monstera pots keeps growing these little mushrooms and I'm wondering what exactly they are.
They come after every watering and dry off pretty quickly in about half a day or so.
EDIT: They are 'fairy inkcaps'. Thanks to Guenther_Amanita@slrpnk.net!
