Do you mean it's never been able to connect to the Internet? Or that it doesn't to talk to HP? Is it just shared from one PC or via a CUPS server or something like that?
Church services are for religious education. I’ll be honest, I’m not sure why masses were conducted in Latin until the 1980’s - despite Latin having died out centuries ago.
At best, Latin masses are more about the traditions of man than religious education. At worst, Latin masses are for religious obfuscation, rather than religious education.
It’s impossible to be educated in a language you don’t speak.
It would be one thing if all Catholics were required to learn Latin in school, but they’re not. Since Catholics aren’t required by the RCC to learn Latin and the RCC never taught it, most Catholics never learn it. The ones who do learn it do so either to learn more about the roots of the English language or because they intend to enter a scientific field.
Latin is a beautiful language which a lot of traditional Catholics find more reverent than, for example, English.
Latin is also a dead language.
Most people - Catholics included - don’t speak Latin. It died out at least five centuries ago.
I myself prefer a good reverent Novus Ordo mass to a Tridentine one, but if I understood Latin well I would likely prefer the Tridentine.
You’re only proving my point. Latin masses don’t benefit you. They don’t benefit most people - Catholics included. They haven’t benefited most people for centuries.
It's very off-brand for Fairphone to start selling non-repairable earbuds and then release a phone without a headphone jack. Fairphone bills itself as being fairer for its workers, its customers, and the planet. How is Fairphone being fair to either the customer or the planet if they're making wireless headphones the most convenient option? Wouldn't it be fairer to customers and the planet if customers could use the wired headphones that they already own? Plus, wireless headphones have an artificially short lifespan due to the batteries.
I actually don't work with sound professionally. Though, for folks who do, it definitely makes sense to have a dedicated sound card. Though, you'd probably need a different kind sound card. The AE-5 Plus probably has some bells and whistles that you wouldn't really be able to use for recording and it only has one microphone input. For recording, you'd probably want something more like the Sound Blaster Audigy RX, which has two microphone inputs instead of just one. I'm not sure, but there might be sound cards which have even more microphone inputs.
Also, my AE-5 Plus is my first real, dedicated sound card. Well, unless you count when I used my Sound Blaster E1 as a DAC with my MacBook Pro. When I built my current PC in 2020, I avoided buying a dedicated sound card. I figured that by this point, integrated sound was good enough. Then one week last year, I experimented with my E1 again and was blown away by how something so small could be so much better than my motherboard's integrated audio. Sure, I could have just kept using the E1, but it's frustrating to use it as a DAC, you have to fiddle with the volume controls on the PC and the E1. So, I decided to buy a dedicated sound card. I didn't want to spend a ton, but I wanted to get the best sound card I could for what I was willing to spend. Plus, Linux support is important for me. I did some research and it turned out that the AE-5 Plus was the best option. Plus, Best Buy had it, so I got some rewards points for the purchase, so that was nice.
It's actually kind funny, because for a long time, I thought the time of dedicated sound cards was totally over. I thought the need for dedicate sound cards died out like in the 90's. I thought they were antiquated. I thought they were a huge waste of money these days. I thought they were like snake oil. I was absolutely wrong. Dedicated sound cards really are a lot better than integrated sound! It makes sense, though, since they have a lot more room for components than a motherboard ever will! Plus, they're a bit more isolated from the rest of the board, so EMI is less of an issue, especially with cards like the E1 which have EMI shielding.
Yeah, I've been beta-testing a Lemmy app on my iPhone and it's not perfect and it had an issue which caused me to accidentally double- and triple-post.
I’m hoping the EU’s new battery law will mean all countries will get Sony Xperias with removable batteries, though I realize it’s probably too much to expect.
Brave is also great.