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3 days agoBandcamp and Qobuz both offer non DRM music purchases for download, I buy FLAC files from both.
There are probably a few others though my preference is lossless FLAC so that’s what I’ve settled on for the moment.
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Cake day: February 1st, 2025
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Feels active to me… but I usually subscribe and participate in communities I want to follow and then browse my Lemmy Subscribed page. Rarely look at the All page, it gets annoying scrolling through tons of posts about topics I have no interest in.
4·15 days agoHow long has it been since the upgrade? You only get 10 days to do it easily so if it’s been less than 10 days just go to Settings / System / Recovery / Go back
If it’s been more than 10 days then you’d need to do a fresh re-install of Windows 10 on that system, meaning losing the currently installed apps and data. Make sure to back up before doing that.
EDIT: Maybe I misunderstood your question - if the laptop never had Windows 10 to begin with then there’s nothing to rollback to. You’d have to do a brand new installation of Windows 10 on that system which may or may not work if the system never had the proper Window 10 drivers & whatnot.
2·18 days agoYeah that’s a tricky road to navigate. Hopefully in time you’ll get to see a good Rheumatologist or similar to figure out or at least rule out some real deal inflammatory disease that might be affecting you. I have a Rheumatologist specialist now due to my primary doctor thinking I had something like that going on… the one thing I’ve learned from all this is that so much of this stuff is tons of blood tests and guesswork that just takes a while. In the end she ruled out most of those diseases (& realistically I didn’t present a lot of symptoms) but in my case there’s a some sort of early onset bone density issue and arthritis so it’s just something to monitor and keep tabs on.
If you’re luck(ier) maybe there’s just foods you need to avoid due to reactions (allergy, inflammation, whatever). I know someone who has a very restricted diet, she was just constantly getting sick with random symptoms most of her life until she finally saw a specialist and got tested for different foods and ingredients that affect her.
The long COVID effects could actually be a ton of other things. Before COVID was a thing there wasn’t really a name for that but those same symptoms are often experienced by people who were infected/recovered from other viral infections. Like for example the type that get carried around by mosquitoes. A family member of mine was infected and recovered from West Nile Virus - I only say “recovered” being that the hospital discharged him once he was well enough so statistically he “survived” WNV. But he has random symptoms that stuck around afterwards. A few went away after a year or two, some stuck around for longer… it’s all the same long COVID stuff that doctors just sort of shrug and say that the tests look normal.
Over time if you manage to get through all the different specialists and tests some of those things will become clearer. And don’t be afraid to try seeing new doctors / specialists if the ones you’re seeing aren’t really doing much to help you.
A healthy non-inflammatory / anti-inflammatory diet should already do that I thought… At least that’s been my thinking. I’ve been practicing sticking to non-inflammatory foods most of the year and still eat all the normal immune system boosting veggies/fruits e.g. garlic/ginger/apples/oranges/blueberries/etc.
For me at least there aren’t specific inflammatory triggers so that’s more about a general diet. Unfortunately there are people that do get inflammation from specific sorts of foods & whatnot so some people end up on more restricted diets, but even then the usual veggies/fruits are usually okay.
Just a spreadsheet, nothing fancy. Right now using Google Docs but it could easily be some other spreadsheet app (LibreOffice, Microsoft Office, etc.).
These sort of things just need to be something you understand and follow for your own use. Way back I started out trying to track finances with Quicken but in the end I found it way too complicated for what I needed and hated the idea of my data being locked in their specific format. And I didn’t even need any of the fancy stuff like syncing with bank accounts/credit cards.
Mine is pretty simple, the main columns represent each month of the year, top group of rows represent different income sources, followed by a group of rows representing non-discretionary expenses, followed by a group of rows representing discretionary expenses. Then totals at the bottom. Works for me.
3·24 days agoBrent Spiner does often appear in random roles here and there though he’s slowed down more recently. He was the wacky scientist guy in the Independence Day movies for example, LOL. He was also great in the Outcast TV series but I get the feeling it wasn’t as well known.
Most/all the main web browsers in use support kiosk mode, you’ll just need to search around for how to do it. This should get you going for Firefox
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-enterprise-kiosk-mode
Am not too sure how to get out of kiosk mode afterwards, maybe test it when you don’t have anything else running just in case.
EDIT: If you need to run kiosk mode for a specific amount of time as you say, you’ll probably need to also run a scheduled cronjob or similar to maybe kill the web browser at a specific time. I’ve seen kiosk mode for a few web browsers but they don’t usually have an option to set them for a specific amount of time.
Could try !AskUSA@discuss.online too
3·25 days agoFor the most part .mp4 / .m4a are interchangeable, you can go lossless --> lossless by going FLAC to ALAC like the earlier comment mentioned e.g. using ffmpeg
ffmpeg -i yourfile.flac -acodec alac yournewfile.mp4In fact, now that umt@lemmynsfw.com mentioned it, you can create a out-of-spec .mp4 with a flac codec inside it if you really wanted. again using ffmpeg
ffmpeg -i yourfile.flac -c:a copy yournewfile.mp4You’d have to test that whatever player you’re using can actually play them, I suspect a lot of players won’t know what to do with a .mp4 containing a FLAC codec unless the player already supports FLAC anyway.
PS - The files actually come out a tad bit bigger FYI, I guess there’s more padding and metadata in a .mp4 container.
You can’t go lossless (FLAC codec) to lossy (codec in M4A/MP4) without losing something.
Not sure which codec specifically you’re referring to in your M4A/MP4 but usually those containers are for lossy codecs and judging by the file size going down you definitely went lossless --> lossy. If the resulting file sounds okay to you then maybe you don’t need/want the lossless file anyway, that’s you’re choice.
Personally I keep everything in the original lossless FLAC, only generate lossy MP4 files when needed for a specific purpose. (but I’d still keep the original FLAC regardless)
1·28 days agoYes, though for a long time my employer never offered one so mines is only a few years old. But I do contribute up to the employer match.
Before that I’ve had an IRA that I’ve always contributed the max amount yearly.
Not a high wage earner so will probably need to work until unable to - but at least there will be some savings beyond the bare minimum social security that may or may not exist in 20-30 years.
Nope, I generally assume people I run into speak english even if it’s not fluent. That includes all the asians I interact with, there’s a lot by where I live.
Even newer immigrants speak at least some english.
Hans Gruber and the Die Hards
Got to see them when they did a tour playing with Escape From the Zoo, that show was wild!
Yup there’s already a pretty good list going in this post!
Not sure what to add, their sound is a bit different but I’ve been digging Playboy Manbaby and one of their newer songs Criminals definitely fits the post topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Abj78ccwPbg they’re amazing live. Robbie also has a whole side project with Spaceman Bob, he’s going to be playing at the Leftover Crack show this weekend so that should be fun.
got into RATM around this time last year and nothing else has come close to scratching the itch of “maaaan fuck this shit.”
Coincidentally Tom Morello mentioned Kneecap earlier this year when talking about bands of the moment https://www.nme.com/news/music/tom-morello-hails-kneecap-as-the-rage-against-the-machine-of-now-3877562 (around 20 mins in that interview).
Plenty of punk and punk adjacent music still around, lots of local shows still occur if you know where to look. I’m in the U.S. but can say for sure this stuff is still happening here and other countries too.
Bob Vylan and Kneecap were banned from the U.S. earlier this year and Zionists are still going around trying to get their shows cancelled just for speaking out on Palestine.
In general Zionists seem to be easily triggered, last year while on their tour playing a show in New Jersey Apes of the State had a big FREE PALESTINE banner at their shows and some guy at the venue flipped out and tried to take it down.
On tour last month in the U.S. Bad Cop/Bad Cop was selling FUCK ICE shirts while the other band on tour with them (The Iron Roses) were speaking out on LGBTQ issues and the general fucked state the U.S. is in right now.
Later this weekend Leftover Crack is playing a show in Brooklyn, I’m sure they’ll have plenty to say on the current state of things.
Best all around is to just remember to include fiber in all your meals. Veggies, nuts, seeds, whole grains, that sort of thing. You won’t have much trouble going when you’re ready to go. In the U.S. that also means not buying much take out / fast food junk, hardly any of those foods have fiber.
If you meant “quickest” then you might be thinking of foods with a laxative effect, a quick drink of black coffee cold brew concentrate works for me. Something I discovered by accident when in a rush to get my day going one morning LOL.
Did way more Halloween stuff in my 20’s-30’s, slowed down a bit in my 40’s but still go out to events in October.
I was a Chilean miner in 2010, that one was fun since the mining accident in Chile was all over the news at the time and people immediately recognized the hardhat and whatnot.
Another year I had dressed up as a sort of sleepwalker complete with bathrobe, slippers, etc. But it turned out that was way too vague and everyone called me Hugh Hefner that night.
But most years I was a bit lazier and just turned myself into a zombie with makeup, fake blood, ripped clothes, that sort of thing.
Not sure if it’s really what you’re asking about but the Aqua Teen Hunger Force series has a few fake video games during the series. The Video Ouija episode has two, “Video Ouija” (a game where you summon/talk to ghosts) and “Insult Master” (a game where you insult your opponent), I’d play either of those if they existed LOL. e.g.
Frylock: Okay, Meatwad. Time to put the game up. It’s gettin’ late.
Meatwad: Come on!! Just one more dead person, please? Just one more dead guy.
Frylock: All right, one more.
Meatwad: Spirits that haunt this house. Tell me…what was we talkin’ 'bout?
Game Ghost: My sister’s baby.
Meatwad: Oh yeah, one them other dead boys told me about that. How she doin?
Game Ghost: She’s dead. We’re all dead.
A game I’m not sure I’d play is the one featured in the Black Mirror episode Playtest. It’s basically an augmented reality game that auto-generates your personal fears that you get to experience in realtime. Maybe it’d be interesting to try once, safely, but I don’t know how often I’d want to test my sanity in that way.