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Can you not just change it yourself in Gnome Tweaks? Which font is it they are using?

> I'd rather pay more and buy something made locally.

Do you mean the lavalier mic from Aliexpress I mentioned? Well I first ordered one from Amazon and from knowing that and from looking at many other offers it is clear that these are pretty much all the same model. And so you pay for different marketing. When it comes to “not knowing how it’s made”: It is not even using a USB connection but rather plugs right into the microphone jack. So not sure how this could be used for surveillance. And regarding the human rights: Sure that is not ok. But most things are made in China and it is hard to escape. But if you find something good made “locally” (wherever that might be for you) then please share!

I mean I have the Fifine with the non-tripod stand (linked above) and mic sock and use it already besides my notebook slightly angled towards my mouth out of the frame. I keep gain knob down and when I am lazy, I just set Zoom's auto audio gain adjust which makes for an even output signal even when you move slightly.

On conference calls my headphones are usually plugged into the audio-out of the back of the mic so I can monitor my audio (and Linux can also output the system sound to that channel).

Pulsecaster is a very good tip, thanks!

That is awesome, I def. also will get the arm (and esp. the shock mount). Do you have the mic close to your mouth "podcaster style" for optimal results or rather away and out of frame? I still struggle with that. I don't want to look like I'm trying too hard and it seems a bit restrictive having it hang between keyboard and screen. Having it next to my keyboard is already a huge quality improvement so I keep it there.

I am also not afiliated in any way with Fifine but I was really impressed by the build quality of the mic.

I am also on Fedora and on the journey of improving audio I also have been playing around with Pulseeffects. Playing around with gate, compressor and limiter, etc. can certainly improve even more (and cut off some noise, etc.) but I am still figuring things out:

https://fedoramagazine.org/tune-up-your-sound-with-pulseeffe...

I both know what a pimp is and that that show probably made the expression famous. (In Germany there was even "Pimp my Fahrrad") However, I was not aware that this is not generally used in day-to-day language by native speakers.

I think it is fair to assume that most people have some type of headphones at home or are capable of buying some.

Also you don't have to put the mic so close to your face that it is visible in your video feed. It still has a much better quality and less noise than many other solutions like bluetooth headsets I tested before.

I am not a native english speaker, to me "pimp up" means to "upgrade" something. Sorry if that came off wrong.

I bought the fifine condenser microphone and it is really nice. I use it on Linux and it only costs about 30 bucks, depending on which version. I got the slightly more expensive version for 40 dollars which has a detachable cable and a backchannel for headphones (so you hear directly what comes from the mic). The benefit: Linux uses the mic as a audio interface and also gives you sound through the port of the mic:

https://www.amazon.com/Microphone-FIFINE-Computers-Podcastin...

A cheap and usable condenser mic costs 30 bucks (e.g. Fifine), a lavalier mic costs between 2 bucks on aliexpress and 50 for e.g. from Rode. (I found that the ultra cheap aliexpress are the exact same like the no-brand 10 bucks on amazon, like so many things)

I got both but mostly use the condenser mic and it is an absolute game changer. If you want to explain something it is so noticeable in the eyes of your conference participants how good they can hear you. And it makes a huge difference if you finally feel like what you are saying is not painful for others to endure.

Check out this very lovely video series on how to pimp up your conferencing setup. Especially this episode about mics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKOx4hZKmOs

Edit: And this is the mic I can recommend using on Linux:

https://www.amazon.com/Microphone-FIFINE-Computers-Podcastin...

Do you care to share a link then?

I think you are interpreting too much into my side comment of “its a dark pattern I guess”. Hereby I retract this part of my statement.

> Things System 76 refuses to do: usbc PD

And: LVFS

> A new feature that adds value is not a 'dark pattern'. Lets not be dramatic.

Family plans are in my eyes. They log users more into the platform and makes it very difficult to switch. If you want to move away from Spotify, you now have to convince enough of the others to make it feasible.

> Even moving from one-time to subscription isn't a 'dark pattern'

I did not claim that it was one. I also was not even mad about recurring payments, to me the problematic change was that the data was now hosted on some other machine owned by the company who is producing the software (e.g. in theory single point of entry).

I used 1Password for a long time. When they shifted to the SaaS model I left angrily. Over time I tried out several other programs such as Enpass (came close to the original 1pw), keepass varieties, Bitwarden but found myself back at 1Password this year. One big thing, which funny enough is another dark pattern I guess, is the family account feature. I allows me to take family members on and we can share certain passwords and I think even help recover an account. This is also important because 1PW is the most easy to use password manager and my mom was really struggling with Enpass.

Slowsort seems to be another name for the (to me) more common name Bogosort:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogosort

Thank you so much! Man I cannot believe I missed all that drama.

Can someone please give a little bit more context for people out of the loop? It’s confusing to understand who stands for what (board of .uk, that company, the ex BBC dude) and what is/was going on.

Phew, this Austrian town formerly known as "Fucking" really dodged a bullet here:

https://www.dw.com/en/austrian-village-of-fucking-decides-to...

Edit: Damn someone beat me to it.

You're right, I'm sorry!

I mean its two different things: Nokia a mega corp (at the time) and Pine64 (a few hardware enthusiasts + small overworked dev community).

I get your frustrations and as a PinePhone owner myself I would not consider it anywhere near usable as a real Smartphone replacement.

However after installing Arch it is pretty snappy and has certainly sparked some new hope in me. I really recommend you to check it out.

For Signal there is (or will be) Axolotl [-1] which looks promising and when it comes to developer support both KDE and GNOME devs show some support for it. E.g. GNOME recently announced libadwaita [0]. Give it some time and check out the Arch release for PinePhone: [1].

[-1]: https://github.com/nanu-c/axolotl

[0]: https://aplazas.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/blog/blog/2021/03/31/...

[1]: https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Pine64-Arch

And of course the same goes for the PinePhone (albeit slower). I especially like that you can choose different languages for development although this is not a Librem/PinePhone feature of course.

1/8 km = 0.125km = 125m = 12500cm

So freaking what. Use decimals and you can easily convert anything into everything. And you don’t have to rely on those few cases where you can exactly divide.

6.8m = 680cm = 0.0068km, etc.

Who writes out prices in fractions?

Its even worse with baking. Scaling up units from recipes is really hard if you have fractions of different units like tee spoon, table spoon and cup and when ounces can both mean a volume and a weight. (“fl. is not always specified”) No thank you.

Also your examples are really poor, when the base systems keep changing in the same dimensions (e.g. length) there is not benefit at all, just confusion or reluctance to convert to other units because it would be too awkward.

I hear this again and again from Americans, but it is simply a matter of what you are used to, e.g. what you grew up with.

Its funny how it is so important to have a wider range of temperatures whereas I most often hear Americans use ranges. And instead of saying "today temps will go up into the 70s" you just give the actual number, "it will go up to 23C", what is the problem with that? You could also say because a celsius degree is greater, the number matters much more and it is often not necessary to give a range like that. Ranges or not, it does not matter. A celsius is certainly small enough that decimals are not necessary for humans day-to-day.

What I also often hear from Americans is that the inch is such a perfect unit and "2.5cm" is so awkward but then I hear "6/8 of an inch" and similar units or the mixing of feet and inch and I just don't get it.

Can someone do something against theverge‘s stupid (and non GDPR-conformant) „I accept“ cookie and tracking banner that takes up one third of the space on mobile? This grinds my gears so much.

Come on. Those are three separate actions of which the last one is to "confirm" the deletion in a modal dialoge. Hardly the same as one command in the CLI. Also if that would really happen, you can go into the trash folder and restore the items. AND of course that would only affect the current directory whereas `rm -rf ~` is a different story.

Makes sense, thank you!

Why would that be? In countries with universal health care (which would be pretty high up on the regulation scale) costs for medical procedures are significantly lower. [0] Americans have to understand that they are drastically overpaying for almost everything medical including drugs. There is no way around it.

[0]: https://www.healthnewsreview.org/2012/03/comparing-health-ca...

> But cost of healthcare is astronomical in part because malpractice insurance is expensive, because too many people abuse it.

You pulled the “trigger a European” card. This is not why the US healthcare is astronomically high. The reason is: practically no meaningful regulation and thus free roaming oligopolies of a few providers with insane billing practices (which hospitals are covered, etc.). And much more...

Oh thank you, that is good to know. Sadly before ordering a server from the sb, I cannot see the exact HDD models. It just says if it is or isn't the enterprise version and that is it, e.g. like:

"2x HDD SATA 2,0 TB Enterprise"

Which is too bad.

Regarding sever hosting: Hetzner has a very attractive server auction on their website [0]. For about 30€ you can get several terrabytes with a fast cpu and plenty of RAM. No set-up fee either. These are unmanaged dedicated root servers. Basically cancelled sever subscriptions are first offered here again before they take apart the server. So the offerings vary and are time-limited. However, if you pull the trigger there is no limit for how long you can keep using it. Servers are in Germany or Finnland.

I am currently waiting for slightly better offerings (a few weeks ago when I found out there were slightly more attractive options) and then will pull the trigger.

I yet have to find anything that comes close to this bang-for-buck ratio.

[0]: https://www.hetzner.com/sb