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  • You mean the conspiracy theory that somehow the World Bank isn’t there to do it’s real job, provide loans to poor countries to aid their development, but instead part of some grand scheme to rob poor countries of their resources?

    Because what you claim to be well documented isn’t actually objective fact. It’s more construing mistakes these institutions definitely did make to be something they very much aren’t.


  • I’ve been using both for a good while by now, Linux is good but damn I know that’s a sacrilege but I still like Windows.

    Granted, I heavily customized my Windows install, made all the adjustments I wanted and threw out most of the nagging garbage and my locked down work computer is definitely worse.

    Windows just… works most of the time, and it’s fluent and does what I want.

    At the end of the day, most of the direct user interaction with an OS “directly” is task bar, start menu and file manager. And for all of these things, there’s a lot that annoys me on Linux. In Windows, I’m very happy.

    Just to give one example. I like the individual entries in the taskbar to fill the entire width dynamically. If there’s one entry, it fills the entire taskbar, you get what I mean. On Windows, that’s a registry tweak. On KDE, that’s basically impossible. Like, I’m sure somewhere in the source code for the panel there’s a way to rewrite that, but frankly, that’s close enough to “basically impossible” for me.






  • Basically two reasons.

    First, DS9 is straight up better. Peak Star Trek in my opinion, so it’s nice to end on a high note. Again, not that VOY is bad or anything, but if DS9 is 10/10 Star Trek VOY is more like 8.5/10.

    Second reason is world building. Really there isn’t that much overlap as far as specific parts of the story is concerned, it’s more that DS9 is so great because it turns some things that are taken for granted on their heads. VOY is useful because it kind of goes into that direction a little bit, with the conflicts that necessarily arise on a small ship far from home, and because you literally just learn more about the world/universe, whatever you want to call it, and the more context you have the better DS9 gets.

    Very minor spoiler, both shows feature conflicts with the Marquis and the contrast, as well as the lack of contrast on how these conflicts are handled is very interesting.










  • Most DAPs are just so, so garbage.

    Slow, crashy, dim screen, only support for outdated standards, no latest Bluetooth, no support for big SD cards, low output power, mediocre battery life, high noise floor, the list goes on.

    Even the ones that cost hundreds are super slow and come with like Android 7. Maybe Android 10. I whish I was joking. And many don’t have all the features any basic $150 phone would have. And they feel worse to use than a $150 phone.

    A lot don’t really have the power to drive beefier headphones. And a lot have a high noise floor. So basically, they only work with high impedance high sensitivity headphones. Just pure trash.

    A DAP should be a useful replacement for my phone and not require a dongle. Sadly, that seems to be a very high bar to meet.


  • It tends to be difficult to get good prices on quantities suitable for DIY projects locally, so AliExpress is your friend.

    All cables are snake oil in the sense that the “quality” doesn’t matter. Resistance can still change the sound, but cable length and thickness play by far the biggest role here, the difference usually isn’t big, and not every headphone is impacted. The guy over at diyaudioheaven actually measures frequency response changes with different source impedances and for most headphones it’s either nothing or an extremely minor change in bass response.

    And yeah, the independent ground is the important element that makes balanced cables different.