@brunoph Google was popular at the start because of their unobtrusive banner ads compared to many others which were flashy and animated which were very annoying. Now Google has become the same.
Say you take a hardcover book out to read (and maybe pack it for a trip) and that it came with a pretty dust cover, do you take the dust cover off and leave it in the shelf?
I have bought one for the first time and feel really scared of damaging the dust cover (the hard cover seems pretty resilient.)
@brunoph you have never bought a hardcover book before?!
i leave the dust jacket on and then use it as a bookmark. i have no qualms about dog-earing books in general, but if i bought a nice hardcover one that comes with a perfectly good dust jacket, might as well not
@shadowfacts yeah, in the past I've almost exclusively bought digital books (since they used to be cheaper), and only really started getting physical ones in the past couple of years.
The other one I bought before didn't have a dust jacket. It still feels too precious a thing
If you're using OCR or language model software to write your alt-text, you're doing your readers a disservice. Read that thing yourself. I'm sure many people using a screen-reader have access to those.
Instead, pretend you forgot what the image looks like. Would that text be helpful? Even just useful?
For the second time in a few months, my gaming PC started acting completely bonkers out of the blue. At some point it would refuse to start with all sorts of errors.
And for the second time, removing two of the RAM boards solved the problem.
The first time I thought it was a fluke, but now I have to accept I found the holy grail of crap: bad RAM.
Removing pops from a vinyl record rip is tedious as hell. I was trying to come up with a better (or automated) way to identify where pops are without listening to the entire thing in real time, and I thought of using a derivative of the signal (the idea being that pops should show as abrupt changes).
But then I just stumbled upon a simple solution: looking at the spectrogram!
Pops show as ghostly bars in the background of the signal.
I had to stop because I started going over the whole rip a second time, and I'm pretty sure at this point I'm fixing issues in the original studio master 😅
@brunoph the old out of print music situation just kills me. I know the whole thing is muddled by who owns what, but you just can’t help but think that there has to be a non-zero percentage of people that would pay for a digital copy of the album.
I did it! I just finished a task that I had been postponing for ages and which only took 5 minutes: I glued felt feet to the bottom of the trash can so it will stop scratching the wooden floor.
If you ever feel stupid, please think of this anecdote:
There's this roadwork going on around downtown, and one road is completely closed. I've counted: there's 12 very large, bright orange signs leading up to it that say "road closed - parking access only".
There's always a guy standing at the road corner waving a flag and pointing at the huge signs.
And every single time I walk past, there's at least one, often many drivers making the u-turn at the end of it.