This. People assume that because it's "compressed" it must sound flatter, less dynamic, or just vaguely worse than uncompressed audio, despite the fact that audio compression specifically uses psychoacoustic models to remove the bits of data that our human ears and brains cannot hear to begin with.
Expectation bias is a helluva drug.
Yea, with the lack of mod tools here you don't have that many options really.
You guys have my sympathy. I'm a pretty strong critic of Apple and their products but I'd never go out of my way to interfere with communities of Apple users. That's just kinda pathetic.
Unfortunately, I don't see that there's much you can do about this apart from strictly moderate the comments section and just try to ignore the up/downvote discrepancies.
Can't say I've seen much evidence of questionable moderating in this community so far.
[email protected], on the other hand tho? Wew lad
Am I living in a backwards world where Linux uses the invasive complicated way and Windows uses the private simple way?
I mean, you chose xfce and that's a DE which makes you do everything the hard way anyway.
Both KDE and Gnome have the functionality you're looking for straight out of the box.
Ah, that's because GTK4 and libadwaita severely restricted custom theming. They may be ways around this but I have no idea because I use just adw-gtk3 as my theme so all my apps look uniform on Gnome.
So I guess you'll either search for a way to hack this or just stick to GTK3 apps if you don't want the stock GTK4 look.
Well, no.
In Spinoza's view, God is not a separate entity but the fundamental substance of the universe. It's God all the way down.
You are less comfortable with schools being able to deal with sensitive situations in a nuanced manner than you are with forcing them to adopt a single, narrow, sledgehammer approach that could put many students in harm's way?
That's a rather peculiar take.
I think you and others who thought the policy was a good idea are missing the key reason why it isn't.
The rule forced schools to notify parents regardless of the circumstances. It did not say that parents must not be notified under any circumstances. That's a massive difference.
As you said, this is not a cut and dry issue. If a school deems that a trans student's health and safety are in danger and that the parents should be notified, then they can make the decision to do so. However, under most circumstances, if the parents are not already aware that their child is changing their gender identity then there is a good reason for that.
These situations are highly sensitive and must be dealt with on a case-by-case basis - the policy destroyed all that and put many students in danger unnecessarily by completely removing all nuance from the situation.
Yep, seems we got it very early this time around. The Fedora 40 beta that comes with Gnome 46 isn't even out yet!
This is correct, although it's not the bass that is limited on vinyl; it's the dynamic range compression (or 'loudness') in general.