I've read before that Pulse really had a difficult challenge, since it had to really resolve a lot of hardware vendor quirks that essentially would never be resolved. PipeWire gets the advantage of not having those early growing pains, because Pulse went through them. I'm not involved with the development of either to really know one way or another the truth behind that story.
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as far as carrying a standalone audio player goes I’m reminded of my Toshiba gigabeat with rock box installed as the alternative firmware. I loved that thing. I guess I wouldn’t use such a thing now, though, since my phone is pretty good and powerful. But I am still missing a high quality, stand-alone, offline music player for iOS.
Texas is especially atrocious.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/29/us/texas-prisons-heat.html
The department operates 98 facilities, of which 31 are fully air-conditioned and 14 have no cooling at all. The rest have air-conditioning only in certain areas. The department has been adding air-conditioning each year and now has more than 43,000 “cool beds” — about a third of those in the system — according to Ms. Hernandez. The department has discussed plans to eventually air-condition all prisons at a projected cost of more than $1 billion, but still needs the funding.
OK, so most Texas prisons are only partially air conditioned. It's so hot that inmates feel like they're getting cooked. Even showers don't provide relief because the water which comes out is already warm to hot. It can't be worse than that, right? Oh wait...
The current cost of bottled water is now $7.20 a case. Before, it was $4.80 a case. An individual bottle now costs $0.30 as opposed to $0.20.
As triple-digital heat continues, Dr. Amite Dominick with Texas Prisons Community Advocates pointed out that the price increase could not come at a worse time.
"Oftentimes, the primary breadwinner is the person who is incarcerated. So that's an additional financial strain, and then they are forced to purchase things like water," Dominick said.
The TDCJ pointed out that inmates still have access to non-bottled water at their units for free, but Dominick said many Texas prisons are old with outdated pipes.
"The tap water is filthy. It's simply filthy," Watson said.
This is really the most important thing to try. A fresh profile with maybe only ublock origin as the only add on. If that is still causing problems then the root issue is probably something else.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-remove-switch-firefox-profiles
well that explains why whenever i look at a tweet i have to scroll past all the top comments which are inevitably the stupidest ones
If only millenials could kill the car market just like how we're killing the {diamond, fabric softener, housing, cable tv, beer, yogurt} markets.
We thought there were some loopholes, but it turns out the “Free” Software Foundation thought about them too and explicitly forbidden them. […]
GOOD!
I had this experience when while I was playing Bioshock Remastered on Steam, 2K Games in their grand wisdom decided to "update" the game after 5 years of neglect. Oh, did they fix remaining bugs or other outstanding technical problems with the game? No. Of course not. They dropped a "Quality of Life Update" to force a 2K games launcher, which immediately made the game unplayable for me because I couldn't get the game to launch anymore. The irony.
So anyway, I had to pirate the game I bought and transfer my saves to finish playing.
Instead of doing this it would just be more straightforward to just enable the resist fingerprinting flag.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-protection-against-fingerprinting
Note that you will encounter broken websites
This was about Namibia? The part I quoted
This lack of self-awareness stands in stark contrast with European nations that decolonized and, although in fits and starts, today seek to atone for past injustices. In 2021, Germany formally apologized for genocide in Namibia in the early 1900s, while Queen Camilla declined to wear a crown at King Charles' coronation bearing the Kohinoor diamond, which Britain plundered when it ruled India.
This is too funny. Did Britain return the diamond? No. Did Germany pay reparations? No. But this is “stark contrast” to what Russia has done. Very hilarious. It’s actually incredible that the author couldn’t even cite real examples of voluntary decolonization from western powers, because it was always done by force from below. And sometimes even those who tried to overthrow their colonizers were financially punished like how Haiti was.
The article is filled with dumb ideas, half-truths, and revisionist history. Can’t take this seriously.
I’m not a Californian so I don’t have any insight to their last senate election, but Feinstein probably checks every box the Democratic Party and DSCC want. She’s a liberal (this is not a compliment when I say it) through and through, which means nobody will tell her to get out of the way. She was exactly where she was meant to be to prevent any progressive challengers in the primary from ascending