What's not how what works? What about the other poster's comment is inaccurate?
derek
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Metal. 🤘
"Stop pulling! You have to press in to release the trap."
Ah. My bad. That's kind of covered indirectly within the third reference paper (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959438808000871) and more-so in this paper: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2724262
Part of the process for our hearing involves otoacoustic emission (wikipedia), i.e., creating sound. My arm-chair understanding is that we think this part of the process misbehaving is a main contributor for objective tinnitus and why we can record it under the right circumstances.
tl;dr: ear too loud.
If you close your eyes tightly you can induce the perception of color. If you stand in a doorway and lift your arms to the side so that the backs of your hands are pressing against the inside of the door frame, keep pressing for 60 seconds, then step out of the doorway and relax your arms: it'll feel like your arms are floating.
The body's systems are complex and part of reliably filtering signal from noise in such systems is establishing a baseline while in a steady state. Our brains are pretty good at filtering out noise but the pressures or degradations which lead to tinnitus seem to trick the brain into accepting some noise as signal.
If you're looking for a deep dive then the following paper does an excellent job of outling what we know and what our best guesses are so far: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306987724002718
It's jargon-laden but nothing someone armed with a dictionary can't handle. 🙂
"01100110 01110101 01100011 01101011 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101"
With one hand you describe your desire to explore and tinker with the inner mechanics of operating systems (or at least your desktop environment). With the other your need for an OS to work just so without your configuration.
You can't have it both ways.
Three facts which may help you if you're able to accept yourself as the limiting factor:
- GNU/Linux freedom means, among other things, the freedom to modify. This is why distributions exist. Someone had a strong enough preference to take on the burden of constructing an alternative which met those preferences "out of the box".
- Everything you do in any GUI is executing commands for you.
- Everything in Linux is a file descriptor. Differing design philosophies are one of the reasons (among many) that Microsoft created the Registry for Windows. Warren Young's response to a question about this topic on Stack Exchange is nigh exhaustive and well written. This might be the lightbulb you're looking for?
My point isn't to discourage you. I think almost everyone interested in exercising their agency in computing ought to be empowered to do so. That isn't without friction and hurdles though and, at least as far as I can see, never will be.
Graphical Applications have to be built by people. Those people have to understand programming and the CLI/terminal because, again, every GUI interaction is issuing a command to the system it runs on. Not everyone knows how to do that well and those that do cannot program those applications for every concievable use-case. This is why you're often instructed to fiddle with things via commands in a terminal. No one has built a GUI tool to help you with xyz yet so users have to issue the commands directly if they want xyz.
If you want that tool to exist then you'll either have to build it yourself and share it with the world or pay someone to do that for you. This would likely be a pull request to add a feature to a program.
There is no world in which an operating system exists without a terminal, however; you might be able to help build one within which the average user never has to open one. That'd take a lot of education, hard work, and use of the terminal to accomplish and maintain.
To know what you're doing: read the manual. To take control: exercise what you learn from reading the manual.
If RTFM is too daunting a recommendation to start off with (no judgement! I get it) then start here instead: https://tldp.org/FAQ/Linux-FAQ/index.html
The Linux Documentation Project predates the Arch wiki (and it shows) but that has zero bearing on its utility for beginners.
I hope this helps!
I agree with you in sentiment, however; I believe the comment you're replying to was intended as a joke.
Bean.
Tone Indicators (wikipedia.com) have been around for a long time.
The syntax of modern tone indicators stems from /s, which has long been used on the internet to denote sarcasm.[4] This symbol is an abbreviated version of the earlier /sarcasm, itself a simplification of ,[5] the form of a humorous XML closing tag marking the end of a "sarcasm" block, and therefore placed at the end of a sarcastic passage.
Just because one hasn't been exposed to a concept doesn't make it new. :)
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