doubletwist

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[–] doubletwist@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I lucky enough to get my first DSL line in 1997.

Was only paying for 128Kbps down but this was before they actually had any throttling in place, and I was close enough to the DLAM to get 1Mbit down. It was mind-blowing at a time when a 1.44Mbps T1 line was $1000+/month pipe dream!

[–] doubletwist@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

He'll be back in 2 and 2...

[–] doubletwist@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago (6 children)
 

Not going to go through the whole story, but this was NOT the guitar I was looking for. It was instead the guitar that found me.

The pictures just don't do it justice, but the finish on the rosewood has this amazing 3D effect, and the tone is best described as 'magical'.

When I first picked it up and strummed it in the store I could feel it in my whole body, and my wife's comment from several feet away was, "It vibrated my soul."

Martin 00-28 Standard

Then I got fired, but now at least I'll have more time to learn to play it in the way it deserves to be played. 😅

[–] doubletwist@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago

If you believe in democracy, yes.

[–] doubletwist@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

The sad thing it, for streaming "stations", Pandora still has the best algorithms and functioning (thumbs up/down only being applicable to that specific 'station').

It's a shame they've neglected their apps and almost everything else about their business.

[–] doubletwist@lemmy.world 25 points 9 months ago (1 children)

English probably. 😁

[–] doubletwist@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

Also...

The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

[–] doubletwist@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Just because YOU didn't know doesn't mean much. It just means you're probably not a White Nationalist/Nazi (or maybe it means you are and are just ill informed about the culture and iconography surrounding it ).

It definitely means something to white nationalists.

[–] doubletwist@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I've always been happiest with xfce4-terminal, though I'm using Konsole currently until XFCE fully supports Wayland.

Way back when, I was more than happy with rxvt.

[–] doubletwist@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

At one point I had found an existing issue in the bug tracker, but the last time I looked I couldn't find it again.

And I've tried both the open source nouveau driver, and a driver downloaded from Nvidia and they both had the same issue.

[–] doubletwist@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Unfortunately no. I mean for the most part it works pretty well (Plasma 6) but I do have a couple consistent issues.

  1. On my AMD gaming laptop it has some weird video static artifacts occasionally when running on the laptop screen that don't exist on external screens. But I know that it it isn't a problem with the screen, because it happens on two different laptops with the same CPU/ GPU combination.

  2. A slightly more serious issue on my work laptop which uses an old Nvidia MX-series GPU, and if I'm using an external screen, Wayland crashes if the screen goes to sleep.

But other than those issues, it's been pretty good.

 

We got lucky and the clouds parted just in time in my corner of Texas.

 
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