[-] Tibert@compuverse.uk 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The new creative zen hybrid pro hybrid and pro sxfi seem to be advertised to use bluetooth 5.3 with LC3 and LC3+.

Tho not if they are on the market yet or if there are reviews.

[-] Tibert@compuverse.uk 2 points 1 year ago

Business proposal : destroy my money

[-] Tibert@compuverse.uk 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For me, it shows 1 subscriber, 1.4k users per month.

It seems to be entirely dependent on the instance.

[-] Tibert@compuverse.uk 3 points 1 year ago

You do not need to purchase windows 10/11 to use it.

And maybe if you really want to purchase windows, you may find very cheap keys online.

In France I can find win11 keys for 20-30 cents on Cdiscount. Most of the time, you just need to input the key after installing windows.

[-] Tibert@compuverse.uk 3 points 1 year ago

It's a solution, but very inconvenient. There is also no backup, in case of destruction.

It is also not encrypted. So anyone stealing it can read it.

A password manager is great for storing sensitive information like password in a secure way, at least if the master password is good enough. And the password manager isn't a shitty one (Lastpass). The online password managers allow syncing, and also often can export a file.

Local password manager can also produce an encrypted backup file which can be stored on a server. While also offering some convenience to log in and storing many random passwords.

[-] Tibert@compuverse.uk 2 points 1 year ago

Amazon is as you said extremely efficient on their warehouse and shipping because of their centralization and size. They can build extremely expensive warehouse to keep being efficient and surpass the competition.

There would maybe be possible to get an "enhanced" activity pub in order to protect privacy and financial informations. There is already something similar but without activity pub : a multitude of website where it is possible to buy things.

But there still needs to be some centralization, either through the postal service for small companies, or through centralised warehouse companies, with spzcialized equipments. And both of these things are already in place.

However if the OP wants a decentralized Amazon like efficiency, it won't happen. The costs will increase and it will take more time, because the way the shipment will work will heavily depend on the seller.

[-] Tibert@compuverse.uk 2 points 1 year ago

On Linux you're not stuck on a single theme. On gnome there is a plethora of extensions allowing to move the task bar as you want. Display the apps on it or not... And plenty more customization.

Gnome has however limited a lot the theming of the desktop (window color, border...). And now it's a bit clunky to install themes other than the default ones.

KDE has more customizations and settings, so much that it could be overwhelming at first.

There are also some differences with the file manager. I prefer Nautilus from Gnome (you can still install it on kde, tho it won't have the same look as the other apps).

And the KDE disk manager may as well be trash in my hands. I can't even setup a mount at boot without getting errors. So I just install Gnome Disks as I find it pretty easy to use.

on Linux if you have multiple partitions, and you want to set a shortcut to a secondary partition, you need to mount the partition (activate it). In Linux a partition is like a folder. It is mounted to a folder.

[-] Tibert@compuverse.uk 2 points 1 year ago

You answered it yourself. You have no idea how these fuel canisters work. And not even how dangerous they are.

Hint : they are extremely safe even at high temperature.

[-] Tibert@compuverse.uk 2 points 1 year ago

Outside of steam, there are community scripts with Lutris and other alternatives.

But sometimes they don't work well.

There are also ways to play epic games and gog games easily through the Heroic games Launcher and Wine-GE.

(wine and winetricks and 2 other wine components need to be installed).

[-] Tibert@compuverse.uk 3 points 1 year ago

Not sure how instances are advertised on https://join-lemmy.org/instances

However advertising new instances on a community may not be a very good plan.

The issue is in order to find your post on that community, someone would have to be subscribed on another instance, but that would mean that a new user would see that post (by some random magic because it will get 100% buried by the other content) by already being in an instance.

So why would the new user look at your post, click on the link and create an account your instance inseatd of just creating one on the instance where they got first?

For the users already with an account on an instance, i don't really know if it would really have traction. It would be like competing against the already existing instance + account switch or multi account use. (also same issue for the buried post maybe, tho if someone really wants to search for instances he could just go and look at that community).

So posting in a community may help slightly, but because it's not like a community where people subscribe for content, it may have a very limited reach.

[-] Tibert@compuverse.uk 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You say that you watch movies and series. Watch them with subtitle in a language you understand well. However limiting yourself to only to this, may prevent you from learning English, as you'll maybe just read the text and don't pay too much attention to the sounds/words. Also careful with the platform you choose to watch on. Some have s* translation (amazon prime video in French. There is "context" but not always translated as expected for the wording).

This may help you for the speakers language, but not the text. Once your confortable enough to be able to understand good parts, try putting the subtitles in English. This will help you to associate sounds to written words.

And when confortable enough try removing the subtitles to see how you understand it.

When you read texts, and you get a word you don't understand, try reading the context and try understanding it that way, and translate it immediately or search it's definition.

I learned English in multiple ways :

  • School (still did a big part even more for the written English)
  • watching movies/series in English as described above subtitles in French, then English, then now without and understand most of it).
  • plying games in English

There may also be tools to help to learn English. We had in class an app called quizlet for some time, and learned words, translations and verbs through that app (tho not only that one).

Another great way is writing and correcting. It can help a lot. However if you are correcting mistakes with other mistakes the effectiveness may not be as expected.

This would not be every way to learn English, but it may help you for your ideas.

Keep in mind that learning a language is hard and takes time. Even more if you don't have the brains of a child (easy to create connections between neurons, which helps with learning anything).

[-] Tibert@compuverse.uk 3 points 1 year ago

The gaming space may have changed but I'd say it's because you changed.

You brought in your decision the "worth playing". Is this game worth to buy or is this game worth my time. When you can give your time a value, you can also compare it to what you are doing and if it's worth to do that.

I tend to not really do that too much, because gaming is a hobby. If I start to compare it to what I could earn, well it doesn't give the most "value" in monetary gain or maybe knowledge gain. But that is why it is a hobby for me, not work.

On the other side, is it worth playing? What is the comparison? The price? If you like the game? For me, if I can enjoy it, and come back to it, even if it's very long (Warframe for example is the one where I have the most hours played), well it's worth playing to me.

Tho some games are very expensive for the experience they give and some are really s* recently (gollum *cough) and those are not worth playing.

And is it worth playing compared to your other games? Maybe, maybe not? If you wait you can get discounts (at least on pc), and increase the value. And play your backlog in the meantime.

I think that playing the most recent games can be enjoyable but not always the best "value". Tho I still play "newer" even if I have the backlog, which I use as a filler between releases and "patient gamers" style.

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