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Whenever I try to listen to locally saved music with them, they randomly randomly drop microseconds of stream, like as I'm diddling with a defect audio cable. It plays okay from phone's own dynamics, I tried three different apps, and it seems the problem is with these headphones or phone's bt connection.

I noticed, there's a systematic difference with how often the stream breaks depending on if I put the phone in the back pocket or have it in front of me, but I'm not sure. It breaks frequently as I print, and the phone is before my face lol.

I'm curious, how I can test if that's a problem with my phone or my headphones without ordering another pair if possible.

I updated to the latest version being on beta channel and some comments in threads look like having 125% size of letters compared to others. Idk if that's some option in settings (I've not found one) and I don't see some systematic rule of why it happens.

edit: added screenshot, first comment is of different size to the next one, changing font size settings keeps the difference

As some of you know, there were a couple of L4D-influenced games, like Killing Floor, Dead Island and Yakuza: Dead Souls for some reason.

One of these, Warhammer: Vermintide, developed by swedes in FatShark, flew under radar for a long time, until their second Vermintide game, where, with much pain, they finally brought out the product that is a highly addicting PvE coop shooter\slasher. Just like in games of old, there were certain mechanics you could abuse to become invincible, but instead of bunnyhope, there were enemy positioning mechanics and evasive dodge. It led me to put in hundreds of hours, and due to the PvE nature I rarely had any toxicity as a newby and learnt to care about other gamers as we as a squad were moving through the map to the common goal. I won't say about outstanding voice acting, character writing and stuff, there are a lot of things to love besides the gameplay, but the gameplay is the core to why I liked it.

BUT

FatShark decided to get EasyAnticheat there, and with their setup it completely prevents any online gaming from Linux unless you are a host - you get kicked out from other's games every other minute. Hosting games means waiting for others to connect or playing with bots, so it means they slashed a game in half for those not indulging into the windowsphere.

After leaving Windows for good, I had this one reason to be sad - that my favorite game is no longer playable in full. But later they shipped another one of their games.

Enter the Darktide.

This one does have anticheat, but it works right with Linux, and it presents another spin on the same formula.

When Vermintide was mostly melee based, and ranged enemies felt like cheaters, there nearly every threat has a gun like it's the US. It's narrative is based around being a random escapee from a prison camp slowly going up the hierarchy of faschist Inquisition, and every quote and every loading screen title reminds you that you are a disposable resource.

And it's gameplay, while in moba fashion depends on individual skills and equipment, still has this L4D breaking points: this games shoots hundreds of heretics onto you, and your positioning and clever timing is the only way to survive. Unless special enemies, that can disable you or deny area, would arrive. Unless someone from your team walks off and go solo only to die.

Skip the antifascist messaging, skip the cooperation implied there, this game has a hard and vulgar core of purely kinetic violence. Since the first game, they made sure, that your melee attacks feel like you are swinging the blade youself, and coming to Darktide, they worked on making the same for the guns that making the show there. Shooting there from various guns feels like in Doom 2016, and that's very enjoyable too.

I joined this hype train long after release, but I'm joyful to find a game that scratches me in all the right places without kicking me, and the one that shows real progress over what I've seen and got addicted to before.

One of our Win PCs got infected with that thing. It creates a VB script in appdata, and when it runs, every USB drive you put in it gets everything on it hidden - but a new shortcut with a name of a drive, that actually points at a script leading to a new infection. Updated Win just blocks it, but this one PC was on 1709, nuff said.

Itsohappens we had a thing to present via this PC, and quick, and at that time no one told me about the virus. We tried 4 different clickers one by one (2 A4 Tech, one generic, one Logi) and first three of them stopped working after that. They are all with fresh batteries, their BT adapters weren't recognized as USB drives I assume. What could go wrong?

I don't believe this VB script could by any chance move critical information on BT adapters like it did with USB drives, right? Even if there's a little flash drive with software, it should be set as RO by default. But I don't see any other explanation to that.

I don't have access to any of these three at the time, but I'm curious where should I begin to inspect this problem? How can I, probably, see the 'contents' of such an adapter, see coming inputs and outputs, maybe watch it initiating a searching routine, etc? I also have a couple of universal BT adapters that I bought for my gamepads, is there any use for them here, or are these toys strongly paired device-to-adapter?

Now, thinking about it, I am not sure if I tried them on my Arch (btw!) so, somehow, maybe it's only reproduceable under Win (with Logi clicker and Logitech bluetooth m+kb still working on that infected machine?)? Again, would like to hear, if there's something I can look for.

Bonus points for advices I can try on Linux, since Lemmy landed me there, and if I'd ever need to look deep into various devices again, better to learn it on a system that I'd use in the future, so I won't need to relearn it.

The clip is Megan Thee Stallion official video of BOA: youtube.com/watch?v=TKQY2ZlIEjY

I have several VPNs that play most videos alright, but this one is blocked via both my direct access and random sites promising me free yt downloads. It stopped to show up in search, yt-dl doesn't seem to work too.

Probably, it's due to DMCA because of their use of the Britney Spears' sample (?), a whole minus track of tik-tok tik-tok what're you waiting for song.

If someone can write a guide, how to access videos in that case, it would be usefull to us all. Alternatively, one can let me just download it from some personal cloud, and I'd be grateful for that. The track itself is barely average, but I did enjoy the work of visual artists there enough to post that request.

Please, tell me if there is another comm to post this.