High pitched noises sometimes. I have an audio spectrum visualizer app installed to confirm these. But they can be pretty weird as they bounce around. You’ll get these heat spots. Unfortunately, I feel like my ears are degrading now.

Anyway, dimmable LED lights are often a problem due to PWM. Only full brightness is quiet.

Smell, I don’t even know what the hell that was. There is or was something in the back of one bus. I wouldn’t say it’s smell, but… something. Just a spicy punch that doesn’t quite let me breathe in. I noted down the license plate if I’ll experience it again to confirm it’s the same vehicle, but this wasn’t the first time, though unfortunately I didn’t copy it that first time. Same line though, so possibly same vehicle as well.
But I am not sure if I was the only one, no one was visibly bothered, but who knows.

I don’t know, but I’d be too. I am even with regular items, honestly, and even with less damages. Like a single small scratch on otherwise pristine surface.

Similar, except I thought the existence of the pile was tipped by the flies (as there was many of them).

OK, here’s a somewhat famous case of email that could only be sent within something over 500 miles, but no further: https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles

Touch it until it works, then never again while it still does.

I am sure at one point I had some auto skip extension in Firefox for this, but I don’t remember what it was.

Doesn’t help that I often get fascinated by the most basic things, and then they just occupy my mind.

Recent example: Internet
When I say I get distracted by the internet, you’d probably think I go to TikTok or YouTube shorts. No, I mean internet itself.

I set up Tailscale, and it’s running on my headless home computer. And oh my god, I for some reason find it fascinating. I might not even have anything to do, but I just SSH in, or even run VNC, and it’s just awesome.
I am accessing a computer in a different city, using it as if it was here.
Then I run sshfs, and it looks like local storage. How awesome is that?
And it’s mobile data on both sides. So much data going through the air, through walls, to a distant tower, on both sides.
Plus it’s so quick! Just milliseconds, and the bits are here.

Literally what web is too. Using computers from not just different cities, but even different continents.

I’ve used it for a few months now, but I still sometimes just log in just because. It still fascinates me that I can access my computer from so far away.
Oh and oh god, I almost forgot about when I ran SDR++/RTL-TCP server on it, and used SDR from a different city. Sampled RF signal live, right over the internet, how cool is that?

Welp anyway, right now I tried to watch some video, but got distracted by random thought of RAMdisk. So, now I am listening to music from tmpfs for no good reason.

Brain: It is what it is.
Heart: But not for long.

Terminess nerd. From ttf-terminus-nerd, I think. It seems to be same or very similar to Terminus, but that broke at some point, although it seems to work again.

Oh, that’s not email, that’s just sdf.org bulletin board: https://sdf.org/?tutorials/bboard-tutorial

Check the SDF FAQ: gopher://sdf.org/1/sdf/faq/
You will need some gopher-compatible browser. I recommend Lynx. I mean, there’s also HTTP, but where’s the fun with that?

I do.

Nah, but I’d just overcomplicate everything as usual. There’s a reason why every piece of tech I get is hardly working software-wise after I play around with it.

Like, when learning something, and I start taking notes, I start to overcomplicate how they should look. I keep thinking of more and more stuff to add and cover with my “format”, and then I keep forgetting the proper “format” so I keep going back through the notes just to figure out… I don’t know… how many different headings I have and their applications.
And then I can’t continue for certain reasons because, say I used red, green and blue pen + yellow, green, pink and orange highlighter, but one of them has run out, and I don’t have a replacement, but I need the red pen because how else am I going to do sections, and now I’ve run out of time.

And when it comes to the first part, I am too lazy to write a cheatsheet for easier consistency.

On the other hand, I may not do it, and then I’ll never look at my notes again.

And look, I am back after over half an hour, I forgot to actually post the comment…

Oh, it really is.

What did I just watch?

1. Nestle products (I am bad at explaining why, and would just again end up researching their shit for 2 hours)
2. Alcoholic drinks - kills braincells, and I’d prefer to keep both
3. Cigarettes or vapes
4. Closed-source software licenses (for personal use)
5. Digital content that does not come on physical media
6. Hardware with license-unlockable components (e.g. some networking equipment may limit throughput unless you pay more)

I do that physically. The undo attempt. (Usually doesn’t work)

Alright, so others went over the “easy” way to see which program is being the offender. But I feel like the average Lemmy user just skips GUI at this point.
Say hello to KDE:

KDE also does automatic fsck before mounting, which is why it may take some 2 seconds to mount a drive.

HDDs it properly spins down and unpowers as well.

Writes are asynchronous on Linux.

Unless I mount it with sync, which I wish would be default for non-system drives (which are going to be in fstab anyway). I didn’t notice any difference, aside from the lack of guessing when the magic is over. 2GiB goes into black hole, now what?

Well, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code#Computer_DVD_drives

Basically same as regions on standalone DVD players. Just a scummy thing to only allow you to play DVDs from your own region, perhaps so that you wouldn’t buy them from cheaper countries, or buy them earlier than you’re supposed to in your country.

If everything works correctly, then say you buy DVDs from UK, but something new just released in US, but haven’t even played in cinemas in UK yet. So you buy it from US… and it shouldn’t work.

VLC doesn’t care about this, but still, the drive firmware might.

BluRays also have regions

By the fucking way, BluRays have some DRM with revocable keys

This is part of the AACS protection scheme: editors are able to revoke old software player host keys that have leaked on the Internet and distribute the lists on newer commercial disc releases. This is irreversible and cannot be fixed even after reflashing the drive.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Blu-ray#Revoked_Host_key/certificate

So when do you truly own something? When you pirate it. No regions, no DRM, 4k on any device powerful enough.