@thehomespundays Ha, we also saw/photographed a red-shouldered hawk today (in Durham)! (Your photo is much better than the ones we took, however.)
cc: @Harena
Reminder: a person in the RICHEST 0.1 percent causes more carbon pollution in one DAY than someone in the BOTTOM 50 percent does in a whole YEAR.
The high carbon lifestyles of the super rich are burning through the world’s remaining carbon budget and costing us our future.
@maho You're avoiding addressing the questions I asked, pretending I asked something else and then claiming that what you act as if I asked is irrelevant.
Try again. You're arguing that there is no "free speech absolutism" because all free speech advocacy is either absolute or meaningless; I'm saying no, that's a false dichotomy. You reiterated that you think it is.
I then asked some questions about how freedom of speech applies in certain narrow contexts. If you truly believe that freedom of speech is an all-or-nothing condition, then it should be easy for you to answer those questions in that manner (I.e. yes or no).
That said, your 3rd paragraph shows me that you do understand it's not all-or-nothing: it only applies to how the government treats the speech of individuals.
I suppose it's possible that you're truly not familiar with the "free speech absolutist" position which holds, for example, that:
(I'm probably spending way too much time steelmanning your words in the hope that you actually are somehow arguing in good faith, but I find it helpful sometimes to encourage a stated position like yours to roll all the way to its logical conclusion.)
@ElleGray With right-wingers, it's never about actual principles (or even reality); it's all about making the other side look bad, so their side can win.
"Just so happens": nope -- and I think you totally know that's not what I meant.
Please, tell me more about "uncensored by definition". Does it include the right to lie in all circumstances? Does it include the right for your speech to be heard by every intended recipient, regardless of consent? Does it include the right for speech to be free of consequences to the speaker?
(Aside to @xgebi : sometimes, I enjoy toying with my prey. A little fried sealion sounds yummy right now -- it's been a long day.)
🌈 Did You Know: While most media file-types are measured either in gigabytes (GB) or gibibytes (GiB), anime video files are measured in Ghiblibytes (GhiB). It's true! :verified_paw: #LowQualityFacts
The context here for anyone who's missed it https://hey.paris/posts/appleid
@babe I remember similar dynamics when Google+ suddenly banned kids under some-number-I-don't-remember. It was... such a dense thing to do. ...but I guess history is made for rich people to repeat. >.<
@suricrasia Agoraphobia Conversion Therapy! :blobcatupsidedown:
(Actually, wouldn't Agoraphobia mean "fear of the lack of gore"? I am smart and clever.)
@jamey My idea was that the mixing could be done elsewhere, and send the post-mix audio stream to the amp. ...which seems like it's in line with your SBB concept, yeah.
@jamey Some good leads there -- I'll have to do some research 😅
For this application, latency isn't really an issue; it's for listening, not performance. (Latency could get annoying for the piano, I suppose -- but since I'd also have the local speakers, it would mainly mean just a bit of single-echo-effect getting added on.)
Re the audio-over-USB gadget-pair: yes, you'd think so! That's also a thing I'll have to hunt around for. (Also: audio-over-CAT5/6 might work better, but more expensive? So many inviting rabbit-holes...🐰)
@suetanvil It occurred to me to wonder if this unit is capable of receiving media streams that aren't from a paid proprietary service (I see "Pandora" and "Spotify" mentioned on the front) -- it has a LAN port -- or if it's hard-coded just for those services.
(I have some RTFMing to do on that, unless someone happens to know.)
If that works, though, it suggests a shortcut: just stream to it over the network, or stream to a "collation server" PC which then mixes the streams together as desired and forwards the mix to the amp.
(Added: A lot of the features I had in mind for my hypothetical digital amp wouldn't be possible with this, but it would take care of the primary requirements/wishes.)
@jamey "multiple laptops" -- yes. Description from a Signal discussion on this topic:
In the office we have (1) my laptop which I'm basically using like a desktop, (2) @Harena's 3 PCs (we're trying to cut it back down to 2, but waiting on a migration which is waiting on me, and I'm waiting on having enough room in the workroom to set it up to work on) on a KVM switch, and (3) a digital piano. I've recently been thinking about getting (4) a vinyl turntable with a USB output, and it's possible I might want to again at some point have (5) a cassette player.
So we have 2 line-level stereo pairs and 3-4 PCs (which could be sending audio via USB), and potentially another USB and another line-level pair, all wanting to use the speakers. (The piano does have its own speakers, but @Harena always says I have it turned down too low and I'd like to make it possible for her to adjust the volume to her satisfaction.)
Right now I'm using the M-Audio as a mixing console for everything, but it's only handling one or two of the PCs and I'm constantly having trouble with bad connections on the RCA jacks and the RCA-to-1/4" adaptors (because the M-Audio's inputs are 1/4" and XLR) -- so if more of the signal-path could be digital, that would save a lot of trouble. Also, the only interface I have for the M-Audio's internal mixer is QasMixer -- screenshot here -- which, although it doesn't oversimplify or hide anything (yay!), also lacks a lot of convenience features (my top two wish-list items: the ability to (a) store configurations and (b) gang sliders in groups) that make it really awkward to use.
...and [the point of the OP being] that all of that could be put into a single box, and (if done right) it would be a zillion times easier (and more fun) to use. ...and the controls could be replicated on every PC that was plugged into it, for that matter, so the actual amp hardware doesn't have to be physically accessible to everyone.
@tzimmer_history They're basically trying to establish an (old-fashioned non-constitutional) aristocracy, is what it looks like from here. 1066 (and all that) is too modern for them.
(...or is that basically what you're saying?)
