You mean the conspiracy theory that somehow the World Bank isn’t there to do it’s real job, provide loans to poor countries to aid their development, but instead part of some grand scheme to rob poor countries of their resources?

Because what you claim to be well documented isn’t actually objective fact. It’s more construing mistakes these institutions definitely did make to be something they very much aren’t.

I’ve been using both for a good while by now, Linux is good but damn I know that’s a sacrilege but I still like Windows.

Granted, I heavily customized my Windows install, made all the adjustments I wanted and threw out most of the nagging garbage and my locked down work computer is definitely worse.

Windows just… works most of the time, and it’s fluent and does what I want.

At the end of the day, most of the direct user interaction with an OS “directly” is task bar, start menu and file manager. And for all of these things, there’s a lot that annoys me on Linux. In Windows, I’m very happy.

Just to give one example. I like the individual entries in the taskbar to fill the entire width dynamically. If there’s one entry, it fills the entire taskbar, you get what I mean. On Windows, that’s a registry tweak. On KDE, that’s basically impossible. Like, I’m sure somewhere in the source code for the panel there’s a way to rewrite that, but frankly, that’s close enough to “basically impossible” for me.

The meltdowns are something else.

On one smaller sub that participated in the blackout people were seriously accusing mods of rigging the votes to stay closed for longer. Of course nothing actually indicated that, and neither did they present any evidence, they just couldn’t stand not getting their content.

It’s just a suggestion, if you’ve already started DS9 I would just stick with that tbh.

Basically two reasons.

First, DS9 is straight up better. Peak Star Trek in my opinion, so it’s nice to end on a high note. Again, not that VOY is bad or anything, but if DS9 is 10/10 Star Trek VOY is more like 8.5/10.

Second reason is world building. Really there isn’t that much overlap as far as specific parts of the story is concerned, it’s more that DS9 is so great because it turns some things that are taken for granted on their heads. VOY is useful because it kind of goes into that direction a little bit, with the conflicts that necessarily arise on a small ship far from home, and because you literally just learn more about the world/universe, whatever you want to call it, and the more context you have the better DS9 gets.

Very minor spoiler, both shows feature conflicts with the Marquis and the contrast, as well as the lack of contrast on how these conflicts are handled is very interesting.

I would at least touch on VOY, it needs a bit to get going, just like TNG I suppose, but it’s solid. And the big, big payoff is watching DS9 after that. DS9 is fantastic, but it only gets better with the context from VOY and TNG.

Oh no it’s true, not all republicans are Nazis.

Some are just sympathisers.

I know what you pretend you mean, nobody is falling for that.

Fuck off to your sad shithole, nobody has any obligation to be nice to Nazis. To the contrary, every decent person should feel obligated to strongly tell them to fuck off. You don’t have a space here, we don’t want you here, you are not welcome.

It’s funny that this “slightly different viewpoint” when pressed for details basically always ends up being hardcore racism, homophobia or other great things.

Most DAPs are just so, so garbage.

Slow, crashy, dim screen, only support for outdated standards, no latest Bluetooth, no support for big SD cards, low output power, mediocre battery life, high noise floor, the list goes on.

Even the ones that cost hundreds are super slow and come with like Android 7. Maybe Android 10. I whish I was joking. And many don’t have all the features any basic $150 phone would have. And they feel worse to use than a $150 phone.

A lot don’t really have the power to drive beefier headphones. And a lot have a high noise floor. So basically, they only work with high impedance high sensitivity headphones. Just pure trash.

A DAP should be a useful replacement for my phone and not require a dongle. Sadly, that seems to be a very high bar to meet.

We’ve seen this spiel a few times, companies want to move to the cloud and then don’t because it’s ridiculous and plenty of things are just fine on local machines.

I don’t lend this any more credence than all the “we’ll all be gaming in the cloud in 10 years” crap when stuff like GeForce Now was popping up.

Why wait until it becomes a problem? The_Donald literally started as a joke brought over from 4chan. It grew and over time it basically went from “too small to do something about it” to “too big to do something about it” (to Reddit admins at least). Why even give these people a platform? We don’t have any reason to give them space to grow.

If you step in shit everywhere you go, look under your own shoe.

Well it doesn’t have to look like that, people can openly discuss what they want to do as a community, deal with it snowflake.

If you’re getting downvoted everywhere you go, maybe your opinions are just shit.

Yeah, the R70X are underappreciated in my opinion. Only issue is that the cups aren’t super big so if you have large or very protruding ears they won’t fit. I have pretty “normal” ears for a normal man and they fit great, it’s just something to be aware of.

It’s tough.

I like IEMs but these days I mostly use my Porta Pros when outside, they are small, light and cheap and I actually like that I can hear my surroundings. They also have way better sound than they have any right to for the price, especially with the right pads/EQ. Stock they are quite muddy but bringing down the lower midrange really makes them shine. So I have kinda stopped putting too much into IEMs since I know I just grab my Porta Pros most of the time anyway.

The best headphones sound wise I’ve owned so far are the Edition XS. I don’t mind the slightly spicy treble and they just do everything so well, very good tuning, absolutely great detail, excellent imaging and soundstage. They can easily compete with a lot of stuff over $1000. I sold them because they get kinda uncomfortable after wearing them for a few hours and I always worried that they would break, but if all you care is the absolutely best sound for the price you should buy nothing else, seriously.

My favourite headphones I own at the moment are the HD 600. They are just so easy going. They are light, comfortable, fit well, are easy enough to drive that they work for my phone, are incredibly well tuned and easy to listen to. Sure the Edition XS have better soundstage and detail, but the HD 600 is just so easy to throw on and be happy. They simply don’t have any issues in my opinion and the more intimate sound is a nice chance of pace, too.

That said, I’m itching to get the MM-100. Of course we don’t know if they will live up to expectations, but I kinda miss planars, and a reasonably priced and not too heavy Audeze headphone sounds great.

And the DT 1990, I’m selling a pair right now. Honestly I don’t think these are really worth it. They are better tuned than the DT 990 and they are comfortable and nicely build and all, but the tuning is still kinda wonky, if you compare them to the HD 600 you really start to wonder what the hell Beyer is doing. Sure they have detail and soundstage but the detail is not nearly on Edition XS level and overall if detail, imaging and soundstage is important to you I would buy the ATH R70X over these any day. I really don’t get how these are so expensive, buying a pair of DT 990 and throwing EQ on there gets you a headphone that sounds just as good and is way cheaper, only “real” downside is a bit more plastic in the construction and no detachable cable and that’s not worth spending like $500 instead of $150 or so.

Do you really think “woke” is synonymous with “gay” and “Jew”?

No. Are you a farmer with too much extra inventory or what? That seems like the best explanation for your army of shitty strawmen.

No, I don’t think that and I didn’t say that. I mention these as examples of other intolerant groups.

I don’t think your… questionable beliefs should impact my experience on kbin.social. I find myself wondering what other… unusual beliefs you harbour.

Ah yes, not providing a platform for hategroups is a “questionable belief” to you. Terribly sorry about that.

If banning a group called “antiwoke” is “impacting your experience” then feel free to be salty about it. You don’t have a place here then and I’m more than fine with that. Go be a shithead on the internet somewhere else, you’re not welcome.

IEMs are actually advancing at a rapid pace and those KZs are pretty outdated by now. Salnotes Zero or Truthear Hola beat them for less and something like the Truthear Zero are a pretty decent step up.

The PR2 especially is nice though, just sad they seemingly had a silent revision that’s worse.