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yeah you have to clean the record every time. Their noise correction is old, pita and pos.
Yeah We had a relative that had one of the fancier record players that used laser to change tracks but it broke. The quote we got at the time was quite high to fix it, so we didn't. Also everyone was like CDs are the future!!! I don't think people predicted a record come back due to Applie Itunes encoding music like shit for 10 years.

That's not what it is.

CD's existed that entire time.

It's hipsters and liberal arts majors with more money than engineering knowledge.

Not all liberal arts majors necessarily, but a lot of them.

Vinyl has a lot of inherent problems that render it inferior to CD's, even with a brand new never-been-played, un-warped disc and an excellent table. My favorite is how tracks closer to the center of the record sound better than ones closer to the edge due to the speed the needle travels over the surface changing.

I still appreciate records, and I own several dozen of them. But if something hasn't had its master tapes lost and is available on CD (especially if that CD was made from the master tapes with no RIAA curve in the 80s or early 90s prior to the "loudness war"), I will always choose the CD.

The RIAA curve is another compromise of vinyl. It's not entirely unlike the process of adding dolby noise reduction to a cassette. It compensates for some of the medium's flaws to try to mask them to whatever extent is feasible.

I wish I hadn't broken the door off my Dolby S dual deck. I loved that thing. Not that cassettes aren't also pretty bad.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jan 24 2023, 18:34

Not sure if I’ve mentioned this thing in this subforum, but I’m almost positive I have first-hand experience of cases where the same song sounded better on vinyl than on CD. And I’m no hi-fi enthusiast, so the difference must have been more than tiny.

Also, my general attitude has been pro-CD, because I have believed or perceived CDs to be a lot more durable, especially in clumsy hands, and a lot easier to use and store. So when I noticed the difference, my reaction was closer to, "Oh no!" than to, "Hah, exactly as expected!"

Not so long ago, I read the cause could be that they used to master (or engineer?) music in different ways for LP and CD releases, which sometimes produced bad results for the CD listener.

As for the song that made the difference really clear to me, I only own it on CD myself, so I cannot make further observations. (I don’t have gear to play vinyl either, but that part of the problem would likely be easier to solve.)

It's hipsters and liberal arts majors with more money than engineering knowledge.

You are forgetting about people who want to DJ in the old school way. True, if it was them alone, the "return of vinyl" would hardly be noticeable to people outside the scene.

This post has been edited by Katajanmarja: Jan 25 2023, 08:12

Not sure if I’ve mentioned this thing in this subforum, but I’m almost positive I have first-hand experience of cases where the same song sounded better on vinyl than on CD. And I’m no hi-fi enthusiast, so the difference must have been more than tiny.

Also, my general attitude has been pro-CD, because I have believed or perceived CDs to be a lot more durable, especially in clumsy hands, and a lot easier to use and store. So when I noticed the difference, my reaction was closer to, "Oh no!" than to, "Hah, exactly as expected!"

Not so long ago, I read the cause could be that they used to master (or engineer?) music in different ways for LP and CD releases, which sometimes produced bad results for the CD listener.

As for the song that made the difference really clear to me, I only own it on CD myself, so I cannot make further observations. (I don’t have gear to play vinyl either, but that part of the problem would likely be easier to solve.)
You are forgetting about people who want to DJ in the old school way. True, if it was them alone, the "return of vinyl" would hardly be noticeable to people outside the scene.

if the cd was made using a tape created with the RIAA curve, de-essing, etc. applied and originally intended for vinyl record pressing, I am not surprised.

All else being equal, a well mastered CD will sound better (by better, I mean "more accurate/closer to how it entered the microphone") than a well mastered LP (or 45). Although for things where the masters were lost before people started making good CD's, or after people stopped making good CD's (for the most part), a record might be a better source. In those cases I'd record the playback of the vinyl to a computer and burn a CD of that.

Vinyl reissues of old releases where the masters were lost probaby give you the worst of both worlds, though, if they go through the digitization stage from tapes meant for transfer to records.

Theoretically, reel-to-reel music might sound better (than vinyl). But my guess is that usually reel-to-reel was copied off of tapes with the RIAA curve applied for vinyl records much like many early CD releases were. Also, reel-to-reel was basically dead by 1975 or so as a consumer format.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jan 25 2023, 08:52

Chegg + google doxxed US EU nuclear infrastructure.

LOL fail.

I should check if I have the 22H2 windows version on my laptop.
If I do, then it should not be too much unsafe to install it on the main thing.

Internet is slow this evening...

I'm strongly opposed to
1.Prepare a meme image
2.Write a subtitle file
3.Load the image and the subtitle in MPC-HC
4.Adjust the settings to get the right texts with the right border depth
5.Save the image displayed by MPC-HC
6.Use the meme image

Yet this is probably what would work best (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

It's really not.

Typeset in gimp
duplicate text
text to path
trace path with a different color and a wide brush (there's a built in command for that)
overlay text on top of the trace

Bam, outlined text.

I think photoshop has a proper 'outlined text' tool/setting, too. Think I remember the old scanlation group I was a proofreader for using it.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jan 26 2023, 00:01

Is it common for Wikipedia to repeatedly and wrongly block an account, claiming the account's IP address is "open proxy"?

Man, im so horny

I think photoshop has a proper 'outlined text' tool/setting, too. Think I remember the old scanlation group I was a proofreader for using it.

It does. I'm surprised gimp still hasn't got one tbh.

It does. I'm surprised gimp still hasn't got one tbh.

I suppose because you can still do it in gimp using layers.

Insert text
Copy text to new layer below current layer, resize +10%


Something like that.

This post has been edited by EsotericSatire: Jan 27 2023, 01:53

Is it common for Wikipedia to repeatedly and wrongly block an account, claiming the account's IP address is "open proxy"?

Extremely so. Yes.

I suppose because you can still do it in gimp using layers.

Insert text
Copy text to new layer below current layer, resize +10%
Something like that.

That's what my suggestion involving tracing does, but my method can avoid some blurring that would result from upscaling the text as a raster for the background. Just gives you more flexibility with line appearance/sharpness in general.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jan 27 2023, 10:32

I suppose because you can still do it in gimp using layers.

You can, and I have, but it's significantly more annoying that just right-clicking and enabling a layer effect. Or grouping a bunch of layers and activating it on the group so it does all of them at the same time. When you're typesetting and you have multiple layers to stroke it gets really old really quick doing it in GIMP.

Its kinda weird they haven't added it though, they were talking about it for ages.


It tech industry news:



Google was pretty cold, with firing people as they rocked up to work and tried to use their passes, red you fired, green you are not yet fired.


Microsoft also gonna fire all their overpaid mostly female social media engagement teams and replace them with AI chat bots.



This post has been edited by EsotericSatire: Jan 29 2023, 07:14

It tech industry news:
Google was pretty cold, with firing people as they rocked up to work and tried to use their passes, red you fired, green you are not yet fired.
Microsoft also gonna fire all their overpaid mostly female social media engagement teams and replace them with AI chat bots.

god I hope so.
in tech lay off related news though microsoft did have some weird issue where they managed to take down their entire azure network infrastructure for two hours, about a week after a massive lay off there.

They also recently rolled out an update to business customers where windows defender conflicted with some group policy setting and caused data loss.

Deleted files. Didn't quarantine.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jan 31 2023, 09:56

Trying to figure out which portable solar battery pack best to buy

They also recently rolled out an update to business customers where windows defender conflicted with some group policy setting and caused data loss.

Deleted files. Didn't quarantine.

Its happened before which is why I don't use windows defender. It also pisses me off how often Windows updates to ignore group policy settings.

Previously you could override any of Microsoft's decisions with easy with group policy as the final truth. Now group policy is more like a recommendation in many cases.

Like with telemetry, for a while group policy could easily and specifically disable and control everything. Then windows started to break down if you did, like core features and functions breaking, not even disabling and needing reimaging. Then the fix was to just disable a bunch of the group policy options from working.

Another time that pissed me off, was when windows update set loads of permissions incorrectly through windows and did not allow you to change them back or fix them. The solution was the reinstall or a work around to boot linux and use linux to remove the incorrect flags. That was so retarded.
The installer had set flags that were invalid under windows so couldn't be edited or changed.. something like that... so stupid.


lol, it was flagged in November people reporting that Windows Defender was deleting files that were not in the protection history to restore. The response was like, it sometimes completely deletes files marked as serious threats...

In early Jan, they realised there was a bug where files falsely detected were not appearing in Windows Defender history but they only had the vague try windows update, checking for corrupted system files, resetting windows defender and if that doesn't work, re-imaging the computer...

It was getting flagged mid last year that Windows Defender was ignoring group policy. The mass confusion seems to be from Microsoft trying to roll out its new Microsoft Defender for Endpoint enterprise security platform. You must correctly set Windows Defender to the correct mode in several situations, manually with a registry key.


TLDR;

If you were on a subscription that had the Defender for Endpoint enterprise trial and did not correctly manually configure Microsoft defender for the platform you were using, you may have been hit by the recent defender bug where defense history and quarantine was lost. Even though you previously may have disabled windows defender or did not know it was automatically set to active or passive mode.

There is a giant table with the incompatibilities and functionality between Windows Defender and Enterprise Defender for Endpoint and whether you should run in active, passive or disabled modes. There is also issues over where it should be in Defense history or under Endpoint data loss prevention.

Why is it so stupid confusing and complicated that you need look up tables to work out what is going on LOL.

Endpoint protection may be monitoring files not set by your policy because of the global settings that ignore the policy setting. Then you may be seeing the protection notice in Windows Defender but its actually through Endpoint. If you have the cloud data protection setup you can restore the files, but if you don't its your fault.

It seems to also be because they janked in a lot of features to support file security working from home.

This post has been edited by EsotericSatire: Feb 1 2023, 03:09

Its happened before which is why I don't use windows defender. It also pisses me off how often Windows updates to ignore group policy settings.

Previously you could override any of Microsoft's decisions with easy with group policy as the final truth. Now group policy is more like a recommendation in many cases.

Like with telemetry, for a while group policy could easily and specifically disable and control everything. Then windows started to break down if you did, like core features and functions breaking, not even disabling and needing reimaging. Then the fix was to just disable a bunch of the group policy options from working.

How exactly does modern win10/win11 break down with those group policy settings applied?

Never had the pleasure to find out or had to use win10 for more than a few hours at work. That's other peoples' jobs, mostly.

Hey-hey, POST 8000 GET

Also, catbox is currently spazzing out when I try to upload things and a.pomf.cat (not the main site, just the subdomain files are stored on) is currently blocked by one of the default ublock origin lists. Fun.

A while back I made a script to let me more easily manage my signature roulette. Now I've made another one to auto-generate an HTML file containing all of my signature images, since 'view image' doesn't tend to work right due to the roulette mechanism.

[gitlab.com] The script is pretty short and sweet.
[dragontamer8740.gitlab.io] https://dragontamer8740.gitlab.io/sigpic/

Some images are more likely to be chosen than others, and that isn't reflected here (on purpose).

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Feb 1 2023, 10:20