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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • I’m sure Linux is great with headphones too, but is there really a widespread issue with them in Windows?

    Obviously it’s not difficult to “recognise” a headset plugged into the 3.5mm jack, so I’m presuming the author means Bluetooth.

    In general, I’ve been very impressed with the improved audio system and controls between Win10 & 11, it needed a big upgrade and we got it. Similarly, Bluetooth UI and ease of use has shot up too. The old Bluetooth UI was awful.

    I use various Bluetooth audio devices daily, as well as 3.5mm audio stuff, and have various needs for routing and altering audio with virtual audio cables, etc, and it all works flawlessly for me.

    I’m just one person though, not really a great sample size!

    Anyway, I’m surprised to hear there’s a widespread issue with Bluetooth audio in Windows 11, given how standardised and widely used everything is these days. You’d think that’d be ironed out reasonably quickly, lest hundreds of millions of people struggle :-(








  • We put our old furniture/appliances out, and when the scrap man passes they take it away for free (or you can call the council and they’ll take it away for free also).

    I’ve got a couch out in my garden at the moment, council’s taking it to the tip on Monday.

    …Where are we supposed to leave it for pickup, on the roof?


  • Yeah that’s a dick move, it’s so rare that we get snow, I enjoy looking out of the window and seeing it.

    Not to mention that it’s taboo over here to enter someone else’s garden without good reason, this bloke’s asking for it though, where’s his hedge? Not even a fence? Come on. But I digress.

    Thing is, if they’d just asked I bet he’d have said sure, and been happy to help, but it’s people stepping over the line and going outside of the basic social contact we have in our communities, that’s what pisses ya off.









  • Exactly! Plus, I always despise having to stay after everybody else has left those extra few minutes (if I’m 3 minutes late in the morning due to the bus or such) to ‘keep working’, it does nothing but make me dislike the management.

    That said, I’m also never staying late to help with anything, it goes both ways. If they don’t want to let me work with some leeway by a few minutes here and there, I’m not giving them an inch either. Especially given that it would be unpaid extra work!


  • Given that I make it clear that I personally disagree with corporate nitpicking over small time stuff like this, and point out that their imagined loss in company profits are stolen production value of the proletariat anyway…

    can I take your swearing at me and telling me to be silent to mean that you yourself support the company in its demands that employees make up lost time by working late?

    Or, do you agree with me, but Lemmy perhaps is more like Reddit than we would wish it to be, where sometimes we don’t actually read what people say, not taking on onboard the content of their message, unless it’s very short?

    (I get that a lot to be fair, I’m told ADHD makes me a little verbose - I just like to lay my thoughts out with no room for misunderstanding haha)

    I think I made my stance against this anti-worker practice clear. I began by laying out my own experience here in the UK with my previous employers (who I note consider us wageslaves) which, while it may not be your own experience, doesn’t change what has happened to me, and went on to explain their perspective (flawed and at odds with the proletariat as I show it is), then went on to make clear that their perspective isn’t my own.

    …Is it a social crime to try to understand why our adversaries think the way they do?

    …Should we all simply shout about how much we dislike the evils brought about by our late stage capitalist overlords, but never once pick apart why they do what they do, why they think the way they do, and discuss it amongst ourselves?

    I’m not deep or particularly smart, nor do I stand out in any meaningful way in my understanding of worker’s history, laws, or how to fight for our rights.

    But if I, an average worker who grew up in Manchester, a labour movement hotspot, one who reminds their colleagues of the Peterloo Massacre lest we forget those lessons, one who invites them to visit our People’s History Museum to see our history of unions, strikes, and fights for our rights, …if I can’t join the discussion with any allowed response other than “They’re evil, but let’s not try to understand why so that we might better fight for each other”, what have we, as a workers movement, become?