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byCarrot007
2026 @01:04PM
(#65906021)
Attached to: Many Schools Don't Think Students Can Read Full Novels Anymore
While sad. THis is not new for most palces.
In the 80s/90s I was only ever asked to reasd specific chapters. Yes I read the entire book,. but I was not asked to.
Maybe it's just a US thing? But I doubt US had better requirements for the last 40 years.
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byCarrot007
2025 @08:20AM
(#65498896)
Attached to: Windows 11 Finally Overtakes Windows 10
Samsung, there is your problem not windows. Avoid samsung like it was well samsung.
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byCarrot007
5, 2025 @10:32AM
(#65194009)
Attached to: All 50 States Have Now Introduced Right to Repair Legislation
> Why hasn't the free market stepped up?
Becuase people are told what they want and are idiots.
Which is why regulation is needed to show people a better way.
Which you clearly as a troll already know.
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byCarrot007
20, 2025 @08:09AM
(#65181423)
Attached to: Amazon To Shut Down Android Appstore
If only there was a link with an FAQ that answered that dort of thing.
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byCarrot007
2025 @05:20AM
(#65119225)
Attached to: 'Copilot' Price Hike for Microsoft 365 Called 'Total Disaster' with Overwhelmingly Negative Response
As long as you are not on a discounted plan though.
I pay annually, I got a discount though signing up via a work link.
I checked the cancel option out and I would have to pay more to opt out (50p but hey!).
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byCarrot007
15, 2024 @01:06PM
(#64242448)
Attached to: Sony's PS5 Enters 'Latter Stage of Its Life Cycle'
Which is exactly what PP is talking about.
They got balanced against noobs to make it fair. Now they cannot have an unfair advangtage and everyone can have fun. "WAH WAH", thuis keeps noob interested, they don't want that, they may get better than them.
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byCarrot007
2024 @02:36PM
(#64201436)
Attached to: Apple Says UK Could 'Secretly Veto' Global Privacy Tools
> Simply leave. They will cave in.
Seems a win on at least one side.
Not gonna happen though.
(the govenment is just spouting shit in order to try to be re-elected, which also aint gonna happen, stil la win either way I guess).
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byCarrot007
2024 @02:33PM
(#64201428)
Attached to: 'Microsoft Stole My Chrome Tabs, and It Wants Yours, Too'
>b) buy a Mac
They don't want worse. (Mac lost it around 10.7)
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byCarrot007
2024 @05:09AM
(#64140093)
Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Does Anyone Still Use Ogg Vorbis Format?
-3 Mentioned phone again as if that is your only copy rather than temprary fluff.
(It's a poor argument as per my other replies).
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byCarrot007
2024 @05:08AM
(#64140091)
Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Does Anyone Still Use Ogg Vorbis Format?
Yes I get it, some people want a lot on their phone. Go right ahead.
Should I ever want to I can re-eocode for the phone (into whatever).
The files on the phone are throw away, it's not a backup.
You are still keeping flac as the master file. I rememebr they days of re-encoding video for the phone (or pda), you would not say the 320*200 re-eoncode was your keeper would you? Just temporary fluff.
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byCarrot007
2024 @05:05AM
(#64140085)
Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Does Anyone Still Use Ogg Vorbis Format?
I feel no need to ever have more than 30 tracks on my phone. I probably have more but not a lot.
I could always stream from cloud anyway I guess (data is unlimited), I doubt I will.
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byCarrot007
2024 @02:54PM
(#64138975)
Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Does Anyone Still Use Ogg Vorbis Format?
I would say for mp3, VBR changed that. Back when I moved back from ogg I started to use 256 VBR mp3 and they were fine size wise. Of course not all devices liked VBR back then.
But hey coming from the amiga where is was of a low quality 8 bit sample for the songs (and yess I still wanted computerised music back then), anything was better!
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byCarrot007
2024 @01:44PM
(#64138785)
Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Does Anyone Still Use Ogg Vorbis Format?
Why would you.
If I use something myself today (or 15 years ago), it is going to be flac, space is no longer a consideration for audio.
Also mp3 got much better at higher bitrate and a quick goole says something called "opus" was t4he successor to ogg and I have only just heard about it today becuase well, flac.
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byCarrot007
08, 2023 @03:15PM
(#63990865)
Attached to: Rockstar Plans To Announce Much Anticipated 'Grand Theft Auto VI'
;-)
I just says it how I see it, of course the end of gta 4 sucked (in that is was virtually impossible on pc using mouse and keyboard).
That was because it was the first one that was designed for console first. Also why people though there were perfomance issues at the time on PC. There were not as long as you had the right hardware. Needed 3 cores and a good gfx card, not 2 cores and the best gfx card (on which yes it was poor). I also has 8GB ram since I moved to vista sp2 (had to xp 64 was a test and dx was never updated (if anything was)), though I guess the app was still 32bit it could at least have all the ram it wanted.
I may have to replay 4 now (after doing the big patch all the music back into steam update).
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byCarrot007
08, 2023 @02:30PM
(#63990741)
Attached to: Rockstar Plans To Announce Much Anticipated 'Grand Theft Auto VI'
GTA4 is best GTA.
(Except VC and probably the original).
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