I have that too and it’s so weird. I’ve always had the “ringing ears of silence” since I was little, where if I just sit there, eventually I’ll hear some high ringing. Nowadays it only gets bad if I TRY to focus on it. I never exposed myself to much loud noise without hearing protection (I’ve always had sensitive ears anyway) and I try not to listen to music too loud, so idk why once or twice a month I just get this louder ringing that you describe for a minutes that goes away afterwards.

As I should have mentioned in the post (and now have thrown in another reply), I mainly want to use the rig for audio recording, video editing, and gaming. Basically an all-rounder, but I don’t need a god-tier machine. It’d be nice to run everything in 4K but I super do not need it. I appreciate the recommendation of taking a pre-built and going from there, since I thought PC builders hated pre-builts. It’s a good idea and what I might go with at first. Would you happen to know any places I can get a unit other then Ebay or Amazon, though? I’ll check locally myself but as for online stores I try my best to avoid them.

This art style gives me life~

I’ll have a look into this, thank you!

It’s simply that I’ve never taken one apart or put one together before. I’ve heard the stories of people frying things, fucking up the CPU while trying to install it, and just general small mistakes leading to big costs. It all makes me feel I need to do a test run before tackling whatever my final rig ends up being. I need it to last a long time, so that means it’ll be costly, and I don’t think top-tier parts are fit for my untrained hands lol

Thanks, Imma quote this when some dumbass shrugs at me and says we’re all fucked and there’s no hope left. Like, I get feeling depressed about the state of things but it’s such an obvious cop out that it makes me livid whenever I hear it.

I can’t tell, are you actually opposed to windmills? Aren’t they a good source of clean energy we should be moving towards?

Gotcha, I think that makes sense. I don’t know much about Piefed, but hey, if it works it works. I prefer Lemmy anyway because it is integrated like that.

Sorry I’m only getting back to this now, but thank you! I do understand instances and whatnot, but I guess my question boils down to this: if the whole of Lemmy somehow gets influenced by the shitty views of some or all of the devs (I’m not sure how many there are), and a fork is needed, does that bring down all of the instances and existing infrastructure of Lemmy with it? Like, the existing instances won’t be able to upgrade to the latest version, and then if they use the fork instead, will that screw with other things? I guess this is a question for a programmer, but it’s on my mind lol

Thank you! Oh wow, espeak-ng is way better then Festival, tho it’s not that bad itself. Is there a reason to use the latter over the former? I’m only just using these tools for the first time.

You have a point with all this, but we should all be able to agree that a speech synthesis program made prior to the big AI invasion 1. did not make use of large-scale data scraping, nor were they the product of stealing anyone and everyone’s voices without a second thought, and 2. was likely made with much better intentions in mind then anything large companies are pushing currently, and 3. has far less of a negative impact on society and the environment at large. Even if the second one isn’t true, what does that mean for all of us? Should we refuse to run a piece of open source software because one singular person on the dev team turned out to be a shithead? That’s the direction I see this mindset going. Yes, we all should minimize the harm we do, as I am trying to do right now. I refuse to use any modern-day form of “generative” AI, so I decided to ask a community opposed to AI if there are any older, open source programs that could lend me a helping hand. No, I can’t confirm that every single line of code was written with good intentions, but how could anyone, for anything? I’m pretty shocked to see this take on an anti-AI community, because this is one step away from “well, we can’t stop it so lets just use it reluctantly instead of searching for other methods” which is the kind of idea that I think rarely holds water.

That’s a damn quote.

So wait, is this another hub for Lemmy’s servers? How is this different then just accessing Lemmy through a third party app? Is this a totally different platform despite accessing the same servers? I’m a bit confused.

I see, thank you!!

I see… Yikes. I know nothing about those other projects and I’ll look them up, but are they forks of Lemmy handled by different people, or just front ends TO Lemmy? Apologies if I’m missing something obvious.

Wait so if the Lemmy devs are transphobic… Should there not be a fork at this rate? Also, I’ve heard a lot of shit talked about .ml and seemingly for good reason but what’s the story with all this? How did it get this bad?

Read this as Wine 1.0 at first lol

As a Canadian, yeah, our wait times are rancid and they often get glossed over because of how bad America’s healthcare is in comparison. Don’t get me started on how Canadians will excuse any issue with the country because “at least we’re not as bad as America” and shit like that.

But damn it, I’d still take our busted healthcare system over virtually NO healthcare system. Fuck paying to live. Oh wait, that’s just capitalism.

Thought that said “Ardour Edition” and was wondering what it had to do with my DAW lmao

This is the most rational take I’ve seen on the possibility of a general strike. I’ve seen the argument that people need to suck it up and just do it together, right next to the counterpoint that some people simply can’t. They, or perhaps their children or loved ones, could die, and that’s something you can’t just ASK of people (unless you’re a government, apparently). And if not enough people managed to participate in the strike then they would have died in vain. Two things can be true at the same time, though, and I think a general strike is still a good idea, there just needs to be a decently large group of people (who know what they’re doing) to give it a kickstart. I’m sure more people would join as such a movement gained publicity.