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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • The fade-out could work but would add more delay time, but the buffering would almost certainly require additional hardware because radios typically can’t process two DAB signals at once and it can’t pre-buffer a live broadcast unless it adds an extra delay, which is just shifting the problem to a different cause. Speed ramping could maybe account a bit for this, but then if you change stations multiple times quickly this would fail. Also, speed ramping would probably annoy people, especially for music, unless imperceptibly slow. That would require a decent buffer, meaning you’d have to delay switching the channel and also not change the channel for a bit, otherwise you’d get the pause.

    The amount of complexity any potential solution adds is not especially worth it, as much as I recognise that it is annoying. Also, since most people aren’t too fussed by the pause, I doubt anyone would bother to produce a radio with the hardware for this (and the software on top).


  • The DAB decode just takes some time - DAB will always have more latency than FM due to the increased processing. Not sure how much that can be shrunk (probably a fair bit but the cost wouldn’t be worth it for most people), but the crossfade would not work because the FM would be ahead of the DAB.

    The only way to avoid channel changing delay is to constantly be decoding multiple channels, which would likely increase the power consumption and device cost a fair bit.




  • If you or someone you know is handy with a soldering iron, there are replacement hall-effect sensor sticks available now. I am planning on swapping mine out with Gulikit ones because I am very stubborn about giving in to planned obsolescence (I 100% believe this is deliberate on Sony’s part).




  • You have to install it on a partition. My advice would be to check that the disk is definitely empty (or at least doesnt have anything you want on it), then click the “new partition table” option, which would (I think) reformat the drive and allow you to set up the drive with a more linux-friendly file system than NTFS. From there, you want to select a partition on the drive and install Mint there. You may be able to install it directly on the NTFS partition now but I’m not sure.


  • Ah, thanks for the answer, I’d missed this on the GH page. Unfortunately, that’s not what I’m after as I know I will end up with a complete mess of unusable notes or not use it at all if there are any stages of choosing a note type.

    Ideally, I want version controlled, editable, searchable, taggable paper I don’t have to file away, which I can also type on and use other digital tools with (e.g for things like diagrams, spreadsheets). I haven’t seen anything particularly close to what I’m after yet but I’m hopeful that it’ll come eventually.






  • It’s kinda both transphobia and sexism, by actively refusing to accept that people with pronouns other than he/him might be reading it.

    The reason transphobia comes to mind most of all is the way transphobes often rally against the use of they/them. This extends to being nonspecific (like in the link), rather than specifically inclusive of non-binary people, as they perceive a well accepted use of they/them to be part of an agenda. Transphobes often prefer the clunky “he/she”, rather than using a single word (“they”), for this reason.

    Hope that helps




  • My personal idea/hope is that there is some other dimension of spacetime over which the big bang had directionality, emitting matter and antimatter across different poles, and that’s why. That’d also mean there’s an anti-universe, which is why I like the idea.

    In terms of the galaxies, I believe there’s enough of an observable difference that I think we would be able to detect antimatter clusters, or similar, based on emission lines but I’m not 100% on that. Huge annihilation events from colliding galaxies and clusters would have massive energy signatures unlike anything else but the frequency of this would determine how likely it would be to see the evidence.