I really appreciate having surround mixes for movies. It gets the experience maybe 80% of the way to theatrical presentation for me, which makes it all the more enervating when fucking YouTube breaks something
I know you’re both a stereo and audience vibes guy — this is perhaps idiosyncratic on my part
I have my VLC config blown out in a bunch of different ways just so I can hear dialog and have the merest suggestion of other sound effects
every time I watch a movie at a friend’s place I’m like “oh, this is overwhelming”
I’ve never been clear on exactly how bad my hearing is tbh, it’s funny because I don’t find crowded spaces intimidating in the least, but I think it’s actually because I’m predisposed to reduce it to noise rather than have to focus
I also have a hard time enjoying a lot of music if I can’t hear the words clearly so probably something going on there
For a day the speaker on my TV was fucking up/getting crackly and I started looking up sound bars and mounting options. Then the God of Samsung showed me mercy and fixed the speaker, probably via electromagnetism of some sort.
I can’t make out lyrics in music unless they’re almost talking or I’m reading them/memorized them from reading them lol
Adults talking on Peanuts cartoons
LTT showing the Steam Deck running Forza Horizon 5 via Proton has me far more willing to believe
they are finally, finally, finally more or less implementing DirectX under Linux after years of that being the main performance crunch for Wine so that will help a lot
sandboxing Windows apps under a Linux host has always been a technically good idea if everything was wired up in the background in performance sensitive scenarios, and it never ever was (and I’m skeptical it could be), which is why you’ve seen more movement on the reverse scenario lately
do soundbars do a competent job with surround
somehow never actually heard one lol
this is awful and you are a mixing terrorist
but this just sounds like you cut all but the center channel
they make speakers that are a soundbar, but in passive speaker form that require a receiver/amp, so you get the soundbar part except you can always replace the thing feeding it
soundbars do a good job because we have dumb brains and stupid ears but even a properly set up 7.1 dealie will sound a bit better. the question is do you want to do that set up
Mine has satellite speakers and a sub but also does a good job throwing L/R with speakers pointed each way parallel to the screen
Harder to say with Atmos height effects but the 5.1 mix comes across well
i recently set up a monitor in my bedroom to use as a tv, but the sound is so bad (plus there’s no remote, so i have to get up to change the volume through a menu every time). i was thinking about getting a soundbar as the cleanest solution, but all my experience providing tech support for them for a couple of years was an absolute nightmare. i guess this wouldn’t be too bad if it’s just 3.5mm and not bluetooth or ARC…
I bought my parents a soundbar because I was coming over to take advantage of their Showtime subscription when Twin Peaks was airing and I was worried all the bass was going to blow out the speaker on their little TV.
oh look, I was right 7 months ago
I bought a cheap TV a little under a decade ago with just the absolute worst speakers, truly abysmal. Could barely understand dialogue, it was shockingly bad. Decent picture though. So I picked up a soundbar for ~$150 as a quick-and-easy remedy. One of the best technology purchases I’ve ever made. Sure, I could have a better setup, but it’s so damned easy. Easy to setup, very good sound, comparatively easy to relocate if you ever move or change the setup for where it’s used.
God I love that soundbar.
the vscode wsl remote stuff has broken for me in the latest update
shit sux
and i got a little tooltip notification that i should upgrade to win11
Win11 completely broke Hyper-V for me, but I’m actually enjoying it otherwise.
At my workplace, we use Windows 10 for staff computers. A couple weeks ago, people started seeing little ads for Windows 11 on the Windows Updates screen, and even occasionally upon windows startup. Both ads were quite insistent that you upgrade to 11, and had little links to start the upgrade. You don’t even need to be an admin user to initiate it! It had the potential to be a huge problem for IT, as we do not support 11 and we don’t want people to unilaterally just switch over to it. We had to create a Windows policy to only allow users to update to the latest specific version of 10, and we’re going to have to revise it every time Windows 10 gets a new major release. Lol Microsoft.
They really need a corporate “leave me the fuck alone” LTS edition of Windows.
it really seemed like that was gonna be 10 until they got bored and decided to try and juice the market with 11, still not too sure how they can call that successful
I guessed it’s some product manager’s ass if the ransomware keeps up
Same dynamic that led to the original Xbox One being half empty with a grille the size of a DVD case