it is perfectly fine to be upset about audacity. no one needs to claim the piss is rain here
Shine on me, baby
truthfully, the issue with your prior statement is actually that we’ve normalized google and gmail to the point where it’s bizarre, almost unthinkable, weird to maintain any resistance. whereas just noting things have gotten worse, visibly re: a piece of software is by definition an overreaction
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yeah i can’t come to a solid conclusion because of this. i definitely think people are upset at audacity because it’s an example of how little control we have over our data, even though they’re not technically any worse than most software. but also! we should be upset about the other software doing this as well, so why not get upset about audacity? it’s a really shitty thing to do!!
it sucks regardless. i am resigned to the fate of “i guess i can be reported to law enforcement at any time for any reason” which is really fucking dark!!
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i don’t know what these words mean
Resistance isn’t weird or unthinkable, it’s no longer a negotiation with a corporation. Run a pihole, fork the project, etc. but I don’t think this privacy policy is remarkable.
“i guess i can be reported to law enforcement at any time for any reason”
That provision is for when Muse gets served a warrant and they’d only have whatever other specified data they’d already collected. Same for “litigation” - it’s when the duty to preserve against spoliation kicks in. Ass-covering.
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like that’s my issue with how FOSS is handled. I am not a person who can “fork” anything and i can’t “compile” anything and i think that it sucks that these are my options. i am a computer savvy person but this shit is arcane magic to me.
install 94 things and run a command line code and maybe it will work?? no thanks
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How is Google’s mail merge support in Docs this article and a python script?? Am I like a WordPerfect weirdo now?
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Does background mean you can lock your screen and still play video?
should do yeah!
At least for me, on ipad, I have to switch it audio-only with the quality toolbar, first, and then it’ll play on the lockscreen.
This is maybe the first signs of the fugue of old person brain coming over me, but I have never felt satisfied by PC game capture software since FRAPS. I liked the simplicity of it, and it was really assuring to me that I could just look at the task bar on my PC and SEE, VISUALLY CONFIRM, the thing was running and would likely record when I hit the button. The Windows game bar thing and the nvidia thing are just too subtle for me and I either get the buttons confused, get stuck remembering which one is even running, and then I have to just doubt that they’re going to work when I want them to because truthfully they seem way too enmeshed in the layers of software meant to do other things to really offer me that assurance.
Does anyone feel something similar? What solutions do you use? I could do OBS I suppose.
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I use OBS, but I never used FRAPS. It works great when you plan to record, which is not the use case for all the windows game bar + nvidia garbage which is like “we’ll constantly save 1-5 minutes of video and then you can hit a button to capture it forever”, which would be nice sometimes but the overhead seems…really heavy.
Anyway OBS is good for all screen capturing IMO. I use it constantly. Hell, I even record podcasts with it.
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I just did some light set up to get it working, theoretically, the way I want to. So thanks for the encouragement!
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This is handled in dedicated hardware in modern cards, so just like PS4 & Xbox One, this is effectively free apart from disk access (which is quite minor). Or to put it another way, if it was cheap enough to leave on all the time in the very resource-constrained consoles of 2013, it’s very cheap on modern PCs if you want it.
I find it really useful for work – when something odd or good or buggy happens, I can save it and immediately have a record rather than trying to repro it by myself.
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Then maybe it’s just the windows game bar that slows my shit down
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Theoretically they should be doing the same thing, but every other aspect of the Xbox ecosystem on PC is a buggy nightmare so I wouldn’t be surprised. It took me six months of trying to disable it stealing the Guide button before I realized you have to disable both from within the app and within Windows settings.
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yeah? i’ve considered turning shadow play on a couple of times but i’m all ssd now and still have a ridiculous wariness of constant writing
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I don’t see any refutation of the people worried about this 6, 7 years ago, and it definitely is ~100MB/minute at 1440 or 4k, which adds up if you’re watching lifetime writes.
But Sony and Microsoft think it’s not a big deal on the SSDs in the PS5 and Xbox Series, so I’ll take that vote of confidence.