I’m sorry you’re dealing with this and I’m even more sorry to laugh at your problem here, but the way you’ve described this is so fucking funny.

One thing I can add is that a lot of usb headphones just have a USB DAC and then are right back to analog along the wire to the headphones (read: antenna). Especially since you’re considering eBay where you may not be able to return them, that will probably be worth thinking about for any wired set.

Wireless “gaming” (ie usb dongle wireless for low latency rather than Bluetooth) is probably what I’d look for in your situation, although finding open ear wireless “gaming” headphones might be a really small niche to be shopping in.

If you want a much more fun but admittedly janky tinfoil hat solution, you could try finding wire mesh netting to wrap around the cable and faraday cage it. Even if the station is FM and you do a perfect job of wrapping it there’s still gonna be signal getting through on the ends of the cable (unwrapped by necessity), but especially if you ground the mesh somehow it might block enough of the signal that you wouldn’t notice the rest.

Either way, good luck with this lol

If you’re cold they’re cold

Huh I haven’t tried the search, but otherwise haven’t noticed any of those problems - one of the reasons I like it more than discord is actually how much more responsive and less bloated it is. I use element as a client and a smaller homeserver, but even messaging people from other homeservers it’s been very solid for me. Sorry to hear your experience with it has been worse

What makes it terrible? I’ve been really enjoying it, I actually prefer it to discord even aside from privacy/morality aspects

Have you tried starting steam from the command line to watch output and/or checking game logs? I’m wondering if it could be a missing package on your pc that steam includes by default - doesn’t feel likely but from reading the other comments it seems like you’ve already exhausted the likely fixes lol

Until now I actually wasn’t sure if you were the same person or just a hilariously similar name, but this is the comment that makes me sure you’re satansmaggotycumfart after all lmao

I see it as the literal definition of horseshoe theory but actually applicable for once, where (in this one instance) the far left and right are more similar than different (same words, different flag), but judging from the reaction what I meant to say is not how it came across lol

The way a far-right phrase can be used verbatim by someone on the far left, although with a different flag lol. Love to see it

This may be the best example of horseshoe theory ever to exist

Thanks for adding liberapay! Very glad to see it.

Personally I’m happy on the dev branch of piefed (don’t see a lot of bugs and the features are exciting) but I definitely see the argument for moving to stable.

Appreciate the transparency and all your hard work like always :)

Hindenburg part 2 let’s gooooooo

I try to support all the open source projects I regularly use with small but recurring (ie predictable) amounts. Liberapay is great for this, but not everybody is on it yet unfortunately.
Some of the projects:

• Arch - no easy way for recurring donations but every time the aur has gone down when I needed it during the recent attacks on archlinux.org I just go throw a financially unwise amount of money at them again to spite the attackers
• KDE - I don’t even use plasma anymore (switched to hyprland but I’ve heard enough of the controversies that I’m not donating to them lol) but I still love KDE
• codeberg - they host a lot of my projects so at the least I wanna cover what I cost them plus a bit
• matrix.org and my matrix server specifically - both put out great services for free and my homeserver specifically hosts the absolute fuckton of pictures and videos I regularly send/receive so I owe them a lot
• piefed - piefed is sick as fuck and @rimu does a good job
• lemmy.zip/piefed.zip - great homeserver and extremely transparent
• voyager - my fav piefed app so far, and hopefully with more donations it’ll get even better
• probably more I’m forgetting rn

I’m not sure this last one counts as an NPO but it’s relevant here so I’m including it anyway: @dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world puts out the best OC I’ve come across on lemmy so sometimes I throw money his way to help pay for knives lmao.

For anyone else who wants to support the projects they use and keep the internet free, definitely check out liberapay. It’s still a bit clunky, but it lets me budget a monthly amount I can afford and then split it however I want among all the projects I use no matter what that overall amount is. Smaller donations can be paid in lump sums for many months to cut down on processing fees, and liberapay tracks it for you and more importantly lets the recipient know what the giving schedule is so the project/person you support can have a clear budget rather than unpredictable bursts of money with no guarantee there’ll ever be more coming.

If it’s not clear yet I’m super passionate about liberapay and also donate to them 😂

For me (safari on iOS) a long press brings up an expanded title, although that song’s title is so unusually long I had to drag it to the far corner of the screen to see it all lmao

Why wouldn’t you want a cookie? Lol

You can substitute the cookie for whatever food makes the hypothetical more relatable to you - is there any food that would make you say yes to the deal?

Yeah that’s fair, I probably phrased that uncharitably. People are definitely happy about the byproducts of that abuse tho

When I’ve seen you post before I assumed it was an eragon reference, what’s the real origin then? Is that Esperanto or something?

This is so strange to me, because everyone I’ve talked to agrees in theory but has this disconnect when it comes to reality.

Thought experiment: if I’ll give you a cookie, but only if you kick a dog, would you do it?

I’d bet nearly everybody would say fuck no, and probably be at least a little pissed even to be asked. Somehow “making an animal suffer to have a food you enjoy” is wrong to everybody at this personal level, but add enough steps in between the cause and effect and suddenly people are happy to have animals abused and then slaughtered for them to enjoy their meals. Just looking at the response to your comment (6 upvotes and 5 down atm) shows this in action - to anyone disagreeing with @the_q’s point, do you also think kicking a dog for a cookie is okay in my hypothetical? If not, where do you draw the line?

Interestingly enough that might still be vegan

Could be higher than that too, there could be millions of people running this mod that just don’t turn it off and spend 24/7 gooning 😂