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> and then later made a conscious choice to figure out how dB work. You're just projecting your ideas here. I've not made that choice, it's just the only optio
by viraptor 1y ago
> and then later made a conscious choice to figure out how dB work.
You're just projecting your ideas here. I've not made that choice, it's just the only option in a lot of software - I'd like my % slider back.
- nyeah 1y agoRight. Decibels are my idea.
- viraptor 1y agoProjecting in that context means you claimed what other people think/do, because it's what you think/do. It's about describing the conscious choices of others (where my experience disagrees for example) not about decibels specifically.
- nyeah 1y agoAgreed, you are using the word "projecting" fine. But you're ignoring the actual behavior of people using dB in the real world.
- formerly_proven 1y agoWindows has 0-100 volume sliders if you like that better. They are still some kind of faux-logarithmic* *behavior depends on drivers/hardware.** **for some hardware 50 in Windows will be neutral and 100 will be something like a +30 dB digital gain, that's probably in part because Windows is mapping the 0-100 range in some way to the USB audio control range, which is at most +-127 dB or something like that.*** ***with some audio interfaces (the non-USB-Audio-class kind) the 0-100 actually becomes a linear factor of 0-1, making the windows controls very useless indeed, as 70% of the slider range does approximately nothing.
- seba_dos1 1y ago% slider sounds like a good idea until you actually have to use it.