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saxonww
8y ago
I thought so too, but regardless, with this same device there is no hiss when connected via optical. So if I had the option, I'd be using optical vs. USB today, which was what the GP asked.
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saxonww
8y ago
It's still a little weird. I think a lot of people would have a separate A/V receiver and speakers; maybe this is changing as old equipment gets replaced, but I suspect there are still far more homes with optical-capable A/V
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saxonww
8y ago
I'm not a pro audio guy, but I think if you want to work with any external audio device and want that connection to be noise-free, your safest bet is still optical. I have an external DAC/amp, and I had been using optical until I
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8y ago
There's also a GNU replacement CSSC[0]. I had to set this up at work 6-7 years ago to handle a very old code base that no one wanted to modernize. The repo was delivered to me on an old SCO system. I was able to move it to a modern sys
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saxonww
8y ago
This is unnecessarily harsh. You can install wsltty[0] and get a real bash prompt with posix and forward slashes if you want. WSL is not perfect, but it's good enough for a lot of use cases if you're stuck on Windows. [0]: https:
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8y ago
Do you use uMatrix or something blocking javascript? I had to permit app.jazz.co to get positions to show up.
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8y ago
I'm doing the same thing, and I chose FastMail. It was easy to set up with a custom domain, and I've been making heavy use of aliases and plus addressing which I like. At least for my purposes, the web client is every bit as capab