serviceperson hat meine verabschiedung interpretiert wie sie dachte. vielleicht vergessen, dass die erfahrung "recht gehabt aber pech gehabt, lol was willst du machen" war
ich fand es als kind immer sehr verwirrend, dass "der mensch hat gute nerven" (edit: oder auch "nerven wie stahlseile") das gleiche bedeutet hat wie "der hat keine nerven" (bzw "ein mensch ohne nerven"). aber letztere formulierung habe ich nun schon echt lange nicht mehr gesehen
A pair of pigeons has made its home in the tree in our yard, and when one of them woke me at 6:52 am on a Saturday by screaming (technical term) right in front of my balcony door, I decided to do a little 5 minute craft project. Let's see if the pigeons like it.
as a little update on this, 2 weeks later, it seems to have worked a treat. the pigeons have, probably out of an abundance of caution and alternatives, decided to find a different balcony for early-morning vocalization, and I have not been disturbed in my sleep since.
was hat es eigentlich mit diesem phänomen auf sich, dass deutsche schmunzeltwittergroßaccounts (und jetzt vmtl auch welche auf bluesky) sich mit namen und/oder bild englischsprachiger komiker und sitcomfiguren präsentieren? chevy chase, alf, etc.? das macht soweit ich das weiß anderswo niemand...
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ich so: ein (1, in zahlen: EIN) deutsches comedy-video von unter 1 minute länge anguck
youtube so: WIR HABEN DA ÜBRIGENS AUCH FASCHISTEN DIE SICH LUSTIG FINDEN GUCK MAL GUCK HIER SIND VIDEOS VON LISA ECKHART UND DIETER NUHR GUCK DOCH MAL WILLSTE KOMM KLICK MAL
Das ist sehr wahr, aber *warum* ist das so? Das was er sagt mit dem komischen Stottern und so ist vielleicht(?) um besser synchron mit der Bildspur zu bleiben, aber für diese Stimme (und Betonung) hab ich wirklich keine Erklärung.. Oder ist das immer der selbe Standardsynchronsprecher der das alles spricht und einfach ne merkwürdige Stimme hat?
@Doomed_Daniel @wayfinder Meine These: Es gibt ca. 10 deutsche Synchronsprecher (klingt jedenfalls immer so) und sie alle haben den gleichen Sprachtrainer.
ich will das eigentlich nicht, aber es geht mir so endlos auf den keks, wie selbstverständlich fast alle leute "scheinbar" statt "anscheinend" verwenden. ich habe so lange versucht, da still zu sein, aber es frisst mich auf. ich will die anschreien! was mich das schon an kraft gekostet hat, mich da zurück zu halten! ich muss vielleicht mal ne phase einlegen, in der ich mich unbeliebt mache und was dazu sage - einfach aus self care. falls ihr davon betroffen seid, nehmt es mir bitte nicht übel. und sagt einfach IMMER "anscheinend", dann seid ihr auf der sicheren seite.
häh? nein, "scheinbar" heißt ausdrücklich und ausschließlich "nur zum schein", also dass es in wirklichkeit anders ist, als es aussieht. "anscheinend" beschreibt ohne aussage über die tatsächliche lage, wie es von außen wirkt.
Ich meine: »scheinbar« hat laut Duden (duden.de/suchen/dudenonline/sc…) beide Bedeutungen, »anscheinend« nur die schwächere, passt also in den Situationen nicht, in denen man sagen will, dass etwas nur zum Schein so ist, weil man dann ja eine schwächere Aussage trifft, als die, die man eigentlich treffen wollte (wenn auch zugegebenermaßen keine Aussage, die der intendierten widersprechen würde).
ja, der kampf ist wohl verloren. das macht es nicht besser, nur häufiger. "scheinbar" hat die schwächere zweitbedeutung nur deswegen im duden eingetragen bekommen, weil es genug leute nicht geschafft haben, die beiden begriffe auseinander zu halten. es ist ein armutszeugnis.
a weird thing happened today when i was working with automation curves in ableton live: normally, when i alt-click and drag a curve segment, i can bend it such that it curves toward one of the values of the points that it connects, making a sharp corner at the other end. but somehow, i managed to do something with just alt-clicking and dragging that instead produced an s-shaped curve, that would curve toward both points and have a fixed center point halfway between the two both vertically and horizontally. i have no idea how to replicate it - i managed to do it three times today, but i wasn't able to pinpoint what i did differently, if anything! i googled for the situation, and intriguingly, all i found were people on reddit this happened to, just as baffled as i am, going back several years, and *no solution at all!*
it is very mysterious! people in the comments misunderstand a lot at first, because it's weird to describe, and there are other ways to arrive at these s-curves, but nothing in the manual describes how to access the functionality with just mouse/curve interaction, and no menus.
i had an hourlong search for a computer problem yesterday, it was very annoying. well, to be perfectly fair, the search was actually for a solution, the problem was right there
i was talking to my friends on jitsi, and they couldn't hear me well because i was half as loud as everyone else. i checked all the options in jitsi that could influence the mic volume, and, when i was sure everything was maxed out, looked at the browser settings, which were all fine. still quiet.
next stop: windows sound source levels... and: aha! the mic was set to loudness level 66. perfect - just put that on 100, bam! close dialog, start talking like everyone... else..? wait.. why am i not louder than before? open windows settings again: mic level 74. what?
i repeat: what?
set microphone level to 100. go to conference call. speak. go back to windows settings. microphone level is somewhere between 60 and 80.
what??
as we then managed to find out, it was that whenever i stopped speaking on a video call, my microphone pickup level would automatically lower itself.
i could watch the slider jump in the windows settings dialog after i'd made a noise.
well, that meant a fun little pre-easter treasure hunt! it took me a good long while to find all the distributed and hidden windows settings that could have influenced that! some of them were in windows for workgroups 3.11 styled dialogs. you know you're deep in the bowel of an OS when the graphics start looking like the mid 90s.
anyway, i found all of those settings and neutralized them!
and the problem didn't go away because that wasn't what caused it!!!!
fuck!!!
so i started googling, like a chump, for further ideas... turns out the internet is chock full of guides to MY SPECIFIC PROBLEM [SOLVED FOR 2024]!!!! how convenient! pay no attention to the seven-fingered spokesperson
i tried all their solutions for 2024, like going through all the messenger software i had that wasn't even running and adjusting their settings, where available, that sounded like they could automatically change the volume; cause apparently that's something apps can do, change the OS level microphone input volume! i did not know that!
in any event, it wasn't zoom or skype or discord or what have you. the problem persisted.
things were complicated further by how my windows is in fucking GERMAN and none of info on the troubleshooting websites in english is googleable directly because i don't know the phrasings of the errors and descriptions and names to google for so i had mostly german help results
at some point i just started to randomly guess at likely english keywords, and that's when i eventually found the culprit:
it was an experimental flag in fucking chrome that would change the system-wide mic levels through, uh, i wanna say .. WebRTC? i had never heard of any of it
what??!
anyway, now i can set my stupid webcam volume to 100 and it will stay there and not drop to 66 after i say hi
and it only took most of my morning!
(if you read all this... about 60 times as long as it took you to do that!)
oh, by the way: the flag was set not to "enabled", not to "disabled", but to "default"! with no indication what the default is or where it is determined, and by whom! no indication of whether it was currently on or off either! what an abysmal user experience
remember in the early 90s when you weren't sure if this was the remix and then someone would cue a "this is the remix!" sample 3 times and you were "thank you kindly good sir"?
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