Count Regal Inkwell

1. Be gay

2. Find consenting partner

3. ???

4. Say Gex

I hear you but like – fuck mountains.

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So a cassette tape works by using electromagnetism. Ferric Oxide (AKA, literally rust powder) has a property that if exposed to a magnetic field, it will create a weak version of that magnetic field within itself

So the record head of a tape machine is an electromagnet that changes its field based on the actual audio signal, translating audio frequencies directly to magnetic directions and strengths, while the read head is a passive electromagnetic coil that picks up that weak magnetic field on the rust-coated plastic tape while a small motor runs the tape past it and emits it as a soundwave.

The tape adapter skips 90% of these steps —

— It just has an electromagnetic coil of its own, positioned so it lines up with the play head, and when you feed it an audio signal, that audio signal gets directly translated to a magnetic field just by running it through the coil. The tape deck picks it up and doesn’t even realise there is no tape running through

They make these things with bluetooth now believe it or not.

Pair the tape

Stick it in a cassette player

Play music on your phone.

No, but I’ll try to answer anyway:

• SystemD is large, it is a dependency for many things, it sort of takes over managing the entire OS, and a lot of Unix Philosophy Purists hate that about it because it goes against the idea of “one program does one thing, keep it simple”
• SystemD is inflexible and things must adapt to its way of doing things, not the other way around, and again, people don’t like that because Linux Users all have “don’t tell me what to do” as their core philosophy (even I’m like that, I just have different priorities on what I don’t want to be told about)
• Some people argue it slows things down. I don’t know. I never cared enough to find out. I will keep it that way because I personally have no interest.
• … The head developer, one Lennart Poettering, is a bit of a jerk.

That fourth one, I feel, is the real sticking point. Much like Pulseaudio (same dev), whatever merits OR defects it has as a computer program are entirely 100% irrelevant, people are just mad because the head dev posted asshole things online and that means he’s evil and everything he touches is retroactively shit.

Gay. Next question