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  • Yes, but also on the hardware level.

    I don’t know enough about OS programming to know if it is the architecture or the (closed source, as mentioned) CPU design itself that is more difficult to implement.

    Looking at the MCU space, even with a known architecture (like ARM), each processor has to be individually implemented in software and firmware which is a ton of work, and the only people who necessarily know how are the processor designers unless it is open source. But take that with a big block of salt, because I have never done it, just looking at industry practices.





  • Yeah here in the EU, new, they are mostly hanging toilets with a sewer connection via rubber sealed PP pipes.

    Then you caulk the top and sides and not the bottom (which is more open) so that any leaks leak onto the back tiles and are immediately noticeable and not into the subfloor (which here in Belgium is usually screed + brick/concrete)

    Also extra benefit is that there is no toilet connection with the tile to clean around, you can just mop directly under it and any kids “missing” will be easily cleanable.



  • Not according to the documentation.

    Qobuz connect is something else that only got released 1 year ago. Spotify Connect even is only still in alpha on Music Assistant and that has been around for many years.

    You can already for years simply find library items from qobuz in the music assistant UI, but playing music to an external Music Assistant provider directly from the Qobuz app on a different device has yet to be implemented.

    Unless the documentation and github issues are all wrong. If you are able to just do that by default, you probably want to give some information as to how on the github feature request.


  • Oh for sure! I am just meaning specifically the Spotify Connect casting in general.

    Then you don’t have to use Music Assistant’s really clunky and weird interface and anyone that comes to your house can just put on music from their own account and own app direct through WiFi without worrying about Bluetooth connection and signal.

    I just looked and apparently Qobuz has a Connect feature that launched last year!

    I hope Music Assistant integrates that! Apparently digital hi-fi systems are also still busy integrating the functionality, including Sonos/IKEA. It would help a ton of people switch to quobuz


  • It is a handy tool.

    The coolest feature is the Spotify Connect which turns your MA speaker into a Spotify Connect satellite to play to directly from the app. (I know, Spotify is terrible, but it is an admittedly Connect is a very very good feature in both Spotify and MA). Sadly, it is very buggy when testing. For me it worked well for a while, but now it bungles Spotify encoding and plays very very slow and distorted

    It plays my home library very well through my ESP32S3 DAC to my old 90s Yamaha AV receiver and amp. (Side effect of also being able to control the sound system via HomeAssistant and IR and use voice assistant on a MEMS mic.

    Like others have said, the interface is very clunky and bad for browsing your library of local music, but oh well. I also wish it had a radio function for your local music.



  • No, I think governments have a responsibility to protect their citizens against massive corporations using any and all psychological weapons they have at their disposal to harm people.

    Again, this proposal is not criminalizing possession or consumption, it is limiting selling. I am all for decriminalizing drugs, but that does not mean that mega corporations that sink literal hundreds of billions into manipulating people and exploiting them should have free reign.

    And tobacco affects the most people in the world besides alcohol lol. I know multiple people that have died directly from cigarettes and my mother in law will also likely die directly due to it. That is pretty much the most unlikely assumption to make.

    That also isn’t even getting into the damage to my own lungs caused by second hand smoke from people around me smoking and infecting an area without my consent. If someone goes around with a knife and starts cutting people up non-lethally, it doesn’t make it OK because they are also cutting themselves.


  • You aren’t legally allowed to sell rat poison to specifically have people put inside their own body. Cigarettes are specifically sold for you to put into your own body.

    Just say that you like cigarettes (or work for a tabacco company) and don’t want them taken away. Which this type of legislation also wouldn’t do. Otherwise, by your logic, let’s make every substance in earth legal to package for human consumption by itself. I’m sure when they advertise meth and cyanide cigarettes to kids like they did tobacco for many years, nothing bad will happen.



  • There already is a lot of illegal food.

    Illegal for food manufacturers inject your food with rat poison, illegal for them to pump your meat full of chlorine, illegal for them to sprinkle powdered arsenic all over your snacks for flavor, illegal to put snake venom in your food, illegal for them to put heroin in your food, they can’t put just a bit of ketamine on you lunch, they can’t put coke or meth in your soda.

    How is this different?