ECB

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[–] ECB@feddit.org 4 points 2 weeks ago

Not a raspi, but I had similar issues on my opensuse HTPC which turned it to be related to issues with (or missing) media codecs in Firefox.

After (re)installing all of them, it worked like a charm.

[–] ECB@feddit.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

Imagine your town/city starts completely catering to people from richer countries coming there to get completely wasted and intentionally act crazy... that's what happened to a huge portion of Spain.

[–] ECB@feddit.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

That mentality is largely the result of overtourism though.

Spain is a country of under 50 million people which has over 70 million foreign tourists visit every year.

The US is 330 million people but only has 50ish million foreign tourists.

So imagine that the US has roughly 8x as many tourists per year (to match per capita) and imagine that a huge portion of these tourists were mostly coming from much richer countries and had the mentality of 'let's let loose in a cheap party spot'.

Just about everyone is in favor of some tourism, it's just currently completely out of control in much of southern Europe. The numbers just completely dwarf just about anywhere else.

[–] ECB@feddit.org 0 points 2 weeks ago

I'm sorry, but this is completely backwards with regards to the situation in Spain or many other poorer european countries. I'm much more familiar with the situation in Croatia, but this applies to most of southern Europe (including Spain).

Yes, the countries take in a sizable portion of their gdp from tourism, however this is generally at the expense of the average citizen. Tourism is notoriously bad at distributing any wealth it provides, while the average person living in these places gets all of the negative side effects. Tourists are generally coming from richer countries (USA, Germany, UK etc) and able to/used to paying much higher prices. So the local economy shifts to focusing exclusively on tourists (it's where the money is) and locals get all of the negative externalities (inflated rents, inflated prices, crowding, poorly behaved tourists) with very little benefit.

Local and national governments focus exclusively on further investments in tourism (since it's such an 'important' part of the economy!) at the expense of other investments (education, non-tourist infrastructure) which would be more beneficial to the overall population.

Not to mention, compared to just about anywhere else in the world, the number of tourists in Europe is absolutely overwhelming compared to locals. Croatia is a country of under 4 million people, but gets over 20 million visitors a year! The average salary is somewhere around $1000 A MONTH, so it's no surprise that so much of the country is instead focused on the needs of tourists who can easily spend $1000 a week...

This isn't the same situation as a tourism hotspot in the US, for instance (where I'm originally from). Yes, wages vary geographically in the US, but not nearly to the same extent. The areas often grew around tourism rather than being a normal functional city where families have been living for centuries before very recently turning into what is essentially a theme park which is largely unaccessible to natives.

[–] ECB@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Whether they are constitutional seems to be a fairly open source of debate currently.

[–] ECB@feddit.org 21 points 1 month ago (4 children)

But please based on wealth rather than income.

Rich people don't become rich from income.

[–] ECB@feddit.org 0 points 1 month ago

I use freesync on my monitor between 48 and 144 hz.

The range depends on the specific monitor.

[–] ECB@feddit.org 18 points 1 month ago

It's been years since I had to deal with MATLAB licenses, since basically everything in scientific computing/data science uses Python these days!

[–] ECB@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

My school offered a BA in physics. I never knew anyone who took it (I did the BS) but they claimed it was aimed at theater set- designers.

[–] ECB@feddit.org 0 points 1 month ago

The target use case for large SD cards is high-resolution video recording.

Recording at 4k+ eats up space faaaaast. So you need both large-capacity as well as fast storage.

[–] ECB@feddit.org 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Same in Croatia. The idea is that the combined gift amounts cover the cost of the wedding + leave a little bit extra

100-200€ per person is pretty standard

[–] ECB@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah that's basically what I did too.

I just installed dash to dock and made the icons quite large, then rebound a button on my air-mouse to the super key (to bring up the dash). I also installed Just Perfection and used it to hide the top bar unless the dash is open.

90% of the time, I'm just using Firefox, so I don't need anything too fancy.

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