Yeah, i have a huge archive of music in .mp3 format and it keeps growing. There is no appreciable loss in quality between uncompressed and 320kb/s, with the potential to go reasonably lower depending on the source quality.

I’m like this with my movies too, with some exceptions all 2000 of them are around 1-2Gb in size, which is considered small in the torrenting community. For those ones i can actually notice the low image quality, but it kinda doesn’t bother me.

I have good headphones and a good TV, i just stopped believing in high fidelity. People adore the imperfections of vinyl and VHS media, and i kind of feel the same way towards digital artifacts, movies feel weird when the image is too sharp. For music, again, i don’t even notice.

In this context, if a format can cut my library size in half and i can’t tell the audio difference, AND it’s patent-free, i see this as an absolute win.

Not that most people would care anyway, in the age of streaming people don’t have libraries anymore

You know Call of Duty started out as killing nazis on the Quake engine. I don’t remember really liking them but it’s there

Life hack: let someone steal your car. They get easy loot, you get 1. conveniently rid of your beater and 2. insurance money.

Disclaimer: i’m not the first to think of this and they made it illegal long before your beater was even built

I’ve never seen Loops but i like it purely because it reminds me of

The idea that nature is precious and must be preserved is human-centric.

Trees caused an extinction event when they appeared by absorbing all the carbon dioxyde and radically changing the atmosphere. But we feel bad when we’re the ones doing it

Looks like they threw some loose change at Jill Stein

Well yeah, anything becomes impactful if a lot of people do it, but i think it’s litterally impossible for that many people to have the means and inclination to attempt assassinations. And if there are, every CEO will have security details long before this phenomenon comes close to actually having consequences. There’s a lot of countries where rich people live completely separate from the rest of society out of fear, it’s a thing that they can do.

Of course there would be a powerful message sent by rich people not being safe in the streets, but there’s all kinds of ways they can rationalize it before putting themselves into question.

Oh this doesn’t even change the system. United will have a new CEO and be back to business.

This doesn’t change anything and, honestly, i wouldn’t even bet on there being a lot of copycat murders, if any. I just like the simple joy of watching someone live out one of my fantasies

Yeah, i ruled out Wine as an option pretty early on and i don’t remember why. May have been compatibility issues?

I have cheap audio interfaces (C600, Alesis IO2, M-Audio FastTrack Pro and such), and apparently they’re supposed to be natively compatible with Linux. Huge if true, on Windows i had to install drivers for each of them, including a community-built one. I don’t know what this means for pro interfaces but it’s encouraging

Where are you on that process? I do 2D visuals and i’m at the point where all software that i use is available on Linux, but i have yet to actually try it in practice

I switched to Linux easily because this laptop does nothing but internet and office work. If you have any kind of complex workflow, changing anything is hard, let alone changing everything from the OS upwards. Same if you need to run obscure proprietary software.

Still appreciate someone linking to the OP. That should be a rule in this channel

Enjoy being the only one posting.

Mass adoption is fundamental to make any social media viable; the fewer users it has, the less useful it is. Reddit has more users than Lemmy. It’s that simple. People won’t start switching until everybody else switches.

Bluesky is only barely starting to compete with Twitter, and that’s after Twitter drastically worsened. Lemmy is a long, long way from competing with Reddit.

To me, it’s a matter of time. The structural advantages of the fediverse mean that it’s more stable on the long run; what i mean by that is, for-profit Reddit will get worse while Lemmy remains good, leading users to migrate here, so Lemmy will eventually outlive Reddit. And then along the way there will be a few big moments where Reddit really fucks up and a wave of people washes up on Lemmy. This is already happening, i’m pretty sure all of us here made our accounts after the Reddit API changes.

She does say ‘thee’ in the other panel so familiarity is established.

Anyway, even without knowing the rule, you can sense something is wrong by saying it out loud. I don’t know if there are examples of turns of phrase staying in use when they don’t flow well in spoken language?

I thought the same. It seems clear that the Supreme Court intended that ruling for use by their political side, if a Democrat tries to use it that’s the instant they’ll overturn it.

Which would be one way to get rid of it i suppose

I was gonna say Tesla but he actually bought that company, and it doesn’t do as well anymore

I don’t think this is real. Not because it’s a crazy scenario, but because the aliens would definitely make a better simulation.

Frankly all i wanna do is escape this reality, so

It’s like a graveyard of companies that Microsoft has acquired over the years. Sharing files is one brand name (Sharepoint if i recall), making video calls is another name, planned events is another - every function has a brand name to it, which made me feel like these were the last remaining trace of long-absorbed companies.

But that’s just my recollection, i haven’t touched Teams since Covid

Yeah. Israel gets to colonize Gaza, Putin gets Ukraine, and he doesn’t have to go to war with the USA because there’s a known russian asset as president.

I agree that Trump will end a couple of wars by making sure that the bad guys win them. Just surrender human rights and dignity, let white supremacist dictators take over, let a couple genocides happen, war prevented, great success.

Oh, and meanwhile poor people and LGBT are persecuted in America. Doesn’t matter, war prevented.

The stereotypical image of a Trump voter is an overconfident bully, but let this be proof that you can also vote Trump out of complete cowardice. I, recluse nerd, cannot comprehend being so pusillanimous that you put a dictator in power just because you’re scared.

I think so too, but like i said there’s only so many computers that you can find a use for.

I think. That wasn’t a challenge, don’t prove me wrong