Thanks for the info. I’ll be sticking with YouTube ReVanced for mobile and SmartTubeNext for my TV. Both have been working flawlessly for years without issue.

Spotify has no music. I don’t like it.

(Seriously, it’s missing so many songs! But thanks anyway.)

“Stealing” from record industry executives, you mean. Artists make the vast majority of their income from merch, autograph signings, and ticket sales. I couldn’t care less if a billionaire executive misses out on a few hundred bucks from me over my lifetime. And secondly, making a copy isn’t stealing.

Edit: Also why would you think that I give a single shit about YouTube’s TeRmS oF sErViCe? (Why would any non-government citizen?) Fuck Google.

Which one has the biggest selection and highest quality audio, ad-free for $0/mo?

I use YouTube Music ReVanced, and while the audio quality isn’t the highest (because it’s YouTube), you can’t beat the song selection. Especially when it’s free and ad-free.

With those specs I wouldn’t use it for anything other than a display for something, maybe a picture frame but more realistically I’d probably just take it straight to the recycling center.

I’ve been using Firefox With Ublock Origin (and YouTube ReVanced for mobile) for years, and have yet to see this message outside of a screenshot.

I’ve never even heard of him nor this film.

The only Michael Jordan I know was this rich prick of a basketball player.

This is untrue. CD’s have a much larger dynamic range; 96dB compared to ~70dB, depending on how the record was pressed.

The reason why people say vinyl is more dynamic than CD is because producers are forced to make vinyl records more dynamic, so that the needle doesn’t fly off the record. With CDs there’s no such limitation, allowing people to make the album as loud and dynamically compressed as they like.

Edit: I should also mention that the 44.1kHz sampling rate of a CD is enough to produce a perfect analog waveform all the way up to 22.05kHz, which as you know is beyond the limit of human hearing. If produced correctly, a CD will always sound better than vinyl. Problem is that CDs often aren’t produced properly.

Because you don’t have to factor in needle skipping, you can produce a loud record that distorts, either because you want to be the loudest song in the listener’s music collection, or that you simply don’t know/don’t care about proper dynamics.

The distorted bass you’re talking about is not because of the limitations of CD, but simply because the CD version was not produced/mastered correctly. Like I said, the sampling rate of CDs are high enough to reproduce a perfect analog waveform every time.

The reason the people choose vinyl is because of its limitations. CD has a larger dynamic range, but because it’s fully digital, producers can abuse that fact and make an extremely loud and dynamically compressed record and the CD will play just fine.

If you tried doing that on vinyl, the needle would fly off the record. So thanks to this physical limitation, people who produce for vinyl are forced to make a quieter, more dynamic record. It’s less fatiguing on the ears, and if you want a louder record, you can simply turn up the volume.

Yes we are but don’t act like your shit doesn’t stink too. We’re all victims of heavy propaganda.

The irony of poking fun of UK state media, while posting a link to a website controlled by Chinese state media.

I messed around with Linspire in the early 2000s after seeing a segment about it on The Screen Savers (on TechTV). It was about Microsoft suing them for originally calling the OS “Lindows”, so called because it was among the first OSes designed to attract people who are used to Windows.

I believe that it was among the first distros to induce the concept of app stores to Linux, and since I couldn’t figure out how tar.gz files worked at the time, it sounded like a good idea to me. Used it for about a year or three, before moving onto Ubuntu for many years then eventually Arch.

And now I’m back on Windows again because I bought an HDR display and learned the hard way that Linux has terrible support for it. Can’t get the HDR intensity slider to work properly in KDE, and there’s no SDR-to-HDR conversion at all in Linux, which means no AutoHDR and no RTX HDR. So in the meantime I’m dual booting Win11 and Arch, but I find myself using Windows more and more because it’s HDR support keeps getting better and better, especially if you have an nVidia GPU.

I hope you don’t care about functional HDR support, nor having access to the Nvidia Control Panel or Nvidia App (So no 3D Settings, no Shadowplay, no RTX HDR). Two major reasons why I’m sticking with Windows for now.

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Because PC controllers these days are nothing but different variants of the same Xbox and Playstation controllers. The Steam controller is different from the rest of them, at least.

Notepad++ in WINE

Nothing.

Is it normal to watch movies every week? I see one maybe 2 or 3 times a year.

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Me neither. Did the studio forget to hire a marketing team?

Stranger Than Fiction is by far Ferrell’s best work, because it’s the only film of his where he doesn’t act like an insufferable man-child.

I wish he would play it straight in more films. He’s actually a decent actor when he doesn’t act like a fucking idiot.