Quazatron

I have the theory that MP3 played a part in the death of rock music and the rise of hip hop.

Guitars and cymbals sound awful when compressed to 128kbps, as it was common in the early days of Gnutella and Napster.

Music with vocals and beats sounds much better at those compression rates.

Should not have allowed them in the first place.

I tried Tidal and could not go back to Spotify.

I guess it also depends on what type of music you are listening to. Simple FM pop or hip-hop works fine compressed. Rock, classical, melodic or more complex music gets the high range completely smashed by artifacts.

True, idiocy is universal. You can see the roaches crawling out of the rocks already.

I don’t think it would be much use other than emulated computers/consoles/arcades.

I heard about Fex for x86 emulation, but never tried it myself.

Small computers are more powerful than you think, if used properly. I stick with a bunch of containers instead of VMs and it all just hums along nicely on a Raspberry Pi 5.

Pi-Hole running all the time barely registers as a workload.

If you liked em dashes, you’ll love ligatures.

On top of all the damage AI unleashed into the world, there’s that: it ruined em dash for people who appreciate typography.

Are you sure about that? They sure exhibit a distinct lack of humanity.

IIRC, Caldera also had a Tetris clone in the installer, so you could play while it installed itself.

I was expecting Comic Sans.

Just checked, my local llama.cpp instance is still up. No, you can’t use it.

I see what you mean, and I have that (old PC with a bunch of 2.5" HDDs formatted as ZFS).

For me power consumption is more important than performance, so I’m looking for a lower power solution for photo sharing, music collection and backups.

Just another reason not to buy earbuds. You are sticking a fairly large amount of power inside your ear.

Someone should start digging.

My opinion is that YouTube became an unusable mess, and I avoid it as much as possible. I guess that’s enshittification at work.

That’s how you level up in Linux. You break things, learn what you did wrong and do better next time. Linux won’t hold your hand, you can and will shoot yourself in the foot.

You are doing it right by having backups and playing it safe. You’ll be ok.

Feels like you bought into the MSCE religion of the early 2000’s and are annoyed at all the infidels that didn’t.

True, I’ve experienced that bug.

The big different is that, depending on how knowledgeable you are, you can either report the bug, you can diagnose it (check the logs, trace and profile the calls), dig in the code, patch it or try a patch someone developed for the bug, or simply ignore it and use a different file browser. That freedom is priceless.

With Windows you’re stuck waiting for the next upgrade that may or may not break something else and brings new and exciting AI and telemetry shoved into it.

Nailed it.