I want one now, it looks delicious

Yep. The rare Lemmite who understands.

Our whole civilization currently depends upon fossil fuels, and the faster we can decouple from that and invent new technology and ways of living, the better off we’ll be

I recommend Solarpunk.

A classic

I like watching it in action. I don’t know what the hell is going on, but it gives me a strange kind of peace, and if you stare at it long enough, you trick yourself into thinking that it makes some kind of sense.

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Maybe they were unable to iterate past smartphones due to a six second —

Baby shark doo doo doo doo doo

It was Taco Tuesday, not Genocide Tuesday

Why do you need a WiFi password in space? No one else is around, lol

Well; he’s right.

Buy good enough hardware and play some old music and it sounds old.

On plateau tier stuff, you just hear whatever it is. Including if the mastering was crap.

(Spoiler: I can’t tell)

Oh no, I totally enjoyed the rant! There’s nothing better than meeting someone on the Internet who is passionate about a subject, or has significant expertise who can clear up misconceptions or misinformation.

And yes I agree on the range levelling / squashing, and I think it’s for radio purposes so it sounds good coming out of horrible mall speakers or low-end car stereos / smartphones. Mass market appeal, as you said.

The surface noise is obviously a problem for vinyl, but in the specific few that a friend had shown me (Nine Inch Nails), I thought it was just part of their aesthetic, because a lot of Reznor’s stuff is “grainy” on purpose.

On mastering: I’m not even sure what the “new medium” would be for super high end audio, I’ve resorted to FLAC at Quality=11 because .wav/.raw is ridiculously large for no good reason, and internet connections are so fast nowadays (125 MB/s+) that even buying physical Blu-Ray disks is tenous given you can digitally grab the album in under a minute, versus driving to the record store.

TLDR: Just get whatever sounds good to you; if you already have working speakers, there’s no need to replace them unless they’re really old / grody.

I’ve got JBL powered studio monitors and a powered subwoofer with a low-frequency cutoff passthrough.

The DAC/Amplifier provides the analog signal from an optical input.

I’m kinda “half” an audiophile, I can definitely tell good speakers apart from bad ones and with room speakers/“monitors” it’s a lot easier to get good sound than with headphones (cone and magnet sizes).

As for vinyls, I listen to them digitized and they’re around ~192 KHz in dynamic range (compared to 48 KHz for CD), and most speakers seem to be capable of high dynamic range (post 2020 production) for pretty cheap.

The ultimate prank

I think there’s a tangible difference between entertaining and addicting, with a detriment to the consumer.

If you think about something like slot machines, and gambling addiction, many people are addicted, losing money, and can’t stop:

Arguably, addiction is bad and should be regulated (see: cigarettes).

The detriment instead of money (in this particular case) was teens’ mental health, and from what I can recall, the algorithm was explicitly predatory and would serve them up advertisements for things when it detected low or turbulent emotional states, encouraging them to keep using the application and feeling shitty about themselves.

Meta was given a slap on the wrist, it’s a fine of $300M ($0.3B) on a company sitting on $217.24 billion.

I doubt they’ll change their behavior but legal outcomes are about setting precedents.

I’m surprised to see this truth known on the Internet, I guess Lemmy actually is smarter than most other social media out there :o

Oh my god the artifact actually works, I’ve gotta inform the high command

The helmet would have to be significantly larger and most likely articulated to handle the shape of the triangular ears.

Also, this is such a Lemmy moment Lmao

“Thouest hear my voice? Stay away! My legend is but a fabrication; I was Artorias, the Wolf Knight …”

They need to invest in better lighting in that store, it’s super dark in there

(Also like 40% of the population is red-green colorblind)