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I will never get a ham license, one day I will get a 100W out of band CB rig, but as a matter of principle I will never become a ham.

There are several reasons for it, reason number one is privacy, I would never say my legal name to strangers on the internet, for obvious safety reasons, why should I have to identify with a callsign when chatting over radio?

Reason number two is that you can lose your license just for “swearing”? Like what the fuckl? What censorship is this?

Reason number three, it’s illegal to use encryption on ham bands, so I can’t even have a private conversation over ham radio.

Reason number four, I understand that licensed hams don’t want unlicensed noobs jamming their frequencies, I understand the need to reserve some of the spectrum to people who actually understand that just because you can’t hear anything, doesn’t mean you’re not jamming, but there should be parts of the radio spectrum reserved for free personal use. Reduce ham bands by half for all that I care, but I should be able to just buy a radio and transmit how many watts I need on those free bands without needing authorization from the government.

Meshtastic sounds great in concept but IMO it’s useless in most parts of the world due to it’s extreme low power.

If all your neighbours have one or there aren’t many buidings around blocking line of sight then meshtastic has great potential. Otherwise I would stuck be sending messages to myself.

Now, they made boards with more power that operated and crossed at several different frequency bands, specially shortwave, then meshtastic would be an incredibility powerful too. However illegal.

Magnetic strip? Is that still a thing? All terminals I’ve seen in the last decade or two use the smart card or the NFC. Magnetic strip is insecure.

Exactly how I felt updating the BIOS today.

There’s a reason Stephen Holstrom from Pantheon looks just like him. (I highly recommend the series if you haven’t watched)

Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

My mom once told me “if you work a lot, you can be rich” I actually believed that as a very young child.

What’s that thing on the last pic?

AFAIK there’s no free as in freedom implementation and only works with propriety apps and I read google messages refuses to use RCS on rooted/unofficial systems. So that’s a big no.

Another big problem is, people who don’t have mobile internet and unknowingly have it enabled (aka most people who still use SMS) won’t get the message until they connect to WiFi or some time passes.

Really good this one.

Sometime ago, I would have agreed with you…

Then I learned the hard way.

Amazing some people actually memorise that, I just abuse pipes and

find /path/ | grep file

Don’t get me started on that, stupid direct led brakes lights should be outright illegal. They literally blind every following car behind, specially if the windshield is dirty or foggy.

How those damn things got approved in the first place is beyond my understanding corruption.

Macbooks particularly are one of the stupidest shit someone can burn money on, the extreme high price and low performance make apple computers literally the worse in the market.

For the price of a powerful computer with RTX and all, you get an useless office computer where the keyboard is even too shit to do any office work on it.

As for the actual question, I tend to spend money that I shouldn’t on premium audio gear, I should feel bad about it, but I really enjoy listening to good audio and for me I feel it’s worth it even if I have to postpone things that for most people are considered essential.

Also, it’s very hard for me to spend money on (new) computers and camera gear. I terribly need a new computer with a good GPU for 3D modeling and a decent camera. However if I buy a new computer or camera in 10 years it will be obsolete and worth 10x less than I paid for it meanwhile stuff like audio gear or musical instruments don’t become obsolete so I’m more likely to spend money on yet another paid of headphones that I don’t need than saving up for a computer.

• For popularity>0, we got close to all tracks on the platform. The quality is the original OGG Vorbis at 160kbit/s. Metadata was added without reencoding the audio (and an archive of diff files is available to reconstruct the original files from Spotify, as well as a metadata file with original hashes and checksums).

• For popularity=0, we got files representing about half the number of listens (either original or a copy with the same ISRC). The audio is reencoded to [OGG Opus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_/(audio_format) at 75kbit/s — sounding the same to most people, but noticeable to an expert.

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I think you’re confusing two different concepts, dynamic range compression and data compression.

The first is like an automated volume control that lowers the volume really really fast in a matter of ms when the volume reachest a certain threshold, (can also work the other way where in increases below a certain threshold, or both).

The reduces the file size, sacrificing quantity if a lossy codec is uses. Lossless codecs like flac are a bit to bit perfect of the original.

Downvote me all you want, but confuses me the hell when communists (both MLs and an anarchists) have iPhones.

I mean you’re supposed to support a classless society, yet you spend 1000 on an useless locked down device that lacks basic functionality and is nothing but a status symbol for the wealthy to brag how they own a product from this particular brand.

As an anecdote, I know a communist who has a Ché-Guevara wallpaper on his iPhone, I find it hilarious.

Sorry, but I’m not a prediction engine, I am capable of abstract thought, and actually understanding the meaning of the words.

I can also process all kinds of different data and make connection between then which includes emotional connections.

Another cool trick, I also have this thing called a consciousness which is something I can’t explain or put into words but I know it exists. All under 20W.

Some years ago I burned a quadrophonic bootleg version of Dark Side of the Moon, the original Alan Parsons mix (which sounds much better then the official version) so a friend can listen to it on his 5.1 home cinema.

Besides that I haven’t used DVDs in more than a decade, harddrives are cheaper, reliable, always online, run btrfs with realtime checksums and are easy to backup. Besides last time I checked most DVDs don’t read anymore.