Hopefully you checked the local laws first. I have heard that in some countries there are SWAT teams ready to go to your house once you start torrenting xDDD.
Folks, this game is based on Unreal Engine 5. It will run even on a potato PC. That engine is impressive - any moderately capable GPU will deliver great performance in this game.
It is not dead per se for me, but I rarely have time to listen to music these days and when I do, I just listen to my FLACs from the past. The last few albums I added to my collection were mostly bought legally through Bandcamp and similar to small artists, so for me money well spent. Personally I would never succumb to paying for some music streaming service; you are slave to the provider and you are paying for it. Plus my tastes tend to be mostly on the fringe and not available on mainstream platforms, so therefore piracy is here to stay if you want to own your music in top lossless quality.
While you may find this bizarre, I live in a country where there is no such thing as "music piracy" as long as you do it as individual for your own use (not making money out of it in any way) without use of BitTorrent, as that counts as sharing which is no-go. But as long as you download "old-school" from links (or disable upload on *rent) you're clear in terms of law.
Which audio codec are you people using when ripping cd's? I used wav but the size made it not really fitting on my phone (60GB) I switched to FLAC. Many people I talked to said that CD's just use mp3 codecs in the First place.
Many people I talked to said that CD's just use mp3 codecs in the first place.
That may be partly true for non-original CDs made out of MP3 files via CD burner, but original CDs should not be "crippled" like that.
I think this debate is kind of late, at least a decade late. FLAC has clearly won; it is available everywhere and shall stay that way thanks to its open-source nature. With increasingly cheaper physical storage (SSD, HDD) and more affordable cloud storage, I think FLAC's longevity aspect just beats everything, even though there may be other codecs such as Opus which may provide a better compression/quality ratio.
But if you only care about lossless, just go with FLAC and enjoy your tunes. ;-)
Don’t believe anyone trying to sell you on the idea that FLAC sounds better than an appropriately compressed (read: transparent) lossy format: Opus ~128-160kbps, MP3 ‘V0’ (~215kbps), MP3 320kbps, AAC ~150kbps.
Only partly true. If the rest of the chain is of decent quality (hi-res sound card, proper cables, quality headphones/speakers/monitors), then the difference between lossless and lossy is apparent to a trained ear. Especially the lack of dynamics and space is typical of lossy formats.
Personally, I never understood why I would want to listen to anything but lossless in the first place. I never really had to worry about storage space too much for my music to consider converting it to a lossy format. I am more of a user who likes to archive stuff; therefore, lossless and FLAC are the only future-proof ways if you want to listen to your files in the next 25 years or so.
It is not about the price. You can buy great stuff for $500 altogether, and you can only splash $500 for one piece of a sound chain, which was not really necessary in the first place (often people buy super expensive headphones and then listen on a cheap Android phone some 128 kbps MP3s - amazing, really!). It is all about balance. Personally, I do not aim for hi-end sound equipment, but I have also heard enough of the spectrum that I know I will not be satisfied with low-end devices.
That's why I settled for mid-tier offerings, and I am happy with my setup, knowing fully well that if anything goes bad, at least I will be able to replace it without taking a loan. After all, if you want to go hi-end, then you better have the cash to stay hi-end when necessary, and I have plenty of other hobbies to splash too much on sound.
I realized I interacted / posted / commented less and less on reddit these last couple of years. Couldn't even tell you why exactly. Now I've been here for a week and, I don't know, I just like interacting again... Hope it stays like this for a while :)
I really like the speed and overall clean user interface here. I am still learning, but so far I like what I see. Hopefully, we can all grow together into one thriving community!
The slight catch is that you'll need to subscribe on Patreon, at least to get the beta mod - but that's fair enough in our books for a professional modder.
I would also add that it is completely in line with Nvidia's core philosophy, which has always prioritized profits first and foremost. I wonder how much more proprietary tech we will see in the future from them. I am kind of worried, as they are pretty strong with AI and might want to push something like Nvidia-GPT, their proprietary system, into games. You will then be left with the choice: play with a basic AI or go with Nvidia and enjoy a reasonably smart AI.
I really hope this does not happen, as this vendor lock-in would only serve Nvidia and nobody else. I am writing this as a long-term customer with many Nvidia GPUs..
I thought I would share my experience this evening with the group here seeing that I still excited as hell for getting this hodgepodge to work at all....
High on Life seems like a good, fun piece, now for 50% off. Considering it is still fairly recent (December 2022 release) and well rated, not a bad deal at all in my eyes.
Absolutely. They will end up with a shitload amount of AI-generated nonsense that desperately needs a human touch to make any sense. That's what moderators do. And they are now leaving en masse.
Our subscriptions mostly pay for the salesmen and the ads. They sell ads first, IT second. So I'm not gonna cry for RedHat. The image of the poor developers working in a cave, struggling to make money is only in our mind. They had a perfectly functional model but decided to sabotage some of it to try to squeeze even more money....
Absolutely. Personally, I have been part of Reddit only for a few months, and with the speed of adoption of alternatives you've mentioned, we will be perfectly fine in just a few months from now. By the way, /kbin looks awesome; I like the UI and overall speed.
70% of Russian Gamers Are Pirates Following Western Publisher Exodus (torrentfreak.com)
Me after downloading qBittorrent not knowing what I'm doing (imgur.com)
Atlas Fallen's minimum and recommended system requirements on PC revealed (twitter.com)
To anyone who thinks music piracy is dead
cross-posted from: lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/726542...
The Way Of The White Wolf
Is music piracy dying?
Most of the discussion and sources of content talk about movies and series....
Which audio codec to choose?
Which audio codec are you people using when ripping cd's? I used wav but the size made it not really fitting on my phone (60GB) I switched to FLAC. Many people I talked to said that CD's just use mp3 codecs in the First place.
Google PaLM 2 available for testing @ Poe.com
I have just noticed that PaLM 2 has appeared in my Poe.com subscription:...
It feels a lot nicer here on lemmy / kbin
I realized I interacted / posted / commented less and less on reddit these last couple of years. Couldn't even tell you why exactly. Now I've been here for a week and, I don't know, I just like interacting again... Hope it stays like this for a while :)
Starfield will get DLSS 3 on PC, modder declares - and very soon after launch (www.tweaktown.com)
The slight catch is that you'll need to subscribe on Patreon, at least to get the beta mod - but that's fair enough in our books for a professional modder.
Stable Diffusion on AMD 6800XT - Ubuntu 22.04 - Experience so far and just how much faster it is than machineML on Windows
I thought I would share my experience this evening with the group here seeing that I still excited as hell for getting this hodgepodge to work at all....
Steam Summer Sale 2023 Thread (store.steampowered.com)
Summer sale is live !...
“Reddit cannot survive without its moderators. It cannot.” That’s a recent quote from Reddit’s VP of community, Laura Nestler.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/29/23778407/reddit-cannot-survive-without-its-moderators-it-cannot
YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers (www.androidpolice.com)
It looks like Google are pushing pretty hard on AdBlockers now. Looks like a pretty aggressive new UI from them....
Reminder that RedHat makes A LOT of money already. The results of the 2019 fiscal year show that RedHat spends twice as much money on ads and sales people than on developers. (www.businesswire.com)
Our subscriptions mostly pay for the salesmen and the ads. They sell ads first, IT second. So I'm not gonna cry for RedHat. The image of the poor developers working in a cave, struggling to make money is only in our mind. They had a perfectly functional model but decided to sabotage some of it to try to squeeze even more money....
Call to action - renewed protests starting on July 1st (www.reddit.com)
The latest from /r/ModCoord.
New kbin user guide (preparation for impending wave of reddit migrants in July)
This article is an x-post from m/quickstart...