[Resolved] Looking for recommendations -- CD Ripper
Ah. Beans.
These big companies don't learn that fast.
The decisions to "invest" in these live service projects were made years ago, and execs are terminally allergic to pulling the plug on something once it's a couple million deep.
They're like cruise ships crashing into icebergs, except that once they set a course they aren't set up to change it even if all the other ships start crashing and sinking.
Yes, eventually.
But you don't really need to wait for Valve to get their things in order on how to support such a thing.
Because Bazzite is excellent. It's based on the known good Fedora Silverblue, and brings in a bunch of improvements, as well as all the features unique to SteamOS.
And it works on Nvidia GPUs, with some caveats.
Australian actor starts fundraiser to cryogenically preserve son, who died by suicide after bullying
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Even in the most generous scenarios, cryopreservation of a person has to be done quickly, lest the brain decay.
Current methods cannot achieve it to begin with. Let alone once the person has been dead for days.
What do you mean "but"?
This doesn't produce anything. It removes jobs instead of creating them. And by the end there is one less company in the system.
I wrote in response to you saying this is what they "should" be doing. That it would either work, or not.
But this is working sustainable businesses being butchered for their value on the meat market, rather than operated long term.
It most certainly isn't what they "should" be doing.
If this is the best way to make money, the rich will continue to do it instead of starting new companies. That is not going to have pleasant long-term effects on the world.
Then you need to look into how private equity works.
They buy mature companies, often with borrowed capital, and then place the debt on the purchased company. They essentially make companies take on a massive loan to buy themselves from themselves, except the private equity firm ends up the owner.
The company then goes into overdrive trying to pay off the debt, while the firm makes changes intended to make the company "more efficient". All while paying themselves "consulting fees" and "bonuses" for stepping in and "helping" the company do better.
This usually means mass layoffs, dumping assets, paycuts, restructuring...
Best case scenario, the company was already failing, and now it fails faster.
Worst case... The company was doing perfectly fine, making a sustainable living for its employees. And then it gets purchased by a private equity firm.
Suddenly everything is on fire. Not a single penny can go unpiched, workplace comfort unsacrificed, or employee unoverworked. And that that is the new norm, is the good ending.
Private equity makes money by killing the golden goose, and then finding another. And then another. And then another.
Is that the meanest "go away" you can manage?
Really?
Just block me. Or stop responding, even.
I keep replying because that's what I do when there's even a fraction of a chance I get through.
I will repeat the same paraphrased ideas at you over and over, so that even if you only read every other sentence, the full idea might make it into your head.
I'm asking why you can't be nice. Or failing that why you don't want to be.
That you aren't, is obvious. And not an answer to anything.
You've now admitted to being intentionally malicious.
That's NOT an improvement.
Why do you do that?
The only possible interpretation I can make here, is that you just put together a sentence for the sole purpose of trying to upset me.
That is not a nice thing to do. No mature adult should ever need to go there.
Yet you have.
Why can't you just... Not?
I'm confused. What does this have to do with the fact that you're being difficult?
You changed your position. Good. I knew that. See how that last comment of mine was in past tense? But that does not absolve you for the comments you made and continue to make.
Nothing in how you're acting makes me think you'll be nicer about it the next time you get your mind changed. And that's what I'm telling you to change.
Buddy. You're on a tantrum. You ain't taking us anywhere except the verbal equivalent of slinging shit at each other.
But I'm not here for conversation. I'm here to show you this ain't productive, and that you need to stop.
You've been set straight on an assumption about people, that might have called into question your own self worth.
If you genuinely thought everyone shit-talks, it follows that it is something you do.
If that's the case, the fact that there are people who don't, might have made you feel like a worse person in contrast.
That's ok. But you need to start thinking about what you're gonna do about it. And doubling down on the stuff that makes you difficult to like, aint it.
Then stop replying.
Or derailing your own thread by being an ass, for that matter.
This is a non-response.
Read and reply to what is said, or don't respond at all.
Anything else is an attempt to feel like you got the last word.
Yes. And then when someone said otherwise you just doubled down with absolutely no additional logic.
And when they suggested that your personal experiences might be coloring your views, you accused them of being in denial.
All in all the "I'm an asshole" energy is coming through loud and clear... Not to mention your very premise reveals that you think it's normal to speak ill of people.
In what way? Stop being one of the people who explains to someone why they're being down-voted instead of piling on with insults?
Why should I engage with your chosen subject? I'm not interested. The only reason I even opened the post was because of the downvotes, not the premise or title.
And when I did, I found you, actively, either accidentally, or intentionally, pissing people off. You're being abrasive and adversarial. You're either trolling, or inadvertently turning everyone away from the thing you actually wanted to discuss.
I don't care whether it's deliberate, the explanation for why you should stop is the same.
Yet, you feel the need to continue to go "nu-uh, everyone else is the problem" even as the number of people telling you otherwise, and just the general disapproval, increases.
"Ground yourself in the observable." How people react when you say and do things, is part of the observable, my friend.
If I succeed, I'll have made you nicer to talk to. I'm a lot more invested in that.
Even as you probably wont be nicer for me. You likely hate my guts about now, and wont admit it to me even if I do make you rethink things.
If this is the kind of stuff you say publicly, no wonder you thought the stuff you say privately would end the world.
Do better, man.
Unfortunately, we do not have the authority to decide what part of our activity people choose to address in reply to us.
That's up to everyone else. I can only hope you'll actually read what I write. I can't make you.
But the responses and votes you've received, should make it more than clear to you, what you should take home and think about from this post of yours.
You're actively doing the equivalent of a kid plugging their ears and singing loudly in order to drown out something someone is telling them.
And in doing so, you are by far the worst offender in this thread, when it comes to off-topic nonsense. Your comebacks are genuinely embarrasing, and the attention they have drawn eclipse whatever you wanted the point to be.
Trying to explain that to you, so you might comprehend the parts of what you are being told that are worth hearing, and thereby become capable of choosing to do better, has far more substance than your initial hypothetical.
Your most productive course of action, would be to take what you've been told, and re-posting the thread with better wording.
Something along the lines of "what would happen if a piece of malware used our devices to record what everyone says in private, and made it public".
You started with a premise so far from reality, (that there would be something bad to reveal about everyone) that people ignored your opener in favor of discussing its incongruence with reality.
I'm fairly certain they are commenting on your behaviour in this thread overrall.
Looking up Picard's instructions... They recommend whipper, as others have done in the thread.
It can do the tagging for you, but it's important to note that music CDs do not contain metadata.
All the rippers that exist, look up what the CD is online, based on stuff like number of tracks, their lengths, and order. iTunes was the ripping software everyone used back in the day, because Apple made and maintained the first extensive database that could be used to automatically tag ripped music.
Modern rippers typically rely on MusicBrainz (like Picard).
As such there is no 100% reliable auto-tagging ripper, because a disc might match more than one album, or not be in the database. Such cases will always require manual intervention.