floquant @ floquant @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Nothing will ever make a difference if no one expects it to make a difference. I hate this defeatism

I stand corrected, thanks for taking the time to write an informative comment. I haven't ripped a CD in like 15 years :P

In the end, I found I don't really care that much, since lossy Bluetooth works well enough for earbuds on the go, and good old cables are still available for more serious listening.

Plus, the truth is that most people can't tell the difference between lossy and lossless without doing A/B testing, and some can't tell even with that

Audio CDs contain 44.1kHz 16-bit PCM. If you got FLACs out you transcoded them, and transcoding from lossy to lossless is generally undesirable

EDIT: I stand corrected, I forgot that PCM is not a codec.

Efficient propaganda is not democracy

The USA becoming a one-party nation in real time

They don't want to protect, they want exclusivity.

Is HWID not the go-to activation method? I'm a bit out of the loop

This version is unsettingly high quality

Does the UK "claim" Canada because of their relationship to the crown?

Operating is bloat, you only need input/output

And?

They could 100% afford them, it's not like this is a small company facing bankruptcy. The fact that they need to keep cutting costs in order to keep growing infinitely does not make it right

Lots of good answers already in this thread, so just pitching a couple of "not what you asked for but maybe interesting" thoughts: Have you tried CFL lightbulbs? Those don't flicker and should be available in a wide range of temperatures. Regarding the headaches, imho it's more likely to do with blue light/color temperature than flickering, unless it's severe enough you can notice it even if just barely. In that case, maybe look into glasses with blue light filters, helped me a lot with screens and indoor lighting

It is so much worse. Humanfacing

How many verified conspiracies actually started as a 'conspiracy theory'.

All of them? If you're questioning the official narrative you're "just a conspiracy theorist" until proven right

Secret WiFi 8 underground lab

Many higher-end keyboards run QMK, which is a custom firmware you can modify to make all kinds of customizations to your keyboard. And the best part is that it requires no client software, it's all on-keyboard

TIL what the W stands for

It seems like your whole threat model is avoiding DNS poisoning, which is fine, but I fail to see how you can compare using DoH/DoT to a VPN.

so no one can even read which website you want to visit.

Except for the DNS provider (in your example, Google, so... yikes), the operator of the network you're on (since the destination IP can be rDNS'd or WHOIS'd, or simply grabbed from the Host header if your browser still tries HTTP first). Any traffic that is not encrypted will be snoopable. Traffic volume and connection times to each destination can be analyzed.

By contrast, a VPN will also use secure (if you trust the provider ofc) DNS servers for your requests, plus making all of the traffic completely opaque except for "going to this server".

no app, no account, no money required

You can also make your own, free VPN service with a little technical knowledge.