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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Yep, they’re regular FLAC files with tagged metadata.

You can use them as normal. Copy to another device, to an iPod, use them on a video editor, send to a friend.

This has been going on for ages, Tidal never patched it, so I think they quietly are okay with it because not many users do it anyway and at least you’re paying for the service.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
You want a new generation tidal downloader.

On GitHub.

So a Tidal downloader new generation.

One could call such a thing tidal-dl-ng if they’re trying to save some letters, I guess.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I think any links would violate Lemmy.world’s policies.

But a quick search for “Tidal downloaded” will give you several options.

Basically when Tidal streams to specific devices they basically upload an encrypted FLAC to an AWS host and the device downloads the file and uses your account as the key.

So people create apps that do all that, but instead of simply streaming the FLAC, they download and save it.

The great part is you get album art, live lyrics, high resolution audio, an organized and properly tagged library with zero work. The output FLACs are regular files - no DRM or weirdness, I use them on a MP3 player.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I have a happy middle ground:

I pay for Tidal’s student subscription. I leverage the fact Tidal streams FLAC files that can be decrypted by your account to build my local collection.

So I never actually stream or use their app, but technically am paying for the downloads.

I tried buying FLACs from companies that actually wanted to sell FLACs but they have ridiculously bad catalogues.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this month's Humble worth it if I'm not into Persona?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
In my opinion, nope, not worth it
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our Channel Could Be Deleted - Gamers Nexus⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

they just don’t sugarcoat

To the contrary, they massively inflate whatever they can find that will gather clicks.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our Channel Could Be Deleted - Gamers Nexus⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
That would defeat the entire purpose of sensationalist headlines and blowing up a Google search as a “deep investigation” which is this channel’s main source of attention.

They want the clicks on YouTube. Moving to PeerTube would be great if they just wanted the information to be out there, but that’s not their primary concern.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The internet kind of sucks right now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
So what? You can still sell it to AI companies without assigning an user to each message. They don’t care about who wrote it when stealing the content.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it realistic to hope that lemmy grows to the size of the bigger social media platforms?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Do we want it to grow to the size of traditional social media?

I want people here, not US politicians, the Pringles social media account and three bots.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Imagine an alligator. Quite good at catching prey with their current anatomy.

An alligator that shoots laser beams for tracking and bullets would be even better. There’s however no path from their current anatomy to this state, regardless of the randomness and timescale for mutations. In fact, in order to achieve this higher state several non advantageous intermediates would be necessary and therefore never selected for.

So no, evolution can’t achieve global maxima, it can however optimize the shit out of what it’s given to work with.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shit like this is why we need open source printers!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Apple also considered printers for a while and decided this mess is untouchable
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Taylor Swift’s new album comes in cassette. Who is buying those?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Naturally. But the comment is not comparing tape to other media, we are talking about tape players.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Taylor Swift’s new album comes in cassette. Who is buying those?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
VHS isn’t coming back because you simply can’t buy a CRT and VCR. These are no longer being made, the existing ones are degrading and overpriced.

Otherwise they’d absolutely be back, a lot of videos on YouTube and TikTok are specifically longing for VHS.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Taylor Swift’s new album comes in cassette. Who is buying those?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Don’t listen to “audiophiles” otherwise literally no audio equipment is ever good, and it becomes a who can spend the most money contest.

A cassette player from FiiO will sound absolutely great and work fine.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It doesn’t have “3 million bits of info” on a specific topic, or even if it did, it wouldn’t be able to directly measure it. It’s worth reading a bit about how LLMs work behind the hood, because although somewhat dense if you’re new to the concepts, you come out knowing a lot more about what to expect when using them, what the limitations actually are and how to use them better if you decide to go that route.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
LLMs don’t have any awareness of their internal state, so there’s no way for them to see something as a gap of knowledge.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Famous VPN company Mullvald says it will no longer use OpenVPN⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
These immutable distros always create a thousand little problems like that.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That’s mostly related to Windows Defender intercepting reads and writes and hasn’t truly been fixed.

Sometimes it’s literally faster to read a database using WSL than the native system.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I stood on a precision scale and farted, would I get lighter or heavier?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

whether farts are denser than air

They are.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I stood on a precision scale and farted, would I get lighter or heavier?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Conservation of mass would prevent any outcome other than the scale showing you getting lighter.

No household scale would be precise enough for this experiment though.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That’s not entirely true. It’s true that Microsoft invested in Apple, but it’s not true that they were about to get broken up and that Microsoft money saved them.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

The thing with “just works” in monopolies is that it eventually stops working

This gets accelerated when the company starts changing the product just for the sake of having to change something to meet some OKR, or because they need to find a way to incorporate the newest marketing buzz (cloud, AI, etc).

The Office suite was simple to use and performant. Nowadays I watched a college professor struggle for 8 minutes trying to figure out how to save a file locally rather than saving it to OneDrive, because they redesigned everything around that. It also takes an obnoxiously long time to launch, it keeps popping up some Copilot button in inconvenient places too.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
We are talking about operating system adoption.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Nope, not going to argue against obviously dumb points from executives. Do it. Raise your prices yearly. Fuck it, you think prices need to incrsse? Increase them.

It takes me five clicks to close Steam, open Firefox, open my favorite piracy site and download your game. Raise the fucking price, test how much I value my money versus five clicks.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The average user no longer uses a PC at all.

There are lots of us, but we are not the majority. The average user is quite literally doing everything from their phone, and they don’t care about any OS.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The thought of relying on Microsoft services for something sends shivers down my spine.

Then I remember there are adults in this world using Outlook to keep their agendas, paying for MSN news, people BOUGHT MEDIA AND SOFTWARE from the built in stores Microsoft created and abandoned. I can’t imagine it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I really don’t understand CEO’s obsession with AI… is it because when they give LLMs a go they feel smart and finally capable of doing the things others could do but they were too dumb to engage with, like reasonably good writing or drawing pictures?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

as long as certain jobs and tasks can be done easier, and searches can be done faster

I’m still waiting for somebody to prove any of these statements are true. And I say that as somebody working in a company that demands that several employees use AI - all I see is that they now take extra time manually fixing whatever bad output the LLM produced, and slowly losing their ability to communicate without first consulting ChatGPT, which is both slow and concerning.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

Seashells require face to face interaction, they weigh a lot and they are not convenient to obtain. Nor are they fungible or even anonymous

That’s all true, which is why seashells are terrible. But even being terrible, they beat the imaginary crypto bro token. That’s how bad the crypto bro token is.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

so you agree that Monero has value then

Nope, I’d rather use seashells than something like Monero. Crypto is got negative value, the time wasted hearing people like you preach about it is never going to be returned to my life.

especially in countries like the US?

Seashells would be an upgrade in a country like the US, but failures of your payment systems do not change anything for the inherent value of random online tokens.