This reads straight out of a dystopian novel

Wonderful

Ugh, imagine getting to Mars and finding out your camera sensor has a couple of dead pixels

Uninstall Instagram? Why I’d never!

/S

Reddit’s /r/changemyview was revealed to be a social experiment carried out by some university, and LLMs/bots were 99% more effective than human speakers in persuading others that their viewpoints were right.

Take that information and roll with it into Edward Bernays methodology of psychology-based advertising and you’ll see what Modern Reddit (RIP Schwartz) actually is.

I have the whole show on my brain

Get me a neuralizer and I can dump 6K footage to disk :>

You’ve seen them too, I guess? :)

I want one now, it looks delicious

Yep. The rare Lemmite who understands.

Our whole civilization currently depends upon fossil fuels, and the faster we can decouple from that and invent new technology and ways of living, the better off we’ll be

I recommend Solarpunk.

A classic

I like watching it in action. I don’t know what the hell is going on, but it gives me a strange kind of peace, and if you stare at it long enough, you trick yourself into thinking that it makes some kind of sense.

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Maybe they were unable to iterate past smartphones due to a six second —

Baby shark doo doo doo doo doo

It was Taco Tuesday, not Genocide Tuesday

Why do you need a WiFi password in space? No one else is around, lol

Well; he’s right.

Buy good enough hardware and play some old music and it sounds old.

On plateau tier stuff, you just hear whatever it is. Including if the mastering was crap.

(Spoiler: I can’t tell)

Oh no, I totally enjoyed the rant! There’s nothing better than meeting someone on the Internet who is passionate about a subject, or has significant expertise who can clear up misconceptions or misinformation.

And yes I agree on the range levelling / squashing, and I think it’s for radio purposes so it sounds good coming out of horrible mall speakers or low-end car stereos / smartphones. Mass market appeal, as you said.

The surface noise is obviously a problem for vinyl, but in the specific few that a friend had shown me (Nine Inch Nails), I thought it was just part of their aesthetic, because a lot of Reznor’s stuff is “grainy” on purpose.

On mastering: I’m not even sure what the “new medium” would be for super high end audio, I’ve resorted to FLAC at Quality=11 because .wav/.raw is ridiculously large for no good reason, and internet connections are so fast nowadays (125 MB/s+) that even buying physical Blu-Ray disks is tenous given you can digitally grab the album in under a minute, versus driving to the record store.

TLDR: Just get whatever sounds good to you; if you already have working speakers, there’s no need to replace them unless they’re really old / grody.

I’ve got JBL powered studio monitors and a powered subwoofer with a low-frequency cutoff passthrough.

The DAC/Amplifier provides the analog signal from an optical input.

I’m kinda “half” an audiophile, I can definitely tell good speakers apart from bad ones and with room speakers/“monitors” it’s a lot easier to get good sound than with headphones (cone and magnet sizes).

As for vinyls, I listen to them digitized and they’re around ~192 KHz in dynamic range (compared to 48 KHz for CD), and most speakers seem to be capable of high dynamic range (post 2020 production) for pretty cheap.