HDtracks is a bit more commercial and FLAC friendly.
HDtracks is a bit more commercial and FLAC friendly.
I remember watching CSI and them doing that back in the '90s.
Seriously? Can’t wait to rotate pictures in 3D, Deckard style.
at some point it’s going to be an obsolete language.
Yeah, COBOL went the way of the dodo too.
Word? Not FrontPage? That was an improvement.
Used to work in a place where, to get credentials, a used would need to simple send an email from their mail servers and would be enough… One of them would write a fancy Please add used x letter, print it, have the Head of Whatever sign it, scan it onto non-OCR pdf, then mail it… joy.
it also impacts small indie artists just trying to earn enough from each play to get to eat.
I’m sorry but it’s the 21st century, even small indie artists can have their own sites nowadays or, heck, use bandcamp, sellaband… you can’t really use technological complexity as an excuse to depend on fat middlemen.
Am i supposed to feel sorry for poor ol’ RIAA being ripped off? 'Cos i’m not.
Once it’s up to speed the CIA can start sabotaging the Taiwan facilities.
every programming language I use being that way
Are there interpreted languages?
There’s a light side?
Yeah, piracy is illegal and it’s, in practice, stealing IRL but digital piracy ain’t stealing for sure. You’re not subtracting anything…
They can and do claim that they lost revenue but they can never claim you stole the movie - they still have it, you just didn’t pay them for an extra copy. Rip a friend’s DVD, same thing.
Now if you were to hack them and steal all the movie raw material… but then again, Hollywood just spews out garbage nowadays,
Anyway not a lawyer, don’t care, stay safe.
I was with you until the last paragraph.
The difference is that i don’t give two shits about not enriching multi-billion-dollar media conglomerates that hoard all profits and leave pennies for the actual creators. Hollywood, the music industry and YT fit the bill.
Which is why i buy merch of local bands and/or buy their digital music if it’s available as downloadable media i can keep on my devices (i won’t buy into subscription crap), that way i’m indeed benefiting the actual artist and not some fat middle-man. Bandcamp and hdtracks have served me well lately, other suggestions welcome.
just like piracy is effectively stealing.
IRL piracy, sure. Digital… not so much.
I was wondering if i had misread foreskin gaming.
Ya mean like ppl using classified information in World of Tanks forums to prove a point… more than once?
The installer is the handbook.
USE flags are freakin’ awesome.
It can let you install two different versions of a library.
You can install the binary versions of some big packages like firefox.
Edit: while USE flags are generic, you can also set specific per-package flags.
As a rule of thumb i buy high-end to last me for ages.
I prefer Asus motherboards, the last one lasted 10 years and i only replaced it 'cos of bad diagnostics on my end.
I prefer AMD CPUs because, so far, AMD has stuck to socket upgradeability - that board came with an AM+ Athlon which i replaced with a Phenom. Current one’s Ryzen 5 and i can upgrade to Ruzen 9 if so desired. I’d say Threadripper is overkill, stay on Ryzen.
32 GiB RAM is nice, more is nicer, especially if you play with virtualization. You may want to remount your /tmp as an in RAM tmpfs (otherwise you won’t be able to compile firefox on gentoo).
I don’t care about graphics cards (beware some CPUs don’t support your mobo’s on-board graphics) but you mentioned LLMs… so… go gamer on that, can’t help you there.
Storage… really depends on your projects… 1TB HDD is more than enough for most stuff, find good brands within your budget/needs. I prefer SSDs because they’re quiet and curently have 3 Crucial MX500s on a ZRAID6 2 TB pool.
Same for fans: Noctua or be Quiet.
PSU’s probably… 400W? Dunno, always buy more than you need and you’re gonna need to feed that external GPU…
I don’t care about the profits of big artists and i refuse rental/streaming, so if they have their own site or i can find them elsewhere, fine, otherwise it’s the high seas. HDtracks has some big names.
For smaller bands there’s bandcamp. Is sellaband still a thing?