Happens with TV shows all the time
This is what we were all told for years and years- that it was impossible that anyone could hear anything in vinyl that was supposed to be there but that couldn't be reproduced with digital at cd quality. Then DVD came out And people could genuinely hear the difference from CD quality audio even in stereo. It turns out that dynamic range is limited by the audio sampling rate and the human ear can easily detect a far greater range CD audio supports.
'Jolene' and 'Blackbird' were covers of black songs? Which ones?
Strictly speaking, you cannot make an ISO from an audio CD. Yes, you can make a bin cue file pair as another commenter has suggested. But realistically what you've then got is uncompressed wav audio with the metadata in separate files. The only real advantage this gives you is something that theoretically allows you to recreate precisely the original layout of the audio CD, together with the appropriate length of silence in between the tracks, etc.
When you convert to FLAC there is no loss in audio quality, you use approximately half of the storage space compared to wav, and you can have all of the metadata such as tags and art images embedded in the file itself.
Bin/cue is not really very useful unless you're not listening directly from a computer or burning to a CD and listening to that. For every other use case, it's better to have a file that you can play directly and index directly.
FFS! Yeah, right. Let's all learn about init.d , Xfree86.conf, samba, and how to recompile a kernel using curses.
Yeah, those old books were out of date when they came out.
But the reality is this: they are the only company that has turned UNIX into a multi decade, multi platform success with no insight. They’ve adapted across three different processor architectures. No one in the Lennox community has come close. And those who take their inspiration from Apple design and Apple coating of philosophy would never admit it.
[Cough] Android [Cough] Chromebooks. It's also debatable if Apple produce an actual Unix (although also debatable how much that matters)
Would it make a difference if they did? Here in the UK every supermarket has a loyalty card scheme. I held out for a long time but eventually I simply couldn't afford to pay the effective 20% premium for not using it
There's a large variety on Windows too, e.g. Temurin and Corretto are both available there
I'm missing the part where consumers are required to use their ISP DNS. I never do, in favour of CloudFlare DNS, Google DNS, etc
I wanted to leave Twitter too. I'm a professional engineer in tech and I found setting up in Mastodon to be... ...not straightforward, as did a whole load of other people. I eventually got set up. I couldn't find anyone or anything, the whole model being based around local instances rather than users or topics but.. I tried to make the best of it and I followed the other people who had left Twitter that I had followed there when they said where to find them on Mastodon. Then I found I had run into a 'silencing' drama where some other instance admins had taken issue with an admin for the instance I was signed up to and as a result everyone on my instance was essentially shadowbanned in a whole load of other places. It had been happening maybe a month before I even found out about this. I'm a grown up, I don't have time for school time drama. I found that I was using Mastodon less and less and so were the people I had been following. Then my BlueSky invite came through. I can find topics and I can find users. People post and people respond. I don't have to worry which of 100 identical usernames across different instances is the 'real' one or my instance being defederated or silenced.
The problem with Mastodon is it's basically a social network for people who are into Mastodon, and enjoy centering around their specific instance. It might work for Warcraft guilds but it doesn't work for me, or any of the people or topics I want to follow, ostly current affairs and tech. As opposed to BlueSky which is a social network for people who:
- Want to move on from twitter
- Are interested in finding and following people and or topics
No doubt at this point you will want to tell me how I'm all wrong, clearly tech illiterate and how Mastodon has at least as many users as BlueSky. Sure, whatevs. It's like Linux on the Desktop, not a viable mass-market proposition at this point (saying this with 25 years Linux desktop experience).
Mastodon as a mass market solution has failed. It's essentially irrelevant outside of a tiny niche
Sorry, only just seen this. I don't work in this sector I am afraid. Some things that might help you:
- There is no legal definition of a 'valid' address in the UK- If you post it then the Post Office will try to deliver it. If they can work it out from what is written, and they will try very hard, then that's 'an address'. This has been established in law.
- There is advice on how you should write an address . This is how e.g. a bank or utility will address mail, but see above. TBH at this point you could probably put a What3Words on the envelope and it could work.
- For most addresses in the UK you will want to correlate the postcode with the street address, as shown here. A street address is a number (or house name, or both) and a street name on one line, e.g. '29 Acacia Road'. Street address + Postcode is how people target e.g. a satnav to an address. A postcode generally relates to a group of addresses, but larger organisations, e.g. a hospital or council office will have a postcode just for them, e.g. 'Buckingham Palace'. Beware that whilst postcodes don't change, new ones are being added all the time and they aren't sequential.
Is this some sort of joke? Do we expect the Taliban to care or to be affected in any way by this? It's not like the USA or anyone else is going to support an ICC prosecution
Cuts both ways however:
It's common to encounter, especially HR Portals, trying to enforce a 'valid' address. Trouble is it's often an American developer and they have no idea about other countries. Here in the UK they like to insist on a 'county ' field for postal address, despite it being over thirty years since postal addresses here even had counties (which didn't match the actual counties but anyway). The drop down list they like to give isn't a list of counties either, it's an out of date list of local authorities, which were never part of anyone's address.
I worked at a place once where we had to use an internally developed form to order supplies. Form checked user name against company active directory (fine) but also checked that surname+first initial was at least 6 characters. No idea why and very resistant to changing it but my surname is 4 characters and a lot of Chinese ones are only 2...
"Something, something, talk softly and carry a big stick"
The core problem is that many movies have the audio mixed for a movie theatre with multiple separately controllable audio channels. You might see this marked as 5.1 ; DTS; etc. In a typical home environment, you only have stereo sound. This means that the multiple audio channels have to be mixed down to two unless there is a separate stereo audio mix channel provided - basically never except commentary tracks. The shitty way to do it is to just take the left and right front channels which are mainly meant for sound effects and not bother to mix in the center channel which covers the dialogue. It's still hard even if you mix in some of the centre channel.
Short version: asshole movie makers mix only for movie theatres, not stereo.
So what's his laying off 5% of staff?
I think anyone familiar with the history of the region would disagree with the statement that 'this is the first time that Sweden has sent armed forces into the Baltic sea'.
I fail to understand what disabilities this could help with
Why is it that no matter where in the world, what country or what the apparent topic is, literally every geographically specific community on Lemmy , just like every geographic specific sub on Reddit, is negative. Literally every story is about something horrible, awful, sad or enraging, never anything positive for anything geographic beyond a national level and rarely even then?
Why is this with geographic communities and not others?
Mars Wrigley UK says the smooth bar "slipped" through and confirmed the swirl is being kept.

Recently-released dolls tied to the new Wicked movie inadvertently carry the address of an adult website.

They linked to wicked.com
when the movie site is at wickedmovie.com
Militant group is ‘waging an all-out war against us’, says one Kabul resident in response to the bizarre rule

McDonald’s previously said in a statement that early findings pointed to slivered onions on their Quarter Pounder as a possible source of the contamination.

Literally, 'not the onion'
Indoor facility in Cirencester removes objects resembling corpses covered in plastic after parents complain

Accounting firm tells its 26,000 workers move is to ensure workers spend ‘minimum of three days a week’ in office

Battery and aviation experts were flummoxed by his recent assertions about electric aircraft, which are not yet in widespread use.

I am considering replacing my old 50" 1080p TV which I use with (external) Chromecast and Roku. I would like a 4K display 60" or greater but I really, really don't want any smart features. I am aware that I could purchase a commercial display to achieve this and that's my fallback option. Can anyone here make any useful recommendations? I am in the UK so e.g. 'Sceptre' is not available here.
In advance, with respect, I am technically capable (check my post history) but could I ask to please avoid threads along the lines of:
- 'non-smart TVs aren't a thing' - fallback is a commercial display
- 'Nobody wants/buys non-smart TVs' - I do
- 'Any TV not connected to internet is dumb'/ 'Just don't connect it' - This is no longer true since many TVs require a setup before use involving internet access and/or will seek access via open wifi/bluetooth/HDMI.
Thanks!
Edit:
Some commenters seem to be struggling with the 'why do you care if it connects?'. Some examples why:
I'd like to ask about home entertainment hardware - I would have thought there would be an existing community or few but I am struggling to find any - can anyone point the way?
Caitlyn Scott-Lee, 16, is thought to have taken her own life the day before she was due to have her first ever detention

Trigger warning: self harm
> Caitlyn Scott-Lee, 16, is thought to have taken her own life the day before she was due to have her first ever detention > > The father of an autistic schoolgirl who is believed to have taken her own life the day before she was due to have her first ever detention has paid tribute to his “daddy’s girl” at the inquest into her death.
Shock in Brazil after woman is arrested and charged with violating a corpse and attempted theft through fraud

She should have said - well we tried calling first but were on the phone for quite a while- you said our call was important to you and you were 'experiencing an unusually high volume of calls'...
Two instances I have accounts with have switched to Lemmy 0.19. This is a breaking change for many apps, including Connect. Is there any news re supporting this in the near future or is it time to look for another app?
Edit:
This is now working for me (at least for 2 separate instances) with Connect version 1.0.153 (details in comments below). Thanks so much for rapid response!