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I meant that it would die as an “open” platform, so power users would be compelled to stop using android.

I understand, but there’s a good argument that android is the reason why GNU/Linux phones don’t get good.

The death of android as an “open” platform would put some pressure to actual develop an alternative.

Not sure how I should feel about this, if I should support the cause to keep android “open” (when it’s everything but), or if I should be happy that this piece of shit OS finally shows it’s true colours and people (including me) will finally be forced to find an alternative or stop using this trashware all together.

And hopefully developers finally get serious about GNU/Linux phones.

Depends on what you use the computer for, for gaming, maybe you’re right, idk. I personally use the computer for 3D modeling which mostly relies on the GPU.

I’ve recently built a computer with the latest gen GPU and got a nice 12 gen i7 as platform for it, the GPU is from 2025, but the CPU is like 4 years old.

The thing is, I could have gotten a much older CPU haven’t I found the 12th gen for the same price. If I could just upgrade the GPU and ram on my old laptop I wouldn’t have bought a whole computer.

Besides, buying a laptop with 16GB of vram would have been much more expensive than a desktop.

Meshtastic sounds great in concept but IMO it’s useless in most parts of the world due to it’s extreme low power.

If all your neighbours have one or there aren’t many buidings around blocking line of sight then meshtastic has great potential. Otherwise I would stuck be sending messages to myself.

Now, they made boards with more power that operated and crossed at several different frequency bands, specially shortwave, then meshtastic would be an incredibility powerful too. However illegal.

• For popularity>0, we got close to all tracks on the platform. The quality is the original OGG Vorbis at 160kbit/s. Metadata was added without reencoding the audio (and an archive of diff files is available to reconstruct the original files from Spotify, as well as a metadata file with original hashes and checksums).

• For popularity=0, we got files representing about half the number of listens (either original or a copy with the same ISRC). The audio is reencoded to [OGG Opus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_/(audio_format) at 75kbit/s — sounding the same to most people, but noticeable to an expert.

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I think you’re confusing two different concepts, dynamic range compression and data compression.

The first is like an automated volume control that lowers the volume really really fast in a matter of ms when the volume reachest a certain threshold, (can also work the other way where in increases below a certain threshold, or both).

The reduces the file size, sacrificing quantity if a lossy codec is uses. Lossless codecs like flac are a bit to bit perfect of the original.

It’s literally that Simpsons in Japan episode.

I wouldn’t be surprised if reddit had a secret API for facilitating the creation and management of corporate bots.