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  • Why doesn't it feel as classy?

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  • This is why the debate still exists:

    There is no analog audio format that can rival a 32bit 96KHz PWM recording, and that’s not even the best digital recording available

    Analog audio is not sampled. By definition, it includes more data than any sampled version.

    Now, the benefits of the sampling in terms of reducing format noise or similar are (subjectively) up for debate.

    Totally agree with things sounding better if you introduce noise. I suspect it has to do with sampling, and maybe is not well understood.

    Fun fact: if you add some hisses and pops and a little bit of compression to CD audio before playing it, some people (me included) will say it sounds better.

    Exactly. It is subjective. It's not about right or wrong.

    I think there are things (like above) where the measurements are misguided. But at the end of the day, even that doesn't matter.

  • Why doesn't it feel as classy?

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  • Agreed. Main issue is "better" is subjective and doesn't always mean the same thing to different people.

    I have dabbled in other tape formats, and one thing stands out to me about the compact cassette (not VHS): most people used them in the car, where conditions were bad for cassette storage. Car cassette players also tended to have poorer quality mechanisms and heads. As a result, many people remember the format being bad, when in fact, it was more about their use case. A quality home cassette deck with a quality cassette (e.g. type II or chrome) stored in the right conditions is capable of extremely good results.

    Not sure if there is something similar with VHS audio, though. Very different format. I just know there is a debate, but it could be entirely bogus.

  • Why doesn't it feel as classy?

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  • There's a weird debate about the audio quality on VHS. Under the right conditions (right tape, right player, right source) it could be shockingly good -- perhaps even better than CD audio, despite not being remembered terribly fondly.

    If you really want to wow the ladies, be the one guy with a music collection on VHS.

  • Trump, 79, Mixes Up Iceland and Greenland in Incoherent Davos Speech

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  • This was my thought. When he invades Iceland everyone will reference the part of this speech about use of force and realize it only applied to Greenland.

  • Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it

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  • Textbook definition of a solution searching for a problem.

  • 'Are We Really Living in a Democracy?' Asks Sanders After Musk Drops $10 Million on US Senate Race

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  • This. Corporations on paper should have consequences like a person. In practice, they can do whatever they want, because the US Government worships capitalism. More so than the people.

  • 'Are We Really Living in a Democracy?' Asks Sanders After Musk Drops $10 Million on US Senate Race

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  • Citizens United was a tipping point. If corporations are people and can give without limit to political campaigns, then only corporate choices will win. The others won't even make the ballot. It is 100% a fix.

    Was there democracy before Citizens United? Maybe. Certainly more than now.

  • A Trump Veto Leaves Republicans in Colorado Parched and Bewildered

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  • A better question is how many more leopards need to eat faces before ANY Republicans grow either a brain or a spine.

    I think it's an astronomical number. Bigly.

  • Dropkick Murphys' Unveil Anti-ICE Song: "Too Scared to Join the Military, Too Dumb to Be a Cop"

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  • Punk AF.

  • Anyone else about ready to give up on tech?

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  • I agree completely. And I've worked in tech for 20+ years.

    I find myself doing more and more specifically to get away from using the internet. It has totally become a tracking service for corporations and marketing. It is frustrating, because it was paid for by the people to disseminate information. Yes, you can still get good information (like Wikipedia), but what are the tradeoffs now? Most of what I see are ads or clickbait or just outright AI slop. I'm so tired of the constant barrage of bullshit. Even ad blockers can only do so much.

    So for me is isn't about getting away from tech, per se, but it is about getting away from the internet. In practice this restricts a lot, though some things are fine (I don't mind playing games, for example, even though I'm technically using the internet).

    But definitely: I'll play local music files or put on a record instead of streaming anything. I'll read a book. I'll play a (single player) game. But don't make me go online.

    And before you say it: yes, I also restrict my Lemmy usage.

  • ICE Now So Hated Even Their Own Agents Are Terrified

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  • Not even the tiniest of violins for this one. I hope these bootlickers live in fear for the rest of their lives.

    They are a good example that simply being human does not necessarily give you humanity, and they should all be absolutely ashamed.

  • ‘I Voted for Trump and Now I’m Going Bankrupt’: Farmers Say the $12B Aid Is ‘A Slap in the Face’ While Corporations Pocket Billions

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  • Now they must use this rage. Channel it, into not fucking voting for Republicans.

  • Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene breaks with the GOP on Obamacare, calling to avoid premium hikes

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  • This this this. Show me a conservative that a) can understand that different people are affected by different things at different times, b) that people in government need to accept (a), and c) that they aren't the main character, and I'll show you Half Life 3.

  • Mike Johnson Snaps as Shutdown Arguments Repeatedly Crumble on Air - Even Fox News pushed back on the House speaker’s claims.

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  • They literally control all the government. And they still couldn't govern.

    If the roles were reversed, I can't even imagine the right wing media backlash.

  • Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme crushes Apple M4, Intel, and AMD in new benchmarks

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  • I'll take cherrypicking for $500, Alex

  • Mormon Church Shooter Had a Trump Sign Outside His House

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  • Clearly he's saying "Trump stop", another crazy lefty /s

  • Never!

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  • I mean. It does make me feel better knowing I'm not actually alone.

  • Star Trek legend William Shatner, 94, hospitalised after medical emergency

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  • Never give up, never surrender, as they say

  • Star Trek legend William Shatner, 94, hospitalised after medical emergency

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  • FWIW, his official social accounts posted "rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated" 5 hours ago.