It’s hard to justify as it’s mostly subjective but objectively I think having music archived in a lossless format allows me to transcode to more practical lossy codecs as things evolve.

It’s kind of like in the olden times owning the CD and you could re-rip anytime and whatever format you needed/wanted.

Don’t sweat it, still a cool little thing.

They’ve mentioned this as part of their roadmap. They aren’t big enough to develop this spinoff and continue on DRG so they want to be transparent on how the work on this Rogue game will cause delays for the next season of DRG.

Interesting it’s as specialized as it is but many dams pump water up the reservoir during low consumption times to store for periods where power is needed.

I loved Bancamp because you could download CD-quality FLAC. Yeah, I can stream my music there but I want to load it up to my personal media server and just have it in the best reasonable quality possible (I know there’s better than CD quality).

There was a BBC Connections episode that showed eager power distribution people watching a famous English show.

The thing was that it was so popular they knew to expect kettles going off simultaneously all over the country the minute the show ended creating a spike they had to manage.

There’s the Unibomber for one.

“Bad Day”

Robot Chicken Vader.

Fund extremists to prevent the Palestinians from getting their shit together and making headway towards their own state and then act surprised when said extremists backfire hard.

And of course, it’s innocent civilians on both sides that pay the price.

Like corporations would pass on literally tens of billions of dollars (yearly) just because they are big.

Unless Apple had it’s own competing search service they have no reason to pass on that much money unless it becomes a huge liability.

Or not quite half a Twitter (pre-Musk).

Space stations cost less than what some “send a short message” platform does… insanity.

Botnets and malware rejoice!

I second MBR2GPT. With a guide it’s quite straightforward to migrate from BIOS to EUFI but probably too scary for the average user.

It’s not arbitrary. Securing an OS today is a huge challenge and Microsoft wants to leverage this tech to facilitate this. New hardware supports it, a lot of older hardware supports it and they strongly encourage this as the new standard.

Yes it means some people won’t update without workarounds but they are setting a standard moving forward and for supported hardware, they were quite aggressive with the upgrade (I had to make sure the TPM was disabled in BIOS on a machine I didn’t wish to upgrade early on).

Strange about your motherboard. I have an older one and just had to enable it via BIOS. I’ve heard some support it as an add-on module.

Wrong movie.

“Flanderize” refers directly to a Simpsons character (Ned Flander).

And many people and organizations rightfully protested the Iraq invasion. The French refusing to get into that part of the mess is how some idiots come up with the “freedom fries”.

I remember vividly thinking the US going all out into Afghanistan in retaliation was probably exactly what the terrorists wanted. I’m certain this applies to the current situation as well. Hamas is hoping to provoke Israel into going full throttle against and into Gaza with the intention of triggering a wider Jihad.

The one with a rocket program. Oh wait…