Or the EMF generators they carry around with them in their pockets, A.K.A their phones.

Yup. How long have we been waiting for graphene batteries to revolutionize technology? About a decade now?

That’s how it goes all too often with these settlements, sadly. Remember when Fox News got to settle with Dominion over the fact that they knowingly pushed election fraud claims that they privately knew to be false? They just paid their fine and went right back to business as usual.

It’s clear that the M3 MacBooks are noticably slower with 8GB or RAM than with 16GB for various tasks, though, including photo & video editing, and 3D rendering.

Sure, 8GB gets the job done but why are Apple selling “professional” grade laptops in this price range that clearly require additional memory to reach peak performance?

That’s no justification for selling a >$1,000 MacBook Pro with only 8GB of RAM, though. It’s specifically marketed as a professional-class machine.

Lol omg. I tried long pressing everywhere except the page number icon, which I only tapped, and nothing happened. I’m clearly having one of those days.

That’s cool, though. I haven’t been able to find any FOSS app that has this feature before.

Thanks, that does look nifty, but unfortunately I was thinking specifically for Android.

I just figured that out, thanks!

From what I can see, there’s no way to rearrange the order of pages, though, right?

Darn, for a minute there I thought this app might allow you to add pages to rearrange pages in existing documents like Notebloc. So few scanner apps offer this, but it’s super useful.

Edit: BTW I was talking about Android, plus if you read the comment chain below, this one does! Just long press the page number icon and drag to move.

It’s funny that this article doesn’t mention the one company that pretty much single handedly created the need for this legislation in the first place.

Lol, I’m not saying that brickwalling the mix to achieve a certain effect isn’t a thing, but at the extreme levels of compression and clipping apparent on that track, it’s unlikely that a FLAC would sound even remotely different. Apparently the band agreed - in 2020 they issued a remaster which seems noticeably less crushed:

Incidentally, I saw Sunn O))) live once. I can still feel my bowels shake.

Killer samples do happen, sure but vorbis at Q9? I’m highly dubious. That track in particular just sounds badly recorded to begin with. If you have that same version in FLAC i would be interested to see some ABX test results or test it myself.

For archival purposes, though, I agree FLAC is the way to go.

Seriously? Fucking hell, that’s depressing.

Yup, although that doesn’t stop some weirdos out there claiming that CDs sound better than FLAC.

Don’t forget digital music stores like Qobuz and www.bandcamp.com.

Artists get more money when you buy their music outright instead of stream it.

This is correct, although it’s not the bass that is limited on vinyl; it’s the dynamic range compression (or ‘loudness’) in general.

This. People assume that because it’s “compressed” it must sound flatter, less dynamic, or just vaguely worse than uncompressed audio, despite the fact that audio compression specifically uses psychoacoustic models to remove the bits of data that our human ears and brains cannot hear to begin with.

Expectation bias is a helluva drug.

Yea, with the lack of mod tools here you don’t have that many options really.

You guys have my sympathy. I’m a pretty strong critic of Apple and their products but I’d never go out of my way to interfere with communities of Apple users. That’s just kinda pathetic.

Unfortunately, I don’t see that there’s much you can do about this apart from strictly moderate the comments section and just try to ignore the up/downvote discrepancies.

Here’s the full complaint, for those who want to read the whole thing.