Way too overthinking it for Trump. Some criminal puppeteer just paid him a lot of funds in bitcoin.

Well know you are just using circular logic. The thing is that cryptocurrencies aren’t currencies.

As long as they use energy they are wasteful, considering they don’t provide anything constructive for that wasted energy which could have been used for better things.

Except for the thousands of cryptobros who will flock to these kinds of threads defending their scam, as this very thread is an example of.

Just paying for a whole new computer required for compability with 11.

Not if it poses as a documentary.

TIL Google One

Not really though.

and the sound quality of vinyl gets worse every time you play it.

If you handle them correctly, it will not happen to any noticeable degree in any of our lifetimes or the following generations. It is durable material.

Of course. There is no doubt that the ritual of handling the record and playing it on the turntable is a huge part of it. Personally it makes me appreciate the music more because it is kind of an effort to get it playing in the first place, and you just want to listen to the record in a session, instead of just having it as a backdrop which so much streamed music is.

Vinyl records sounds great despite their technical inferiority to CDs and streaming (with the right equipment of course, but that applies to all formats). They do not necessarily sound better, but there is an element of customisation with them which you can’t get with CDs or streaming. Most importantly the cartridge on your turntable. Different cartridges have different soundscapes. There is of course an element of quality connected to price of cartridge, but over a certain price you are not necessarily buying a better sound but a different sound. Many vinyl record listeners, especially audiophiles, have different cartridges which they can switch out on their turntable, based on which kind of sound you want coming out of your system.

I know it may be difficult to comprehend for people who haven’t personally listened to such differences themselves, but I assure you it is not audiophile snake oil, it is a very noticeable phenomenon. That is a pretty unique capability of vinyl which I can’t really compare to anything with other formats.

But of course some times “the way it is intended” is not the preferable way (see my other comment to OP).

It is true that vinyl records have a smaller dynamic range than CDs and digital streaming, but it can also be a blessing in disguise on account of the loudness wars. A lot of modern digital music since the 90s have been brickwall mixed so they can be played on devices with inferior speakers or headphones and still sound loud and punchy, but that same music will sound awful and distorted on proper hifi systems.

Because vinyl records have a (slightly) smaller dynamic range they have to be mixed and mastered separately from CDs and streaming, and some times that means the vinyl edition has the only properly mixed sound. And even if the vinyl version gets a brickwalled mix, then it is still slightly better than the brickwalled CD or stream versions simply because the dynamic range capability is lower, so the brickwall is smaller so to speak.

Anyway, even compared to non-brickwalled CDs or streaming, vinyl still holds it own on proper hifi systems, there is nothing wrong with the sound experience under the right circumstances, and it is that combined with the physicality which is the draw for most vinyl collectors I think. It is inconvenient, expensive and often times inferior (especially if you find scratched up used copies), but that is exactly the attraction. It makes listening to the music an event.

Most vinyl record collectors still listens to other formats, because of course in the car or some other place you are forced to, so it is not an either/or situation either.

What a techbro take.

It doesn’t really matter if they ban it or not, it is way too late for that any way. It will be out there and used by people who want to use it. It is like nuclear technology, once it is out of the bag it cannot be put back in. Only this is way easier to use than nuclear technology, a single gradeschooler can use it.

The easy and speed with which AI created photos, of a quality most photoshoppers could only dream, can be created of does very much change everything.

The new thing is the scope in which fake content is being created. In a very near future most internet content will be fake, including history. That is not something that has happened before in history.

The current AI situation is completely unprecedented in history.

Greedy arrogant cryptobros decides that obviously.

Everything above 0% is not neglible for such uselessly decadent endeavours as cryptocurrency.

It is a waste of energy either way which could have been used for actual useful purposes. So no, that is not a helpful solution.