Thank you, that’s fascinating. Not exactly aa egregious as a smart phone constantly sending out mic and cam data. But it’s nonetheless interesting Kash is being so open about it. Comes across to me as marketing the idea to the public that “if you let us and corporate America spy on you, we will keep you safe”.

Can you link to the evidence from the Guthrie case?

I’ve always figured it was theoretically possible. Interested in any cases of it in the wild.

Funny the timing of your post; just yesterday I got the latest nvidia driver (sorry forgot if it was stable / new feature / beta) and magically Proton 10.0 started working with a DX12 game (StarRupture) I’ve been troubleshooting. So if you can still boot to Linux, give it a try!

I was impressed when iTunes added the option to get your album in .flac. And while I acknowledge there’s a lot of placebo effect with audiophillia, I still argue space is cheap and you never know how good your ears and sound system may get in the future.

I believe you so this is a genuine question: did you ever test your kbps threshold for being able to distinguish from lossless?

I remember in the MP3 and Winamp days, I was convinced I could detect anything below 192 kbps. Obviously depends on the content, and I’m implying 44 kHz minimum.

It was word of mouth for me. But now you’ve got me curious about occurrences of the term Lemmy on Reddit.