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why would you do a lossy to lossy conversion when verything under the sun can play aac natively?

there are lots of digital music stores.

You don’t need iTunes to manage an iPod. There are tons of alternative apps, as well as plugins for music players like foobar2000 and Winamp.

iPods are still great. You can even replace their hard drives with modern flash storage and they work. It’s actually really impressive, i built a 256GB iPod Mini and iTunes has no problem with it. For the Mini, any compact flash card works as a drop-in replacement for the hard drive. Other models require a cheap adapter.

it’s also not a good way of actually figuring out who is critical.

you can have people who keep the lights on and if they do their job right few even notice they exist.

A website isn’t a common carrier, you cannot argue that a website isn’t allowed to control who they serve their content to. An ISP is a common carrier because they simply act as a dumb pipe between the provider (websites) and the consumer.

Cloudflare is a tool websites use to exercise that right, necessitated by the ever rising prevalence of bots and DDoS attacks. Your proposed definition of net neutrality would destroy anyone’s ability to deal with these threats.

Can you at least provide examples of legitimate users who are hindered by the use of Cloudflare?

I’ve always wondered, what do Comcast’s boots taste like?

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Given that the FBI’s targets probably don’t type in Chinese or other logographic languages very often i doubt they care.

New Vegas is the best of the modern Fallout games, but toxic elements in its fan base are making me enjoy the game less and less each year. We should stop giving them the time of day.

The show is great, and these people are just fishing for nonsense to feed their persecution complex.

that is why spotify is a scam. it may be a good deal for you, the consumer, but it has made it even harder for artists to make money off their work.

Also, Stop Using Brave Browser

A new platform has the potential for better moderation and better design to keep those unsavory elements in check. Since Musk has made himself the enemy, the only path forward is for Twitter to die. Nothing good will come from it as long as he is in charge.

If an infinite number of monkeys handed you an infinite number of books, how would you figure out which one is the one you are looking for?

They have infinite battery life because they are wired.

Though I would love to see where you are finding wireless earbuds with ANC, 8 hour battery, and touch controls for $30.

For $30 (<$20 if you know where to look) EarPods are actually a good value unlike like the older style iPod earbuds. They aren’t replacing my IEMs any time soon, but I paid 4x as much for those.

No, I am not.

Who do you think makes these digital signage products? They all come from LG, Samsung, Hisense, etc.

If you don’t want to believe it’s a problem, I don’t expect anyone wants to waste their time trying to change your mind.

Show me a TV that ships with a cellular modem or that connects to open wifi networks without being prompted, and I won’t buy it. I’m not the one with the burden of proof here. But you’re not going to convince me not to buy a TV based on functionality it doesn’t have.

“One Touch Play”/power control/CEC settings can sometimes be buried in weird places. If one device in your chain doesn’t have it enabled, it can cause bad behavior. There are two different settings I had to make sure were enabled on my Denon AVR before devices plugged into it would turn on the TV. So I would double check in those usual places.

The only CEC related problem I’ve had with my LG has been that turning everything on with my Apple TV or Nintendo Switch will cause the PS5 to power on as well if it was the last device in use before power-off. I suspect this is actually a Sony issue, as I had it with my PS4 as well, and no other devices respond incorrectly to the one touch play signal like this.

You’re just giving the same companies even more money when you buy their much more expensive “dumb” digital signage products.

Nobody’s been able to show me a TV that actually does those other things you suggest. If one did, I wouldn’t buy it, but I won’t base my current pruchasing decisions on hypothetical future products.

The bugs I was having were related to eARC not working properly when G-Sync was enabled on my PC. I haven’t had any problems with my C1 not responding correctly to “one touch play” CEC signals from my PS5 or Apple TV.