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The moment they announced increasing censorship was what did it for me, basically it was the ‘It’s only a matter of time before I get banned on here so I might as well nuke my account while I’m still ahead’ realization when that went down.

Even just reading Reddit without an account sucks because Redlib is always getting blocked.

At least you can move to another instance if you ever get banned on any given instance on Lemmy, or roll your own instance if you really want to own your presence on this platform and you have the local hardware to dedicate to that, or even the rest of the Fediverse for that matter, to also include Mastodon, Pixelfed, Loops, Matrix, and PeerTube.

I don’t doubt that they are, I’m going to keep recommending this, but if you haven’t been banned from Reddit yet, kill your account on there while you’re still ahead like I did, because it’s a matter of when you get banned on that site at this point, rather than if.

Could The Iron Giant count given a big part of its message came from the director’s sister succumbing to domestic gun violence?

At least they won’t go away if the downloads for them are delisted, they’ll still be there for you to re-rip from.

If you lose those files and don’t have them backed up for whatever reason, and they’re delisted from downloading, they’re gone, or if they get corrupted for some reason and they’re delisted, you can’t just re-download them anymore.

That’s fine, I’m just nerding out.

When or ifever I end up buying music, it’s going to be physical where possible because legal download sites are going on delisting sprees now, eg. like 7Digital’s been doing for a while now.

At least with physical CDs, I can do my own FLAC rips and not worry about losing the physical copy unlike with legal download sites where if it’s delisted, it’s completely gone even for downloads you already bought.

Vinyl also technically can be ripped to FLAC, but since you’re digitizing an analog format, it’s a real-time process so you gotta sit through an entire side of an LP unlike with CDs which can be ripped quickly, plus you’d need to manually split the raw waveform up into individual tracks, and manually input metadata, digitizing analog formats like vinyl, open-reel, or cassette is a very long, drawn-out, and manual process vs. ripping CDs, but it’s something I’d still recommend doing especially as vinyl physically wears down every time it’s played back as is its nature being a mechanical format read by a stylus, so digitizing an album to FLAC for future playback and then putting the physical album back on the shelf can prolong its life, especially for any particularly valuable albums.

This goes for tape formats too although since they’re read by a magnet, they don’t wear down every time they’re played back in the same way vinyl does, but they still degrade.

Another perk to all this especially for digitizing vinyl in particular, is you’d have a FLAC ‘master file’ you could then transcode to Opus or some other lossy codec for listening on space-limited devices like a lot of lower-end mobile devices, but that also applies to FLAC rips of CDs or even digitized tape albums too; keep the FLACs at home while putting the Opus rips on your phone if your phone is space-limited (even 510kbit/s Opus rips are smaller than the FLAC input file while having no audible degradation).

Well, MP3s are lossy compression so from a technical standpoint they’re very different from CDs.

If anything, FLAC files are closer to CDs than MP3s are because those are lossless, and of course WAV rips are raw, uncompressed rips similar to what you’d get with DAT.

No, but MP3s are closer to MDs or DCCs in that those are also lossy compression, with literally being an evolution of the codec DCC used (MP1) while MD used Sony’s homegrown ATRAC codec, than they are to CDs, while FLAC is lossless so it should be the same as a CD with WAV or AIFF rips literally being an uncompressed copy of said CD.

I just turn on all the optional filters generally.

Just like saying the open web is broken when they’re the ones who broke it.

I just now killed my LinkedIn because it was useless to me anyways. I never got any traction on there aside from people trying to rope me into MLMs or otherwise scam me.

If it is, then the entire black/dark comedy genre is full of troubled people.

Forgejo, Codeberg, Gitlab, or self-host.