There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?

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  • daggermoon@lemmy.worldtoLinux Gaming@lemmy.world•Very positively surprised by how seamless the switch from Windows wasEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Fair enough, I misunderstood your argument. I appreciate your demonstration. Any chance you’d be willing to share your script? I have a few ideas on how to play with it.

    Edit: I forgot, I actually had a HDD fail on me, luckily I was able to recover some of the data. Many .flac files on it were completely corrupted and unreadable past a certain point. The .aiff files I had were perfectly readable. I suspect they were at least partially corrupted. Luckily, I was able to re download all of the affected files. So, no data was actually lost.

  • daggermoon@lemmy.worldtoLinux Gaming@lemmy.world•Very positively surprised by how seamless the switch from Windows wasEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Sorry if I’m mostly focusing on paragraph 3 but I have to. MP3 CDs sound way worse than a redbook audio CD though. You can losslessly compress PCM by about 50% by using a codec like flac or alac, but there is data loss if you use a lossy format like .mp3. You can compress 20 vacation photos taken by an iPhone 16 to fit on a 1.44 mb floppy disk and you will have something resembling the original data, but I think you’ll agree it’s worse. Back to my original point, A CD-R is much more likely to reatain data for 5 years than an SSD is. Unless it’s periodiclly powered on of couse. I have an HDD from 2008 in my PC actually. I’m often impressed how long they can last.

  • daggermoon@lemmy.worldtoLinux Gaming@lemmy.world•Very positively surprised by how seamless the switch from Windows wasEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I have CD-R demo discs from the early 00’s that still play fine. Also according to Wikipedia: “On July 3, 1991, the first recording of a concert directly to CD was made using a Yamaha YPDR 601. The concert was performed by Claudio Baglioni at the Stadio Flaminio in Rome, Italy. At that time, it was generally anticipated that recordable CDs would have a lifetime of no more than 10 years. However, as of July 2020 the CD from this live recording still plays back with no uncorrectable errors.”

    Edit: Yes, a tape drive would be ideal but i’m poor af.

  • daggermoon@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Alright fine I admit it, I want to learn Linux
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    4 days ago

    I’d say try Kubuntu. It’s like Ubuntu but with KDE (Windows-like user interface) instead of GNOME (shitty Mac clone turned tablet like interface). It’s well-supported and is easy to use. Also supports new technologies like HDR which Mint is lacking. Though you can install KDE on pretty much any distro (Mint included) but it’s a good starting place.

    Note to fellow Linux veterans: Yes, I know snaps suck but it is not something new users need concearn themselves with. Kubuntu is a great distro except for snaps which aren’t going to affect OP’s use-case (or most use-cases. Also sorry for shitting on GNOME so much. If you like it that’s cool, I just don’t think we should be recomending it to people coming from Windows.

  • daggermoon@lemmy.worldOPtoRetroGaming@lemmy.world•Hydrophobia (PS3) out of contextEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I’m enjoying it so far. The water effects still hold up in my opnion. It was a game too ahead of it’s time I guess. I’m surprised the game isn’t talked about much. The lack of a physical release probably had at least something to do with it.
    Funny enough, the first game I completed as an adult was Resident Evil: Revelations, a game which takes place mostly on a boat. Would definitly reccomend if you like scary games. It came out on the 3DS and it’s amazing they got the game on such a low power device. I’d still opt for any other port though.