You know, I think there might be stupid questions after all

Canadian nurse was fired for anti trans post in her off time.

Teacher -> personal opinion on politics = no intersection between job and statement. Nurse -> personal opinion on somebody else’s health and body autonomy = huge intersection between statement and job.

Pretending to not see the difference only makes you look worse, and an eight year old child would be able to break the argument using nothing but a sharpie and a piece of paper.

I found an old ipod 6th gen at a thrift store. Threw linux on it, and its such an easy device to work with.

They are amazing indeed, I just avoid them because everything from finding an used one to parts is 10x the price in my country, so I’d end up settling for a beat up unit with a bad battery and no real funds to upgrade it. But where this is not the case, they feel great in the hand and just work.

What kind of mp3 player did you get?

The first one I bought was an Innioasis Y1 - an iPod Classic clone. Super thin, USB-C, a simple OS that can be changed for Rockbox if you so desire, and a functional click wheel. Sounded good, synced just fine with the computer, and was nice and compact. But the screen is very very fragile, changing the SD card requires opening the unit and it never closes the same again, and behind the scenes it’s just a simple Mediatek Android phone without a modem. Tip for anybody buying this one: there’s a very hard to remove screen protector that makes the screen look very grainy… do NOT remove it even if you’re tempted to, the plastic behind the protector is the softest plastic I’ve ever seen and it will scratch if you look at it wrong.

I then tried the Snowsky Echo Mini, which has no click wheel so navigation is harder, but uses an even simpler and directly to the point OS, easy to swap microSD, super nice retro design, a leather case, and two very high quality DACs with both regular and balanced output. Sounds really good, on both headphones and speakers, so I kept this one and it’s my current daily driver.

Not an iPod (because you need to mod in a new battery, new connector, patch the firmware, play the lottery with local market places, etc)

But I’m back to a dedicated MP3 player with a headphone jack, SD card slot, FLAC files, and it beats streaming every single time.

I tested two modern (and cheap) models, picked my favorite, and found my favorite combo to acquire and sync music. After these initial days of getting everything setup… The experience is frictionless. Music sounds great, battery lasts forever.

Your pedophile insurrectionary ex-president is free and president again.

Ours was just condemned to 27 years in prison.

Are you really in a position to comment on our judiciary system?

One is pretty much guaranteed to vote in favour of Bolsonaro, but a majority to condemn him is pretty much set. It’s only a matter of time.

By Friday Brazilians will be drinking and partying.

Yep, they’re regular FLAC files with tagged metadata.

You can use them as normal. Copy to another device, to an iPod, use them on a video editor, send to a friend.

This has been going on for ages, Tidal never patched it, so I think they quietly are okay with it because not many users do it anyway and at least you’re paying for the service.

You want a new generation tidal downloader.

On GitHub.

So a Tidal downloader new generation.

One could call such a thing tidal-dl-ng if they’re trying to save some letters, I guess.

I think any links would violate Lemmy.world’s policies.

But a quick search for “Tidal downloader github” will give you several options.

But the ides is that when Tidal streams to specific devices they basically upload an encrypted FLAC to an AWS host and the device downloads the file and uses your account as the key.

So people create apps that do all that, but instead of simply streaming the FLAC, they download and save it. They require a paid account, or an active free trial. I pay for the discounted student one, which still gives you access to the maximum audio quality.

The great part is you get album art, live lyrics, high resolution audio, an organized and properly tagged library with zero work. The output FLACs are regular files - no DRM or weirdness, I use them on a MP3 player.

I have a happy middle ground:

I pay for Tidal’s student subscription. I leverage the fact Tidal streams FLAC files that can be decrypted by your account to build my local collection.

So I never actually stream or use their app, but technically am paying for the downloads.

I tried buying FLACs from companies that actually wanted to sell FLACs but they have ridiculously bad catalogues.

Do we want it to grow to the size of traditional social media?

I want people here, not US politicians, the Pringles social media account and three bots.

whether farts are denser than air

They are.

Conservation of mass would prevent any outcome other than the scale showing you getting lighter.

No household scale would be precise enough for this experiment though.

I also really respect and like the finale, which is rare for a cartoon

The literal Science Memes community was mocking higher education and the thread was full of people trying to convince others to never go to college. It’s bizarre how strong the anti-education sentiment is around here.

I suspect a lot of the GOP also want rid of Trump

I suspect they don’t actually care at all except the companies lobbying these particular representatives are being hurt by the tariffs.

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My company actually desires that we use AI. If you fix a problem quickly and it works perfectly but you’ve done it manually… it’s somehow worse than a colleague who took twice the amount of time and had a bad solution, but “generated by AI!”