My head cannon is that TIE fighters don’t make sound exactly as they zip around, but they do something to the electromagnetic fields or some other techno babble thing that causes other things, like droids, space ships, rocks, or skulls to scream with a Doppler effect like that as they zip by.
I’m not a nice person. I’m not a kind person. I’m not even a good person. I try to be all of those things and sometimes it feels like a struggle. I don’t think I’m evil or a total asshole or a sociopath or something. I just think it a metric we have to constantly check-in on and adjust. I don’t really trust people that think of themselves as nice, kind, or good. I don’t think I really agree with those people about what it really means to be nice, kind, or good. For example, I do believe the song got it right, sometimes you do need to be cruel to be kind in the right measure.
You did it again.
You’re so eager to argue that you didn’t actually comprehend what I said.
And my point was that a separate corporate device makes it trivial to manage my privacy and availability. Using my personal phone for work is a hard NO.
Who cares? It’s a work phone that is used only for work, they are entitled and expected to track it as much as my work laptop or any other company equipment. That’s not a privacy issue unless you’re using company resources for personal stuff. If I don’t want them tracking me I just turn it off or leave it at home.
Could’ve fooled me. Other people interpreting the things you say based on your words alone is not a strawman argument though. We should all just chill. Yeah, maybe I haven’t listened to everything I’ve collected, but it’s a lot easier to collect now and listen later than search in vain when I want to find something.
People like what they like. I like to collect and listen to music. It’s NOT cool to shit on someone else hobbies and interests just because you don’t get it. If you can’t understand that, then yes you are being a naive jerk.
Yeah, this is a question in bad faith from a child to someone that’s been curating a collection of music for more than a quarter of a century.
This isn’t even my entire collection, I’ve got at least a couple orange crates packed with vinyl, CDs, mp3s, concert videos, and even some cassettes for nostalgia. Do I listen to everything I’ve gotten digitally? Not yet, but I don’t plan on stopping my listening any time soon and drive space is cheap, so I figure that I’ve got time.
Your “logical timeframe” is both naive and deeply insulting. I’m going to enjoy my library hobby anyway, but you can just fuck off with your negative attitude.
That’s what I get for using an online calculator.
Still I’ve got almost 40,000 FLAC files of various quality levels with a duration of roughly 2,700 hours taking up only 1.2 terabytes. Still within the same order of magnitude and still plenty of space in 2TB for a collection I’ve been curating for 25 years. I don’t think it’s worth my time to suddenly manage a lesser quality copy of each of those just for a portable player.
Making a lower quality copy of a file to save a minimal amount of space is a waste of my time. Besides 2TB is enough space for over 7,000 hours of basic 44.1kHz 16-bit FLAC listening.
Edit: That’s what I get for using a random online calculator. Based on the 39,354 FLAC files I have (of various encoding qualities), totalling 1.19516 terabytes and about 9686530 seconds of audio, I can expect a 2TB SD card to fit somewhere around 4,444 hours of FLAC audio. That still seems like enough.
That’s not relevant at all.
I saw you mentioned ascm files, those are apparently not actually the books, just a token for them. Have you used Adobe Digital Editions to download the actual books?
Shamelessly copied from an old reddit thread:
Acsm files are not Ebooks. They are files that tell Adobe Digital Editions what to download and how long you have the ability to use the file. Download and install ADE, sign in, and then install Calibre deDRM pug in. Go ahead and double click the acsm file and ADE will download the epub or PDF. Go to where the files are stored (for me documents>Adobe digital editions) drag that book file in calibre and it will remove DRM. Convert the ePub to azw3 in Calibre and pop it onto kindle. Done :)
And this:
If someone else finds this post in 2022 or later: there’s a pretty new “DeACSM” plugin for Calibre that makes things a lot easier (especially if you try to remove Adobe DRM on Linux where it’s almost impossible to install Adobe Digital Editions).
You’ll find more info here: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=341975
At the moment (v0.0.15) it doesn’t really work with PDF but I had no issues with ePub.
Sorry if this is repeating what you already know and have tried. Hopefully it helps someone.
Have you tried using Calibre + the appropriate plugin to get them into a format your reader can handle?
This (the ethical bit) is the premise of The Good Place.
I posted a cookie recipe in response to a cookie meme, got roasted for not converting baking units to science units. So yeah, people are getting kinda aggressive.
How would the game companies profit from releasing fully complete and mostly bug free games on BluRay? Without a profit motivation it will never happen.
I don’t know what a Duckdo is. That’s Howard the duck.
Lea Thompson is not a duck.
Any breakfast at home is almost always better than breakfast out, if you’ve got the time and ingredients. I can, with the right ingredients and tools and while half asleep, hungover, or still drunk, make a full breakfast for a family of four better than 90% of the breakfasts I’ve ever had out. Sure it took some practice, but breakfast isn’t rocket science or usually particularly complex recipe wise.
The only thing I haven’t been able to do better at home breakfast wise so far is making my own fresh bagels or donuts. I don’t like making poached eggs either, and hollandaise sauce is a pain in the ass, but I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve gotten an eggs Benedict out at a restaurant that didn’t make me immediately regret my choice. Same with biscuits and gravy (why do restaurants think that gravy comes out of a box and should be bright white?) , bacon (just bacon flavored bacon please), eggs (sunny side up does not mean I want the whites to be clear and runny too), etc. All things I really like, but can’t tolerate having someone else fuck up and charge me for it.