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Interesting, I might need to look into them. I really dislike the interface!

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Just wanted hear about your opinion and experience, and if any of you care.

I found the level of security required for basic functionality to be a hindrance. For small personal projects it felt like squashing a fly with a sledgehammer. A remote repo that is too much hassle to use is functionally the same as not using one.

plus gitlab and sourcehut are so much better

I think I’ll just edit out a mention of the platform I moved to. I wasn’t advocating for it. To be a bit more constructive - what makes those alternatives better?

It’s one of several reasons I moved to another platform. The amount of faff wasn’t worth it for the few projects I fiddle with.

I was in the signals corps as a cadet and every time I hear it… grrr…

Over and out!

It’s such a legendary bit of misinformation that it gets an explicit mention on the Wikipedia page!

Incidentally, the carbon-fibre pistol from The Dark Knight isn’t a real thing either 😉

Nope, that’s a line in Die Hard 2 that the armourer hated.

Whilst it’s a fair assumption usually, I think that the fact that they had to ask is indicative.

As for “noise”, what’s wrong with “data corruption”? A noisy recording and a corrupt recording sound nothing alike.

Data corruption is one thing, but calling it “noise” is tremendously misleading because that’s such an issue when digitising from an analogue source. I can’t say I’ve ever experienced it due to the drive, but I have experienced it with scratched CDs. I’ve been using optical drives since the '90s and it’s so rare that bringing it up is really muddying the waters.

With regards to sourcing audio, the emphasis was on “easiest”. Most people haven’t had optical drives in their computers in a long time. Ultimately they’d probably be better off finding something on Wikimedia in PCM as their “known good”. Ripping audio isn’t difficult for you and me but we’re clearly nerdier than most!

Gold plated TOSLINK cables crack me up.

The noise of the optical disc drive? I, erm, that’s not how digital data works.

More to the point, the easiest way to get a FLAC file would be to record some audio in Audacity (or equivalent) and then output it as FLAC.

Third time’s the charm, eh?

I’m somewhat tickled by the snippets of adverts I’ve seen for both Samsung and Apple’s new phones that mention “AI”. None of what I’ve seen has actually explained why it’s a selling point. Classic cart before the horse stuff.

Ultimately I’m not the target market for flagship phones as the price has spiraled out of control to the point where I cannot fathom how it can be justified for such a mundane device.

I tend to think of “the world is ending” as being terrible writing from the outset. If you’re starting from that, you’ve only yourself to blame.

“Our community” feels a bit monolithic. It’s like saying “film watchers” or “readers”. Lumping anyone that plays video games regularly into a single social group feels unhelpfully reductive.

I’m starting to suspect that this is why I don’t watch as many films as I’d like to. They’ve all become such a time commitment. Show me what you can do with an hour and a half!

You’d hate my IDE at work. It’s bright pink.

Luckily the feck attribute is too obscure to be in the line of fire.

Amazing, I needed something like that a few months ago (and will need again in future).

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No, don’t trouble yourselves, I’ll just use something else.