ProgrammingSocks

Maybe you're missing some context. This comic is about DRM. Back in the day there was a big fight between the companies and consumer advocate groups like the EFF over DRM because it's awful for the people paying for DRM'd content.

It's pretty easy to buy DRM-free content now for certain forms of media, esp. books and music, not so much for others. But my whole point here is that if you're on the side of the EFF and FSF, you're anti-DRM, which means that you'll probably support piracy as long as DRM continues to fuck over consumers.

I was implying that you'll be seeing this until he's dead. It's also a little presumptuous at this point to say it's only gonna be four years with him, what with them trying to change term limits and all.

Then they shouldn't be called lifetime subscriptions. This seems like a really smarmy justification of a shitty business practice.

I actually prefer the Jellyfin client to the Kodi client by a lot. Using Kodi on top just adds more unneeded complexity and reloading libraries in my experience.

It works pretty well for me but I separate anime and TV/movies, and make sure the anime library is only scraping data from anime-centric databases. But I'm also not watching too much new or obscure stuff.

I would build it with AMD or Intel components only personally, because Nvidia still relies on a closed-source driver.

Adobe and Word will not work on Linux.

Fuck this article. Title is insanely misleading. The paywall is for 1 specific AI feature, not the Notepad program itself.

Don't do this. You will lose quality every time you re-transcode an audio file. AAC is supported by basically everything now.

Also MP3 is a pretty bad format all things considered. The most efficient format is Opus, it's open source and transparent at 160kbps.

Bandcamp only works if the band originated there. Most labels don't sell anything through bandcamp. If a label doesn't release digital lossless for me to buy it's getting downloaded on Soulseek.

Of course it's real. This is maybe one of the least shocking beliefs from a webcomic like xkcd ever. Like 1/5 of all the comics are about hacker culture or Linux.

I understand but he is the unofficial president of one of the most powerful nations in the world. It is going to continue like this until he is brought out of power through one way or another.

I'm personally not a fan of permissible licenses, but you don't need to bring your fetishes up in every conversation.