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FLAC is good, but not necessary for background listening. At 192k the average song is ~ 5Mb. 100k x 5 = 0.5 TB.
FLAC is good, but not necessary for background listening. At 192k the average song is ~ 5Mb. 100k x 5 = 0.5 TB.
With a long, varied list of select internet radio stations, you can choose what genre (or special weekly show) you want to listen to at the moment. Picked by people, not algorithms. Keep a playlist of the stations you like best, startup your player (like VLC) with the list, and pick the one you’re in the mood for.
Or you could just collect mp3s locally for choosier days, dump a bunch of them into VLC, listen to them in album or random order. In either case, at no cost.
There’s a lot to like about Atril (native to MATE).
I’d say that a vacant home - any place (lots of them) where the homeless are dying in the streets of hypothermia - is owned by a garbage human.
IMO owning an unoccupied house thats off-market, or prohibitively-priced is probably a gambling chip.
IF there are ANY families in the same county that are homeless, it should begin being taxed as a gambling-chip. Sell-it very soon or it may used for a free shelter for however it remains unoccupied by the owner.
An apartment-building owner WHO LIVES IN the building year-around might be in accord. (My own GG-ma ran a boarding-home for income after her husband died.)
Needs discussion. I’m more concerned for kids -never being able- to buy a home. “Owner-built”, no problem.
It’s my opinion that housing is so basic a need that no house should be allowed to use for a gambling chip.
The ‘housing market’ needs to be broken in favor of individual ownership. (For many, speculation has driven ownership out of reach.)
Only individuals may purchase individual homes, and must agree to occupy them as their primary and only residences until they sell and vacate them. (Live-in landlords included, e.g. boarders.)
As part of the deal, they must first find another individual buyer (under the same terms) for their present home.
(Futher stipluations needed, but none that permit violation of the above principle. )
Whoa! Thanks for the pointer, I never saw one. (Don’t get to HD much these days.)
Good idea! Also works for shortwave stations that turn on at your wakeup time, especially if you’re annoyed by propaganda!
(I use an FM radio tuned to a spot where there are no signals. Doubles as an FM radio during the day.)
(Use the tone controls for more or less white or brown noise.)
YES! I a roll recently to get the cables behind my desk up and away from my feet. (Jerking cables out of their jacks sideways is bad for today’s crap hardware.) AND no more rats’ nesting.
(Too bad I never found a desk with a cable gutter along the back. Wud be great for a bunch of heavy audio/midi cables.)
Dinty Moore still comes in cans … and is better than ever (esp. compared to most of today’s canned “food”.
Strange to see people blaming their fellow citizens, when it was a certain beloved King that started off his reign by hugely cutting the tax-rate of corporations, leaving them with the ‘trickle-down’.
Somehow rulers manage to keep the people divided by keeping them blaming each other rather the root-cause.
Transistor FM radios are quite small.
Most Docus have hosts visit places and recite the standard history. Leaving out most of the unsolved mysteries that don’t fit the standard narrative.
Hancock has literally travelled the world for decades visiting places. And documenting his finds. Try Wikipedia for his book list. Start book: 1985 Fingerprints of the Gods.
Several times on Rogan. Also made a Netflix series aired a couple years back.
Graham Hancock got a lot of people talking about pre-historical human civilizations. Explaining a lot of evidence all over the planet that Western historians just ignored.
Sure wasn’t the Greeks or Romans or Egyptians that built/made/buried all of that stuff in China, SE Asia, India, South America. They were just as smart everywhere. But it didn’t sell as many books.
If you get a ‘not available’ for that link, try this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrm_wM_hnr4
Isn’t that Patricia Neal, the mother from 'The Day the Earth Stood Still '?
Yeah! Did that once, many years back. took a couple weeks. Used a ripper program that went out on the net and got all the metadata, saved to a HD (now on the third one). Put the CDs in Logic cases (no-wear), recycled the jewelboxes.
Over time, started to drop album folders into VLC, save the playlists, at ur fingertips.