But if you lose the information how to turn those bits into music, it is gone forever. That Edison cylinder is pretty easy to play compared to that opus or mp3 file you found from the grave 40000 years from now.

True, but analog cylinders are going to be the ones people after the world burns can find and still listen. I wouldn’t count any old CDs play at that point anymore.

Like analog degrades, digital just stops playing.

It used to be in the 80’s when D/A converters were shit compared to the great 70’s and 80’s vinyl and tape players. Or in the 90’s and 00’s when most of the CDs were mastered loud and ugly. Nowadays it is what you say: digital really sounds better…

Yeah, or have a meticulously organized multi-terabyte flac collection in your NAS you stream your music from…

I think Bandcamp gives you this for all vinyl purchases.

We used to record radio programs to VHS back in the days. Again, one medium really hard to source original content in…

I mostly see telemetry requests getting blocked in my firewall. Is there anything else I’ve missed?

Yeah. And even when I’m deeply in the all digital FLAC camp over here, I truly understand the frustration people had with digital audio. The biggest reason for that was the radio wars of the 90’s, where every station wanted to be louder than the others to get better reviews and more listeners. And this pushed the studios to use all the headroom and compress their productions so even the CDs were already as loud as possible. This trend took over a decade, and kind of made music lovers think that vinyl sounds better than any digital audio. The early D/A converters were also kind of bad, so the early sound of a CD was not as good as vinyl was.

Nowadays we have the streaming services already normalizing all the tracks, so the mastering doesn’t have to be loud anymore. Actually even these 90’s and early 2000’s masters sound really bad when you normalize the audio. And whatever sound card you have in your phone or computer has a pretty good D/A converter, so today digital definitely can and will sound better than the vinyl. Of course vinyl has better aesthetics with the beautiful cover art, so it is nice to own if you have space.

Edit: for analog, reel-to-reel tape sounds absolutely amazing. Too bad it’s really hard to source any albums in this format.

I’m using mull fork of Firefox which doesn’t even have these settings, the tracking features are completely removed from the browser.

Wasn’t there even an “all analog” label in the US that claimed to use a fully analog pipeline in their process. People were saying it sounds so much better than the digital garbage we have, until somebody found out they were secretly using digital sources in their process and now the company got sued.

For all the recording nerds out there I highly recommend the book “Perfecting Sound Forever” by Greg Milner, which offers really good insights from both sides of the analog/digital debacle.

I think even Samsung was funding it for a while. They took a long time building libraries supporting rendering on X11 what I remember. I used the 0.16.x version with my 1GHz Athlon years ago, it was very cool.

The fourth can is the one where he packed Kinski’s tongue after he died.

It creates a set of symlinks so every program sees exactly the dependencies it needs.

https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/09-automatic-runtime-dependencies#automatic-runtime-dependencies

You can also create a container:

https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_Containers

Or you can create reproducible docker containers with nix:

https://dev.to/anurag_vishwakarma/a-better-way-to-build-reproducible-docker-images-with-nix-2k59

The secret sauce with nix is reproducibility. If it builds once, it will continue building exactly like that forever. Bit by bit.

Nix can build you a bit-to-bit exact environment for your app. It is a superior environment, but is hard to use in the beginning and users can feel snobby sometimes. It is awesome, but YMMV.

Nix user arrives to the room.

Marinara Starita in a restaurant called Starita in the city of Naples. Sourdough crust and amazing tomato sauce. After that New York style pepperoni pizza and detroit style vodka sauce deep dish.

It is actually quite nice. You sudo something in the terminal and can just swipe your finger to the reader without needing to type your password.

It is such a beautiful system too. I would love to use it more, but nix and NixOS have kind of ruined every other operating system for me…

Plex and plexamp are quite good. Jellyfin and finamp too.

I call it Wayland/Linux.