I'm in the process of replacing all my mp3 (including a lot of V0 and 320) with FLAC. I know that most of the time I can't tell the difference, but I did some testing and in some scenarios with some music I could tell. And, at the size of music files, disk is cheap.
GreatBlueHeron
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My son has just signed up to a new retailer where he pays wholesale rates (he understands the risks) and for half an hour yesterday afternoon they were paying him 13¢/kWh to take it!
Thank you - your description is the only one that allowed me to see the "other" perspective. If I really focus on the "wrong" bottom face and bottom left vertex I can see it the wrong way for a short time but the instant me brain notices the top right vertex it flips back.
They tried that years ago in Australia - it didn't last long.
USB-PD can be used for more than just charging. If you're running something (a headphone amp for example) from one port of a multi-port brick, you don't want it to stop momentarily every time you plug or unplug one of the other ports.
That was nearly 6 years ago!
I assume "data" includes your container configuration files in this strategy?
It should be obvious from the context here, but you don't just need geographic separation, you need "everything" separation. If you have all your data in the cloud, and you want disaster recovery capability, then you need at least two independent cloud providers.
Well I learned something today - I always thought PNG was lossey.
I used Kodi and now use Jellyfin as client/server - my media is on a local server. The difference (the way I use it) is that with Kodi the server was just a file server and the client (Kodi) was doing all the work. The Jellyfin server is a media server and the clients are very lightweight. I was pushed to move to Jellyfin when I got a new Sony TV - the built-in Android TV experience was very usable but I couldn't install Kodi - it ran out of space trying to build the media database. I'm sure there are ways I could have made it work, but I'd heard about Jellyfin and figured I'd try it. I liked it and never went back.
I suggest you learn about the difference between line level and speaker level. This article seems to do a decent job:
https://www.electronicshub.org/speaker-level-vs-line-level/
Your boiling water analogy does not fit - water boils at 100°C (depending on air pressure). It's like the digital signal - boiled/not-boiled, on/off, 1/0, etc.
The output of a DAC (Digital to Analogue Converter) is a line level analogue signal and this signal has an amplitude (voltage) that can be controlled. I'm not a software or audio engineer so I don't understand how, but my reading and own testing supports this.
My own simple test: I have a Google Pixel 4a and an Apple USB-C DAC (dongle). If I use headphones connected to either the phone audio jack or the DAC and any "normal" music player I can listen at full volume - it's loud, but far from uncomfortable. If I use USB Audio Player PRO and configure direct hardware access to the DAC I cannot listen at full volume - it's too loud.
That used to be my approach, but since I got symmetric 1Gb/s fibre I've found that if I leave it uncapped anything I download completes in a few minutes and I don't download anything popular so I don't have to worry about uploading too much.