This was in the nineties in Sweden. We had a small infestation of loser nazi skins, as was common at the time. They were loud and violent. The most loud and most violent was an adopted black guy. The rest of the nazi skins tolerated him in the group because of said qualities. Or maybe because he’d beat the shit out of them if they did not.

And before skinhead apologists enter the chat, yeah there are not neo nazi skins in the world. However in Sweden at the time it was their main attribute and main reason for shaving the head and wearing the uniform, despite a few outliers that hung around indiscriminately with the nazi ones anyway.

We do not speak of the other ones. The false ones. The lies.

Going for a walk with my dog and several of his besties that are mostly ladies. Together we get attention from the girls.

Now that is what I call a sticky situation

You’re not wrong in any way but I would just like to clarify in the most friendly way that the use of spectrum in audio context is frequencies and not amplitude. Compressing the frequency spectrum is not really desired unless for in very particular applications like specialized lossy audio compression, which in turn is even more confusing the terminology because now compression is about reducing the data rate in a controlled degradation. Anyway, the proper terminology would be that the audio is dynamically compressed to a smaller range.

This trick used to be €200.

But you can have it now for €20.

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Nobody cares about your history when you are spamming click baits for your videos. Raging about it not being appreciated makes you no favours either, princess.

It is used where it is applicable. For regular web pages it is overkill that only complicates everything with no gain at all.

Click bait marketing of some shitty YouTube channel.

I make a fast (or faux) pesto while pasta is cooking.

1. Press garlic in a mug, add basil, fresh ground pepper and salt. Crush on pine nuts if I have any.
2. Cover with olive oil and give it a little stir.
3. Grate parmesan cheese and mix it in.
4. Some more parmesan cheese.
5. And don’t forget the parmesan cheese.

Drain pasta, mix in pesto, enjoy. Can also be fancied up with your mentioned fancies or some olives or marinated peppers or artichokes.

I think Qobuz feels much more premium than the two others. And at least for me, Qobuz Connect works like what I was missing from Sp_tify Connect when using Tidal.

I made the same journey. Used Tidal 1-2 years but never felt quite comfortable with it. The one that shall not be mentioned have got a lot in the UI right.

I’m still quite new to Qobuz but I like it much better. Their recommendations are much better, the search is much better, more info about fringe artists and sometimes albums too. Some bands/artists with the same name have confused albums but it’s expected and okay I think.

Over all I’d say that Tidal is a great streaming service but Qobuz has music nerd appeal that reminds me of walking into my favourite record stores and chatting about new releases and recommendations from somebody that actually cares.

Getting back to you question, I see room for improvement but I’m much more comfy with Qobuz than I ever was with Tidal.

That is me putting it in embellished words of amusement instead of saying that the software ran numbers through the dongle if it was present so that the logic on the dongle would correct it but if it was not present it would allow the run and save except the altered numbers would have a unnoticeably tiny miscalculation that would accumulate over the numerous edits and saves during the project duration.

Because I assumed that people would put it together themselves. Which apparently most people did. But some people still need everything spelled out for them. Ironically those that credit themselves more intelligent than everybody else.

Welp, I heard the story back in the mid nineties from someone that worked in an architect office. One save or a few without a dongle makes basically no difference but systematic license abuse will make you have to spend man hours to redraw the entire thing before delivering it to the customer. Considering how absolutely hysterical some corporate anti piracy measures were at the time I would not say it is not unbelievable, this being very early internet era and all.

I recall some other corporate oriented software that would after some time only print blank pages without explanation if it detected a crack, there were a few console games that would corrupt your entire memory card with all your saves from everything, and music software and VSTs that would spread a cracked warez version to “the scene” that would have a trojan do other nasty things to your computer as a pre-emptive revenge.

But you do you and have all the smarts. Who knows, I’m probably AI too.

I’m happy to give Qobuz my money for providing an excellent music library and be the best paying streaming service for the musicians that I listen to.

Here you go.

https://sendvid.com/lf5vsd1b

Edit: is uploaded and currently in queue to be published

I’d imagine they got a lot of furious calls that turned into embarassment fast.

I think it was AutoCAD that had the most diabolical dongle of all. Some ancient version of the software would seemingly work without the dongle, leading cheap offices buying less licences than installs and plenty of architects installing them on their home computers. Everything seems to work fine, except every save a tiny fraction of a decimal far far away is off. Way too small for anyone to notice. Until they have been working for weeks and months on a project. And then and only then do they realize that all the lines have been slowly drifting apart.

In 30 years, by tradition.