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It’s actually virtually free. Free for only 300k requests a month which is quite easy to reach, specially if you use it with your family. Buy a paid plan though for € 1,99 and you have unlimited requests.

Problem is that no noncommercial platform would ever have the same coverage as a commercial one like X. People simply would not see the necessity to install it until it’s too late.

I don’t agree. First of all, you always had to be careful to plug it in the right way up and over time the little hooks on the connector always wore out much faster than with usb-c so the cable would come loose and you’d wind up with a phone that wasn’t charged in the morning.

100% still closeted

I don’t entirely agree with you. Comparing the same song in MP3 or FLAC on the factory-fitted audio system in my car (2023 Skoda Octavia Combi) already makes a huge difference. Of course the difference is smaller when using 256 or 320 kbps MP3, but even then FLAC just adds that extra bit of depth and “openness” to the music

FLAC files are typically larger than MP3, because with MP3 roughly 90% of the original file is discarded on encoding, hence lossy compression. At decoding the codec tries to restore this 90% out of the original remaining 10%. This sounds worse than it actually is, but you understand why MP3 is considered inferior by audio purists.

On the other hand FLAC uses a different compression technique that reduces the original file by 30-50% but without any data deletion, hence lossless. So, original file let’s say 100MB as .wav, compresses to 30-50 MB IN FLAC and 6-10 MB in MP3.

I gladly sacrifice the additional storage to get noticeably better quality audio.

In the end all religions boil down to one thing. Power and dominance (specifically male dominance) over others. “My religion is X and you have to do as I say because MY fairy tale book tells me bla-bla-bla, so YOU have to obey.” Fuck all religions who use their shit stories to oppress others.

Scale-wise not perhaps, but on percentage of destroyed buildings in a particular (small) area it’s right up there I think.

Oh lighten up you. Obviously you missed what instance you’re in.

Holy F… this image is from an accident couple of years ago near Baarn, The Netherlands. My brother in law was present at the scene as a fireman. Took them several hours to put out the battery fire. First time an accident ruptured the batteries and no one knew how to handle this type of fires yet.

Praise to her work, but that just looks like a really bad AI image.

EU to the rescue, again.

“My russia”!? Hey guys, I think we found Putin’s nick here.

Great, I lost all my internet points.

Very knowledgeable and spot-on comment, at least as far as the Dutch situation is concerned (can’t really judge for the English). This is the kind of stuff I come to Lemmy for, thank you!

Getting downvoted just for asking for some civil discussion… I’m getting some “good” old-fashioned reddit vibes here.

Atrocities are perpetrated on both sides. That doesn’t excuse either of them nor does it justify committing them.

At the risk of being downvoted into oblivion here, there is really no justification anymore for the atrocities IDF is committing right now. First driving Palestinians into a corner like cattle and now bombing that same corner. How can any decent human being accept this?

Yeah, exactly the same here. Oh well, time to switch again.

On the plus side, you can’t barf lying on your back facing upwards with 6G.