Sorry if I’m mostly focusing on paragraph 3 but I have to. MP3 CDs sound way worse than a redbook audio CD though. You can losslessly compress PCM by about 50% by using a codec like flac or alac, but there is data loss if you use a lossy format like .mp3. You can compress 20 vacation photos taken by an iPhone 16 to fit on a 1.44 mb floppy disk and you will have something resembling the original data, but I think you’ll agree it’s worse. Back to my original point, A CD-R is much more likely to reatain data for 5 years than an SSD is. Unless it’s periodiclly powered on of couse. I have an HDD from 2008 in my PC actually. I’m often impressed how long they can last.

I have CD-R demo discs from the early 00’s that still play fine. Also according to Wikipedia: “On July 3, 1991, the first recording of a concert directly to CD was made using a Yamaha YPDR 601. The concert was performed by Claudio Baglioni at the Stadio Flaminio in Rome, Italy. At that time, it was generally anticipated that recordable CDs would have a lifetime of no more than 10 years. However, as of July 2020 the CD from this live recording still plays back with no uncorrectable errors.”

Edit: Yes, a tape drive would be ideal but i’m poor af.

That don’t mean people don’t still burn discs just because you and whoever else doesn’t.

Me, they retain data alot longer than any solid state data storage device. They are much more usable for archival storage. Also I burn CD’s to listen to music on my Stereo.

You’ve moved on to usb sticks

Good thing there’s BD-Rs

Why do any of you still use facebook?

Certain videos won’t play in any media player. Also occasional graphical glitches in Plasma for me. No issues with games oddly enough.

Edit: I’m using Arch but I’d expect these issues to be distro-agnostic. Though I’m fine with being wrong.

I’d say try Kubuntu. It’s like Ubuntu but with KDE (Windows-like user interface) instead of GNOME (shitty Mac clone turned tablet like interface). It’s well-supported and is easy to use. Also supports new technologies like HDR which Mint is lacking. Though you can install KDE on pretty much any distro (Mint included) but it’s a good starting place.

Note to fellow Linux veterans: Yes, I know snaps suck but it is not something new users need concearn themselves with. Kubuntu is a great distro except for snaps which aren’t going to affect OP’s use-case (or most use-cases. Also sorry for shitting on GNOME so much. If you like it that’s cool, I just don’t think we should be recomending it to people coming from Windows.

I’m enjoying it so far. The water effects still hold up in my opnion. It was a game too ahead of it’s time I guess. I’m surprised the game isn’t talked about much. The lack of a physical release probably had at least something to do with it.
Funny enough, the first game I completed as an adult was Resident Evil: Revelations, a game which takes place mostly on a boat. Would definitly reccomend if you like scary games. It came out on the 3DS and it’s amazing they got the game on such a low power device. I’d still opt for any other port though.

I tried playing it on my Linux PC and I couldn’t get it to work. Sometimes older games can be problematic to get working. People have done it but I sadly couldn’t replicate their success.

Most based article from a Libertarian news site I’ve ever read.

The UK is transphobic too though.

My mental health is going to be equally fucked with or without porn. As for ED, I’m the only person I need to please so as the Aussies say; she’ll be right.

I love this comment. Thank you!

Yeah, no

What kind of art?

What if you don’t have social media accounts?

I’m cool wit dat

That is unfortunate. However, I don’t see why you’re so insistent. You appear to be taking my original comment more seriously than I did. Sorry I didn’t do research on Finland’s position on Palestine or of their involvement in World War II. It was not relevant at the time. I just happen to appreciate Finnish art and culture.

Edit: Sadly, my country doesn’t recognize Palestine either. There isn’t a whole hell of a lot anyone here (excluding our corrupt leaders obviously) can do about it.