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On one hand it sucks that games die and you cannot play them after that.
 
On the other hand, does even all the games (all, meaning every single one, not just the ones you love and like but also those you completely hate are bad and all that) deserve preservation? Remember, saying "all the games need preservation" does include asset flips, the ripoffs and other absolute garbage that is surprising someone managed to even release.
 
Third one is the ability to preserve them. I can give you and example of a "game" that is basicly impossible to be preserved by anyone else than me. It wasn't as much a game but experiment on how to use google maps to create VR game and the server part was basicly scraping Google Maps/Earth for satellite, 3D-city data and streetview for each player and streaming that to the headsets. To preserve that you would have either needed my server that was loaned from Google and directly connected to the Maps network for that data scraping or you would also need to duplicate the around 20 petabytes of Google Maps data. And then I would need to find a way to deliver all that to you, probably as always with these, for free because you didn't take into account that there might be something else than just a database and some calculations on positions and outcomes on the servers, not 20 petabytes worth of data (that HDD/SSD amount you must handle by yourself, good luck).
Would you be willing to invest your money to build custom server infrastructure to preserve one game that you love?
 
This brings us to the point I made when someone was collecting money to sue Ubishit for closing The Crew, why didn't he collect the money to buy the servers from Ubishit and host the game himself with that money if it is that important? Like, it's probably just few thousands per month (probably just ten times that on global scale, wouldn't like to leave out those three people loving it in the Bogo bogo island, would you?) that the servers cost. If the game is that loved collecting that much shouldn't be a problem especially for a youtuber.
 
I am playing a bit devil's advocate here, but that's also just the truth. There is costs to run online games, it is bad design to require online for single players and all that, I actually despise that so much I refuse to even consider getting those kinds of games from Humble Choice or anywhere else, I won't even talk about them because they're not worth even that much of my time. But when in the future it comes to preserving something like EVE:Online or Star Citizens or any other extremely massive projects, who is going to be even able to do that financially? Not every games uses servers that you can host from your PC, a lot of them do, but not all and when they don't we get the problem "who is going to preserve this when it's only a black hole of money and no one is willing to pay the bills?"

I will save you the $40 the dropshipped turntable you have linked would cost. No, they won't sound any better and you will be wasting your money, especially with $40 dropshipped thing already only in Amazon sold by 3 different dropshippers.
At the best you get to enjoy the really vintage music  listening experience which will include: Distorted sound even on low volume, basicly only middles because lows would need bigger speaker and highs would need smaller speaker, extra scratchy needle to "improve" the vintage experience on the second play, the lovely pops that are louder than the Jericho trumpets, twice as nasty and ten times more scary.
 
Just for reference, people who say vinyls are so great over digital audio and aren't doing so just because they're hipsters, have sunk usually 4-5 figure sums into their audio systems and probably have a turntable with a pricetag in the high 3 to middle 4 figure sums. And you think you can get anywhere near with $40?
If you inherit vinyl collection or get some crazy good deal for a bunch of vinyls, then it's probably wort it to invest the couple hundreds to have something with which to listen to them, or get something knowingly good as used. Couple vinyls and $40, cut your looses, get some Ikea frames for your vinyls and enjoy the album art while listening the album digitally, that is better investment than the dropshipped turntable with a speaker and bluetooth.

I will save you the $40 the dropshipped turntable you have linked would cost. No, they won't sound any better and you will be wasting your money, especially with $40 dropshipped thing already only in Amazon sold by 3 different dropshippers.
At the best you get to enjoy the really vintage music  listening experience which will include: Distorted sound even on low volume, basicly only middles because lows would need bigger speaker and highs would need smaller speaker, extra scratchy needle to "improve" the vintage experience on the second play, the lovely pops that are louder than the Jericho trumpets, twice as nasty and ten times more scary.
 
Just for reference, people who say vinyls are so great over digital audio and aren't doing so just because they're hipsters, have sunk usually 4-5 figure sums into their audio systems and probably have a turntable with a pricetag in the high 3 to middle 4 figure sums. And you think you can get anywhere near with $40?
If you inherit vinyl collection or get some crazy good deal for a bunch of vinyls, then it's probably wort it to invest the couple hundreds to have something with which to listen to them, or get something knowingly good as used. Couple vinyls and $40, cut your looses, get some Ikea frames for your vinyls and enjoy the album art while listening the album digitally, that is better investment than the dropshipped turntable with a speaker and bluetooth.

You started a very expensive hobby without even trying it first? All I can say as an old person who listened to many different formats is if you care about nice clean sound and a reasonable price, stop buying records now while your collection is only 2. Use them for wall art and go digital.
 
If you have a lot of extra cash kicking around, records are fun and more healthy than many other vices, just don't become one of those vinyl snobs who defends them beyond reason. They aren't god-tier.

After years of circling it like a cat hot porridge: 3D-printer. A week ago to be exact but got it today.
 
Sovol SV07 Plus.

I have to say, I am disappointed. I excepted to spent at least couple days troubleshooting and tweaking and it was just going through the manual and the bloody thing just works. Just a bit G-code tweaking so the homing doesn't go haywire after the print head stucks to the print.
 
Good thing everything else took a while.
Decided to not spend 80€ or something for ready made drybox because "saving" money and just DIY that thing:

Costed probably more than 80€ if you include getting Zigbee based smart home hub and climate sensor for it just to escape the horrors that would have become from me trying to make a hole to read some digital thermo-humidity-meter (just look at that beautiful smearing of silicon to make a casket for the lid). But it will hold a lot of filaments and good 12% humidity with only metering consuming power, 2x1kg of reusable silica gel bags should be enough for a long time and when they stop, just few times few minutes in microwave.
At least the concrete block was cheaper than I expected.
 
Now just need to figure out how I could connect to the fluidd/mainsail with phone remotely. Was kind of hoping NordVPN's Meshnet would do it but of course it doesn't support Android phones jumping to the local network through Windows.

After years of circling it like a cat hot porridge: 3D-printer. A week ago to be exact but got it today.
 
Sovol SV07 Plus.

I have to say, I am disappointed. I excepted to spent at least couple days troubleshooting and tweaking and it was just going through the manual and the bloody thing just works. Just a bit G-code tweaking so the homing doesn't go haywire after the print head stucks to the print.
 
Good thing everything else took a while.
Decided to not spend 80€ or something for ready made drybox because "saving" money and just DIY that thing:

Costed probably more than 80€ if you include getting Zigbee based smart home hub and climate sensor for it just to escape the horrors that would have become from me trying to make a hole to read some digital thermo-humidity-meter (just look at that beautiful smearing of silicon to make a casket for the lid). But it will hold a lot of filaments and good 12% humidity with only metering consuming power, 2x1kg of reusable silica gel bags should be enough for a long time and when they stop, just few times few minutes in microwave.
At least the concrete block was cheaper than I expected.
 
Now just need to figure out how I could connect to the fluidd/mainsail with phone remotely. Was kind of hoping NordVPN's Meshnet would do it but of course it doesn't support Android phones jumping to the local network through Windows.

After years of circling it like a cat hot porridge: 3D-printer. A week ago to be exact but got it today.
 
Sovol SV07 Plus.

I have to say, I am disappointed. I excepted to spent at least couple days troubleshooting and tweaking and it was just going through the manual and the bloody thing just works. Just a bit G-code tweaking so the homing doesn't go haywire after the print head stucks to the print.
 
Good thing everything else took a while.
Decided to not spend 80€ or something for ready made drybox because "saving" money and just DIY that thing:

Costed probably more than 80€ if you include getting Zigbee based smart home hub and climate sensor for it just to escape the horrors that would have become from me trying to make a hole to read some digital thermo-humidity-meter (just look at that beautiful smearing of silicon to make a casket for the lid). But it will hold a lot of filaments and good 12% humidity with only metering consuming power, 2x1kg of reusable silica gel bags should be enough for a long time and when they stop, just few times few minutes in microwave.
At least the concrete block was cheaper than I expected.
 
Now just need to figure out how I could connect to the fluidd/mainsail with phone remotely. Was kind of hoping NordVPN's Meshnet would do it but of course it doesn't support Android phones jumping to the local network through Windows.

Case and fans are clear places to cheap out as much as possible.
 
CPU cooler and storage to some extent. So, don't go for the cheapest of the cheapest but you won't also need the best of the best so getting cheap is okay.
 
RAM, CPU and GPU mindfully. Like if you're on a budget, do the research. Figure out what you want and what you need and ask around. You can lower your budget surprisingly lot if you learn to read the data somewhat, not just what is presented but the frame also. Like it's clear that in pure specs something like RTX 4070 TUF isn't as good as RTX 4070 STRIX OC, but that's like $100-200 difference and the real difference, different plastics and really nothing (the 50Mhz higher boost clock is really nothing, absolutely nothing, just get AfterBurner or whatever and put the power limit to 110% and like 10C more in temperature target and you can easily overclock that TUF version higher than the STRIX OC). Same with CPU's, like if you're on a budget and every penny counts and you're looking at something like Ryzen 7 7700 vs. 7700X, it's like $10 difference but what that $10 gives you, 700MHz higher base clock and 100MHz more theoretical boost clock, the base clock really doesn't mean shit because the CPU will boost and figure itself out, the 100MHz in the boost clock really isn't anything, if you're on a budget there's clear $10 savings.
Any extra lights and bling bling, forget. They are the one thing that costs nothing to add to the product but brings a lot of profit which means people are willing to buy higher price for that cents costing extra light. If you want lights and keep budget, order RGB light strips from AliExpress of some other, they cost almost nothing and with some crafting look as good if not better.
 
Like for serious example how much companies are pissing on people buying some bling bling. The couple inch screen on some AIOs that cost like 100-200€ more than the same thing without one, that screens costs like 20€ + like 20€ control board. it's even worse if they have been so fucking greedy it's just HDMI-screen because then the control board costs like 5€ and is more likely included in the screen. Anyone who thinks that is worth the +100€ is fucking idiot in my opinion. If you're on a budget and not a baller, drop all of that and rather DIY it, finding LED strips and the few inch screens isn't hard and they don't cost a much if you want to add them, even better if you DIY them, you probably have better control over them than through some manufacturers proprietary software.
 
Motherboard, think what you really need and want.

PSU, never cheap out, just never. Of course don't buy anything stupid like the ones with screens or stupidly overkill for your parts. But never, ever, ever, never go and buy the surprise firecracker discount piece. Check the PSU tier list and get something good because that will save you a lot by being sure not to fuck things up.

let me translate that for you:
 
apple has stopped binding components to devices by serial number, using some false pretense about calibration profiles to avoid facing regulatory backlash for actively blocking any sort of repairability of their devices.
 
you cannot get legitimate parts to repair apple devices without agreeing to horrendous agreements designed to put repair shops out of business.
 
on top of that, the stolen phones argument is complete BS here. no one is stealing phones to harvest their battery and display.

In no particular order:
 
- Close Combat series (especially the earlier ones)
- Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance
- Jedi Knight series
- Die By The Sword
- Fallout (mostly 1 and 2)
- GORN
- In Sound Mind
- Hugo
- TES series
- Duke Nukem 3D
- Myst
- Elite: Dangerous
- The Incredible Machine
- Sniper Elite
- Batman Arkham series
 
Yada yada yada...

In no particular order:
 
- Close Combat series (especially the earlier ones)
- Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance
- Jedi Knight series
- Die By The Sword
- Fallout (mostly 1 and 2)
- GORN
- In Sound Mind
- Hugo
- TES series
- Duke Nukem 3D
- Myst
- Elite: Dangerous
- The Incredible Machine
- Sniper Elite
- Batman Arkham series
 
Yada yada yada...

That is generally problem with anything like this. A lot of people are noisy and rising to the barricades and at the same time do the most hypocritical things possible because convenience.
 
Personally I love it when there's news about some factory getting caught using child labor or something else and people start almost screaming how bad it is and how they will never support companies that manufactured anything in that factory... And then they order shit from Chinese dropshit stores, because "so cheap", and whole thing is either way forgotten when the new shiny miracle windchime is released.
 
Assembly has dropped Jimm's from the official sponsors but I am 75% sure if the Assembly Summer 2024 has gaming competitions or loaner machines, they all are from Jimm's because pretty much unless some stores do huge upgrades in their resources and manning, there's either PCs from Jimm's or some pre-builds. And week-couple later when those come to sale, they will sell like hot potatoes as always because they go really cheap and are "okay" gaming machines. I don't think people even remember this whole thing when that time comes, no matter how much they now bluster in the social media.
At least YouTubers will be back in the sponsor rings after the smoke clears, there's probably couple who have the balls not to return but most of them don't give a shit about anything else than doing the business.
 
I remember there having been something like this back when caseking bought Jimm's, in smaller scale but still, and it really came to nothing. I remember when the Verkkokauppa.com opened their store in Raisio and the security side was bought by some Easterneuropean/Russian flipping tourists who curved past the line in a bus and were let in because "they had brought a paper with names a day before", that was juicy shit in social media especially when that bus full of people basicly cleaned the store from opening discounts, people were going to boycott Verkkokauppa and what came from that? Absolutely nothing. Even in world scale, workers were jumping from the roof of the Foxconn factory, people got angry and were going to boycott Apple for using a factory with such working environment, couple months past and people are back to staining their panties over the new iPhones made in that exact Foxconn factory (later they installed the anti-suicide nets but that was like couple years later).

That is generally problem with anything like this. A lot of people are noisy and rising to the barricades and at the same time do the most hypocritical things possible because convenience.
 
Personally I love it when there's news about some factory getting caught using child labor or something else and people start almost screaming how bad it is and how they will never support companies that manufactured anything in that factory... And then they order shit from Chinese dropshit stores, because "so cheap", and whole thing is either way forgotten when the new shiny miracle windchime is released.
 
Assembly has dropped Jimm's from the official sponsors but I am 75% sure if the Assembly Summer 2024 has gaming competitions or loaner machines, they all are from Jimm's because pretty much unless some stores do huge upgrades in their resources and manning, there's either PCs from Jimm's or some pre-builds. And week-couple later when those come to sale, they will sell like hot potatoes as always because they go really cheap and are "okay" gaming machines. I don't think people even remember this whole thing when that time comes, no matter how much they now bluster in the social media.
At least YouTubers will be back in the sponsor rings after the smoke clears, there's probably couple who have the balls not to return but most of them don't give a shit about anything else than doing the business.
 
I remember there having been something like this back when caseking bought Jimm's, in smaller scale but still, and it really came to nothing. I remember when the Verkkokauppa.com opened their store in Raisio and the security side was bought by some Easterneuropean/Russian flipping tourists who curved past the line in a bus and were let in because "they had brought a paper with names a day before", that was juicy shit in social media especially when that bus full of people basicly cleaned the store from opening discounts, people were going to boycott Verkkokauppa and what came from that? Absolutely nothing. Even in world scale, workers were jumping from the roof of the Foxconn factory, people got angry and were going to boycott Apple for using a factory with such working environment, couple months past and people are back to staining their panties over the new iPhones made in that exact Foxconn factory (later they installed the anti-suicide nets but that was like couple years later).

"Pretty visible". Basicly Jimm's is the only store in Finland selling certain things like pretty much everything more niche in PC building. Tells a lot when you go to Verkkokauppa.com, the second big PC component seller in Finland, and for them "watercooling" means only AIOs. You need custom watercooling stuff, it's either Jimm's, internet or back to the good old days of junkyards and aquarium stores.
Just to add to the situation before someone comments "just buy from Amazon". We don't have Amazon or eBay, we must use German Amazon and eBay. Amazon Prime in Finland is pretty much only the streaming service, no next day deliveries or anything. Wanna order from Caseking? That would be shipping costs starting at 14,99€.
 
There used to be more PC stores in Finland but like almost closer to 15 years ago certain PC store brand (Tietoasema) aggressively underpriced everything and spread like a cancer only to drive pretty much everyone else except Jimm's (which survived only by being as niche store as it is) out and then one day just folded like a wet card house leaving a huge vacuum that was filled pretty much only by Jimm's. There's some PC stores but pretty much all of them are more or less just selling components as a secondary business and primary thing being selling laptops and serving business customers.

I think the "go watch something else" is actually the best answer. If you don't like something why are you consuming it and complaining? Why don't you just take your time, resources, money and everything and give them away to someone who really deserves it, who you can watch without needing to complain? Why must someone, something, whatever else turn into something that is tailored for you rather than you try to find that what you want elsewhere?
 
I believe this is the biggest problem in todays world, people don't have the backbone to say "this isn't for me, you crossed the line, goodbye" and walk away. But no, they must consume exactly that, get offended by it, interact by complaining and... Do the exact thing that brings in the money. Any social media and especially YouTube lives from the interaction, they don't give a fuck what kind of interaction it is just as long as people leave comments, click the links and generate data that can be monetized. That's why Facebook and Twitter turn into polarized echo boxes because people are more likely to interact with things they agree with and things that they strongly disagree with. Same thing in gaming, EA and Ubishit will continue make the complete garbage level business and drive the game industry into hell because people are too weak to say "fuck it" and leave the NHL and Assassin's Creed into the shelves and not even consume the time it takes to complain about the games.
 
Enough people just walk away and don't do the thing that brings money to the table, the business must change.
 
If the humor of LTT isn't your piece of bread, walk away, don't give LTT the views and exposure they need to make money, just walk away and hope enough people have felt the same and are wise enough to do the same and LTT must change their content to lure the people back in, do the changes they need to do to deserve your time and resources over the millions of other content creators competing for your time.
It is a hard thing but that's life, sometimes you must give up what you love to make the thing you love better.

I think the "go watch something else" is actually the best answer. If you don't like something why are you consuming it and complaining? Why don't you just take your time, resources, money and everything and give them away to someone who really deserves it, who you can watch without needing to complain? Why must someone, something, whatever else turn into something that is tailored for you rather than you try to find that what you want elsewhere?
 
I believe this is the biggest problem in todays world, people don't have the backbone to say "this isn't for me, you crossed the line, goodbye" and walk away. But no, they must consume exactly that, get offended by it, interact by complaining and... Do the exact thing that brings in the money. Any social media and especially YouTube lives from the interaction, they don't give a fuck what kind of interaction it is just as long as people leave comments, click the links and generate data that can be monetized. That's why Facebook and Twitter turn into polarized echo boxes because people are more likely to interact with things they agree with and things that they strongly disagree with. Same thing in gaming, EA and Ubishit will continue make the complete garbage level business and drive the game industry into hell because people are too weak to say "fuck it" and leave the NHL and Assassin's Creed into the shelves and not even consume the time it takes to complain about the games.
 
Enough people just walk away and don't do the thing that brings money to the table, the business must change.
 
If the humor of LTT isn't your piece of bread, walk away, don't give LTT the views and exposure they need to make money, just walk away and hope enough people have felt the same and are wise enough to do the same and LTT must change their content to lure the people back in, do the changes they need to do to deserve your time and resources over the millions of other content creators competing for your time.
It is a hard thing but that's life, sometimes you must give up what you love to make the thing you love better.

I think the "go watch something else" is actually the best answer. If you don't like something why are you consuming it and complaining? Why don't you just take your time, resources, money and everything and give them away to someone who really deserves it, who you can watch without needing to complain? Why must someone, something, whatever else turn into something that is tailored for you rather than you try to find that what you want elsewhere?
 
I believe this is the biggest problem in todays world, people don't have the backbone to say "this isn't for me, you crossed the line, goodbye" and walk away. But no, they must consume exactly that, get offended by it, interact by complaining and... Do the exact thing that brings in the money. Any social media and especially YouTube lives from the interaction, they don't give a fuck what kind of interaction it is just as long as people leave comments, click the links and generate data that can be monetized. That's why Facebook and Twitter turn into polarized echo boxes because people are more likely to interact with things they agree with and things that they strongly disagree with. Same thing in gaming, EA and Ubishit will continue make the complete garbage level business and drive the game industry into hell because people are too weak to say "fuck it" and leave the NHL and Assassin's Creed into the shelves and not even consume the time it takes to complain about the games.
 
Enough people just walk away and don't do the thing that brings money to the table, the business must change.
 
If the humor of LTT isn't your piece of bread, walk away, don't give LTT the views and exposure they need to make money, just walk away and hope enough people have felt the same and are wise enough to do the same and LTT must change their content to lure the people back in, do the changes they need to do to deserve your time and resources over the millions of other content creators competing for your time.
It is a hard thing but that's life, sometimes you must give up what you love to make the thing you love better.

[REDACTED], so you don't... Wait. Isn't it March still? We can't put this sponsor out prematurely, it would be rather ironic.

IMO, pretty much fighting the windmills. Ubishit would spam so much money on the lawsuit it would be in the court for the next century and it would be actually cheaper to crowdfund and buy The Crew servers from Ubishit.
 
What EVERYONE needs to do, is far more simpler. Forget Ubishit, do not give them a cent, do not even talk about their games, do not even watch reviews or ads of their games, do not give any attention to anyone using Ubishit content. Next Far Cry? Fuck that, don't care, there's 1,000,000 and 1 FPS shooters in a forests, go and play them. Next Rainbow Six? Fuck that too, too many better games with exact same content. Ass Is Greed? Well, it's in the name, rather go out and touch grass than that cancerful piece of garbage. LTT makes Ubishit sponsored video? Fuck that shit especially and tell Linus to get a haircut and get a real job.
Spread the word and give Ubishit zero chances before they have actually done something and not just given empty words that every modern corporation seems to give.
 

IMO, pretty much fighting the windmills. Ubishit would spam so much money on the lawsuit it would be in the court for the next century and it would be actually cheaper to crowdfund and buy The Crew servers from Ubishit.
 
What EVERYONE needs to do, is far more simpler. Forget Ubishit, do not give them a cent, do not even talk about their games, do not even watch reviews or ads of their games, do not give any attention to anyone using Ubishit content. Next Far Cry? Fuck that, don't care, there's 1,000,000 and 1 FPS shooters in a forests, go and play them. Next Rainbow Six? Fuck that too, too many better games with exact same content. Ass Is Greed? Well, it's in the name, rather go out and touch grass than that cancerful piece of garbage. LTT makes Ubishit sponsored video? Fuck that shit especially and tell Linus to get a haircut and get a real job.
Spread the word and give Ubishit zero chances before they have actually done something and not just given empty words that every modern corporation seems to give.
 

IMO, pretty much fighting the windmills. Ubishit would spam so much money on the lawsuit it would be in the court for the next century and it would be actually cheaper to crowdfund and buy The Crew servers from Ubishit.
 
What EVERYONE needs to do, is far more simpler. Forget Ubishit, do not give them a cent, do not even talk about their games, do not even watch reviews or ads of their games, do not give any attention to anyone using Ubishit content. Next Far Cry? Fuck that, don't care, there's 1,000,000 and 1 FPS shooters in a forests, go and play them. Next Rainbow Six? Fuck that too, too many better games with exact same content. Ass Is Greed? Well, it's in the name, rather go out and touch grass than that cancerful piece of garbage. LTT makes Ubishit sponsored video? Fuck that shit especially and tell Linus to get a haircut and get a real job.
Spread the word and give Ubishit zero chances before they have actually done something and not just given empty words that every modern corporation seems to give.
 

The thing is in the word "reference". The point isn't to have median value, the point is to have exact and set value that will be globally the same with every other device required to show that same value.
Instead of calculating median flight path from the flights, it's a made ideal flight path to which every flight is compared to. Except in case of image and sound the ideal happens to be pretty boring and bland because humans are odd and like a bit more saturation and contrast to make the image more captivating, bit more bass and treble to make the music sound more alive and bigger and so if the image/music is good on the reference gear, it will be great on the consumer gear.

I have to say now that I have taken free deep dive into the premium quality Tidal, that there is a difference.
 
They have some very bad mixes.
 
That can be also my taste in music but, seriously, holy fucking shit where the fuck they have gained so flat mixes that I have heard more dynamic planks in hardware stores?
I had to go through and I even disabled any post-software EQ's and all that to find out was it just something in my signal chain that makes Tool sound like wooden hammer with as much balls as castrated cat and Deep Purple sounded like someone recorded them from C-tapes, even my self ripped LP rips from my fathers collection somewhere around 90's to early 00's with garbage level mp3 had more dynamic range than Tidals whatever mix they found from the Goodwill. And I don't even want to talk more about Rainbow... Stargazer's into snare is dead on Tidal mix... And I have some really high quality rips and some absolute garbage rips from the Rising album but none managed to turn "tshhhh" into "tsk" (even the Deluxe Edition both mixes lack the lower spectrum compared to the SHM-CD from which the "New York Mix" should be from, those are way better mixes than the non-Deluxe ones on Tidal but I have no idea where they got that bad mixes).
 
And I am not talking about something that would come from fileformats or bitrates (while those can affect but not this much). The low level rumble is just gone especially from Tool, in Jambi it's like Tidal mix was afraid to break something by really driving that bass and before someone says I have higher quality rips from my CDs and CDs have higher quality audio, no, Tidal should have "superior dynamics" because 24-bit and 96kHz compared to my 16-bit 44.1kHz FLACs but no, stuff like the Schism's 1:20 bridge is just not there and 2:00 mark sounds like someone booked Tool to play in a fucking school disco because the soundstage sounds that small.
 
I wasn't sure was I fucked up or just added some EQ to my rips and started to strictly compare Tidal to Spotify (without any EQ) and there was the same thing, Tidal mixes were flat. Spotify mixes were as far as I can tell identical to my rips.
 
Also how fucking stupid must someone be to fall for the "Max/MQA" garbage? They don't even fucking hide it that it's just some mumbo jumbo garbage, they literally say directly "Max/MQA up to 24-bit 192kHz", just to make it even clearer:
"UP TO"
No, they aren't saying the "Max/MQA" quality is something superior from "Max/FLAC" or whatever High or anything. It's just probably up to somewhere there or not even close to but fuck they tell you. Same garbage scamming as I would sell my car as "You know Toyota Yaris can go over 300km/h on dirt roads?" and in reality, yes, Toyota GR Yaris (Rally2) tuned and made for WRC can fucking rip the dirt road, but my Toyota Yaris 1.0L can hardly get to 150km/h downhill on highway, but hey "Toyota can go over 300km/h", I am not wrong but I am misleading you like a pig to the slaughter house.
They're not afraid to tell the bitdepths and sample rates for FLAC recordings but MQA and you get basicly no information unless you rip the songs and look at it by yourself at which point they would probably pull the normal audiophile scamming argument "it's not our system, it's yours" even if you had airtight proof that it's non-altered file from their servers.
 
And when it comes to audiophile stuff. Always remember that most of the Beatles albums were rough mixed with the Beatles in studio that only operated in mono and everytime you hear stereo mix of the Beatles, it's completely mixed by some audio technician as "extra mile" without the Beatles giving two fucks about it. Back then and earlier stereo systems were so rare that pretty much no one had them and what little stereo mixes were done were mostly just to market that the studio can do it, not that the music sounded any better, just that the studio had the capability to do it. That's an example what goes in the other side, unless you have insider knowledge, you will have pretty much zero idea how the thing was supposed to sound and the best you can do is to listen it however you think it sounds the best. So, go crazy and experiment, add bass, twist the V, play with the reverb and remember that there's a reason why it's "studio monitors" and "high-end HiFi" separately.

One magic word: Steaming.
 
Carrots, green beans, broccoli, asparagus, sprouts, potatoes, pretty much whatever you fancy chopped in uniform size (nice big pieces, baby carrots are pretty much the minimum size you would like because you want that steam to get everywhere and move freely), steam for 5-15 minutes, add some olive oil, pinch of salt, freshly ground black pepper and if you want some herbs and lemon juice (butter and honey are also excellent).
 
I would recommend investing into layered pot so you can have good amount of water without needing to care about adding more and couple layers of steaming pots so you can add hard stuff like carrots, potatoes and cauliflowers early and just add the next layer with green beans, broccoli and other soft stuff in the middle (you don't want them too soggy). But you can just use something like metal strainer in deep pot to keep the veggies off from the water (you don't want to boil them, so not in the water, on top of the water in the hot steam). You can also just use microwave safe bowl, put veggies and half-deciliter of water in it, close tightly with lid or plastic wrap and throw in microwave on high for like 5 minutes, check if good and if not add more water and repeat.
 
The best part is, you cannot fail. Try them with a fork and if too hard, let them sit couple minutes more, if they get too soggy, that's the worst, not nice to eat but don't worry, you cannot burn the veggies so just throw them into blender or mash them into purée and they are saved.

LTT isn't tech support, especially for people with actual needs and problems and not want to be janky AF and fiddle around everything all the time.
 
I am not saying LMG didn't have people who know what they do and have expertise and wisdom in things they do. It's more just that LTT viewers probably don't want to watch 15 minute recap of setting up good old solid storage that doesn't have any glitter, ADHD, brand spanking new features and doesn't boast the newest and most powerful hardware possible. Building rocksolid editing rig that isn't boasting halo products and doesn't have some "wow"-thing in it and installing normal NAS just isn't LTT video and I presume staff knows it and won't be doing that kind of video but would stuff it like thanksgiving turkey with that kind of stuff that would lead to janky as fuck shit that "just doesn't work" but requires support and care afterwards more than people would give and even could give.
 
Like imagine some (imaginary) Top Fuel dragster channel making video about fixing someones work truck, could they do it? Totally but the guy probably won't be very happy with his truck now running only with nitromethane and being incapable to drive longer than a minute and requiring engine rebuild after every couple of drives and the viewers wouldn't like to watch them rebuild just everyday diesel engine without it being at least rigged with enough horsepower to do drag racing.