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Cevilia, to gaming in 87% Missing: the Disappearance of Classic Video Games
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Cloanto, the company that owns the rights to the Commodore Amiga line, have a legal emulator that they sell called Amiga Forever. It’s about half the price of one modern AAA game, and when you download it, it comes with about fifty games of varying notability, and there’s many times more you can just install and play. And it’s all legal.

I would love this to be the industry norm, imagine being able to download a NES! It’s annoying that if we want future generations to be able to experience games of the past (whether to learn from them, or just for pleasure) we need to teach our children about piracy.

Cevilia, to nostupidquestions in When do you start feeling bad about asking for a raise?
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You absolutely should not feel bad about doing this. Ever.

If anything, you should talk about it and share your experience, because your experience could help some of those who work manual intensive jobs and are still struggling to get raises of their own.

Remember: If the company isn’t able to fairly compensate its workers, it doesn’t get to have workers. That’s how supply and demand works.

Cevilia, to nostupidquestions in Into which pocket do you place your phone?
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My phone is my wallet. It goes in my inside pocket where people aren’t going to be able to pick it. I’ve played Skyrim. I know how pickpocketing works. /joke

Cevilia, to 196 in Serious question rule
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TIL only men are allowed to think Link is cute.

/sarcasm

Cevilia, to 196 in ACAB rule
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Why? (For both parts of that statement)

Cevilia, to piracy in Clipgrab w/YouTube: How bad is the audio quality?
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It varies based on the age of the video, newer ones do indeed have separate audio downloads. You can force audio only with

yt-dlp -f bestaudio <url>

This will cause the script to only consider audio-only formats, if bandwidth is a concern. However, how it decides which one is “best” is beyond me. For example, I tried one video and got a webm that contains only an audio track:

<pre style="background-color:#ffffff;">
<span style="color:#323232;">~ $ yt-dlp -f bestaudio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[youtube] dQw4w9WgXcQ: Downloading webpage
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[youtube] dQw4w9WgXcQ: Downloading ios player API JSON
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[youtube] dQw4w9WgXcQ: Downloading android player API JSON
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[youtube] dQw4w9WgXcQ: Downloading m3u8 information
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[info] dQw4w9WgXcQ: Downloading 1 format(s): 251
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[download] Destination: /data/data/com.termux/files/home/storage/movies/ytdl/20091025__Rick_Astley_-_Never_Gonna_Give_You_Up_Official_Music_Video.webm
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[download] 100% of    3.28MiB in 00:00:00 at 6.91MiB/s
</span>
Cevilia, to piracy in Clipgrab w/YouTube: How bad is the audio quality?
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yt-dlp can just download the audio. It usually comes down in m4a at quality that I would describe as “very listenable”. So only the first of those three steps are mandatory if you do it that way.

yt-dlp -x <url>

Cevilia, (edited ) to youshouldknow in YSK: Lemmy DOES have a karma system
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I am extremely disappointed by this.

I thought we were free of such toxicity here.

Cevilia, to gaming in Denuvo wants to convince you its DRM isn’t “evil”
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If you are treating your paying customers worse than someone you perceive as stealing from you, you are doing something seriously wrong.

Cevilia, to piracy in What Torrenting program do you use?
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Same here. I occasionally try other clients, but qB is the one I always end up going back to, mostly because it automagically blocks hosts that send garbage.

Cevilia, to nostupidquestions in When a Flight Data Recorder/Cockpit Voice Recorder is found, they are often taken on a plane and flown to an investigation headquarters. But what if the plane carrying those black boxes crash?
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According to the National Safety Council there are “too few deaths to calculate odds”. (source). So, I’m pretty sure we can call the probability of two extremely-rare events happening independently in succession as near to nothing as makes no odds.

Also, modern combined units (sometimes called CVDRs) are built to withstand multiple impacts, and their storage medium is solid state. It is highly likely that, in the event of this near-impossible scenario, the recorder could be recovered again.

Cevilia, to explainlikeimfive in What is defederation?
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Defederation = the defederating server refuses to talk to the other server.

Imagine Hotmail and Gmail. Hotmail decides to defederate from Gmail. Going forward, any Gmail user trying to send mail to Hotmail will simply be ignored, and Hotmail will ignore any email bound for Gmail.

Cevilia, to gaming in Has anybody used Robot Cache?
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No experience with it, but…

  • Founded in 2018
  • Copyright date says 2020
  • Still says “Join as a Founder!” in 2023
  • Appears to be tied up in crypto nonsense

Signs point to untrustworthy.

Cevilia, to piracy in Megathread??
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If you’re on desktop, look at the right hand side of your screen, scroll down a little, and click the link that says “Megathread”.

If you’re on mobile, tap the ⋮ in the top-right of the Piracy community, then tap Community Info. Scroll down a little, and tap the link that says “Megathread”.

It’s also the first link in the pinned post in the community.

Cevilia, to piracy in Sources for audio books
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Not an answer, but just to cover the bases:

I use audiobookbay.li but, as you say, it can be a bit unreliable, especially if the book isn’t recent.

There’s tokybook.com (from the Megathread) but its selection is somewhat lacking too.

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