It’s hard to justify as it’s mostly subjective but objectively I think having music archived in a lossless format allows me to transcode to more practical lossy codecs as things evolve.

It’s kind of like in the olden times owning the CD and you could re-rip anytime and whatever format you needed/wanted.

I loved Bancamp because you could download CD-quality FLAC. Yeah, I can stream my music there but I want to load it up to my personal media server and just have it in the best reasonable quality possible (I know there’s better than CD quality).

Huge binders of knowledge and there’s a logic where these buttons and knobs are grouped together.

Would be easier if set on its own dedicated track.

Something like… a slightly slower Hyperloop! At those speeds, the “pods” wouldn’t need to run in a pressurized tube. I’ll name it “OKLoop”.

That was a data center, not a cloud. The sort of place they are moving to from the cloud.

With a cloud solution, you make sure to use services that are redundant. AWS and Azure build each region (geographical location) with **multiple **interconnected independent data centers (availability zones). High durability is one of the strong use cases for public clouds.

Same in the Caribbean. Houses and buildings made of concrete to survive hurricanes. Windows may blow out but the walls stay firm.

Once you’ve destroyed an ecosystem, it takes a lot of effort to bring back. Often you can’t just expect to plant the same type of trees as before and expect it to take.

There are ways to introduce things gradually, but it’s not an on/off switch.

A centralized Lemmy.