There are tons and tons of websites where you can create an account with just your email. I wouldn’t expect a third party account to be mandatory. Specially from a product like this one.

Maybe this is a pet peeve but it’s a vpn tool that forces you to log in with an “identity provider”. Yeah, no thanks.

I would hope 16C/32T CPU from 2017 could handle software transcoding

I didn’t say it couldn’t handle it. Just that it was very inefficient.

peak power consumption while playing a movie does not really matter compared to idle power consumption

I mentioned both things. Did you actually read my comments?

I think it’s a point of a interest for any hw running 24/7 but you do you.

Regarding transcoding, are you saying you’re not even doing it? If you are, doing it with your cpu is far more inefficient than using a gpu. But again, different strokes I guess.

Isn’t ryzen not recommended for transcoding? Plus, I’ve read that power efficiency isn’t great. Mostly regarding idle power consumption.

The Os, Us and the way indians speak (meaning, their choice of words and cadence) is usually pretty distinct as well.

Lemmy is getting most of its contributions from people that migrated from Reddit. Reddit had (and has) tons of more content people still came here looking for a better alternative.

Hopefully you can now see the similarity.

This is very ironic coming from someone using Lemmy.

So? Every platform starts at 0%.

They don’t answer your questions because they don’t like the answers, simple as that. My advice would be to not waste any more of your time on this. That’s what I’m going to do at least. You can’t argue with fanatics.

That depends on way more than just the file format of your music. With a device like this one, you literally wouldn’t be able to tell them apart.

Totally. Dropping a folder to fre:ac and clicking 2 buttons takes an enormous amount of time.

Also, 7000 hours of FLAC 16/44.1 is about 4.44 TB so your math is pretty off.

Using flac files on a device with this fidelity is a waste of space.

Those support wheels are for your own (and apparently systematic) errors…

It’s also a solution…