Can someone explain to me why Meta or whoever doesn't just copy TikTok 1to1 with a new name? If TikTok really stops running in the usa, they would have an alternative product instead of Instagram reels and YouTube shorts, both of which obviously can't catch on.
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Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Personally I feel that KDE is what GNOME wanted to be but can’t. Not just the DE itself but the KDE applications too, just look at Krita for example compared to GIMP. Somehow KDE could accomplish much more and feels more mature and robust too.
I loved GNOME2 back then but feels like something went wrong with GNOME3 regarding the whole project and how users reacted to the different UI. I’d say the classic Windows NT era UI (95, 98, 2000, Xp) was peak design so I’m glad KDE stick to that more or less and made it even better and modern.
Gnome has a completely different workflow than KDE. Gnome is the reason why I use Linux. If I had to use KDE I would stay with Windows, the workflow has the same logic, is almost the same, except that with Windows I have no restrictions with applications.
> Can people really tell the difference
No, and neither can the audiophiles. Well, except those using oxygen free gold plated Ethernet cables.
I can and I don't have gold-plated cables nor am I part of an audiophile community. The people who say you can't are worse than the audiophiles themselves, who I didn't even know before all the whining that there is no one in the world who can hear the difference. One guy had an audio test site and I did the one on my Chromebook with the Chromebook speakers and got 100%. I can definitely hear the difference between a real flac and mp3. The quality is not necessarily better but the highs go higher with flac. MP3s don't go that high, they're clipped and you can hear that. That's how you can, I can tell with songs.
In addition, when I play the same song over bluetooth with my iPhone (Spotify, highest quality) and Walkman A55 (Flac) over a 300€ sound system, even my father can hear the difference and he is 53 and worked his whole life in a factory.
The statistics on the subject that I have read (from discussion links because I was perplex people said no one can hear a difference) clearly said that most people don’t hear the difference, but that there are indeed people who can tell the difference!