As that is technically true, a doctor who earns several times the minimum wage, has enough money saved up so he can quit his job at any moment and can even afford to open his own clinic if he so chooses to, isn't the same as someone who earns the minimum wage and has a rent to pay or become homeless.
Sure, both technically work, but one has a completely different level of freedom than the other.
I would spend the money on a VPN instead because:
DLL links are always down, torrents can die too, but overall they are much more reliable, you can just have your torrent search engine to organise by seeders.
Much more content on torrents
Much higher quality, DLLs at least back when I used those had terrible quality.
Much easier to manage 100 downloads at the same time, sure Jdownloader exists, but...
RSS downloaded, you can get your favourite anime torrent or RSS and qbittorrent will download it for you every week.
Security, if you download software, popular torrent websites are much more trusted and moderated and you have less probably of getting malware.
If you subscribe to a DLL site you can use that single website, if you torrent you can download from many websites.
You can use the VPN for other stuff.
Coz you booted in BIOS mode, arch iso has a different boot menu for EFI and BIOS mode.
I strongly advise that your PC supports BIOS/Legacy mode, use that instead of stupid overcomplicated, buggy UEFI crap.
I guess UEFI is useful if you want to use secure boot or PCI pass through, otherwise there's no reason to make your life painful by using UEFI, just install grub to the MBR and it just works, no need for complicated UEFI dirs, and add the UEFI vars to the device firmware that get automatically deleted every time you swap hard drives and then the system stops booting, and ofc installing to the removable path doesn't work either...
My god, I hate UEFI with passion.
As much as I like Librewolf as concept and ideology, I can't keep thinking that if there's a Firefox 0day, Firefox gets patched first, Librewolf later, and I'm potentially exposed for longer. That's why I prefer to stick with upstream.
There's ffshare on f-droid, but I've never tried it, don't know if it works.
Interesting, but this technology seems really scary, imagine being interrogated with a machine that translates thoughts into words, now try not to think of a sandwich.
Lol no, if you only have budget for one mix it should be the one that preserves the most information, if "90%" of the viewers don't care about the art form they are watching then they don't have the right to ruin it for the people who do care.
As for music there's the opposite problem, there's a problem in the music industry where most modern music is an incomprehensible mess thanks to the loudness wars, where modern music has zero dynamics, high distortion, lack of tangibility and overall boring.
If you listen to a 70s or early 80s recording you will notice that together with greater dynamics, you have better sound quality, definition and tangibility, than modern trash. Independently of what system you listen it on.
But a good mix will translate well no matter what system you have, it will sound good either on a 10000 dollars HiFi system or on some cheap pair of computer speakers.
Seriously tho, personally I don't understand people who can tolerate watching anything with on a TVs built in speaker, I rather watch 480p with good sound than 4k on a TV speaker, but that's me.
If I can't afford a reasonable pair of speakers then a 20 bucks pair of wired headphones can have excellent sound quality. So there's really no reason to defend a nerfed mix.
With this, I'm not saying that some modern shows don't exaggerate and that their levels are past ridiculous.
May not be the most polite thing to do, but when outside I always wear headphones walk at fast pace and don't hear anyone no matter who speaks to be.
I've noticed that as long as I have my headphones on, even if they aren't playing, most ppl won't speak to me anyway.
Well, it's now cinema is supposed to be.
Ideally they could make two mixes, one for serious viewing and good systems and another for bringe watching or bad speakers. But since that would cost more money and isn't done, a good dynamic mix is preferable because you can always throw a compressor and some limiting to a dynamic mix, but you can't recover information after it's lost. And as a film and series enjoyer I don't want my experience to be nerfed.
As for ads, I have no idea? I haven't watched an ad since I got internet many years ago. Idk how you're getting your media, maybe get an adblocker or use torrents?
Because cinema is supposed to be immersive, it's supposed to take the audience into the action, it's supposed to make you feel like you're there. Dynamics play an important part of this.
It's not enough to acknowledge that there has been an explosion or a monster has screeched, it's important that the viewer feels in danger, like the monster can actually harm the viewer. To get that adrenaline pumping.
Ofc when your levels are ridiculously exaggerated and you stretch over to the volume control all the time, then the immersion is broken because instead of watching the film you're too busy riding the fader.
You don't hate dynamic range, you hate bad mixes, two different things, without dynamics audio sounds like shit. An explosion is supposed to be louder than talking speech.
It's just not supposed to try to mimic the absurdity of an actual explosion, to the point of discomfort.
Also, like said before in the parent comment, most consumer systems don't even even have the dynamics to reproduce it without distortion (or damage the woofers).
I have some bad news for you. Whatever software switch your phone has to "turn off" the mic, can still be bypassed by either the manufacturer or an attacker that gets root control of the device.
The only way to ensure a mic isn't listening is by either unsoldering it or shorting the + and - contacts. I mean in the case of a phone you can probably do the toothpick thing and then test it and repeat until sound actually quiets, but note that phones can actually listen to you by via the accelerometer :/