The personal computer market is not going anywhere. It may get smaller, but there will always be enough people who want to do their computing on their own hardware that there will be a market for personal computers. The market has only been affected by other personal computing devices. Personally, I don’t think many will be interested in cloud desktops. They’ve existed for a long time, and I don’t know anyone who uses them. Why on God’s green earth would I want to lug around a laptop just to not use it to be a laptop?
The kind of people who would be interested in cloud desktops are the kind of people who already get by just fine with a Chromebook. And how are you going to convince those people to instead spend not only $200 on a device, but then also $30/month on a cloud browser?
Microwave will not work. Unless you’re incredibly careful/lucky, you’ll ruin your filament. You can use your printer’s heated bed to dry it. Look up how to do it online, but basically you lay it on the bed, put a box over it to enclose it, turn the bed to 55°, and let it dry like that for 10 hours. That’s for PLA though, so you may have to go hotter for PETG.
Silica gel works to keep it from getting wet, but it won’t work to dry it, since the filament wants to hold on to that water. The only way to get the water out is to use heat. (Or maybe a vacuum chamber, but heat is a lot easier.)
This is why when you tell it to sing some nonsensical lyrics it will sing it with the exact same “passion” as reasonable lyrics. It doesn’t even know that it’s being an idiot.
That doesn’t sound right unless you’re running the tape at faster than usual speed. Even high quality reel to reel tape is usually running at a speed that tops out around 20KHz. There’s also no reason to record frequencies much higher than that unless you’re trying to record ultrasound. A 96KHz sampling rate can record sound up to 48KHz. Considering even the best human hearing can’t hear above about 24KHz, there’s no reason to use that for music. It’s only if you’re recording something not meant for human hearing, like stress fractures, electric noise, or bird song, that you’d use a recording with that sampling rate.
Ok, yeah. I get you. It definitely is subjective, and I like tape. :) I have a huge tape and vinyl collection. And I have an all-analog setup to listen to it. Tube pre-amp and tube amp. For me, I know it’s less accurate audio, but I want that less accurate audio.
Analog audio not being sampled doesn’t really matter. It’s like film, it can’t have infinite “resolution”. It’s the size of the granules on the tape and the speed the tape is moving that determines how good audio can sound. Grain size is kind of equivalent to floating point resolution, and tape speed is kind of equivalent to sampling rate. In order to get as true-to-life audio reproduction as 32-bit 96KHz PCM, you’d need absolutely wildly expensive tape and equipment. I’m not even sure if it’s physically possible.
When you say by definition it includes “more data”, you have to think about what that data is. There’s signal, the stuff you want to record, and there’s noise, the stuff that gets on there that you didn’t want. The higher precision a digital recording is, the higher the signal-to-noise ratio. Unlike analog tape, there’s not really a theoretical upper limit (just the limits of your recording hardware). If you record with a high enough precision, you can record incredibly quiet or incredibly loud sounds, way out of the range of the best audio tape. Same with frequencies. The faster your sampling rate, the higher the frequencies you can record. And unlike tape, it’s not going to shred itself to pieces if you go really really high.
Things sound “better” when you introduce noise because people like analog recordings. Not actual analog recordings, mind you, just the appearance of analog recordings. It has nothing to do with audio quality, it’s just vibes. It gives good vibes.
They’re even going to ruin the Super Bowl? Wow, these people are the absolute fucking worst.