There are, they just aren’t super well known. My girlfriend is fond of the oxytocin chocolates you can buy now.

Glad you’re happy. You do you, man.

How does it play out in a sexual sense if you no longer have sex organs?

I think you would be quite happy with their encoded and metadata. I can track everything in my library back to the individual CD if came from.

https://interviewfor.red/en/index.html

Go here and learn how to interview for a music site called redacted. Take the test and get in. Go to garage sales and local CD stores to fill people’s requests for music cheaply until you climb a couple of ranks. This will open the invite forum where you can get to Broken Stones.

These are crème of the crop torrent sites—they don’t let just anyone in. You have to do a little work, but you will soon be rewarded with access to every type of media you can imagine if you put in the effort. Good luck!

I know because I’ve done it. You have to climb the ranks at one before you are allowed to see the invite thread for the other.

The easiest way to get into the network is to take the entrance test for RED and share a bunch of music until you qualify for invites.

Their request feature works pretty well to get stuff that isn’t available.

Either way, I still believe it is the number one place for Mac software, and you can use a membership at either GGn or BS to get an invite to the other and complete the set.

Broken Stones. It’s been around forever and is Mac software centric. It is the place you’re looking for—nothing else really like it.

I have not had that experience.

Now, back to what we were talking about: do you have any evidence for the things you were saying earlier?

Yes. Usually with the phrase “where can I learn more about this?” or “what kind of evidence do they have for that?” I remember doing exactly that in my 5th grade history class and had fun reading the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin when the teacher directed me there for a primary source where I could learn more. They seemed excited that a student was engaging critical thinking and seeking additional learning. If you’re comparing yourself to a teacher, maybe you could find it in yourself to see it the same way.

So, I ask you…what kind of evidence do you have for your assertions, and where can I learn more about those events you say happened?

Actually, yes, I do. Teachers teach documents—usually primary sources if possible. If a teacher was telling me a bunch of stuff that they couldn’t show me any evidence of, I would be a little suspicious.

Got an article about this alleged event?

Is it common amongst your peers to say you were born a rapist? ‘Cause I’ve never heard a single person say that in my entire life.

I have no idea, but I don’t think so. It was originally aired on HBO, so I imagine it is on their streaming service.

Or just pirate it like the rest of us.

It’s pretty much the entire plot of Silicon Valley (TV show). It is complicated and fascinating.

Close. High bandwidth, low latency.

High amount of data able to stream, low time to communicate with the server.

That said, servers are a lot faster than they used to be, and video compression has come a long way too, so you can stream more things on a worse connection than you could in the 90’s.

It isn’t loading for me.

I’m going to use some descriptive metaphors to explain this as best I can. Apologies to my fellow Lemmy nerds for the small inaccuracies this might create, but I think I can get the basic point across in plain language.

Bandwidth is how much data can flow over a rate of time. It is similar to a water pipe—a bigger pipe can flow more water into your home, and a smaller one will flow less. If we’re comparing internet data to water, downloading a file is like filling up a bucket until the bucket is full and it is a complete bucket of water. Bigger files are like bigger buckets—you need more water (data) to fill them.

In the case of streaming a video, the bucket has a hole in the bottom because the playing of the video is the equivalent of the water being used and discarded. The flow of data needs to be faster than the play rate of the video (the drain rate of the hole in this case), otherwise the video will pause because it has not received the next section of data to play that video content (the bucket runs out of water). In the 90’s, we all had really small internet “pipes”, so sending data could not happen very quickly, and thus sending video that could be streamed was very difficult (or in many cases, impossible).

Now let’s talk about latency. Internet is unlike a water pipe in that not any old data will do—it has to be that specific data from that specific server.

In plain language, latency is the amount of time it takes to send a signal from a server to your computer and back.

Your computer has to contact that server and tell it “I need YOU to send me water.” The server has to react to that and start sending you the data, but the server has its own pipes to contend with, and it has other requests from other water users it needs to deliver too. If their pipes are slow, or they have too many requests, then the data will not flow to you quickly. If the data does not flow to you quickly, it will not outrun the play rate of the video, and the video will pause.

I hope that helped you gain a basic understanding of these concepts—I did my best. I welcome any other nerds out there to chime in if I misrepresented anything too much.

Thanks for posting this. That was an interesting read.

If you can convince people that your method is cheaper and better, you could be a billionaire overnight.