I’m not arguing in the slightest that FLAC shows an audible difference in most cases for most tracks. However, it just makes sense as an archival format given it’s lossless which means you can transcode to any other format without generational loss.
This means if there is a massive breakthrough in lossy compression in the future, I can use it for mobile purposes. If you store as lossy, you’re stuck with whatever losses have been incurred, forever.
Could be useful for web articles and scientific papers too (if it could be configured to ignore reading out all of the boiler plate and citations).
Nice to see, but it’s pretty far behind the Windows version at the moment because the Vulkan renderer isn’t as accurate and doesn’t support upscaling.
And since vkd3d-proton started working with the emulator recently, that means the D3D12 renderer works using the Windows version, yielding much better compatibility and graphical quality.
On a related note, Bloodborne itself is apparently quite playable with the PS4 emulator shadPS4.
No, it definitely works. It worked even on pulseaudio I believe, since it’s exposed in pavucontrol.
And you can go even further and control the full routing graph with qpwgraph or Jack based tools.
Store the original library as FLAC, then transcode on-the-fly (or once if you don’t want to use something like Navidrome or Jellyfin).
The main benefit to lossless is for archival purposes. I can transcode to any format (such as on mobile) without generational quality loss.
And it means if a better lossy format comes out in the future, I can use that without issue.
There are better lossy formats, like opus.
But MP3 still has its place as it’s supported everywhere.
It’s the alpha version of the controller (or some mockup). The retail controller 
doesn’t look quite like that.
Not the modern X.com to be clear; Musk just has a weird fetish for the letter X like an edgy teenager.