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On Fri, 10 Oct 2025 13:15:36 -0400, ALB wrote:

On 10 Oct 2025 14:30:08 GMT, Brock McNuggets wrote:

On Oct 9, 2025 at 2:02:22rC>AM MST, "vallor" wrote
<10c7tmu$2f442$4@dont-email.me>:

So we traded in our old Subaru Ascent for a 2025 model, with the Nav
package. And low and behold, it's Linux -- you can even go to a
certain web site and download Linux, as well as the other open source
components of their software.

But what I found amazing about it is that it not only allows one to
use ext4-formatted USB drives for audio, but it will read FLAC files.
I have some 24-bit FLAC files, which sound great with this system.
(You can get 24-bit FLAC at bandcamp.com for certain labels.)

Also, when I've ripped CD's since forever, I've always stored them as
FLAC. Good thing, because that's whats on the sound stick now: almost
all FLAC files, with tags. (That's one thing they have over .wav
files -- you can tag them. For example:

$ metaflac --list 12-Charles.flac [...]
METADATA block #3
type: 4 (VORBIS_COMMENT)
is last: true length: 209 vendor string: reference libFLAC 1.2.1
20070917 comments: 7
comment[0]: ALBUM=Beanfield comment[1]: ARTIST=Beanfield
comment[2]: TITLE=Charles comment[3]: GENRE=Unclassifiable ->
General Unclassifiable comment[4]: TRACKNUMBER=12 comment[5]:
XMCDDISCID=9e0ee90c comment[6]: ENCODER=xmcd-3.4.0
)

Another trick is using a directory of symlinks as a playlist.
I tested this, and it works. (The utility of that isn't as nifty as
one might think, because it also understands .m3u files.)

Just goes to show how ubiquitous and awesome Linux is. Could you
imagine if they tried to use MacOS or Windows to do the same thing?
They'd be sure to screw it up somehow.

Neither is designed to be in an embedded system.

Wrong again snit, at least for Windows.
Aren't you supposed to have an advanced Information Technology degree? Considering how little you seem to know about computers in general I
find that difficult to believe.

Windows Embedded, now known as Windows IoT. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_IoT>
You sure are one ignorant fucker.

In case you haven't figured it out yet, snit is a pathological liar. He
lies in order to boost his low self esteem and because he believes that he
is superior to other people he has convinced himself that nobody will
notice his profuse lying.
Snit is a retard whose only purpose in life is to provide comical entertainment for the normal IQ people watching him. As you have found
out, the best laughs are when snit gets roped into a tech discussion and proceeds to step on his own dick, assuming he has one.
The most entertaining topics are Mac vs Windows vs Linux. Snit really
shows how little he knows about computers and operating systems when he hijacks one of those threads.
I'll wager that snit's comfort bear Bilby is also laughing at him.
Right snitty?

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"Pye R. Squared" <noemailplease@aol.org> news:68e97578$1$19$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com Fri, 10 Oct 2025 21:07:04 GMT in alt.computer.workshop, wrote:

On Fri, 10 Oct 2025 13:15:36 -0400, ALB wrote:

On 10 Oct 2025 14:30:08 GMT, Brock McNuggets wrote:

On Oct 9, 2025 at 2:02:22rC>AM MST, "vallor" wrote
<10c7tmu$2f442$4@dont-email.me>:

So we traded in our old Subaru Ascent for a 2025 model, with the Nav
package. And low and behold, it's Linux -- you can even go to a
certain web site and download Linux, as well as the other open source
components of their software.

But what I found amazing about it is that it not only allows one to
use ext4-formatted USB drives for audio, but it will read FLAC files. >>>> I have some 24-bit FLAC files, which sound great with this system.
(You can get 24-bit FLAC at bandcamp.com for certain labels.)

Also, when I've ripped CD's since forever, I've always stored them as
FLAC. Good thing, because that's whats on the sound stick now: almost >>>> all FLAC files, with tags. (That's one thing they have over .wav
files -- you can tag them. For example:

$ metaflac --list 12-Charles.flac [...]
METADATA block #3
type: 4 (VORBIS_COMMENT)
is last: true length: 209 vendor string: reference libFLAC 1.2.1
20070917 comments: 7
comment[0]: ALBUM=Beanfield comment[1]: ARTIST=Beanfield
comment[2]: TITLE=Charles comment[3]: GENRE=Unclassifiable ->
General Unclassifiable comment[4]: TRACKNUMBER=12 comment[5]:
XMCDDISCID=9e0ee90c comment[6]: ENCODER=xmcd-3.4.0
)

Another trick is using a directory of symlinks as a playlist.
I tested this, and it works. (The utility of that isn't as nifty as
one might think, because it also understands .m3u files.)

Just goes to show how ubiquitous and awesome Linux is. Could you
imagine if they tried to use MacOS or Windows to do the same thing?
They'd be sure to screw it up somehow.

Neither is designed to be in an embedded system.

Wrong again snit, at least for Windows.
Aren't you supposed to have an advanced Information Technology degree?
Considering how little you seem to know about computers in general I
find that difficult to believe.

Windows Embedded, now known as Windows IoT.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_IoT>
You sure are one ignorant fucker.

In case you haven't figured it out yet, snit is a pathological liar. He
lies in order to boost his low self esteem and because he believes that he is superior to other people he has convinced himself that nobody will
notice his profuse lying.
Snit is a retard whose only purpose in life is to provide comical entertainment for the normal IQ people watching him. As you have found
out, the best laughs are when snit gets roped into a tech discussion and proceeds to step on his own dick, assuming he has one.
The most entertaining topics are Mac vs Windows vs Linux. Snit really
shows how little he knows about computers and operating systems when he hijacks one of those threads.

He couldn't even diagnose a failing spinner style HD on his own computer. :) If that's not incompetent I wouldn't know what is. He claimed it had been looked at previously and they told him there was an issue with the mainboard. WTF? They must have been just as technically incompetent as he's proven himself to be, OR, he lied his ass off about it being looked at already.
It's most likely the latter going by his own history.

Of course, he also confused a soldering iron for that of an engraving tool - even with the label still present on the engraver! And the tips of the irons
- OMFG, the abuse! Poor tools. You can tell quite a bit about a person by looking at the care given to their tools. He must have 'skimmed' the proper usage and care for a soldering iron. Who the fuck doesn't know about tinning them? FFS!

I'll wager that snit's comfort bear Bilby is also laughing at him.
Right snitty?

His cat isn't. Poor thing. I still don't know how he nearly pissed on it.
--
Liar, lawyer; mirror show me, what's the difference?
Kangaroo done hung the guilty with the innocent
Liar, lawyer; mirror for ya', what's the difference?
Kangaroo be stoned. He's guilty as the government

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On 10/10/2025 5:07 PM, Pye R. Squared wrote:

On Fri, 10 Oct 2025 13:15:36 -0400, ALB wrote:

On 10 Oct 2025 14:30:08 GMT, Brock McNuggets wrote:

On Oct 9, 2025 at 2:02:22rC>AM MST, "vallor" wrote
<10c7tmu$2f442$4@dont-email.me>:

So we traded in our old Subaru Ascent for a 2025 model, with the Nav
package. And low and behold, it's Linux -- you can even go to a
certain web site and download Linux, as well as the other open source
components of their software.

But what I found amazing about it is that it not only allows one to
use ext4-formatted USB drives for audio, but it will read FLAC files.
I have some 24-bit FLAC files, which sound great with this system.
(You can get 24-bit FLAC at bandcamp.com for certain labels.)

Also, when I've ripped CD's since forever, I've always stored them as
FLAC. Good thing, because that's whats on the sound stick now: almost >>>> all FLAC files, with tags. (That's one thing they have over .wav
files -- you can tag them. For example:

$ metaflac --list 12-Charles.flac [...]
METADATA block #3
type: 4 (VORBIS_COMMENT)
is last: true length: 209 vendor string: reference libFLAC 1.2.1
20070917 comments: 7
comment[0]: ALBUM=Beanfield comment[1]: ARTIST=Beanfield
comment[2]: TITLE=Charles comment[3]: GENRE=Unclassifiable ->
General Unclassifiable comment[4]: TRACKNUMBER=12 comment[5]:
XMCDDISCID=9e0ee90c comment[6]: ENCODER=xmcd-3.4.0
)

Another trick is using a directory of symlinks as a playlist.
I tested this, and it works. (The utility of that isn't as nifty as
one might think, because it also understands .m3u files.)

Just goes to show how ubiquitous and awesome Linux is. Could you
imagine if they tried to use MacOS or Windows to do the same thing?
They'd be sure to screw it up somehow.

Neither is designed to be in an embedded system.

Wrong again snit, at least for Windows.
Aren't you supposed to have an advanced Information Technology degree?
Considering how little you seem to know about computers in general I
find that difficult to believe.

Windows Embedded, now known as Windows IoT.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_IoT>
You sure are one ignorant fucker.

In case you haven't figured it out yet, snit is a pathological liar. He
lies in order to boost his low self esteem and because he believes that he
is superior to other people he has convinced himself that nobody will
notice his profuse lying.
Snit is a retard whose only purpose in life is to provide comical entertainment for the normal IQ people watching him. As you have found
out, the best laughs are when snit gets roped into a tech discussion and proceeds to step on his own dick, assuming he has one.
The most entertaining topics are Mac vs Windows vs Linux. Snit really
shows how little he knows about computers and operating systems when he hijacks one of those threads.
I'll wager that snit's comfort bear Bilby is also laughing at him.
Right snitty?

What is amazing about that? It's been that way since about 2016 when
CarPlay and Android Auto launched. IIRC though the code was branded as
an Android version, and and old one at that.
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