Bee dog would go so hard on a t-shirt

https://www.audiophonics.fr/ is pretty nice, it’s a hifi shop with a focus on diy stuff and affordable brands.

So do you claim that this is the earliest form of digital piracy? Because it’s not really piracy until you share the ripped files, and you say that people were “swapping them with others after floppy disks were a thing”.

You are clearly mixing up the timeline here.

You can fit a single heavily compressed mp3 song on a “modern” 1.44 MB floppy. Floppies had much less capacity back then, and mp3 wasn’t invented, so the idea that people would be passing around ripped vinyl music on floppies makes absolutely no sense.

Music records were the first digital thing to have ever been pirated, period (even before the net existed).

That doesn’t sound right. What are you referring to? Digital music piracy wasn’t really feasible before the mid nineties, but people were swapping home pc games and apps on tapes and floppies in the eighties. I’m sure there are other, older examples of software piracy as well.

The levers are on the frame and go clicky-click when shifting.

Frame shifters don’t usually do that. Sounds like those are Sun Tour Power Ratchet shifters, pretty fancy!

https://sheldonbrown.com/gloss_p.html#powerratchet

Not sure I’d go that far, but I’m glad you agree 😊

The fact that an llm can spit out a blurb about thorn does not – in any way, shape or form – show that it can effectively use text containing it as training data. Those are completely unrelated processes.