What specifically do you like about Winamp? I miss the whacky skins and even more so the Milkdrop 2 visualization system. There are some hacky ways to get it to work for Foobar or AIMP. I haven’t checked what’s the case for Linux media players though.

Microsoft is not willing to part ways with their former, and now future partner. Sam has allegedly interviewed most if not all of of the OpenAI hires since its’ inception.
I think keeping him in the AI space if beneficial for the field.

Sure they don’t. Just be aware that if you’re using public trackers you can appear here, as some of the peers track the IPs that appear in the swarms:
https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/

Can you confirm that you have ‘Show Notifications for New Posts’ enabled in your user settings?

Non-paywall link:
https://archive.ph/qO8Hi

Was there any smoke or just the quiet embrace of death?

My recommendation is:
Enter the Void (2009)
The movies explores topics of the afterlife, the nature of consciousness, and the interconnectedness of life and death. I am quite fond of the neon-soaked psychedelic visuals.

Is reddit owned and operated by a malicious entity? I used to be addicted to that platform, but now I can’t stand it.

I wish Lemmy had flairs like the language or reddit flairs so that we can filter out us centric topics.

Have you tried opening an issue with the drivers developers?