Thankfully it doesn’t come through their sound. I’ve all but given up trying to keep track of the public image of artists. I just don’t actually care as the consumer. Me not listening to someone won’t stop them continuing to do their thing and if they make good art, I’m not going to rob myself of that because an artist is a fuckhead.

I won’t punish myself for others’ shitty takes.

It’s been a long while since I used it and at one point I did figure out how to browse it, but I remember documentation pointing out that it’s meant to be left alone and do all your file management through NextCloud itself.

Sometimes I needed to do big file operations or drop in a chunk of data straight from the server, but it wouldn’t ingest those files unless I did a sync or upload them using the client.

Maybe things have changed, but last I used it, it was 14 services that were all sort of good when I needed the service to do one thing really well.

My plan is when my ICE engine is on its way out, I’m putting an electric motor behind the transmission, with a controller to simulate engine inertia. I still get to run through gears, with the added benefit of a fully custom torque curve.

The Postal Service

There are many synth artists that try to target a similar feel, but the way they tug on your emotions with just the subtlest of sounds. Everything feels like it’s meant to fit. Never has a song made me feel more homesick than Recycled Air. And I don’t even want to go back home.

Honorable mention goes to Moon Safari by Air. First time I heard every song on that album felt like I’d heard it before in a memory.

Yeah, in one of these scenarios, things don’t get done and in the other, people’s freedoms are taken.

Real difficult to decide which extreme I’d take.

And yes, I know the actual implication here is that public services fail and infrastructure isn’t as viable. But I would take free and struggling over oppressed and struggling no matter what.

If the direct reward for obeying the system was health and riches, it’d probably be a genuinely difficult choice, but that’s not the actual choice we’re being offered. They want to take your freedom and your wellbeing.

😱

I have an M1 from 2020 that I use daily for just about everything that isn’t video games, including sketching Blender scenes (to later render on my beefy setup), Ableton Live, 3D Printer slicing, 20+ tab web browsing (I typically don’t use more than this personally) and more. It’s never OOMed no matter what I have going.

I get they’re more expensive new, and I’m not defending their price point, as I’ve always gotten mine several years from new, but I never understand this point that I see everywhere. What are people doing that uses more than the 8GB of RAM on a Mac?

If you need to do 8K video production or do research development and need the compilation power, it’s just not the right tool for those jobs, but it’s more than plenty as a daily driver.

I have this song on a driving playlist. I drive an NB Miata, which was brand new when this game came out and is one of the first cars you can unlock. Feels like I’m right back in the year 2000 whenever this song comes on.

What is with every article in existence that’s talking about 1 thing go out of their way to NOT include it.

I know the answer is clicks, but ffs, This is a whole article to say:

JoJo Siwa: Worldwide Party is on sale for $4 before it will be delisted

We have entire webpages that could be one goddamn sentence.

Huh. 4x4=12 is one of my favorites from him. The only track I ever skip is Hi Friend and the rest, I enjoy a ton. Maybe just nostalgia goggles considering that was the album that released right after I discovered him.

I played it like 2 or 3 years ago and had a blast with it all the way through the full campaign again. I wouldn’t say it’s the best story, but I loved traveling all around the sea and meeting all the characters. I’m into AC games for the immersion and gameplay. Story is the last reason I play these.

Except that we’ve seen more than a few remasters that mess with original game content or completely jack up color/shader rendering.

A remaster is still different than the original and sometimes there’s elements people want to preserve from the exactly as they remember it.

Oh good. It’s barely readable, but this can thankfully also rewind my MP3 CDs. Doesn’t look like supports standard CDs, though. I’ll have to get an extra just for that.

It all circles back to the mistake that was corporate social media and enragement-boosting. They made the system to get people addicted, but without considering, or outright ignoring, the cost.

I have about 6% confidence this will capture what made me enjoy the first game. I’ll probably just replay the original again.

I constantly would get files stuck in the database that I couldn’t delete. All of the forum posts would talk about going into the database to fix it, but the whole point of NextCloud for me was to completely avoid database management.

I’ve fallen back to using DUFS or copyparty for most things since I really just needed my file store to be browsable via web in some cases.

I probably would still be using NextCloud if they didn’t obfuscate the file system.

I went into it knowing it would be extreme and I still get freaked out by it.

You should dress up KDE to look like Windows 11 just to prove a point.

I regularly quote “You can’t tell me what to do!” from the mine field sketch

The only people I know that I’ve not been able to convince are absolutely attached to their competitive shooters. That seems to be the last bastion for many.

I’ve tried to explain (in very subtle ways) that their lives would genuinely be better off without those types of games reeling them in, but it’s a genuine addiction for them.