I agree. But it’ll come due to drought and the fact that Trump screwed over farmers with soy exports, which is an important cover crop for crop rotation.

If farmers can’t make money on soy, they’ll take shortcuts, which will rob the soil of nutrients. That with drought will lead to another dust bowl that will be devastating.

Who needs to sail the high seas when your local library has a great set of blu-ray and dvd and you can rip it just like you like it! I love having the commentary and extras too.

It’s time to move to Jellyfin!

Crazy that in 1990 we could get pizzas in the burbs in under 30 minutes with no technology and free delivery. Now I can’t even get them still warm…

One of my all time favorites. I still watch it all the time.

Tori Amos’s Raining Blood

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YUOuJJdjFHc

You could also create a user systemd service. It’s just a few line config you drop into the correct place in your home directory.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd/User

I “metaltate” several times a week. Dark room, closed eyes, focus on breathing, and headphones with black metal.

That was fun.

Would love to but many states still make it incredibly hard/expensive.

I always thought it was the _Bear_enstein Bears.

I was an early adopter of a cd burner but I still found Zip drives to be way better for casual storage. CDrs were great for audio cds or video cds, but cd-rws were slow and painful. Zips were great for quick storage where you didn’t have to think about filling up a cd permanently.

This is only an executive order. We know those are meaningless. I’m curious if there will actually be research on something that could go back to being illegal at any time.

Wow that brought back some memories! Armagetron and tuxracer were the 3d games to play on Linux and test your graphics drivers. I can’t believe there is still a strong community around this.

I feel like you should have to be able to spell college before you can be admitted…

https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

We spend more on health care per person and have worse outcomes than any country in the global north.

That has a lot to do with privatizing all our medical facilities and wasting a ton of money through private insurance.

Agreed. I much prefer listening to full albums. Even stuff I bought a long time ago as a teenager for one song, I’ve enjoyed going back and listening to the complete album.

I burned a cd for niece a few months back. She was in awe. Surprisingly that spindle of CDRs that have been sitting in my attic for 20 something years still record just fine!

I also have ripped all my CDs as flacs and stream them with navidrome. Convenience is nice and beats syncing to an mp3 player.

I also have a raspberry pi hooked up to my stereo with an nfid reader and print out cards with album art. Just select the one you want, drop it on the reader, and the album plays.