lime!

that would be interesting! the few “albums” i have gone through recently have all been by mashup artists, so the genres have been all over the place but the “touch” of the artist has been there throughout.

i realize you get off on being cryptic, but i can’t accept this gatekeepy bullshit. I’m too old and neurodivergent to care about whatever profound wisdom you want me to discover. be straight with me, or shut up.

what a weird thing to say. please explain.

going from “i don’t listen to albums” to “maybe you don’t like music” is incredibly strange. i listen to tons of music which i love. i just don’t do albums. I buy loads of songs on bandcamp and have multiple constantly growing playlists hundreds of tracks long.

You will never hear a recorded song more clearly than vinyl

that’s just demonstrably not true. maybe on a perfectly calibrated player in a completely dust-free lab environment with no air movement on a never-played vinyl that was just pressed and has never been moved. as soon as one of those conditions fail to hold the sound is distorted. from an acoustic perspective, live music also tends to have really weird sound and it’s usually muddied by the environment.

we had a lot of vinyl when i was a child. i listened to that one ELO track a lot. i have no real nostalgia for the sound.

so the local-only recommendations based on anonymized data about things that ublock stops, and the opt-out malware scan?

thank you for replying with something substantial. thankfully this is all stuff that’s inconsequential and/or easily disabled.

but if you had to pick? since you’ve so obviously studied it.

answer my question.

i have. which part do you find objectionable?

telemetry is not spyware.

Google collects data because their business model depends on them knowing as much about you as possible. Mozilla collects the data they need to fix bugs.

i don’t do albums. as a kid, we basically only had recorded-from-radio cassettes. when we got a CD player in like 1999, we mostly bought those “now that’s what i call music” collections. i didn’t really listen to music myself at all until like 18-19. i didn’t see the point. as a result i basically can’t sit through an entire album of the same genre.

is this weird?

…then how do they have children? where did Cain and Abel come from?

i use a Kobo Clara HD. It runs linux out of the box, the system memory is on a removable SD card inside the case, and the user account is defined in an SQLite database on disk. If you add an empty user account to the database, it removes the “create account” screen and disables any Kobo online services. Then you can install KOReader and upload files over USB as everyone else has said.