Never fails to make me laugh. Oh, Fenton you silly dog.

I generally use my ears to listen to music.

Seriously though, between Orpheus, Soulseek, and Bancamp I have a large library and I paid for a Plex pass years ago, so I use Plexamp on mobile and PC. Pretty pleased with it, and it even has scrobbling support for last.fm and support in Maloja+Multi-scrobbler.

All right I think we got a lot accomplished here today, we’ll pick this up again tomorrow.

The “facts don’t care about your feelings” crowd sure like to put feelings over facts.

It’s really too bad that shaming them for their hypocrisy does nothing at all because they have no shame as long as they feel like they’re “winning.”

I only wish I had such a cool name.

I don’t even like my own name for various reasons but I couldn’t make a different choice for my own gender even if I wanted to.

I would end up depressively renaming myself something like Rat Bastard McFuckwit

Suzy Eddie Izzard - The Twelve Days of Christmas

twelve monkeys mating, eleven donkeys dancing, ten pygmies farming, nine socks a-swimming… FIIIIIIIIVE GOOOOLD RIIIIIINGS

Also, Murder City Devils - 364 Days

Oh, and Tom Waits - Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis

I know the second two aren’t “classic” songs but they’re my favorite Christmas songs.

I mean, sure. But corporate democrats have been fighting for what amounts to a band-aid on a system that is bleeding out and needs 50 stitches and hospitalization while the conservatives are basically fighting for shooting the patient in the head to end their misery.

Sure, they’ve been fighting for better than the Republicans have, but… that’s not a whole lot better. Medical costs have been one of the top reasons for bankruptcy for literally decades now. Michael Moore’s film “Sicko” came out in 2007, (when it had been a problem fr a long time already) almost 20 years ago, and the ACA has barely moved the needle on medical bankruptcies. I’m not saying the ACA is bad, I’m saying it’s never been close to enough, and we need to stop patting democrats on the back for sucking up to the corporate stooges that fund them to give us half-ass solutions.

Once again, sure, it’s better than the bullet in the brain that the Republicans want to give people like myself, whose medical costs without insurance are over $18k a month. But other countries literally don’t let the pharmaceutical companies gouge their citizens like this to begin with, nor do they allow medical insurance companies to make profit from denying care. Those are purely American issues, and ones that the democrats consistently bend over for corporate interests to leave on the table instead of going as far as they can to make sure people like me aren’t stuck in financial limbo because of a disease I didn’t ask for and certainly didn’t do anything to get, just that random ass cancer in my forties that was unpreventable.

I’m glad for not having a bullet in my brain, but let’s not pretend we can’t ask for better than what the democrats offer.

I feel it in my heart that short form content is damaging everyones attention spans

The Silent Generation Boomers said this about us watching half hour TV shows.

go on 67 Wikipedia and it literally says “It has no fixed meaning.”

Maybe go back and read some Jacques Derrida, because the idea that meaning of words and ideas isn’t fixed isn’t exactly new.

Its full of gooner porn bait visual novels

You take that back about Dispatch right now!

But more seriously, content changed. Young people just don’t watch scripted television and movies in the same form or capacity that we do. Due to this, the budget for that kind of entertainment is slowly receding, because why would companies pour money into a type of content that isn’t really making the returns on investment they want because all the old people who enjoy it are slowly dying? It would be like people who grew up in the early 1900s complaining about “talkies” in the 1930s because they preferred the old silent films of their youth. It really isn’t for us to say which is better or worse, as much as it is for us to find what’s good out of the new stuff that is being produced. There’s more content than ever out there, which means you have to sift through more to find good stuff.

Like I mean, that’s just part of getting older, the things we enjoy become less popular, and by extension, less money is invested in making good products that cater to that audience anymore.

Also, counterpoint: Baldur’s Gate 3 was a return to 1990s western CRPG style and it fucking dominated financially. No other game of that style has come close to that kind of popularity for a long, long time. No, Bethesda games don’t count because they don’t actually lock you out of different outcomes from the choices you make. The Witcher games also don’t count because there’s not a real RPG, build-your-own-character aspect to them, you’re just Geralt whether you liked it or not. When classic styles of media are done well, people still respond positively to them.

Finally, corporate enshittification dominates all of this, leading to a feedback loop of companies putting less and less money into anything quality at all ever because they don’t think its valuable to invest in anything except stock buybacks and firing employees to pump their stock prices.

There’s a lot of aspects to it, and a lot of it has to do with markets and how we’re no longer the target market, the coveted 18-24 demographic that made our own brain rot television such as Aqua Teen Hunger Force so popular in the early 2000s when we were in that target demographic. Brain rot media has always been there, in the form of absurdist comedy. You go back farther and you had stuff like Mr. Show and The State. When I think of my own high school graduating class, I think most of them were dimwitted fucking idiots, and I don’t think it was because they watched short form media: I think it’s because most humans are genuinely dimwitted fucking idiots.

Anyway, I’ll stop rambling, but yeah we’re just getting old and we’re not the audience that is being catered to anymore.

You’ll have to ask Donald Rumsfeld.

Isn’t Cisco also moving away from IOS towards web-based GUI-centric administration? I forget what it’s called, but it’s not the same as IOS

As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don’t know
We don’t know.

I would really hope the password for Wu Tang LAN is “isforthechildren”

I mean, fair take, but sometimes more thoughtful and forward-looking companies aren’t looking for fast return on investment.

It could be argued similarly for Valve that all their investment in Linux ecosystems and open source in general when Linux desktops account for just over 3% of all desktop installations while Windows sits comfortably at 70% of the desktop market, just isn’t a lucrative investment.

While in the long-term it frees Valve from the restrictions of the Microsoft environment and from the risk that Microsoft would make it more and more difficult for Steam to integrate as they try to make their own game store and Game Pass the premiere gaming experience on Windows, those are future risks that are speculation, even though they are rational speculation.

Investing so deeply in open source isn’t a lucrative thing for Valve to be doing, but they’re looking at long-term goals.

In other words, I could see the goal here being something like protecting the Bitwarden brand and making sure more people are using their official client than unofficial with the goal of making it easy to use and enticing people into the general Bitwarden ecosystem long-term. Ten years from now, people who have been running Bitwarden Lite might have a lot more options for integration and paid services than people simply using Vaultwarden.

Is that lucrative? No, but it’s still pursuing brand-name dominance and keeping people officially within their ecosystem as a way to grow userbase and give users more features (including paid ones) that may not be immediately available or easily integrated with Vaultwarden.

I’ve also seen “LAN of the Lost”

I still have a lot of love for 2.4GHz just because of how much farther the signal reaches than 5GHz. Mediocre only in the sense that it’s slower and that there’s too many avenues of potential interference (microwaves, other 2.4GHz devices clogging the spectrum).

“Evil Lair”

“Invisible Wire”

This isn’t the first time Notepad++ was compromised. if I recall correctly, the first time was by a CIA backdoor.

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v733-fix-cia-hacking-npp-issue/

So, classic Eric Migicovsky. There was a reason I was staying away from this RePebble shit entirely.

This is the same guy who offered integration between Beeper and iMessage and had it broken by Apple in under a week, and then… just stopped trying after promising it to customers.

Then when he got bored with Beeper he sold it to Automattic.

It’s so much like his original run with Pebble as well, where he fucked over the devs on their way out who were promised jobs with the sale of the company, to find out late in the game that wasn’t actually happening.

I think Migicovsky being allowed to startup companies and then throw them in the bin when he gets bored while pocketing the profit should be outlawed.

Just when I had been thinking about getting a Rad Power bike as well. Ugh. The hits keep on coming.