I’ve been a paying member for almost a decade. I’ve been training it that entire time with what I do and don’t like. I’ve also been using their suggested playlists for years and further refining what they recommend. So their algorithm is a huge part of it for me. I am constantly finding songs and artists I wouldn’t have been exposed to otherwise.

That said, I’ve been holding my nose while I renewed the service for the past couple of years. I’m willing to part ways for Tidal if it’s a comparable service with better benefits to the artists.

Goddammit, Android ricing. I have never heard that term before, but it’s so fucking appropriate.

Just one word: plastics.

I’ve gotten bad keys from the studio before, usually when we were doing advanced screenings. It was a relatively quick fix… I think the longest delay was ~15 minutes. I never had to cancel a show because of it, certainly didn’t have to close the entire building.

For as much as I loved the convenience of digital, I really miss the days of 35 film.

WWZ is one of my all time favorite books. They should really make it into a movie. Or, even better, an HBO miniseries.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.

• Hunter S Thompson

I didn’t really develop a personality of my own until I went balls deep into psychedelics and dissociatives in my 20’s, and even then it wasn’t until I started having “bad” experiences. That first bad LSD trip was rough, but it changed how I saw myself and my place in the world in a fundamental way. So many molecules, so many memories.

Lol. Sure sure.

I’ve seen photos someone in Israel with connections has of Palestinians posing as dead with fake blood, with the Al Jazeera photographer standing by to take the photo or video, and afterwards the “dead” children all get up and cleaned up.

Where? Where have you seen that?

Why?

Im replying to your blanket comment that boomers in general have it easier which they absolutely dont.

Maybe some boomers don’t now, but relatively speaking they absolutely DID have it easier when they were my age.

Dont discredit hard work.

I’m not discrediting hard work. I’m simply stating the fact that “hard work” 50 years ago was apparently worth more than “hard work” today.

Salf-sacrifice for the kids or the home is admirable.

“Hey kids, aren’t you so proud of your old man? Look at what a shnook he is, breaking his back so his bosses can pad their accounts?”

Shit wages, shit school systems, shitheel neighbors. Like I said, far from the “American Dream”.

54k is barely a living wage these days. You CAN live on it, but you can’t expect to start a family or buy a house or achieve anything resembling The American Dream.

Back then it was called “a fair days work”.

It hasn’t been “fair” for a long time.

You’re casually blowing off two of the main reasons why I still have to use Windows.

Is there a Linux alternative to Excel that will allow me to reliably write and execute VBA macros that I can then deploy to my windows using co-workers?

Is there a Linux alternative to Photoshop? Doesn’t even need to be the most current version. I’d be happy with something that is functionally comparable to Photoshop 7.

I’m not being glib with those questions either. It’s been probably ten years since I’ve really used Linux. If there are legitimate alternatives I’d absolutely give it another go.

Case in point: a number of years ago I knew a kid who was smart enough to flash Tomato on his router, enable SSH and even install a bunch of Entware packages. But he wasn’t intelligent enough to change the SSH port from 22 or leave the remote access disabled.

Fast forward a month or two and his ISP tells him that they traced some pretty serious botnet shenanigans to his IP.

Just because someone is smart enough to use a device doesn’t necessarily mean they’re intelligent enough to use it safely.

Put on Bluey.

This looks like a Sleazy Back Alley encounter in Kingdom of Loathing.

Aside from bragging rights… is there a reason why someone would still be working on a Pentium 4?