Digital (hard drive) > CD > Vinyl

lossless digital because it’s searchable, accessible and manipulable.

CD as archival storage. Slower to acess, high quality, lossless.

Vinyl for archival and playback. Something awesome and magical about analog.

This is a good reminder to remember people are human and may have a life outside of the computer.

Thanks Ernest. Hope you get your issue fixed up. Your health is more important that software.

install random third party software that may be sniffing or leaking information to remove shady features from windows that sniff and leak information.

windows sucks.

“interim” CEO…

american xenophobia is a helluva drug

you are not alone.

operating systems for the youtube generation. Like and Subscribe to open your recommended apps!

Frontier for Elite
Psygnosis for Lemmings and a bunch of other fun games on the Amiga.

“North Korean hackers are targeting macOS crypto owners”

no crypto no problem

Sending positive vibes! Good habits make good software.

quality web design sure, but Meta/Facebook is also well known for using dark patterns to promote stickiness and engagement. They’ve built Facebook to be addictive and keep people on it.

yeah, good tips. I got frustrated and table flipped on it. I found out about the ASIO mods after the fact. Still annoying that they were selling this product in this state and getting away with it.

I bought this recently and the installation and setup experience was so broken and painful on W11 that I uninstalled it out of frustration.

Graphics were ganked (only showed the top left 25% of the screen on 4K, stretched to fill the screen),
Required a UPlay account signup that sent me to dead servers,
Wouldn’t use ASIO with my big boy audio gear,
Wouldn’t calibrate using “mic” mode plugged into a DI port on my interface and on and on.

It’s just a disaster and I wasn’t willing to put any effort into figuring out how to de-UPlay the thing and mod it.

Do Not Recommend!

With kbin and lemmy, there’s a spark of the good ol’ days, but the players are all scattered across so many disconnected grids. I’m sure there are some great communities popping up, but they may be fleeting, or instances might crash and disappear. Mastodon is good, and growing every day and also has some of that Ye Olde Twitter Feels, but — BUT! — I don’t have a lot of fun on it.

Has anybody found any fun communities to share?

also, room names. You can get a pretty good idea of a house’s interior layout from the names and sequence of lights being activated. The ongoing attempts to map data to the physical world.

Sonos did this a few years ago and there was a similar outcry. I have stopped using Sonos devices too.

now do the rest of the world.

I wish we could get Steam Link on Xbox. That’d be the ideal solution for me since I’ve got the controller already setup. The Shield is probably a decent solution, but it’s an extra device in the chain.

you realize modern browsers have millions of lines and over a decade (or two!) of legacy code running that are under constant scrutiny by actors who spend all their time finding exploits in binary executables, right?

you realize your operating system also ships system updates on a regular, often daily basis, right?

would you rather they leave security holes open exposing your computer to bad things?

so, photos on a blockchain? I thought we tried this already with NFTs and we know how that turned out.

How is this better than any of the cloud based storage systems already available?

I don’t love the pejorative “normies”.