thomnottom

I've got probably a few thousand mp3s from there and other services (lots of eMusic samplers) that now have little to no context. Sorting through them lately, it's a tad depressing when I hear a really great song and can find almost no information about the band that made it.

Also heavily used drip.fm. When Kickstarter decided to change the service to Patreon-lite I asked about archiving the site because of all of the extra info (forget about the music, I wanted the metadata). They told me they couldn't do it.

Have gone through the same thing. Actually banned my daughter from watching YouTube because she was focusing too much on watching strangers play video games instead of interacting with us (and sometimes even her friends). Things aren't perfect, but I've definitely seen an improvement.

How do you define "entertainment value"? It's going to be different for different people. I enjoy video games, spend money on them, and have played some for a couple hundred hours I'm sure. But personally there's not a single one that I would take over my favorite albums, movies, or books.

So while there is a greater value per hour of use for games, that does not necessarily equate to a "better entertainment value" for all users.

That brings back painful memories. 8+ years of dialing 9 to get an outside line and only 1 person had made that mistake (while trying to dial 411!) at a previous company. Then new management comes in and it happens twice in 2 days. Supposedly a huge fiasco and they started pushing to change the dial out digit immediately. Such a headache.

Correct. But the OP was stating that impeachment would never happen and pointing to what happened with Clinton. But impeachment is exactly what happened with Clinton. And the prediction does not state that he will be removed from office by the Senate, but that he will resign after impeachment to avoid prosecution. This is an entirely reasonable prediction based upon current and historical events.

Clinton was impeached.

I'm a customer, but half the time I'm using your tutorials it's for home projects not my VPS.

Really great job!

Is it really? Not being snarky here, but I joined diaspora early on and a year or so after the untimely death of the co-founder the project felt like it was going no where. 6 years later it feels like I never hear anything about it, and ActivityPub is almost a must for any serious "open" social network now.

Similar situation here. I'm wondering if this might be enough to stop me from trying my own Mastodon instance. Might be nice to not have to support even more platforms.

Haha

The fact that my dad worked for IBM and was able to procure my first computer from an office closure pretty much guaranteed my platform of "choice" anyway.

I remember being at a computer show in the late 80s/early 90s as a teen. The kind of place that you went to see new tech showed off by major brands (IBM, Intel, and MS were there), but also to get good deals from vendors on components instead of ordering through magazines.

Anyway, I'm waiting in line to price out a motherboard, when this big guy walks up and buys 5 or so of the most expensive ones. People were pretty surprised and someone asked what he was building. He said they were going to be burning them later that day, something about "Amiga makes it, Intel makes it stupid." Made me think there was something seriously wrong with the people who used Amigas.

That was probably my first experience with the toxic fanboy mentality. I realized much later how much that had turned me off from any kind of user community. It makes me a little sad/jealous when I read about people having such fond memories of those times and communities, because I never tried to join in.

* In kids that don't already have the allergy. In which case early exposure may kill them.

I second @[email protected]. Followed on twitter and was glad when they showed up on Mastodon.

You could always set up a second account to dig more into another instance. I'm currently on octodon.social (largely because mastodon.social was full when I first joined), but I've been thinking of creating a personal instance to play around with things that I don't necessarily want to clutter another local timeline with.

Any reqs for a GPU?

I have not gotten a handle on my photo archive/workflow since switching to Linux, but want to get familiar with DT.

I haven't had a chance to go through the new marketing stuff, but the original terminology of drip referred to the actions of the creators - not the payments. Albums and tracks released by labels were called "drips", not what we paid for them.

And as I pointed out, drip.com was originally registered by this service. They moved off that domain a few years ago and it was eventually taken up by the current occupants.

drip.com became drip.fm became drip.kickstarter.com.

This service pre-dates the sites that now occupy drip.com and drip.fm.

Does sound work in Ubuntu on the x360? I bought one when it first came out, but there was an issue with the BIOS (from my recollection, Windows turned off the sounds but Ubuntu couldn't turn it back on) and had to return it.

Very nice build, although the battery made it back heavy.

You can use your own OpenVPN client.

That's not what was said. "Free VPNs are not to be trusted" does not imply "All paid VPNs can be trusted".

Are you honestly suggesting that not being able to control semi-autonomous bodily functions is a matter of personality traits?

From what I have read (I do not have the references handy), while they are called deer ticks the primary hosts/transport are mice.

It's funny, I never bothered much analyzing these photos but now that I have it's obvious how much the Gigapixel backs up the WaPo photos.

And yet the parent seems to believe that pointing out optical perspective differences means we're calling those pictures "right-leaning".

Of course I rotated it. And my point stands. The perspective is still different. The rows of people are countable, and looking at some of the further sections there is no way I would be able to count as many rows as at the other. There are 2 sections filled with people at the Obama one that are completely blocked off on the Trump one. That can't be argued with at all.

There are people who are good at estimating crowd sizes and I'll let them do their job. But, once again, this picture in no way contradicts the others.

And that photo is from the opposite direction, focuses on a different part of the crowd, and in no way contradicts the smaller crowd shown in the other picture.

Assuming that the criminal opts to use the encryption with an NSA backdoor and the victim is able to schedule time at their local NSA Genius Bar to recover their data.

Mine, too. For me it was too new of a registration.

When I got my mortgage (c. 2006) I had an idea of what I could afford. I went to the bank hoping they would approve me for that much. Not even taking into account my wife's salary, they approved me for at least $100k more than that. There is no way we would still have our home if we took the bank's advice.

Sure, people make bad decisions. But how can they be expected to make better ones when the people that are supposed to be relied on for good advice give such bad advice.

A friend of mine was confused as to how they continue to sell so well without the patents and I told him to try to build with MegaBlox. The knock offs are terrible and barely hold together. I can still build with 30+ year-old Lego pieces.

I visit multiple Lego stores on a regular basis. They all have pick a brick walls that are filled with standard bricks along with some specialty pieces. Next to that are usually a few shelves of Lego Classic and Lego Creator sets.

I also wonder what some people consider standard blocks. If you're just talking about 2x4s, they're actually not that much fun. If I sorted all of my sets, the majority of pieces would be 1x2 or longer bricks or various flat pieces which are significantly better for building.

There are plenty of odd pieces out there, but when you get into the expert level sets and see them use croissants and robot fists to do remarkable detail on buildings... well I certainly realized that very few pieces are useless.