Should not have allowed them in the first place.

I tried Tidal and could not go back to Spotify.

I guess it also depends on what type of music you are listening to. Simple FM pop or hip-hop works fine compressed. Rock, classical, melodic or more complex music gets the high range completely smashed by artifacts.

True, idiocy is universal. You can see the roaches crawling out of the rocks already.

I don’t think it would be much use other than emulated computers/consoles/arcades.

I heard about Fex for x86 emulation, but never tried it myself.

Small computers are more powerful than you think, if used properly. I stick with a bunch of containers instead of VMs and it all just hums along nicely on a Raspberry Pi 5.

Pi-Hole running all the time barely registers as a workload.

If you liked em dashes, you’ll love ligatures.

On top of all the damage AI unleashed into the world, there’s that: it ruined em dash for people who appreciate typography.

I will pay to avoid inconvenience.

Are you sure about that? They sure exhibit a distinct lack of humanity.

I miss the consistency you had in old GUIs. A window is a window, and it has a border, a title and some buttons to control it.

I despise client side decorations, like Gnome has. It makes all windows a special snowflake. Window decorations are the window manager’s responsibility.

It’s never too late if you set your mind to it.

Look around you.

Give me ssh, vi, bash and Linux kernel and I can get work done.

This lovely Christmas tune by those wonderful lads, Blink-182. Simply delightful.

You are deluding yourself if you think that books are immune to AI slop.

Enshittification is coming for all things. It’ll take a lot of careful human curation to keep finding the value among the deluge of crap.

The Trump administration will hopefully be replaced in January 2029, and up to then, it’s not unlikely Dems take back the congress in 2026.

“The emperor does not share your optimistical appraisal of the situation.”

At this point it seems simple for Trump to hold on to power like all the other cleptocratic dictators have done. You already have military on your streets and paramilitary forces cleaning the unwanted elements.

I hope you are right and I’m wrong.

Today I asked AI to remove all the lines in a file that had some string in them.

It worked. I felt awful thinking how much power I wasted doing that when I could have just read the man page of sed or awk.

I did, and it was ridiculously easy to do what I needed with a fraction of the power. And I got some nice knowledge to go with it, that I proceeded to add to my aliases file.

I’m not afraid of AI. I have a local instance to play with. The technology is just too wasteful and fallible as it stands today.

Copperplate Gothic.

Just kidding, I don’t have one but would love some suggestions.

I was expecting Comic Sans.

Stargate SG1, a beer, some nachos and nobody else home.