I have the theory that MP3 played a part in the death of rock music and the rise of hip hop.

Guitars and cymbals sound awful when compressed to 128kbps, as it was common in the early days of Gnutella and Napster.

Music with vocals and beats sounds much better at those compression rates.

That happens more frequently in closed source than in open source.

I’ve had to dig through shady sites to download drivers for printers or scanners that are perfectly fine but the manufacturer decided not to support the latest Windows versions. The manufacturer wants you to buy a new printer, there’s little incentive to support old hardware.

Meanwhile my ancient Laserjet 1100 works out of the box in any Linux.

This is the magic of open source. It takes one focused and motivated developer to improve the status quo for every user.

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.

Started playing Amnesia: rebirth.

Kept me hooked for way longer than I planned for the day.

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.

Yeah, Linux has just under 3% share of the desktops.

(… and most of the internet, cloud hyperscalers, mobile phones, tablets, TVs, routers, supercomputers… )

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.

That was a long watch, but worth it.

I missed some of the aspects discussed in the video when playing through Soma the first time, because I was expecting Amnesia like scary monsters.

Guess I’ll have to play it again.

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

Look around you.

Checks Steam

So it is. My bad. So that means I bought nothing this year. 😅

Richard Dean Anderson? I think he’s more of a C4 kind of guy.