Oh yeah my bad, i meant rutorrent. The site is in Russian but easy enough to navigate as it uses the same forum template as a lot of sites, band names are all in original language so searching is simple enough. I sometimes use a translation browser extension to help.

The pre-smartphone years. Where we could just be bored, and let our boredom drive creative thought

Another perspective:

1. You can own your own music in many more formats than just vinyl.
2. CDs are still being made, and cheap. Second hand CD trade is huge, and they are always cheaper than vinyl to buy and ship. Digital ownership is even cheaper (eg Bandcamp), and the same or higher quality.
3. RuTorrent has an enormous collection of FLAC well-seeded, as do other sites (but they require invites). Soulseek has an enormous collection and requires no account.

Regarding equipment just get some good speakers and an amp, you’ll need that regardless of what format you end up getting your music in.

Vinyl is often a trap. Expensive, fragile, degrades, difficult to resell unless you live in a big city (postage & packing), and the quality is ultra subjective and varies wildly between pressings. Just look up a couple of popular albums you know on Discogs or rateyourmusic and browse the comments see what they cost and how many people bring up complaints on pressings.

I’m all CD and FLAC and loving it. Bandcamp is my first port of call, then CD (new or second-hand), torrent if rare or OOP or unavailable anywhere I frequent.

Something else that may help - if you really think vinyl will sound better, enormous FLAC rips (2GB+) of popular high quality pressings in 192kHz/24-48bit rips are not uncommon on torrent and Slsk - vinyl enthusiasts often make a high quality digital capture of their purchases while the vinyl is new, so that they have a near-new copy in case their vinyl ever degrades with wear - or simply so they can use digital for convenience, but keep the analog hiss and increased frequency range of vinyl pressings. Best of both worlds.

Anyone that can’t see the line connecting the demonising, vilification and persecution of trans people and the demonising, vilification and persecution of immigrants is a moron.

We provide equal legal protections to all, or we recieve legal protections for none (bar the billionaires).

Thanks for the mental eyebleach

Yep, the “strapped the head of a whale he chainsawed off to the roof of his car to drive it home as a souvenir” guy.

I still cannot get over Kathleen Kennedy (his daughter) recounting her vivid memories of this from when she was six.

“Every time we accelerated on the highway, whale juice would pour into the windows of the car, and it was the rankest thing on the planet,” Kathleen Kennedy recalls. “We all had plastic bags over our heads with mouth holes cut out, and people on the highway were giving us the finger, but that was just normal day-to-day stuff for us.”

Sounds like a very fucked environment for a child to grow up in.

Its chin all the way down, baby.

The fries are vegan in Australia ever since they stopped cooking them in beef tallow - around early 2000s iirc.

However, their own website says they offer no menu options certified as vegan or vegetarian, due to cross-contamination being something they don’t wish to deal with.

Understandable as additional prep areas would be quite expensive, but also it’s a pretty weak copout when they could go to the effort of labelling their vegan/vegetarian items (with the asterisked proviso that they may have cross-contam)… I suspect it’s really to allow them to change up menu item suppliers to cheaper alternatives whenever they like, because they also do not bother to label any menu items with allergen info - and that’s very standard across even small cafes nowadays. To find allegen info you have to dig through a PDF that they update every few months.

My thoughts are that the USA is in a far worse position now to shoulder and recover from the coming bubble pop, crash, and financial crisis that the mass implementation of AI is about to cause than they were in 2008-2009 when the last crash hit.

Could be wrong though. Maybe all the datacenters will get built on time, and be powered by a sudden breakthrough in nuclear fission, and maybe ~44% of people on the earth will sign up to paid plans with OpenAI so that they can become profitable.

I’d guess it’s beneficial for smaller teams as it wipes out 95% of the “it runs fine on my machine” problems that bespoke PC configs generate. The devs would rather fix bugs on their system and add new features than waste days figuring out why a feature isn’t working for a single user’s config.

You can still extract the content of the container to see everything in the image if desired, and you can access the console and logs to see everything happening while it’s running.

Theres not much in the way of downsides. More space used for the image vs direct install being the main one.

Well, it’s not really meant to be impressive. If you read that list and you’re like “he seems fine to me”, then let’s just agree we have very different opinions.

I think this is why some people use Neofetch (and its contemporaries).

It helps give a quick rundown of server specs, OS, etc to help remind you of the command mindset you need to be operating in when you connect to a new machine remotely - just quickly run your info tool of choice.

Its a CIA-style listening device that people pay for and proudly install and display in their home, gathering data on them, sharing it with Amazon and anyone they care to sell or make that data available to - including police.

Ostensibly all to provide short voice answers and actions they could do privately with their phone in seconds.

Nah, he has a long history since 2012 of being quite conservative and posting dumb takes on Twitter, then in 2016 he stopped pretending he was a libertarian and went full MAGA. Only gotten worse since.

I don’t celebrate his death, because I feel like he is pretty insignificant compared to the real government and social media monsters (Meta, Google, etc) currently shaping the world into a worse place. But I won’t miss him one bit.

Some context and examples : https://cartoonwiki.toonsmag.org/wiki/Scott_Adams#Views

Reminds me more of The Purge.

Conservatives:

• change: scary
• complexity: confusing (scary)
• amygdala: enlarged*
• grey matter: reduced*
• lead: delicious

Impact in this scenario: gay different. Gay scary. Only straight - no other. Gay wrong. Read study hard. Consider thoughts hard. Listen YouTube easy - confirm gay wrong, confirm gay scary. Make feel smart.

This is an overstatement of course, but yeah. Empathy and learning are hard, and you can pretty much count on people taking the easy path most of the time, so cons will always look for an easy out. Solutions are improved education and fact checks, rigorous reporting and broadcasting laws, and anything you can do to make things that are different less ‘scary’ to cons. As you will no doubt be thinking: none of that is what the current US govt and conservative leadership are doing, they are utterly captured by grifters who hijack their fear 24-7 to keep them in line with their causes and to keep them easily manipulated, and they attack any groups doing the opposite.

*source: https://archive.is/20240730020034/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/conservative-and-liberal-brains-might-have-some-real-differences/

I think it’s saying you can’t escape Twitter posts being reposted everywhere.

Like this utterly valueless reply from @vincedmonroy, when we could have just had a quote of Marc Ruffalo’s statement from the Oscars, which other commenters have posted.

Unironically this behaviour is just “pivoting to a run for office as a Republican” vibes nowadays.

Its no longer even ‘weird behaviour’ for a US CEO.

This explains why there is such a high concentration of gay people in Arkansas, where flouride is naturally high in much of the drinking water. They also have the fourth-highest fluoridation rate across counties in the USA.

The other states with the highest fluoridation rates?

• North Dakota
• South Dakota
• Kentucky
• Tennessee
• Georgia, and
• Illinois

Ah yes, the ‘who’s who’ list of gay metropolises that you’d expect to find if water fluoridation makes people gay.

https://www.axios.com/local/nw-arkansas/2025/05/15/arkansas-access-fluoridated-water-systems

Yeah, that certainly addresses that issue. I may do the same in the future, just haven’t found the need to do so as yet. For most who lean on AI for the simple tasks mentioned above, they use an AI service rather than a local model.