exactly at one point I had a several terabyte raid 5 array that I had been collecting since napster through the LAN iTunes sharing thing through torrents but I don’t even know where those drives are, let alone a mobo/desktop that I can plug it into. at least they’re sata not pata/ide. I see videos freaking out about how weird ipod shuffles were and I’m like I loved my shuffle and click wheel and video one

but honestly as much as I lament my “losses” this new era with connected devices everywhere and an endless explosion of high quality new content is amazing. even if I chose to only listen to new music 24/7 I could never even scratch the surface of all the new stuff coming out these days in every language in every genre accessible for free to everyone with a phone. it seems silly to think about the days when Metallica sued napster over 20$ cds (although the south park episode was great) now artists are begging for people to hover 2 seconds over free tik tok clips of their songs

I miss foobar2k

Betteridge’s law of headlines is an adage that states: “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.”

damn I mean I agree with you I think they’re mostly dumb and haven’t recovered from my loss of pebble but what an appropriate handle

what a great movie

hey guy I’ve got a buddy too

I mean I have an eReader but most of the time I’m too lazy to go find it and my Kindle app works just fine. I am eyeing those eink phones though…

perplexity for this device. still, excited to get my pre-order if only to add to my teenage engineering collection

hey guys have you seen Candlejack he was right

worst ai prompt

something something jailbait

I’ve been dreading this and it saddens me to hear from you that my worst fears were correct.

I’ll just take solace in the fact that I had 30 year head start and that my tech-fu will hopefully stay one step ahead of my 1-year-old

https://youtu.be/oSPT27XyY1U

もちろん

umm what’s going on with the one on the right with a blue skirt

That sounds like some sovereign citizen thing

https://youtu.be/d1vSlNz0PaA

Yup. Just like ads on cable TV, ads on streaming services, now ads in your AI. Even worse, the ads in AI may not even be labeled and just tweak your results slightly to favor certain products and the process hidden from the end user since hey, it’s so complicated even human programmers can’t figure out how to make the AI process transparent and verifiable.

You know, I can’t speak for the baby bells or other industries and definitely not politicos, but I’ve never understood that conspiracy theory about doctors getting money from Big Pharma. I by no means endorse Skrelli bros but I’ve been a doctor for a decade and while I do take advantage of free lunches whenever I can get them, I just prescribe what I want to and I don’t get any money whenever I do so. Most of the time I just heckle the company throughout the lunch and don’t use their product. Seroquel helps a lot of people and while I don’t prescribe it, it’s basically the Kleenex or Scotch tape of antidepressants and nobody gets any special kick backs when they write it, they know their patients are just getting it from India over the internet anyway or CVS/DR/Walgreens/Rite Aid just swaps it for the generic. inb4 studies showing slight biases towards companies you got a free pen from, I still don’t get any kickbacks. No matter what I do the fake blonde with fake nails and lashes shows up faithfully to get my office staff Panera or Chick-fil-A. It’s pennies to them and I usually skip cause I’m trying to avoid carbs.

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