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Interesting. I have yet to lose anything from my library on Bandcamp but that would piss me off if it happened.

I do download and backup my purchases though. I download in both FLAC and mp3 320 formats so I have my bases covered just in case. It is annoying to keep my purchases separate though.

Right! I totally forgot it existed.

Bandcamp is great. I buy albums on Bandcamp when I can. Too many artists are not on there though, or only have older albums available.

What a great read. I was going to try the what.cd interview one day but never got there. Now I wish I had just to experience what it must have been.

Welp, I guess it’s off to BSD I go.

J/k. This seems like a pragmatic approach from Linus.

I believe that was the advice in the early SSD days, and likely still applies for high write commercial environments.

However, modem SSDs are fine when used in a typical home lab set up.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but that’s my understanding.

Shame on Microsoft for being a shit company.

However, I don’t recommend backing up to OneDrive, but if you must, you should encrypt on your local machine first. Also, keep a physical backup. Current situation not withstanding, external SSDs are reasonably cheap.

It’s called Nearby Glasses on both IOS and Android.

There is an Android app that looks for the Bluetooth signatures of these glasses and alerts if they are nearby. Hopefully something exists on iOS devices as well.

Edit: The app is called Nearby Glasses and it is available on iOS and Android.

Wait! Is that glue on the pizza?

Wait, wait. Does that rock keep bears tigers away?

Edit: Remembered the scene wrong.

Canada has already shown any climate goals the door in favour of AI. In particular, Meta is building a 1GW AI data centre in Alberta which is already very dependent on oil and gas revenue.

Ok, we need to refer to them as something else. I thought we had a much bigger problem on our hands when I first read the title.

Google reCaptcha enters the chat.

This whole APK dicussion is important, but Google is taking steps to lock down the bloody internet if you aren’t on a verified iOS or Android device. This will be far reaching going way beyond the APK changes.

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I feel like that won’t be enough. Google is working on locking down the entire internet unless you can pass their reCaptcha with a verified device. See this article related to GrapheneOS and their reCaptcha concerns.

Sites need to stop using reCaptcha or we are all doomed anyway.

So you can use the website in your browser but still have the have their app installed for 2fa? That’s peak bullshit there.

Google reCaptcha is going to have a similar requirement for accesing half the bloody internet once that goes through. In summary, I think we are fucked.

Yep. If it came from the whitehouse you can pretty much guarantee it.

So we can do genocide as long as it’s only a little genocide?

Still applies.

I started playing with Linux in the late 1990s more out of curiosity. I bought a book on Red Hat Linux 6 that came with an installation CD. I have used Linux off and on since then but now have gone exclusively Linux.

Windows updates and app installs in general are a pain in the ass. Linux is so much nicer to use for these things.

I have an appreciation for FOSS. Even when I was running Windows, I looked for FOSS options when possible.

Gaming has gotten so much better. I am not a heavy gamer but I am glad I can play on Linux when I do.

Also, last but not least, the wife acceptance factor kept me dual booting long after I would have switched. She was using my PC for some tasks and did not want to “learn Linux”. I solved that by getting her a PC of her own.