That’s just confirming with extra steps

Every time they make a news announcement on a different platform, just make a tweet that says “Hey, Valve news update here: <link>. BTW, fuck Elon”

Easier said than done but they’d hardly be the first.

It’s also on Fleeb.

William Gibson (author of Neuromancer among other things, not all of them good) published an article about Singapore 30 years ago. It’s titled Disneyland with the Death Penalty.

33 years later and much of this is still very relevant. It has dated somewhat, but accurately reflects what I experienced in Singapore during work travel over the past few years.

At the least, if you’re interested in what dystopian science fiction writers think about Singapore it certainly dropped some puzzles pieces into place for me.

Yeah that’s fair, I am personally leaning deeper into things like the Echo Mini or soon to be released Echo Nano from their sub brand. I think DAPs are in a weird place, and do wish there was a higher quality iPod-like solution.

Yeah, that’s totally fair. I prefer wired listening devices and want less “smart” things in my life. At the moment my music library is about 180GB so a bit much for the smaller available offline devices, and mostly FLAC so the DAC needs to be powerful enough. Absolutely a me problem, as I mentioned in another comment my hobby rabbit hole into audio makes the full decouple very appealing to me.

Yeah I have dabbled with hosted music, but I do mean “offline” device + storage. Like MP3 players of old. I have also been blursed with an interest in audio gear so it becomes a very appealing rabbit hole for me.

While you’re not wrong, and at the moment I am the same, there is also something very appealing to me about decoupling music from my phone.

Also plenty of low tech Chi-fi options like Fiio/Snowsky.

Marketplace is very alive and kicking, it’s shocking how much more active it is since COVID.

I will also say that FB has sucked a lot of attention away from traditional forum spaces - Australia’s Netrider for example. It’s much better to seek answers and ask questions in the motorcycle Facebook page for your model. Sadly. The introduction of anonymous group posting is a good thing though.

Bring back the Spanish Armada

For anyone who is interested in returning to simple mp3 players, check out the Snowsky range by Fiio.

The Echo Mini and soon to be released Echo Nano are pretty great little pieces that inhabit the offline music (and not your phone) space.

Edit - and Bandcamp or Soulseek to fill the drives up :)

I couldn’t even get immich to work properly :(

I need to spend another weekend starting from scratch but network protocol just completely evades me.

To a mouse, they’re probably macroplastics anyways.

No no, you must end all content with a “so what” otherwise how am I meant to know how to react?

Most normal contributors don’t comment nearly as much as you. I’ve left probably 30 comments and 3 posts in 3 years across my (same username, different instance) accounts.

What if I do have an Nvidia card? I’ve been to and fro on switching for such a long time. I have so much random shit on my PC that it’s making the overhead to leave daunting.

Whatever “process” anyone had to keep Trump in check has been dismantled consistently over his two terms. The checks and balances don’t work, no one is held accountable.

From my perspective in different western country, I’m shocked you still believe there are things he COULDNT change, ignore, replace, or destroy in any part of the government.

It’s been decades of US-centric media, political commentary, and general cultural dominance/presence in our lives in most English speaking countries whether we liked it or not.

I kind of read this as the elastic band snapping back, we’ve had to hear so much about the US for long, this is almost cathartic. And it’s not people on the fediverse who are responsible, unfortunately you’re probably the most empathetic group in a social media platform at all. You just happen to be here. With a lot of cynical, anti establishment nerds who have a space to vent.

Beloved is a strong word. Tolerated maybe.