It's like the antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft 22 years ago. They are still trying to push their browser.

If a billionaire is in actual trouble, he's in China. US would have bailed out Evergrande.

The usual. Journalists, democracy, threats to fascism and corporate profits at home and abroad.

She doesn't respond to much these days at all.

"Latinum lasts longer than lust."

I feel even better replacing a new or old sponge with a brush that will never get that awful sponge smell

One of these days I'm going to get an overuse injury from my eye-rolling muscles.

The presidential appointees who struck down Roe V Wade now get an opportunity to let a powerful man off the hook. I don't see Trump facing the music in his lifetime.

Paywall bypassed

That was a really satisfying video, in a morbid kind of staring at a car accident kind of way.

2023 was absolutely the year I dove back into music piracy. I started with downloading youtube playlists but the real game changer was soundiiz, which allowed me to import text, m3u, csv, spotify, xspf playlists into qobuz and deezer so i can download whole playlists of FLAC with qobuz-dl and deemix-gui. My collection went from 20,000 to 100,000, downloading playlists from qobuz and deezer, xspf playlists from my remaining lossy music. I used streamripper on a few web radio stations just to get a list of songs to pull down this way. I only bought music for years and years, but that got me a narrow type of collection.

Capitalist governments doing capitalism. It's ridiculous to think that climate change was going to be fixed by consolidating the power of the people who caused it.

I musta gone to college wrong, I ended up a communist. It's all the same to them I guess.

Oh god, here we go again.

I worked with Aaron Barr

He went on to be CEO of HBGary, a federal contractor. He claimed he could dox Anonymous. It didn't go well for him.

For a lot of people, it's getting out. Moving is expensive and they can't get enough work at the Wal*Mart or the prison, and all the other employers have gone out of business or offshored their labor. That's why a lot of people enlist in the military.

I wonder which gym this is.

I use FRE:AC https://www.freac.org/downloads-mainmenu-33

It can do bulk conversions with a recursive directory search and works in most OSes

I had the exact same use case as you, 1TB of FLACs onto a 256gb phone. Because you prefer minimal quality loss, Opus is the format for you, not MP3. You can maintain transparency-level quality with 128kbps, Opus is roughly equivalent in quality to a mp3 twice its size. AAC and Vorbis are also preferable to MP3 in this aspect, but inferior to Opus. At this point, mp3s are only useful for devices that can't decode any better codec.

Then i do a search-replace for *.flac -> *.opus on the playlists. I use PowerAmp on android to play the tunes, can recommend.

There was a programmer at my job, he put out the vibe of being a gung-ho guy and got promoted to team lead. The moment he had a scrap of power he started publicly berating the other devs, randomly, over nothing, leaving me wondering who he'd snap on on a given day. One day I got the message to shut off his access to the build server, which meant he was fired. It took way too long but it was delicious when it happened and my work satisfaction skyrocketed. An asshole can change a whole job.

You wanna go for start-ups then. Most bigger and medium-sized companies have centrally-managed security where they wanna push updates and such to all computers or there's some corporate spyware everyone's gotta run or they've got everyone on M$ Office etc etc. Odds are a place that lets you use a linux laptop is going to be reluctant to buy you one and invite you to use your own. Macbooks aren't so bad, if they let you have sudo, lots of places use those.