Lyander

And here I thought sticking with digital would be less annoying in the long-term, if at least not nearly as expensive. Wonder if my grandpa's old me-sized CD spinner survived the last few floods...

Either way Presto Music is grand for orchestral works and BoomKat has a lot of interesting releases.

I have a different password with each store and never store my CC info

Likewise, plus the passwords are jotted down in a notebook so that's scarcely accessible. Also, I only ever use a prepaid debit card online if PayPal isn't an option because that's money that won't end me to lose. It's just bothersome with all these accounts. Price of convenience.

Cat fried rice time.

@YMO no but now I'm wondering if this could be used in lieu of a microwave for TV dinners lmao

The social sciences is stupid because it's so forsakenly hard to quantify things in a meaningful way. Facedesk

Facedesk? Nah, Facebook. they've probably got your metric.

Used to work with ad agencies and... honestly yeah they keep the good shiz for themselves-- the amount of data marketing has on people can be terrifying :))

Wyze is really easy to set up and the app makes it easy to get the settings you want.

@pavi not sure if you caught this but apparently Ubiquiti had a bit of a massive breach earlier this year. just caught wind of it now and hope things are battened down tight for you.

i saw that… i think my network is safe, but i’m all for a healthy paranoia where network security is concerned

Not worth another update but hilarious: Pablo Escobar's hippos are people: https://gizmodo.com/pablo-escobars-cocaine-hippos-are-legally-people-court-1847904417

"From the animals' perspective, I think it's clear that they would prefer to be sterilized rather than euthanized." Sure, but if they're legal persons presumably they can't be sterilized without their permission, so...

...maybe just /sanitize/ them?

I hope this stack keeps you happy for a while! Time to get lost in the music and not the gear!

Amazing value at its price. My non-plus versions have been solid performers for years.

Hah, I actually haven't been listening for fun lately but spent nearly a solid 4 hours just staying up and enjoying music. Waaaaay past my knees' bedtime.

WTF on this one. Although I'd buy an HP-1 that was Pokemon themed.

LMAO if this sounds like a more sensibly tuned RS1 then I'm all for it! Thematically perfect as well-- surprised I missed this one :P

Sennheiser has the Hello Kitty HD800 coming out next year.

Apart from the trigger waffling at times my only actual complaints with the unit are that the one alternative nozzle doesn't fit as snugly (duct tape to the rescue!) and that the battery will be toxic waste eventually. Not easily user serviceable either since some plastic rings keep it from being pulled apart but hey everything's disposable nowadays (sigh)

I use a rocket blower I got to blow dust off the cameras. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/259157-REG/Giottos_AA1900_Rocket_Air_Blower.html

@Lyander, ok thanks. I've seen something pretty much the same on my local amazon.

@scblock, Mindblowing. HOW did I never think of that? My camera blower and a paintbrush just rescued my keyboard from the cats' hair birds nest that usually covers it. I'd like something a bit stronger though, that I wouldn't dare use on the camera

My vote goes to the kalita. Less fussy than a Hario since the results are basically the same regardless of how you pour the water. I like the general idea of the clever dripper but I don’t like the idea of hot water sitting in a plastic container.

@edd Which is why I recommend the Hario Switch or December to people :)

The Kalita was a close second I think but something about how the V60 looked just worked for me. Never heard of the Clever Dripper but it does look... clever! Hah. Dammit I don't need another rabbit hole.

@Taverius fresh pastries >> coffee unless it's a long day, haha.

As for the two minutes of careful pouring, I actually enjoy that sorta thing for the most part. Greatly calming.

Thanks. Actually have troublemoving around today and feel like death but was expecting it. Bingeing jujutsu kaisen at sisters insistence, surprise really hype.

Kobayashi san was surprisingly good

I am not in a moe mood but fine I'll check it out when able haha. I have a fluff tolerance level and it's been saturated by other shiz :))

Now THAT I would be tempted to sink cash into

Did you see this hilarious related story? https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/08/random_rapper_soulja_boy_claims_he_owns_atari_atari_doesnt_agree

@DigMe coming across that news is PRECISELY how I learned that Atari was going crypto lmao! Guess he at least succeeded in bringing more attention to it.

oh, just wait for your first OTA updates! rootkit dev bomb!! we're all Tesla meatbags now! Soylent green or something!!

Somehow Soylent Green was the most horrific part. NO need to eat! Nutrition gets beamed directly into every cell via NutriSync tech! Talk about body horror XD

But all kidding aside I generally feel like a floppy meat doll which makes me dread how bad off I'll be after second shot. Yeesh.

Unfortunately no. Let's us know how it goes.

It's fun! No major bugs other than pistol needing to be reloaded at the start of every round. Also saw an enemy t-pose after being shot but that's about it. It scratches the L4D nostalgia and is fairly challenging at mid difficulty, though I'm not an FPS player for the most part so that could just be me needing to get good.

Not worth another status: learned of Bill Hwang and Archegos just now. Reinforces the idea that the finance industry is scarier than most make it out to be and that things are just tenuous AF.

I just watched this last night! Gravitational lensing, so cool.

@DigMe as it turns out Einstein's theory on general relativity was proven way before this, and it's simply that this is the best example thereof to date.

The fact of gravitational lensing just makes me think the universe is a far more interesting place than many make it out to be haha.

Actually I was referring to how Einstein very specifically predicted how light would bend around black holes moreso than just theory of relativity in general.

optimist is pink, and smells faintly of roses. Pessimist is the nasty, yellowish stuff, tinged with industrial pollution.

I haven't seen much optimist for years. Sad.

@Thad E Ginathom likewise honestly, but some friends you can just reconnect with and pick up as if no time at all has passed. I fully believe optimist is one such pal.

What about optaries and pessaries?

Damn right, let me be a crochety old fart with lots of sedate days.

Take care. If "lovely" equates to great for tea, a volcano would make a great stove. Not a very safe one mind you.

Fuuuuudge. Obviously stay safe and be ready. Hopefully it won't bother you with more than worry.

Ya it was one of the worst industrial accident….we studied it in-depth during my mechanical engineering degree

"now Dow Chemical"

I also seem to remember that the company changed everything it possible could so as /not to be/ the company that did that stuff to Bhopal.

That seems to be the case exactly, yeah. I can fully understand why though, no one would dare take ownership of what's damn near a genocide

I use her track “Dear John’ as a negative test track. if it sounds good, my system isn’t resolving enough. and i like Taylor Swift.

HAH! Never heard of a "negative test track" before but that unfortunately seems to describe a fair portion of what I often listen to :P

@Lyander Yes, a track used with a known flaw. In the case of Dear John, it is compressed and brick wall filtered really badly.