I started looking at Symfonium some time ago, but something killed my interest. Maybe it’s time to revisit it.

The tidal thing didn’t bother me, as my music collection is relatively large. But yeah PlexAmp is truly an extraordinary bit of software.

This doesn’t really affect my household. My wife, my daughter, and I all have lifetime PlexPasses.

That said, this level of enshitification has me wishing there were options (yes I know about Emby and Jellyfin and I’ve investigated both more than once) but they have me ensnared by PlexAmp and Sonos integration. I’ve been around since before anyone had even seen the letters MP3 strung together, and I have never had a music player as capable as PlexAmp.

Just say no to keyboards that need to phone home.

I’m a Slack guy, when forced to use Teams it just always tried to get in the way of anything I wanted to do and Slack would get out of the way.

Sadly Slack are busy trying to make Slack as obnoxious as Teams.

For a counterpoint, my wife loves Teams. She uses it all day every day, and only has good things to say about it.

I’m a Preacher’s kid, now an atheist. But I have been wondering the same thing. It’s interesting I am not alone in that. In the last week I have seen the subject come up twice, once in this post and once at The Free Press.

Band of Brothers has a scene about this very thing. It is quite extraordinary to watch.

This is why I am a happy Kagi user.

Lucu in the Sky with Diamonds.

That all depends on how good an artist you are. If you suck at art like I do it will be very difficult. If you’re a talented artist, probably not so much.

Tarja Turunen Dark Christmas. It’s not 100% spectacular but it’s close.

https://youtu.be/85Dqs678AEI?si=_YTpu7TBJ-mqohMa

Eeyore.

61 here

What I wanna know is who are all these people claiming that Santa Claus is not fucking real!?

Of course he’s real.

I’m an AnCap everyone hates me at least 50% of the time (except on Lemmy where it’s closer to 90/10).

It’s often not worth the grief.

I don’t like abortion, I have grave qualms about it. I’m also vehemently pro-choice.

Will that sounds like the perfect “Gee I have to spend this money on something bigger and better” reason!

Upgrading by replacing your drives one at a time will likely get you where you want to go. When I upgraded my 6Tb drives in my 920+ to 12Tb drives it took about a week.

In June we moved from the Fried Chicken to the chef’s nostrils. Now we are boogers

We had just moved from Portland to Denver, and were trying new restaurants. One Sunday we ordered delivery from a local Chinese place that had good reviews. Food came, we ate and all was good for a couple of hours.

Then my wife said "I think I’m gonna puke* and dashed for the bathroom. Being the good husband, I followed her to hold her hair while she worshipped the porcelain god.

She had barely got done emptying the content of her stomach, when I literally had to shove her out of the way to emoty mine.

We were both miserable for about 36 hours.