I saw that for the first time last year, and I can tell you that it’s bloody disturbing to a 44 year old too.

Who needs an iPod clone when you can literally buy an iPod, drop 1Tb of storage in it, and sync it to your library like you always could.

It’s stupidly easy to do, and those things are still rock solid. And you can put Rockbox on too, if you don’t want iTunes anywhere near your computer. Or you use Linux and can’t have iTunes.

No, they were invented by chickens.

Word is proof that there is no God and that we’re all alone in the cold vacuum of space. Word is every traffic light being red. Word is getting an itchy arsehole because you couldn’t quite wipe yourself properly.

There’s (slightly) fewer cunts on here.

99% of Krispy Kreme in the UK is sold from a small display in a supermarket, where they’re stone cold and greasy as shit.

I have a fan plugged into a smart switch that I’ve set to turn off when I fade up my mic while doing my radio show. It’s the most glorious use of throwing the internet at a home appliance I’ve yet come up with.

What phone is that?

I was watching this Janus Cycle video at the weekend, and god it made me wish I could buy a folding keyboard case for my Pixel 9.

Eh, I dunno. The vast majority have no idea what a VPN is. If a VPN ban benefits Rupert fucking Murdoch then the tabloids will wang on about how they’re used by paedophiles and people smugglers and that’ll be that.

I have a bunch of old Samsung tablets that are all the same model, but they’re all running slightly different hardware. As a result a couple are running Lineage while a couple are stuck on the stock Samsung/Android because I just can’t root them.

I saw a plate in a shop today that had octopuses on it.

It was £60

I do not have a plate with octopuses on it.

It’s a Thomasson!

There’s a great 99% Invisible episode about them.

Delivering wholesome content, yet still somehow managing to fuck it up in some greedy way.

YouTube (via yt-dlp) is my fallback for if I can’t find what I need on Soulseek.

The quality is fine, but I likes my FLACs.

Aye, “learn a new OS” as the solution to a problem solved by simply using LocalSend on whatever you already have.

Literally saw this on Mastodon yesterday.

“How come emailing a document to myself is still the easiest way to send something to another device?”

“Have you tried using Linux?”

Yeah, music piracy is kinda niche these days: mostly just people who want a local library and who have a modded iPod or similar. I use Soulseek to get flacs of the music I play on my radio show, just so I can be sure I’m offering the best possible quality.

But to be honest, I straddle both camps. I have a modded iPod full of music, but I also have Apple Music mostly for convenience.

I get a stellar service from my mate’s Plex server that he doesn’t charge me to access. If there’s something I want, I request it through some automated service he has and within no time at all it’s ready to watch.

Music piracy, while still a thing, is basically nil at this point, because the record industry didn’t fuck up streaming (for the consumer). The artists don’t get paid enough, but from a consumer perspective you don’t have to sub to all the services to get all of the music.

We were so close to that with Netflix back in the beginning. Then the studios got greedy, and here we are.