The next one up or down your vpn’s list usually work - Ukraine and Turkey

This is the way

Had me in the first half, “European parliament bans lawmakers from…” had me wondering what fresh hell this was heading into, before the “using AI tools” gave me back a shred of hope for the future

You star, that’s the puppy. Many thanks

That’s a pretty fantastic site, with a lot of things I can use. It’s got all the Adobe things that I’m trying to avoid using, because fuck adobe even if i was pirating it, but not what I’m after. Great shout though, I’ll definitely be having another look at it

I thought it was bad juju to just announce what you’re trying to steal. I’m after Lightroom’s main competitor

You know that the second hand market exists, right? I bought my m1 air for £150, so I’ll be fucked if I pay the prices Adobe etc want for software for personal use, even if I didn’t think Adobe’s business model was deplorable.

That seems almost more important than the original post

Wayne. Trust me, this is the one, although you’ll hate that there was never a second series, it’s still phenomenal

Still a tune though. Return of the Swollen Goat was loud enough to raise eyebrows on this afternoon’s drive through town. I got myself pretty well this morning with Stitched Up by Barbarian Hermit. I’ve had the whole album on repeat for the last few weeks though, so that’s not too surprising

Banger, tbf

Ground up and in my freezer?

This is the correct answer

Now that’s some nonsense, my mate’s kid still uses his, and he’s like 10

Yeah, that’s a low blow. Not a Walkman, not just a portable Cd player, a bloody mp3 cd with a remote on the headphones from 2002. Who are you calling old, eh? Kids these days have no respect

Because you could hardly walk, let alone run with one if you actually wanted to enjoy the music

“I am a man that’s made of meat, While you’re on the internet, looking at feet”

Yeah, that’s pretty much my attitude. Why am I worrying about a watt here and a watt there when muppets are constantly asking LLMs inane questions and getting them to make dodgy hentai.

I have a whole bunch plugged in constantly for various synth nonsense. Running off solar, I thought it would be worth seeing how much of a difference it makes turning everything off at night, and basically it wasn’t worth the effort. It’s like a percentage point on top of the things like my fridge that run constantly, and is way less than using my toaster once a week. That said, if you’re on mains, it’s probably a worthy consideration if a lot of people were to do it, but it’s also probably comparable to using ChatGPT once a day or something

In fairness, my aesthetic of choice is brutalism, so if I became ungodlyly famous, my house would very much look like a bunker, which is proof you can have your cake and eat it