Snot Flickerman

The first clue was Kmart honestly.

Also pretty sure it’s a non-standard logo for Kmart too.

There’s other details but that was a major one for me.

You know, on top of the idea of this somehow getting sold in a box store which is silly enough to begin with.

Finally, a way to properly listen to The Flaming Lips’ Zaireeka without needing to own four fucking cd players and stereos.

Louis Rossman? You mean the guy with an active account on Kiwi Farms?

What’s with all these otherwise reasonable seeming people being right wing asshats deep down? It really twists up what their underlying reasoning for supporting these things are.

Give you ‘physical’ forever access and doesn’t take up so much space.

Some of us figured this out 20 years ago and never turned back. (I figured it out about the time that I realized I had more music in my mp3 collection than the college radio station I volunteered at in 2000.)

My Cinemageddon account turned 18 earlier this year.

Too bad, it’s physical media, and people acting like “that’s not what I mean” contributes to this whole idea that data is ephemeral and like it lives in the air or something. No, it all lives on physical media, on drives, somewhere. Just because Netflix streamed it to you doesn’t mean that the movies files don’t live somewhere on physical media. Yeah, you don’t own it, it’s just streaming, but the physical media it exists on still exists, you just don’t have physical access to it (well, technically you do, it’s just little chunks instead of the full film that live on your PC just long enough for the film to play).

Sorry, this grinds my gears because I think not being clear about physical media including things like hard drives and USB thumbsticks is what contributes to a general lack of understanding of how any of this fucking works and why corporations were able to get away with how they abused “licensing” for so long.

A hard drive is physical media, yes.

And not smoking tobacco. (Who knows what kind of side effects vaping have internally long term)

And drinking less.

And not stressing themselves trying to “win” at capitalism and instead give 25%, just enough to keep a job.

Doctorow tries to coin shit all the time and most times it doesn’t stick. This goes faaaaaar back in his personal history.

I just finished setting up Komodo because I couldn’t find other alternatives that seemed to fit my needs. I didn’t see Arcane amongst those ones I researched. Neat, thanks.

Open source FIDO2 keys, KeePassXC, and Aegis.

SMS 2fa has always been a bad deal

Do you have any idea how expensive 40gb was in 2000?

Aqua Teen started airing in 2001 and I was grabbing the first season as it aired.

I couldn’t afford any other solution. I was lucky to afford a video card with s-video out.

Giving me memories of not having enough hard drive space and using s-video and audio cables to record downloaded episodes of Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Sealab 2021 to tape from my computer so I could have more space to download more stuff.

“What a shame.”

you cant tell me this wasnt on purpose

Major Motoko Kusanagi: “😏 aight then…”

He has an account here on Lemmy somewhere.

correct horse ham battery staple

GROND!

Glad I’m not the only one who remembered pantyhose in little easter egg containers.

*laughs in AMD

(I know they’re not that much better but they’re so much more well supported in Linux it’s absurd. NVIDIA only started getting more support that was focused on AI, which is cool and all, local AI is all right, but no very useful in everyday context.)