Solitaire, straight out of classic Windows (pre-advertising death throes):

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.potatojam.classic.solitaire.klondike

Hoplite, classic turn based dungeon/puzzle:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.magmafortress.hoplite

I pay for non popular things - bands that aren’t well known, YouTube creators who haven’t started doing those stupid “MUNDANE TASK 😱 GOES WRONG!” thumbnails yet, games or software that are free to download but hey maybe some money would be cool if you could, independent news and radio, etc.

Once something is popular I’ll just thieve it. Artists are creators deserve to get paid for their work, but once they start getting paid dozens of times over for no extra effort it’s hard to feel too bad about borrowing a free copy.

Subsonic (https://www.subsonic.org/) hasn’t been updated in years, but it still works perfectly for me. I’m mostly on Youtube Music these days just for the size of the library, but for stuff I have that YTM doesnt I still fall back to Subsonic that’s running on my HTPC.

As a landlord… I would love this.

Then I guess for security reasons you won’t be signing up.

Signed, somewhere in the high 600s.

I’m sure like most petitions it will achieve fuck all, but I’ll play my part in the pantomime!

Dudes need to knock a few zeros off the end of their currency, damn.

It’s like you can’t stop thinking about Apple.

The advertising worked!

I’ve got work “uniforms”, and weekend “uniforms”. Probably 7 or 8 changes of each, but all the work clothes are identical and all the weekend clothes are identical.

I look ageless in photos cause I always have the same stuff on, and getting dressed is so easy. Probably no good for people who care about fashion though. Glad I don’t tbh, shits expensive and wasteful.

👋

Checkmate.

I just bought my first EV. I’m never going back to ICE. Effortless acceleration, a super quiet drive, being able to plug in at home and always leave the house with 100% capacity… People try to argue that they’re bad because of something they remember seeing once a couple of decades ago or whatever. It’s nice correcting them based on personal experience. Also if they go for a test drive they change their minds REALLY quickly. That EV power off the line is a pretty compelling argument all on its own.

Reminds me a lot of the battery versus petrol RC car debate back in the day. Anyone who remembered NiCad batteries and brush motors had a justifiable hate for electric RC cars and opted for the petrol option… But if they refused to try LiPo and brushless they ended up stuck with noisy, finicky, and ultimately slower cars.

You gotta be willing to accept that as technology improves the balance can (and rapidly does) swing in favour of something that you remember sucking.

MS products in general are a Rube Goldberg machine of domain redirects and authentication requests so you could easily(…?) slip another sneaky phishing site in the middle of the 14th ball drop and 18th cup-on-a-string-swinging-over-a-gap and I’d be one to fall for it. I use 1Pass and it’s pretty much constantly popping up in MS website dialogue boxes demanding another password sacrifice before it will let me access some MS service that I was just on five minutes ago.

I want to join a federated network!

*federation happens*

No, not like that

I got you

C:\>sudo dnf install fedora39-workstation-edition
'sudo' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\>

Didn’t really call any tool useless, but pointless

Apologies, word changed between brain and fingers.

Your slashes are arse about

People will get use to some pointless tool which is not available for Linux and that’s it.

Irfanview for me!

I’d debate calling it useless, but until irfanview works correctly on Linux (no, it doesn’t under WINE) I can’t change.

Nice rebuttal, I felt chastised and I didn’t even write the thing

Archive edition:

https://archive.md/3C0MW

I’ve used Thunderbird for years, and still do. I love it.

IMAP, 30GB account, contacts and calendar synced with our Nextcloud server. Can search for a term and receive a list of emails going back years instantly.

I can open Thunderbird, search for an email from 2016, and be replying to it faster than my wife’s identical PC can even finish loading the Outlook splash screen (may contain traces of hyperbole).