This is how my wife operates too.

Fantastic for that purpose.

I’m all about Signal’s Note to Self.

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.

That is an absolutely hilarious bit. Great application for The Hardly Boys.

Another quality effort.

More interestingly, lamps in video games use the same amount of real electricity if they are on or off.

This is why I am a happy Kagi user.

And now it’s going to melt, and we have turned million year-old ice into a puddle.

Backman is not my wheelhouse. Ludlum, or MacLean, or Weber are. We had a friend from Sweden visit us and he left us “Grandmother.” I of course told him “thank you” and never expected to read it.

And then I did. And then I introduced it to my wife. And since then we’ve read it all.

I can honestly say more tears have been shed, and more feelings felt over Backman than any other writer. He has extraordinary insight into humans and how complicated we, and the relationships we form are.

Literally everything by Backman is worth your time. I started with My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry.

But I think his best work, which also feels like a bit of a departure for him, is the Beartown trilogy.

I laughed at this one.

Franklin W. Dixon was young me’s favorite author.

I remember the first time I read a WHOLE book in a single day. I thought I was something special.

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.

Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian. This series should keep me busy for a LONG time.

But it IS how we see prices. If there weren’t science behind it, they wouldn’t be doing it.

This is a fantastic post. Thank you. I do know that the Feds often use the Commerce Clause to put the lie to my original statement, but with the abandonment of Roe, I’ve repeatedly heard “it’s in the hands of the States” so maybe my hope is that someone somewhere my see a need to remain intellectually consistent.

Pipe dream, but a nice thought.