To be fair I think that’s a very harsh depiction of the events.

It’s totally lacking the perspective of the shareholder. They were promised money and they have emotions too. Google shareholders deserve better representation!

/$ obviously

To be fair he deflated the stock also after purchase.

You haven’t. I’m not offended. I’m literally just sharing a solution.

FWIW I know because that’s what I have been every day for the last few months. I have been using music streaming for years, paying SoundCloud user for a while. Few months ago during my on-going transition away from surveillance capitalism I stopped more and more of commercial cloud services. One of the very last few had been music. I tried quite a few solutions and one of my fear was about music discovery. I thought if I download files then it will be hard to get new music. I looked at technical solutions, e.g. recommendation algorithm, offline and online (with API). I also noticed that my usage was split in at least 2 different listening mode : active vs passive. Active is when I specifically pick a song or an album because I crave it. Passive is when I want background sound, nearly like barely better than white noise. For active it was OK but for passive my own selection was too exciting. I then tried a great public and free French radio ( FIP.fr ) and that solved (by luck) both needs of passive listening AND music discovery. That being said I do not always love the FIP selection so sometimes I’ll switch to other stations hence why I said so. That’s it, nothing more.

You can switch stations.

for “background noise”

FWIW there are also radios, including public ones where content (without ads) is delivered via the Internet, usable via cvlc or mpv or even the browser (so nothing to install).

Checkout Bandcamp for stuff you didn’t buy but want to and SoulSeek if you are missing some backups.

this isn’t a mistake, it’s a pattern. He cuts corners with every project.

If you

• need discoverability, or
• don’t need anything composable

then sure GUIs are great.

That’s actually a great question, safer to ask your LLM directly! So helpful. /s

Eh… don’t want to be mean but that’s what’s called an “IP address” for Internet Protocol Address… but this one is for your LAN, aka Local Area Network.

So that won’t work, people outside your LAN can’t reach it. What you need instead is a domain. What most people don’t know though is that there is a special domain name anybody can use for free! Check this out, assuming your LLM did the right setup do all that step, making website, starting Web server then try :

https://localhost/ and voila, free domain from your newly generated websites!

… /s

Damn… money laundering though LIVE with its “gifts” I never thought about this. Everything else is wrong, at scale, but this surprised me.

And rightfully so. They might not know much about Linux itself BUT they did dare try and for that they deserve recognition.

Fucking manipulate idiot.

Back to LFS.

I feel seen.

you would be surprised how much work a CPU under 100mhz can do when there isn’t an operating system/browser in the way

Latest cool thing I saw : Doom on my earbuds https://doombuds.com/ which IMHO demonstrate greatly how much more powerful so many tiny things around us really are.

Sorry buddy but you are not “smart enough” to use that super powerful tool that supposedly can do everything extremely convenient for you! /s

Right, except that unlike Explorer or IE after that, it siphons everything it can to send it back to Redmond so even if one does not use it, it is STILL a problem.

“bend the productivity curve” is such a beautiful way to say that they are running out of ideas on how to sell that damn thing.

It basically went from :

• it’s going to change EVERYTHING! Humanity as we know it is a thing of the past!

… to “bend the productivity curve”. It’s not how it “radically increase productivity” no it’s a lot more subtle than that, to the point that it can actually bend that curve down. What a shit show.

75% of the people I know that buy those huge quad cab trucks actually need a minivan because all they use it for is shuttling their kids around but, of course, minivans aren’t “cool”.

Yeah… honestly I would go much further. I’d say 90% of people do NOT need a truck and 90% do not need a car either. They might want one, and that’s perfectly fine, but I bet if people were to actually check their GPS data for the last year we would see a very obvious pattern : 9-5 on the ring road from home to work, picking up kids, grocery, etc. Yes, there WILL be few trips to a warehouse, yes there will be a trip to the country side (but not off road) but that’s NOT the normal traffic. That something that could, just for the pleasure of it, be a rental that is adapted to it. I think there is a huge gap between how people IMAGINE themselves driving versus their very boring daily life. They get a car or a truck for the person they want to be, not who they actually are.

To be clear, to anybody who DOES actually need a truck and do use it as a truck, or somebody with a wheelchair and needs an SUV to haul, please, pretty please those cars are made for you! Do buy one! It’s for all the posers out there though that it’s NOT ok.