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Many years ago I ripped my CD collection and always live off of it. I buy CDs when I can to this day. Found my CDs in storage recently and it was just a delight picking up an album (which, parallels with vinyl too, obviously, with the advantage you don't have to flip it in 30 minutes or less, also cassettes, MiniDisc, 8-track, you name it) and knowing from color, text, images what you're about to play. Then physically stick it in the slot and it comes out the speakers.

I always wanted to embrace full digital, it's so simple and convenient. Digital just can't replicate the physical-emotional connection of an album, even if it's "Summer Mix 2012" CDR that is old, degraded, and only plays to track 11 before it is now too degraded to be readable at the slower RPM of the outer edge of the disc.

Even with searching and tapping on a digital album cover, swiping away 3 notifications to buy car insurance, feed the dog, and remember to do squats, it just isn't the same somehow.

You live in a place full of stupid rich people. Or stupid people that don't understand what debt is.

Google is on an enshittification speed-run. Close-source Android, combine with ChromeOS. Advertise the crap out of YouTube, draconian login requirements. Wherever their income is coming from now, it isn't from making products users want. Probably the military "AI" overseas contracts.

I've been de-Googling the last few years casually as functional replacements came along and I'm down to threads now, but the icing on the cake was their injecting an ad into a funeral ceremony stream from a church on YouTube. Sure, software-side, we all know why it happened, but just. No.

while you’re propelling a tonne of metal

The Model S weighs 2 tonnes in fact, or 2.2 US tons. Electric cars are insanely heavy, so much so that existing traffic safety items like guard rails aren't really designed to handle the heavier ones.

Not sharing to be Pedantic Internet User, just mind-boggling how heavy those things are.

Wow, just something like 1200 baud FSK on 70cm. That's stupid simple, and stupid. They could use cellular modems (the locomotives already have one, normally) or LoRaWAN or....anything without even trying and it would be an improvement.

One would think that MAGA would be enraged at all the waste, fraud, and abuse in this process of inhumane torture, their tax dollars being wasted.

Apple doesn’t exactly try to converge OS platform, even forking off iPad OS from iOS

It is more that they couldn't figure out how - but they keep on slowly removing bits of all three and making all of them act the same way, so eventually they will be one bloated monolith if they continue down this path.

Same with MacOS and iOS. They're doing the same shift Apple has done over the last 25 years. Build on open-source, and slowly pivot to closed-source binaries. The perception of openness lags for a very long time until people finally realize it has just become more proprietary limited crap.

Medication, education, therapy, lifestyle changes can (mostly) wrangle it so you are in control.

https://theholdernessfamily.com/adhd-is-awesome/ is highly recommended.

They do, but only at MTU. Packets travel by mule train from there.

Can you use T's though, once you have enough As to redirect the wind overtop them? Capital T's of course, lower-case would just get all tangled up in the turbulence.

Stupid manufacturers. Would be a non-issue if you could just slide open the battery door, pop it out, and recycle it, like we could over the last 2 centuries. (The D battery was introduced in the 19th century).