[-] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago

Genuinely thought "King Tides and Cyclone Jasper" was the name of some drug syndicate.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

Give him a fucking job. Put his genius to work, solving problems for the good of society. Life imprisonment at 18 is barbaric. Even moreso of an autistic person. Utterly disgusted.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

Please could you be specific, so we don't have to check out Reddit, to find out? Not a dig, I'm just trying really hard to avoid the platform after moving. Cheers.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Syberia, if you're into point and click adventure games. I think they made three of them.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Sorry, this is longer than I thought it would be. Bear with me...

At some point iTunes "upgraded" to include artist avatars that you couldn't switch off or choose your own images for. Anyone it couldn't find had a placeholder grey microphone icon, which was bad enough. If you had some obscure artist that happened to share a band name with a more popular act, it would default to their image. Unforgivable.

It pissed me off enough to seek another option and I eventually settled on Foobar2000, which was everything I had loved about Winamp and OG iTunes in one. Also, fully customisable, albeit with a learning curve. Moving everything into Foobar, I realised I needed to redownload all album cover art, for my 40,000+ song collection, in as high a resolution as possible (discovering albumartexchange, and Advanced Google Image Search, in the process).

Halfway through this task, I realised I should probably also redownload anything I had that was less than 192k bitrate, and maybe in some cases I should go flac, just to "make sure". Fast forward a year and I have about 70,000 songs, mostly meeting those requirements, and mostly totally replacing the collection i had been building since 2001. God bless Soulseek and RuTracker.

Now, in answer to your actual question, on this journey I found (or, rather, didn't) a whole bunch of stuff that I have from the early 2000s which doesn't seem to exist online, anymore, or only does in poorer quality than I already had it, most of it old UK HipHop from that time. It was a real validation of one of the most important reasons for piracy, though I can't claim it as the reason for my original (or ongoing) obsession!

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

The Intouchables (SIC). The original French film with Omar Sy. Not the pointless Hollywood remake. Its my favourite comedy of all time.

[-] [email protected] 151 points 1 year ago

Also Firefox.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

I'd do it for them for half that!

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What's funny about this (apart from your excellent joke) is that there are actually a lot of places, where they are a common crop, where bananas are advertised as "boneless". This is because, I believe the bit that connects the banana bunch to the plant (not a tree!) Is sometimes called the "bone" (I believe it's "C" in this image:

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Having the grocer machete this bit off for you presumably cuts down on the unnecessary weight on your moped back home, and maybe even the costs, if buying by weight.

Caveat: This is just what I have come to understand, from travel experience and curiosity. If there are any actual "Bananologists" about, please feel free to correct!

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

It was never proven that the baby was Greg's.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Currently putting the finishing touches on a wall-mounted chest of drawers for the workshop, which is holding everything from screws to scrap metal to machinist vices. It's made of scrap pallet wood and ply and totally hand-tooled (planes/chisels/saws). My workshop is very very small (under 8ft by 9ft) and doubles as my home office, so this baby really frees up major space.

Just the rest of the drawer labels left to do. Not sure if these photos will work, but here goes:

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What a silly thing to Fallout 4.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I read that as "...electron deniers" and did a double-take. Now, wouldn't that be something!?

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Hi friends, I have been using Liftoff for the past few days, after signing up to the vlemmy.net instance. Today, I've been unable to log in. Tried downloading Connect and that doesn't find the instance, either. Has VLemmy disappeared without a trace? Quite annoying, as I had spent ages adding communities and can't actually remember them all!

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