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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 18, 2024
> GNOME bluefish
> This is a unique music spotlight post! This could've been a toot. And it will be. But this is more just calling out how fucking random discovering new music can be.
> I've been finding and exploring really cool music by talking with friends, listening to the radio, or apparently just browsing dice.fm for local shows and seeing the band name "puppy angst" and thinking "That name fucking rules omg". And turns out! So do they!
> It may be difficult to square the claim of a written work being "done forever" with the twelve editions that "Principles of Geology" went through, the last of which being posthumous. Charles Lyell was certainly not done with that work.
> That a particular recorded album can be the same ignores musicians who endlessly vary their tunes. Some musicians even scoff at recordings, as those are not live and lack the magic of the moment. When is a square dance caller done forever?
> For the past several months my Lenovo ThinkPad T410 has been running Navigatrix NX, a Ubuntu derivative designed for use on boats. Navigatrix is pretty neat, but my 2010-vintage T410 is barely able to handle the load of the 2021-vintage OS: simply loading FireFox or attempting to sync a moderately-large Syncthing folder often causes the laptop to crash. I decided today to switch to something lighter and easier to manage, so I wiped the T410's drve and installed OpenBSD.
> We built and built and finally built it.
> More and more, I'm coming across new attitudes to URLs. Essentially, people are saying that one should not post links, or include them in emails, as it may be offputting or seen as risky by recipients.
> Obviously this is a disaster for the web and openness and agency (etc, etc).
> I downloaded a free trial of Affinity Photo 2 today - it's a Photoshop clone with an iPad version, so I thought it might be a worthy replacement for my super legal Photoshop copy AND I'd be able to use it on my iPad! Which means photo editing.... on the couch!!
> The UI on the desktop version is the normal window-based interface that photo editors and some painting software have had for eternity now, so I expected the iPad version to just be a port of that. But no! They designed a new and significantly worse UI just for the app!
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