Audiobooks, audiobooks, audiobooks.

I work with my hands though, so having an audiobook on while I spuddle away isn’t much of an issue.

I’ll pause it when someone wants to talk to me. I use music when I have to think. But on slow days, audiobooks all day long.

Instance block chatgptjailbreak.tech. Another set of problems solved.

I use the paperless scanner inbuilt into the paperless app. Works fine

“How much milage did flush door handles give anyways? Certainly not “I’m gonna die” worthy.” I say from my '05 death trap.

Or in the boot.

I just fake it with a Playlist these days. Add 5-10 albums to a playlist and swap albums out as and when. I do miss the ‘skip album’ button though, press that enough and you knew that CD needed pulling for something else. Now I’m furiously skipping tracks one at a time to get to the next ‘CD’, which encourages me to change that album faster, but is distracting while driving.

My car CD changer (a Deezer playlist I add/remove albums to) currently has

No Hard Feelings - The Beeches, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess - Chappell Roan, The Make it All Show - Skating Polly, Film Noir - Faouzia, Streetwise - Pretty Sick, Woman of Faces - Celeste, Lux - Rosalía, Dummy - Portishead, From the Pyre - The Last Dinner Party

I think I’m gonna swap out Pretty Sick for some Beatles (Helter Skelter came on Flow and reminded me they exist). Probably swap Faouzia for something, I saw Mary Middlefield in New Release, so probably that. Poppy is in New Releases too, isn’t she with Evanescence touring, so I’ll give that a go. I thought about Full Moon Fever - Tom Petty, but I just didn’t love it like I used to. The CD changer is due a refresh.

I found a “Every UK #1 1952-2021” playlist. I might copy it, tidy it up, remove the Xmas singles and have that as a car playlist for a bit.

And they’re all marked wrong discouraging lateral thought

Isn’t the opposite true? How do people talk and experience games?

“I played GTA and Michael drove a car off a bridge” Vs “I played GTA and I drove a car off a bridge”

The same doesn’t hold true for other media: “I was watching/reading LoTR and Frodo walked to Mordor” vs “I was watching LoTR and I walked to Mordor”

I think most of the trolley collectors are disabled in some way, so their jobs will be subsidised.

A bit beyond the scope of the post. But instead of supermarkets using society to subsidise their labour costs, we could use supermarkets to subsidise society. Tax the wealth and institute a UBI.

If the supermarket starts spending more on labour/lost carts than they were losing with lost business/upfront cost, they may bring them back.

I wonder what the conversation is between supermarkets. They have to know the one spending upfront for these devices is training the local population reducing the other’s running costs.

Absolutely true, it does present a barrier. I had a token attached to my keys for my own sanity.

Now that token perminantly lives in my car after the clippy thing broke. If I’m shopping for enough things to need a trolley, I have my car. My peers all have these things in the cupholder/ashtray of their center console.

The timing worked out, I had the token attached to my keys while I was without a car, and it broke just in time for the arrival of the car.

Some supermarkets here require a token to use. That token is returned on the complete restacking of your trolley

It does well enough at training our population.

I prefer spelling it with an extra “Raw”

I’m gonna make the jump to nixOS eventually. I’m just about comfortable with YAML and only in the context of docker-compose. The leap from that to nix seems too great. I’ll start this year though.

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I’m on my anticorp march right now and currently targeting Google. Search is done with searxng. Next is docs. Then email. Then Maps. Then the behemoth that is Amazon.

You’ll have to forgive me too. I fell into a bit of a poe’s law.

I’m not “AI bad” and “AI bad” has been acting real crazy lately, so it didn’t seem out of character for an “AI bad” person to say ecco the dolphin, by virtue of having no AI, is saving the planet. The game still took power and resources to develop. Not only isn’t it saving the planet, regardless of AI, it’s harming it.

I am however “Corporation bad”, so I was doubly overly sensitive. 1st someone was saying some perceived AI bad silliness. 2nd they were also saying that the corporation harming the planet, was saving the planet. You got your knee jerk though.

Unless you were telling me the plot of ecco, and yeah I suppose, but that’s a bit out of context.

Sorry to preempt your punch line. Joke wasn’t missed, just unappreciated. My bad. I don’t wanna rehash a GenAI debate though, see here for my latest one.

If genAI is a tool, can you tell me what exactly it is that it does?

“What do you mean you were led to believe I don’t know what it does” - person who asked what it does.

That assumption?

Books: Forever War the homophobia is strange though. I’m not gay so I won’t say it isn’t offensive, but it is strange.

The ender’s saga. Starts off questioning “what is an enemy”, ends questioning “what is life”. Author is a cunt though, acquire through other means than purchase (such as borrowing) if you can. Strange someone so bigoted can write a series so… not bigoted.

Bill the galactic hero. “It’s always bowb your buddy week”. A bit immature, maybe the jokes are dated now.

Films: Jarhead

Platoon

Full metal jacket

No write ups, I think the films are well enough known.

My own thoughts on war are defensive wars are to be supported. Ukraine, Palestine, Venezuela, all to be defended from their aggressors. Rogue states are to be handled in other ways up until war. Which, to criticise my own position, is to say it was fine while Hitler was only killing Germans.

Probably not. Mind explaining it?