I have Windows 10 for games, but it’s firewalled so hard that it can’t check for updates or do any of its other shady stuff. I can’t even install components like WSL, because that works through svchost, the single executable doing too much.

I’m using Simplewall for that. The prohibitions for MS shenanigans are a couple checkboxes in the menu.

You could look into devices supported by Rockbox, and the features of that firmware. I’m guessing it can sync files from Linux.

Rockbox is the open-source.

It’s just saying that many posts don’t have a language specified. So if you disable ‘undetermined’, all those posts disappear from your feed. It’s best to select ‘undetermined’ and whatever languages you read.

Why do I have to read ten reposts of everything happening in the US if it changes nothing and the comments are always the same? How is every little US thing ‘important’ to the rest of the world?

Let’s consult my feed:

Minneapolis hotel worker fired over ‘doxxing’ of ICE agents

Oh my God! Hotel worker fired in Minneapolis? What has the world come to? How will leaders of the countries respond to this issue?

Hugo Boss didn’t design shit, as he wasn’t a designer and his company wasn’t in fashion design until after his death.

They’re saying that if everyone does hiring like this, they won’t be hired anywhere.

(Hopefully you mean that interviews aren’t normally conducted like this.)

Sounds like it uses electricity all day and night long instead of just while bringing the water to a boil.

I much prefer this kind of kettle, because I can see the damn water instead of having to peek at a small crack of transparent plastic. Plus glass kettles are quieter, metal ones really liven up the whole apartment with the noise.

Yeah, anything that gets a rise out of the creators of Go is good in my book.

The guy still thinks computers have 64 KB of memory and we need to economize on the length of identifiers. Nothing he says or does should be taken seriously in this day.

He’d probably like an appreciation note if it was written with all vowels taken out.

Malbolge is great for replying to anyone who claims that since programming languages are Turing-complete, any one of them is fit for the job.

Ah, and also check out Mamaleek’s ‘Come and See’. They’re my favorite band for the past five years after hearing this album.

Kinda the point of Satanism.

You can try fusion genres of jazz with something you like, and see if it’s fun that way. E.g. you’ve posted about The Lords of the New Church, who seem to have been playing punk and post-punk:

Jazz with post-punk: James Chance & The Contortions

Jazz-mathcore: Needle Play

Instrumental noise-rock/math-rock/punk-jazz: Lanzallamas

I might be able to throw in more names if you name other genres. In particular, I have a bunch of various jazz-metal, e.g. jazz-grindcore/ska: Le Scrawl.

Spoiler: it’s ‘The Substance’.

If critics liked it, but audiences disliked it, it’s probably technically good but boring.

Or it’s something fresh instead of the same junk that critics had seen hundreds of times (literally), whereas most of the public can’t be arsed with original but marginal concepts.

Such argument, very informative, wow. Maybe don’t attempt an argument if you don’t actually have anything to say.

How many millions did they give? I know of the one million for the inauguration. Do you think one million is much money for either Apple or Trump?

Tim Cook designed and delivered a custom award to Trump.

Which looked like a gold-plated plastic turd, but Trump likely can’t recognize that with his absence of taste. Apple so obviously could make something better-looking that I’ve had a solid chuckle seeing that shit, and my opinion of Apple hadn’t moved. In exchange for that piece of crap they’ve gotten Trump to lay his mitts off tariffs on what Apple needed, so sounds like a job well done to me. It’s not Apple’s business to topple an idiot that stupid USian public elected.

The touch bar is pretty good if a) most everyday shortcuts you use are on the modifiers and the alphanumeric keyboard instead of the f-keys, and b) you can put custom controls in the touch bar. Both of these are true with Macbook: there’s a third-party app for controlling the touch bar. E.g. I’ve put in it a button to handoff the Bluetooth headphones from the laptop to the phone or the other way around.

Also helps if you’re using an external keyboard, while the laptop is sitting on a stand. This way the touch bar is just an additional control surface.

But, if you use laptop as a stationary machine, you can just buy an external touch control. Though they’re probably pricey due to the small specialist market.