We’re Alive. It doesn’t feel like a normal podcast - more like listening to a movie. A movie with tons of zombies.

Forget apple, we need more banana/banana creme ice cream flavors.

Exactly this. I don’t like Vance, but I can’t blame him for wearing a shirt while swimming. Sun shirts are way better than applying sunscreen every so often.

Fuck that noise too.

Trailer is definitely the way to go. I picked up an old kid trailer ~7 years ago at a yard sale. Ripped all the kid stuff off, cut a sheet of plywood to shape, and then bolted the plywood to the frame. With a few holes to attach straps/bungees it can haul most things.

That’s okay, it had to be done.

You’re right, but it does still work.

Downloading music from YouTube will get you MP3s, but they will have gone through the YT compression algorithms.

Use Deemix instead. Downloads MP3s straight from the Deezer servers with all metadata and album art.

I think it’s a bleedover from car culture - you keep your fun car in the garage and have a second car that you’re okay with driving daily. Especially so during winter.

I still need to play the second one, I liked the first a good bit. Looking forward to whatever they do next.

Look up 1L mini PCs - Dell, Lenovo, and HP have similar one liter mini PCs that would’ve been used as a lightweight frontend in offices. They are easy to find on eBay and can be pretty cheap.

For example, my lab at home consists of three Lenovo Thinkcentre tiny machines. I bought them off eBay for $60-80 USD. They each came with a 500gb HDD and 8gb RAM. I have since upgraded them all to a 500gb NVME, 500gb SSD (they have a 2.5" drive bay), and 32gb of RAM. They run as a Proxmox VE cluster.

I think I might have $500 USD into the entire setup, including my 10" wide rack enclosure.

Seconding this, especially if you enjoy homelab/DIY tech projects. It’s super simple with tons of guides around. Plus you get the added benefit of fewer ads and junk.

I personally don’t think e-readers have improved drastically. I also have a 3rd gen Kindle keyboard and recently went through updating all the unlocks and screensavers I set up more than a decade ago.

While I was going through that it got me started thinking about them again. The only thing I think would be a big improvement is a light and more storage. I would also like to read manga on it. For those reasons I’m currently considering buying a Barnes and Noble Nook Glowlight 4 (or Plus) since it runs Android and you can install custom apps (like Tachiyomi for manga reading).

If your current Kindle is still doing the job and you don’t find it lacking, I don’t think you’re missing out by not upgrading.

Good. Easy access to information should be accessible for everyone.

You can look at images/posts sorted by tags, but there’s generally not a huge community there.

Just some off the top of my head.

1. Don’t use Google, Microsoft, or any other major company (or subsidiaries) for email.
2. Use a privacy-focused browser (aka not Chrome).
3. Don’t sign up for every rewards program or app, they all harvest data.

This is what I worry about. I’d say that people should vote with their wallets, but that doesn’t do anything because every manufacturer follows along on stupid trends like this. Hopefully it dies at Apple this time and doesn’t spread.

At this point it’s mainly Lemmy, Imgur, and Discord for me.

I see this a lot while on my bike. I simply behave as if anyone in a car cannot be trusted to follow any rules of the road or care about my safety.

In college, I had an Eee netbook and loved the thing. It was all I could afford for a computer at the time. I still love small computers.