Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Fedi, who do you know who's the vintage MP3 player expert?

I'm asking Fedi because I have certain expectations and requirements that only Fedi can fill. I'm looking specifically to hear from That One MP3 Player Person, here.

There's definitely an era of Peak MP3 Player, the same way e-ink ereaders peaked in 2007-2008 in the Just Before Touchscreens Ruined Everything era - there's definitely an aluminium-body clicky-buttoned MP3 player that Just Plays MP3s and is tactiley perfect and beautiful in every way and probably unobtainum except with eBay and patience, and I want to know about it from The MP3 Player Expert.

I want the person with a display shelf full of MP3 players to infodump at me about when the buttons disappeared and everything carcinized into a phone and made them sad. I expect this person will tell me to look for something in the late aughts to early teens and know the part number for a replacement battery. If this is you, please give me a link to your website, and feel free to show me your socks as well because I expect they're cool as hell.

No need to tell me you use your phone for music or tell me the MP3 player that you already own is good, I don't care. I want to find The Vintage MP3 Player Person With Heavily Considered Opinions, and ask them questions that only they will be able to answer. I need the MP3 Player Librarian. I feel in my heart that this person is here on the Fediverse somewhere.

UPDATE: it's only been 5 minutes haha, alright here's what I want:
* no apple or apple-wannabe
* plug it in and it shows up as a USB drive, I won't install software
* takes SD or MicroSD
* just plays MP3s
* no touchscreen
* no capacitive controls
* preference: steel or aluminium

UPDATE: ipods are apple, I specifically don't want apple, I already know about ipods thx

UPDATE UPDATE: editing the question to make it more obvious that I'm looking for a person not a thing here, I don't want to know about your MP3 player, I want to know where the Vintage MP3 Player Wizard dwells

UPDATE 4: looking into Sony players around the tail end of the minidisc era, also this wee lad looks like a decent "modern" equivalent: https://binarydigit.city/a-simple-digital-audio-player/

Spotted at a red light in #Perth

#puns #gandalf #LOTR

Can I say it's not punk to be anti-vax/anti-mask?

Can I say it's not antifascist to be anti-vax/anti-mask?

Can I say you're not a real anarchist if you're anti-vax/anti-mask?

You're not a real punk, antifascist, or anarchist if you're against vaccines/masks

because you're being ablest, racist, and classist by sacrificing the disabled and poor (who are disproportionately people of color) to get sick for the sake of your personal belief that vaccines or masks don't work. And why am I saying you're being a bigot towards those groups specifically? Because they will have to tank this just like they did (and still do) during the all waves of Covid-19. They got sick more. They died more.

Oh, and since AFAB people are also more likely to be poor, and they will absolutely suffer the consequences of your bullshit.
If you're anti-vax/anti-mask, you're not a feminist.

There, I said it. It's done.

New blog post where I explain how to minify your Godot export size, turning it from the default 93MB to a tiny 6.4MB file.
Some sacrifices were made, but this should serve as a guide on which options you can tune and how effective each one is!

https://popcar.bearblog.dev/how-to-minify-godots-build-size/

#godot #godotengine #gamedev #guide #tech #programming #compression

I'm at the bookstore today. One of our toilets needs some work. Our usual handyman hasn't been available, and the problem is bad enough that I can't fix it myself, so there's a sign on the door. There has been a sign on the door for a week or two. Our regular handyman should be available one day next week. It's slow season, there are other bathrooms in the building and in town, it's not a big deal.

But one of our regulars who is entirely too comfortable getting personal with and talking shit to our baristas started talking shit about the bathroom not being fixed.

He didn't need to use it, he was just upset that he couldn't.

That escalated to other shit talking. I don't think he means anything by it, he's just that kind of guy, but it pisses off the crew, which means I gotta deal with it.

So I grabbed a rock from the back patio, and I knocked it against the counter loud enough that he turned his head, and I asked him if I was going to have to throw him out (again.)

Many, many, many of us are suffering from information overload and notification fatigue. We feel like our computers are working *us*, and not the other way around.

For some of us, the terminal represents a rejection of this notion. A return to *controlling the device*.

I give a command, it provides me output. Lather, rinse, repeat.

My phone does not feel the same- using modern GUIs, for me, confounds my attention. The terminal restores it.

That's worth the inconvenience to me, YMMV.

Het is vandaag STORM IN DE HAVEN van Rotterdam! We blokkeren de toegangswegen naar ExxonMobil. Dit is een van de grootste en meest vervuilende olie- en gasbedrijven ter wereld. #operatiestorm [1/4]

this is absolutely hilarious: supermicro has feature licenses tied to your BMC’s mac address. so people figured out that.. instead of making a keygen, you can just ask the IPMI to change BMC’s MAC, and use one shared license.

they fell for the oldest trick in the book.

https://github.com/kasuganosoras/SuperMicro-IPMI-LicenseGenerator/issues/7#issuecomment-1722479489

@vlrny Hope the day brightens literally and figuratively for you. Life seems overwhelming too often these days, and I’m sitting with you virtually, holding on to hope and the promise of better days ahead.

Was explaining the whole self-hosted/small web movement to someone at work today, and they replied “Oh, so you’re like one of those preppers with a bunker, but digital.”

And I will not be taking any further questions at this time.

if you continually cut disabilities benefits while concurrently working on a euthanasia bill, you are functionally pushing those unable to work into taking their own lives. but now, "state sanctioned!".

and this isn't some unintended accident, this their actions speaking the truth of what they believe.

don't get me wrong, people should have the option to end their own lives with dignity. but it should not be fucking pushed by the state giving them fewer and fewer breadcrumbs to survive on until they take the hand of the guy leading them into the assisted euthanasia booth.

i am going to end this post here by not saying anything actionable, but use your imagination for what could be said here about government ministers pushing this through.

this is not a joke. behold the power of mastofuse: https://gist.github.com/halcy/b4f455ef05c4c36906107e9367b8dd63

Het STORMT in Rotterdam! Rebellen blokkeren vandaag de poort van de gascentrale van Uniper. Uniper is een groot en vervuilend energiebedrijf. Ze staan in de top 10 van bedrijven die de meeste fossiele subsidies ontvangen. Subsidie naar grote vervuilers, dat moet echt stoppen! #Operatiestorm (1/4)

the year is 2055. xorg is now maintained by the rust4linux project. wayland has added a 78th method for sending text to applications. google chrome is a kernel module. you can make opengl calls via ioctl. your MacBook 7080 has more legal rights than you do. 3 billion devices run java.

@joepie91 My conspiracy theory is that they've kept suing IA as a back pocket move for bad days. When business is bad and shareholders are screaming that they've getting a bad ROI, labels and such can just say it was IA's fault and we are suing them to rectify the situation.

I have no evidence, I don't get invited to shareholder meetings, but I am convinced.