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Exactly. Microsoft never does anything that isn’t in their own financial interest.

Even if other people benefit from it, it really is all about ensuring that they have profit growth year after year.

So I can’t trust anything that they ever do and nobody else who cares about freedom in technology should either.

You got to give us some context my dude. Why is funk whale not recommended by you?

I tried navidrome but the issue I ran into is that it would not play individual songs or sort through them, it would just play my albums in alphabetical order.

And I don’t know as far as jelly fin goes, I like it as a video platform but for music I couldn’t get it to just randomly display the songs and let me shuffle through them.

I’m looking for a music server that can see all of my songs and music and shuffle them and play them. Does anything like that exist?

What the fuck is wrong with you?

Even though that is an enormous win, I don’t know if I would give up 10 years of my life for 50 million dollars. I’m glad it was dealt with while he’s still relatively young and can hopefully spend some of that money to get therapy that he needs to get past that

Another option would be one of the t95 Android boxes. There are some really great tutorials on how to replace their stock firmware with a Linux and get all of the activity and availability that you would typically need as a media box out of them for just you know $25 and 3 to 8 hours of your time depending on how tech savvy you are and what your luck of the draw is.

Cheapest TV you can find that has the specs that you are interested in combined with a $50 pawn shop laptop and an inexpensive wireless keyboard and mouse.

Linux is optional but highly encouraged.

Connect that to a USB dac which is then piped into an amplifier for 2.0 sound.

I could probably rig up a subwoofer for a little extra oomph but none of the amplifiers I found at the thrift store have a way to turn off a powered amp or power an unpowered one.

This looks like the aftermath of a battle between Giants where a sword cleaved the rocks. It’s amazing

Honestly some plants grow so fast they simply do not have time to extract the nutrients from the soil and fertilizer that they used to.

And, playing the devil’s advocate, if you die in your early 60s due to long-term sustained malnutrition that is better for the economy than if you live until you are 80.

They got to do everything they can to prevent them from having to pay back those social security loans they took out and never paid back.

Many vegetables today are either sweeter than their predecessors or less flavorful or both.

Corn, for instance, grows so fast under modern fertilizers that the internal cells split during the growth process.

Their stalks are weaker but their yield has more than doubled since the 80s.

If you want to learn more about that, I can highly recommend the book The omnivore’s dilemma. It’s fascinating how modern agriculture is so completely divorced from what most people think it is.

We weren’t a badass superpower when that happened. We were just in a place where the actual superpowers of the time were unable and unwilling to spend the money needed to defend Mexico from us.

If we tried to take over say Canada and Mexico for instance, being the easiest targets, the rest of the world will rise up against us.

Sure, we have a huge military and a lot of nukes, but they have nukes also and a hell of a lot more money and manpower.

The only way we can win would be to launch a preemptive nuclear strike against the eastern side of the planet and assuming that we don’t get nuked back to the Stone age in return immediately launch a strike against Canada and Mexico while the rest of the world is cleaning up after the shit we started.

9 times out of 10, almost everyone in America dies, and the rest get to spend 150 years paying back for the damages.

1 time out of 10, we become king shit of a hell hole of our own creation.

I really enjoy fallout 4 also, especially with a handful of mods it takes it from an all right game to a very good game. I still count that as a failure on bethesda’s part for not fully realizing the games potential but thanks to the community fallout 4 is actually a really good game.

Assuming that string theory is real, perhaps there would be a very specific wavelength of energy that could cause these strings to unravel.

That would cause matter to dissipate at the ultra subatomic level and quite possibly simply convert into heat being the lowest entropy energy level available.

If I wanted to kludge that into a Sci-Fi novel, I would say that it emits string particles that are orthogonal to the strings that they encounter, causing them to break the subatomic strings.

Similar to how cern can create conditions existing closer to the Big bang, perhaps whatever reactor Powers the disruptor does the same thing when it interferes with solid matter.

You would still have quite a bit of energy release when this goes off. Anything it hits should explode roughly with the same amount of energy as if it were exposed to antimatter, but if you need to ameliorate that for story purposes then you could say that those strings then wrap around the orthogonal strings and cancel out, I kind of like how if you have a 1 kilohertz sine wave flowing across the linear line you can cancel that out with a 1 kilohertz sine wave of opposite amplitude flowing along the same line.

And for the odd duck whom fortune smiles upon, they get to proudly say they pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps while glossing over the once in a century singleton event that carved their path for them to follow.

I have no idea what’s going on with all of this but the news said that he was arrested for child pornography, so in my opinion if there was a hundred other things that he did right this one bad thing out does them all if that is what he did.

I mean, I’m sure this only came up because he was specifically asked by the student or the student’s friends to use their preferred name and he said, “Jesus would send me to hell if I did!”, which is terrifying.

Not terrifying in the idea that Jesus will send you to hell for using a trans person’s preferred name, because he won’t, but terrifying that somebody believes that and lives their life worshiping a horrible monster that would do that to a human being.

I mean Florida just looks bad because all of their court stuff is public. Saying that Texas is the second worst state is just peremptorily disqualifying Alabama Mississippi Georgia Kentucky and like 7 other states from fair competition.

I will say that this is horribly fucked, nobody should have to burn through their 15 minutes of Fame in order to receive the basic goods and services that they have paid for.