GoofballJones

Les was known for that. I heard a story of him doing a signing and these two guys came and one had a Gibson Les Paul for him to sign. He turns to the other guy there and he said he didn't have a Les Paul, but he had a Strat. Les signed that too and told him "there, now you have a Les Paul".

Legit question: What can an ISP collect when most of the time I'm going to secure "https:" websites? I mean, they can only see the website I'm going to, but not what is going on there, right?

Is just collecting where people are going that lucrative to sell?

I don't have the app, but from what I can tell, using a VPN doesn't help either. I guess when you downloaded it from the U.S. Android/Apple app stores, it flags you somehow, so a VPN can't help?

Dunno, I'm wayyyy out of the loop on all of this.

Spoiler alert: It's not the worst song of all time. There is no one single "worst song", just as there's no one single "best song". It may be one of the worst, sure. But when doing something this subjective, there's no way everyone in the world universally agrees on everything...including "worst" and "best".

I don't care how many "experts" they asked or whatever, it's not the worst song. It always bugs the heck out of me when I see clickbait crap like this. If they think "We Built This City" is worst than...say..."My Pal Foot-Foot" by The Shaggs, then it just means this writer is full of shit.

I don't know. I still have gigs every weekend. It's still a major part of my income. I fill-in a lot for other people too. Guitar, Bass, Percussion.

Can I survive only on weekend gigs? No. But then again, I can't go without them either. Most of the time I look at it as a part-time job.

They'll always come back with "Just use GIMP. It's as powerful as Photoshop." Yeah, maybe Photoshop in 1999.

Every Mac I've used for the past 5 years haven't been expensive. I switched away from Windows 5 years ago, and not looking back. Heck, some of the video cards for Windows costs more than my entire system here.

I mean...where they gonna stop?

And we just saw him in the last few months in a bunch of podcasts talking about the anniversary of In Utero. Sad news.

Yeah, I never understood this whole "you're locked in, you can't get out of their ecosystem."

This has always been BS. I've switched from Apple to PC to Linux back to PC to Apple back to PC and then Android etc etc. It's actually quite simple. At the moment I'm using Apple stuff, but there's nothing holding me here other than just me being here.

I remember when this first dropped and I was like "this will never catch on. The Internet is using telnet to log into different systems....and FTP...and Usenet...and gopher...and IRC. This World Wide Web is just a gimmick.

Hey, I never said I was a visionary.

That's what I use on my TVs, and the TVs themselves never have access to the internet. The only ads I see on AppleTV are from whatever service I'm using...if I paid for an ad-supported tier. I don't.

I will never buy a device with Roku on it again. And even when I did, I used it as a dumb monitor which had no access to the Internet. Now I have an LG OLED TV and even that has no access to the internet.

Same for Homebrew. I just updated it and yes, there was an update for ffmpeg, but it only updated it to 6.1.1_7

It could be the location, for sure. My experiences have been around the Chicago area. Blues jams though were all very welcoming, as were folk and just rock&roll. But jazz was just bad. Hopefully it's changed since then, because this was around 20 years ago.

I like some of it, but I agree with you on most of jazz. Kind of Blue is great though. It really is something special.

But as I say, I agree with you on most other Jazz though. And I'm convinced that about 80% of the people that go around saying they love jazz are just pretending to.

Also, along with Bluegrass, jazz is SO closed off to people who'd like to join in and play with a group. It's filled with gatekeepers and judgemental jerks. For instance, criticizing you for bringing a guita they don't agree with, "you can't play jazz with that, go home and get another something else there, Eddie Van Halen". Seriously, it can be that bad.

Man, I really miss Byte. Subscribed to it for years. Loved that it covered a wide variety of topics.

Pretty cool...but I could barely get through the class just from writing with a pencil. I can't imagine trying to take notes AND remember formatting notation and making sure you get everything right while typing, as a little slip and it may not be right and the lecture is already moving on and wait wait wait...don't don't move the board up..awww, now it's behind the...wait, what the hell did I just type. Hang on, what is that notation again, oh right...wait...(backspace 10 times)...okay. Okay, now I'm lost, wtf is he talking about now?

Yeah, this is a "me" problem for sure. But the above scenario was nearly like that when it was just a pencil and paper for me.

I played this on the Amiga when the game first came out. Loved it.

I'm the opposite, while I don't trust any company, there are levels of trust I give. I trust Apple over a 3rd party. I remember when LastPass was touted by everyone as safe and secure...now look what's happened to them several times.

I mean, we'll see people NOW saying "oh, I never trusted LastPass", but that's BS.

I do all the time, everyday. Is it an automatic paste? No. But then again, I don't want that on other computers.

In the future, everyone will come out with an A.I. Chatbot for 15 minutes.

I 100% switched from 3rd party password managers to keychain and never looked back. It does everything natively, including 2-factor auth.

I've done questionable things in my life. I am a sinner who does not expect forgiveness. But at least I never got into cryptocurrencies.

I started using BBSs in the 80s. Starting on 300 baud modem connections and then upwards. It was such a cool feeling like you were living in the future...all with that extremely slow 300 baud.

I guess I tried chasing that feeling for a while, but when the Internet came to consumers (I was on it about a year before it hit mainstream, and even before the World Wide Web), that feeling was there a little. But as it became an everyday tool to use by the world, it became mundane somehow. Hard to describe.

And of course, back then I thought it would be a tool to unite the world, but it's just torn it apart.

I have subscribed to it for a long time too. I mean, I watch YouTube more than any other streaming service like Hulu or Netflix or whatever. I've guarded my viewing habits jealously so it doesn't feed me any of the toxic BS that can invade the platform. My feed is mostly food and guitar related...with some interesting science bits thrown in. I too am happy to pay for a service I use so much.

And it's also so I don't hear any ads. I have trouble falling asleep, and I use it to watch/listen to relaxing videos that calm me down and let me fall asleep. Sure, if I watched everything on a computer, I could just use an ad-blocker. But I rarely watch it on my computer. I watch it on my tablet, and mostly on my streaming box attached to my big TV in the living room. Can't put an ad-blocker on there easily...especially since YouTube can change the way they stream to suddenly nullify how the ad-blockers work. So then you have to somehow update the ad-blocker and tweak it and by that time, you're spending more time than you want to just to watch the fricken video. Yeah, I know...they make watching the ad supported YouTube as obnoxious as hell to push you to just subscribe. But the content I watch, in my opinion, is worth it for me.

Yeah, I know. I'll get the "but your contributing to a corporation that does blah blah blah". Okay, but that's a slippery slop. The only way to NOT contribute to myriad of "evil corporations" is to buy and own nothing. Just live in an empty room with a mattress and a single light-bulb hanging from the ceiling. But wait! Is that light-bulb powered by a fossil-fuel electric plant??? I'm a monster!

True. But I was just offering a possible reason why Apple was hitting that comparison so hard in the presentation.

I think this is squarely aimed at people who are holding onto their Intel-based Macs with an iron grip. There are always people out there that don't ever want to move to another architecture. I saw it going from Motorola 68030s to PowerPC. I saw people not wanting to upgrade from PowerPC to Intel. Now we're still seeing the people who don't want to migrate to Apple Silicon. They may have legit reasons and what-not. But time is ticking.

So I think it's mostly aimed at the Intel hold-overs.

I saw the whole show, and while it's not bad, it had nothing to do with Poe. They could have taken every reference of Poe out of the show, and it would have been exactly the same. It's like the guy running it wanted everyone to know he read Poe in high-school, and it was more of an awkward, forced "wink wink" to the audience.

Got an XPS 13" with Linux pre-installed on it like 5 years ago. I put in a bigger HD and it ran for quite a while. It started showing it's age. I didn't upgrade to another one. I mean, it wasn't bad and it did what I wanted, but I was ready for a change.