DS9 s3e11 "Past Tense, Part I"

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[–] 33 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Yeah, and 4 years ago it was

Top Gun is the #1 movie in America, Kate Bush is tearing up the charts and the US is fighting a proxy war with Russia. 80's or 20's

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 3 days ago (4 children)
  • [–] 6 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    El Nino is a bit of a gimme, considering that it has long been known to be a repeating cycle.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    It's more the amount of media coverage that made it noteworthy.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 days ago (5 children)

    Winamp? The heck did I miss?

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  • [–] [S] 32 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

    It's coming back as a streaming subscription service. Doomed to fail once the nostalgia wears off. It's like Napster all over again.

    Edit: Post from yesterday.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 days ago (6 children)

    It makes me very happy that Dick Miller got to be in DS9.

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    He was a great bit player. Loved him in both Gremlins films. Then, once I discovered MST3K, in The Undead.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 days ago* (1 child)

    As stupid as it is, at least this attempt at reviving Winamp doesn't seem to have any rhetoric about how it's going to be "built for the glorius inevitable agentic AI future revolution from the ground up" and talk about how "curating music has never been easier" because their "most advanced music AI in human history" takes away the need to have any personality, taste, or ears of your own.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 days ago (9 children)

    A close proximity to Winamp 2.0 is:
    https://audacious-media-player.org/

    It's not exactly the same, but not terrible. Might take a little tweaking of UI settings.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 3 days ago (5 children)

    What's funny is that Zune's media player was actually pretty solid. Had the last model before they gave up. Used it for a while in the waning days of Winamp.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    Not too late to start owning your music again! My pick for a modern player is Snowsky Echo Mini.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago (1 child)

    Saw a review for that recently. Definitely looks great.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago

    It has some minor irritations, but, overall, it feels like its been dogfooded.

    I tried one of the cheapie $20-$30 ones from Amazon and it was clear they just threw the software together.

    If UI is your thing, there's an opensource jukebox with an apparently impeccable UI, but you have to get a compatible player and that means buying used because by the time they make firmware for a player, its no longer in production. It also doesn't support Bluetooth, which I thought I absolutely needed when I was getting started, but now I've got more wires in my life.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago

    They are obviously perfectly aware of both El Niño and Winamp, because both were on the news just before they were thrown out of their time.

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