DJDarren

It’s a Thomasson!

There’s a great 99% Invisible episode about them.

Delivering wholesome content, yet still somehow managing to fuck it up in some greedy way.

YouTube (via yt-dlp) is my fallback for if I can't find what I need on Soulseek.

The quality is fine, but I likes my FLACs.

Aye, "learn a new OS" as the solution to a problem solved by simply using LocalSend on whatever you already have.

Literally saw this on Mastodon yesterday.

"How come emailing a document to myself is still the easiest way to send something to another device?"

"Have you tried using Linux?"

Yeah, music piracy is kinda niche these days: mostly just people who want a local library and who have a modded iPod or similar. I use Soulseek to get flacs of the music I play on my radio show, just so I can be sure I'm offering the best possible quality.

But to be honest, I straddle both camps. I have a modded iPod full of music, but I also have Apple Music mostly for convenience.

I get a stellar service from my mate's Plex server that he doesn't charge me to access. If there's something I want, I request it through some automated service he has and within no time at all it's ready to watch.

Music piracy, while still a thing, is basically nil at this point, because the record industry didn't fuck up streaming (for the consumer). The artists don't get paid enough, but from a consumer perspective you don't have to sub to all the services to get all of the music.

We were so close to that with Netflix back in the beginning. Then the studios got greedy, and here we are.

Same on GrapheneOS.

Ceci n'est pas un hippo.

English chap here: this looks like a fine idea. Nothing could go wrong.

I was complaining to my wife yesterday that it's not easy to find torrents for the Aus version of Taskmaster.

She told me to be patient, their internet is shit so it'll take a while to get it off their servers.