Yeah, I tend to buy vinyl for the artists that I’m really into.

OK, so the dude in the photo is a sociopathic rapist with God-tier mind control powers. The woman is a former victim of his.

Depends what you define as “Wouldn’t work for me.” Song library has improved a lot, if that’s what you mean.

tidal.com

Lacks a few of Spotify’s features, but the audio quality is great, and it’s cheaper. Plus, fuck Spotify.

Qobuz is also good, apparently.

OK, yeah, that’s actually really helpful. Anyone who plays around with Linux at all, give this a read. Good stuff.

It is, but it’s also an image that has very frequently been used to depict billionaires / the aristocracy / royalty, etc. See Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the Eaters from Ian Banks’ Consider Phlebas, Denethor in Return of the King (movie version), Baron Harkonnen in Dune, Dorian Grey, Parasite, Snow Piercer… I mean that’s random stuff flying off the top of my head, you could easily come up with many, many more. Basically name a piece of even vaguely egalitarian art and you’ll probably find an image of conspicuous consumption tied to the wealthy and powerful somewhere in there.

I think, contextually, it was clear what they were talking about, and I don’t think that conspicuous consumption can in any way be deemed a purely fascist imagery.

You can also argue that “parasites” has been used to refer to the poor and disabled, but I don’t think that should stop people from using it as a label for billionaires.

Ah, I see how you’re confused here. This image is actually from Marvel’s Very Mean Lady, in which David Tennant plays The Very Nice Man Who Never Did Anything Bad.

OP, have you, um… Actually watched the show?

You know, I’ve wished a lot of genuinely terrible things on MAGA supporters over the years, but even I could never have imagined a punishment as horrible as being forced to pretend to enjoy Kid Rock.

This is the only correct answer.

At work we use Meshcentral. It requires you to host your own server, but it’s very powerful, and very reliable. We’re managing something like 400 remote systems with it currently. We also use Netbird as a secondary access layer (I prefer it to Tailscale for the simplicity of setting up ACLs, and the really easy deployment).

For most home server usage though, I wouldn’t bother with Meshcentral. It’s a lot of overhead if you’re only managing a couple of systems. If you really need remote desktop (why do your servers even have desktops?) use RustDesk instead.

RustDesk really is fantastic. No shade to any of the other solutions suggested in this thread, but 99% of the time when someone needs remote desktop access, RustDesk is exactly what they need.

I hate it with every fibre of my being.

Even if you use AI tools for drafting, you’ll want to know enough CSS and HTML to be able to parse the code and make adjustments where needed. Being completely ignorant of how to read the output from AI coding tools is never a good idea.

“Listen, guys, we’re named after the incredibly evil artifacts of unknowable power used exclusively by the villains of the most famous fantasy series of all time, devices so dangerous that merely touching one will scar you for life. I honestly don’t know what you were expecting here? Was the name too subtle? Should we have just gone with Evil Corp like in Mr Robot? I mean, we deal in mass surveillance. You’re clearly working for the bad guys. I genuinely do not understand how you convinced yourself otherwise. There is literally no one too evil for us to buddy up with. The more despicable the better, frankly.”

I guarantee there will still be VPNs accessible in the UK no matter what they try. My money is definitely on Mullvad still being accessible for one.

On their ARM platform you get something like 8 cores and 24GB of RAM. Honestly, that’ll run a hell of a lot more than an RSS server.

I have one that’s running three different minecraft servers simultaneously.

Yeah, I fucking detest the way morality systems in games work.

I don’t think they’re a fundamentally unworkable idea, but very few games have even come close to doing anything good with the concept.

Most just offer you two equal but different benefits, let you pick between them, and call that morality. See Bioshock. And the Mass Effect / KOTOR system always sucked because it punished you for going down the middle (ie, playing a complex character).

One of the only good morality systems I’ve ever seen is Metro 2033. For those who don’t know, the game has a secret personality tracker. It gives you points for taking actions that are pro-social. You get a lot of opportunities in the game to refuse benefits or give up resources to help others. You are never directly rewarded for this. It doesn’t do the bullshit where you give someone some food and they go “Here’s an old gun I had lying around.” Being kind costs you. It also measures the time you spend interacting with people, listening in on conversations, that kind of thing. Just generally giving a shit about other people. By the end of the game, if you’ve played your character like someone who cares about other people, you get an opportunity to make a better choice in a specific situation, that leads to a better outcome. If you don’t, the choice is never presented to you at all, because the character you portrayed wouldn’t even think there was a choice to be made in that situation. It’s brilliant, and it completely solves the usual Deus Ex / Mass Effect “Three buttons” ending where nothing leading up to it matters. To be able to make the good ending choice you have to have played the kind of character who would be willing to make that choice in the first place.

“looks so bland to me”

So… It’s a Fable game then?

Seriously, when has this series ever been anything other than the unseasoned oatmeal of RPGs?

This is venture capital insanity at its finest.

For those who don’t know, the Sphere is one of the most unprofitable ventures ever devised. And this isn’t “They’re losing money now but eventually they’ll be profitable.” There’s no way for this to ever be profitable.

The problem is simple; everything shown at the Sphere - including concerts, because the expectation is that those will have custom graphics - has to be custom made for the Sphere. And that’s expensive. It’s like running a movie studio that makes their own movies, only shows them at one cinema with one screen in one town, can’t sell them online or rent them or anything else, and expecting to make money. How? Would you expect to make money like that?

There’s no realistic price they can charge that will land between “People will pay this” and “They’re profitable.” The overlap between those numbers doesn’t exist.

Concerts are actually even worse for them than movies, because the artist takes most of the door price, so they still have to do custom visuals, but their margins are squeezed even tighter.