GoofballJones

il y a 10 moisdiscuss

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".

GoofballJones

l’année dernièrediscuss

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?

GoofballJones

il y a 2 ansdiscuss

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.

GoofballJones

il y a 2 ansdiscuss

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.

GoofballJones

il y a 2 ansdiscuss

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.

GoofballJones

il y a 2 ansdiscuss

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

GoofballJones

il y a 2 ansdiscuss

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.

GoofballJones

il y a 2 ansdiscuss

I mean...where they gonna stop?

GoofballJones

il y a 2 ansdiscuss

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

GoofballJones

il y a 2 ansdiscuss

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.

GoofballJones

il y a 2 ansdiscuss

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.

GoofballJones

il y a 2 ansdiscuss

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.

GoofballJones

il y a 2 ansdiscuss

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.

GoofballJones

il y a 2 ansdiscuss

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

GoofballJones

il y a 2 ansdiscuss

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.

GoofballJones

il y a 2 ansdiscuss

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.

GoofballJones

il y a 2 ansdiscuss

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

GoofballJones

il y a 2 ansdiscuss

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.

GoofballJones

il y a 2 ansdiscuss

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

GoofballJones

il y a 3 ansdiscuss

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.

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