I've kept most formats, but abandoned tape in all formats.

I LP, CD, DVD, Blu-Ray and stream.

And rip.

Ripping replaced my tape deck. Make my own "mixtapes" only now they're playlists. I rip vinyl to MP3 like I use dto make tapes for my car or walkman.

Streaming is for Suckers, and for Convenience.

Physical is permanent (to some definition of "permanent")

I just bought my first paper manga in a while, after reading the digital. It's so good it's no shame to double-dip this one, get the author her 100 yen per book.

I love Media OCD's tagline: You'll own nothing and be happy -- only the "nothing" is crossed out, and "everything" is gratified in.

Brother, at least for now, doesn't do this. And that's what I use at the house.

That was my experience with epson mid 90's too.

And back then, i was a frequent printer.

If you don't print often, go laser. Can sit for years without use, wake it up, and it all works.

My last HP was the 5L. nearly 30 years ago. Never had another HP. Brother ever since, even now.

Every single Indian IT outfit I've directly worked with has been a dumpster fire. Why should Tata be any different?

That Apple relies on them is scary. That Apple's info has been leaked thanks to Tata is no surprise.

Surely, in the meeting where this partnership was green-lit at apple someone must've objected, right? Right?.

OMG you do'nt know how to set up a car, do you.

1. Fore-aft. Slide seat forwards (or backwards) until your extended leg is past the pedals. Which means when you put the foot on the pedal, you'll have a comfortable bend in knee.

2. Set seat rake. Extend arm out, fingertips should touch radio / shifter when fully extended.

3. Set wheel. If telescoping wheel, extend arm out, put rim on wrist. That'll give you the proper bend.

4. Set seat height.

5. Set mirrors. And if you belive in blind spots, you're doing it wrong. Google "adjusting side view mirrors" and the old Car and Driver article shoudl surface. The one painstakingly explaining why blind spots are bullshit.

Only then are you "set up."

If you got gangsta lean - wrong. if your wheel is in your chest.. wrong. There's only ONE correct solution for cockpit position.

And as for seat height adjustment, IME is the ohter way around - most cars, even shitboxes, since the 90's have them. You may not *realize* it's there, but explore the car some, and you may find it. Some are manual, some are powered.

Christ. They don't teach this anymore, don't they..

Be sure to bow down and kowtow to the environazis mandating EVs. All that newfound mass is from battery packs.

Hilarious. My last 35 years' worth of cars have had them.

My '92 mitsubishi mirage had it. My rx8 had it. My mini has it.

My 70's claptrap didn't.

So much for "Most"

C'mon, people. Cars have seat adjusters.

If you're short, in a big car, and can't see past the hood - raise your seat.

I see so many hunkered down in their tank-like cars it's legit scary. "How can they even see?"

I give such vehicles as wide a berth as I do ones covered in dents, or with obviously degraded tires.

Use your mirrors to spot them. Don't be a passive motorist, be an active driver. There is a huge difference between those two points.

If you want to understand why we are at this level at this point in time you need to study the disastrous effects of the "reforms" put in place by Lyndon Baines Johnson in the mid-to-late-60's.

Think a little next time you vote for local dog-catcher, schoolboard, and such. Those local elections matter more than you think. And for the past 60 years you've been putting treasonous filth in the school boards.

Treasonous filth that taught the children of treasonous filth, and now here we are, with a generation or two completely unable to deal with even life's little challenges, let alone the big heavy ones, without yelling for Government or Daddy or Mommy or AI to help them.

The problem with America is very much its educational system and the two or three generations of traitors it's created.

But, even daring to point it out gets you called Racist and worse.

I don't care. America's problem is very much its educational system and the two or three generations of traitors it's created

This is from my own pile of experience in the past 6 years:

When you interview with us over teleconference, do not remain in your PJs. Do not remain in bed. Put some damn effort into your appearance. And stop using ChatGPT to answer questions, we can see your eyes moving from screen to screen, and we hear your keyboard.

At least put on a shirt and comb your hair. We've had interviews where the person being interviews is still in bed. No joke, no hyperbole.

No, they didn't get hired. Mainly 'cause they kept delaying responses to wait for their chatbot to give answers.

DEET destroys plastic, such as.. car upholstery, car interiors, etc.

If it does that to plastic, what is it doing to the wearer?

This is empirical, not "internet" based. The shit ruined the finish on my shooting ear pro, and also ruptured the seam where my DEET-ed back of the knee would contact my car's seat, and the center console where my DEET-ed elbow would contact it.

DEET is yeeted from this house in favor of picardicin (or whatever the correct spelling for that is)

To quote a line from the OG Animaniacs, the best cartoon in history:

"Whoa. Dumber than advertised."

Isn't this guy supposed to be one of those super-respected "intellectuals?"

I think old age is getting to him.

I've had convos with some AI chat bots and all I can think is "it needs constant correction, outright makes shit up, this is really just a reflector and cross-referencer, this isn't 'smart' in any way."

I'm not the type to read the tripe the media in general produces or promotes.. but on my own, I recognized the cybershackle had been usurping my "me" time.

So now, I pretend the smartphone is just a phone, like in the old days: It stays at a fixed point in my house. If I'm in the cine watching anime brianrot, the phone's in the other room. If i'm at my desk, the phone's in the dining room.

I don't need to check email every 2 minutes. Or look something up every few minutes. With the phone in the other room, I just focus on what's in front of me.

If I'm on call, they'll call, and only phone calls ring through to my watch, where I can pick it up from. That's the only 'forward' from phone-to-watch. Texts, email, etc etc -- none of that shit matters anymore, so none of it rings through to the watch. Only phone calls do.

Such duplicity. Why didn't they do this (or if they did, why didn't the media trumpet it like they are now?) back in the deep dark days of 2022? Gas was more expensive then, than right now.

Anything to throw mud at the politicians they don't like, and you people play right into it.

I'm so tired of the manipulation.