I disagree with “not really good”, I barely notice a difference between it and my fancy thermal grizzly paste. It’s fine, and the “good” pastes are also fine.

Change the post type from Photo to Text at the top before you submit.

What do you mean by correlate, could you provide an example?

I like to make wishes at 11:11 and 12:34 but they “won’t come true” if I look at the clock again on the same time (eg. see it’s 11:11, make a wish, can’t look until 11:12 at least).

That’s pretty fucking funny “big brother” was associated with porn rather than privacy.

Covertly stab out the speakers.

They never asked for your consent to pollute your mind with invasive thoughts, jingles, etc. Don’t ask for theirs.

It’s the opposite for me, I feel liberated for not having to make small talk with the cashier. I can scan at my leisure and don’t have to really talk to anyone. I may be being observed but it’s less direct compared to going through the regular checkout.

My 20 year old Steam login uses a defunct ISP email from the dial up days. I changed the actual email associated with it for passwords etc. but my login is still “deranger@oldisp.com”

But the point I was trying to make is email has always been free or included, in my experience. The fact Gmail was free was never the draw imo.

Free / included with every internet I had since 1999… when was it even moderately expensive?

Absolutely needs a hit counter.

I don’t feel like they’re the poster child for enshittification; I still use Facebook the same as I did in 2006. It got worse, true, but it’s not enshittification worse. It’s worse because every cunt with a phone can get on from their phones. I don’t feel it’s enshittification as there’s no fees and it still serves the same basic function of keeping in touch with friends/family and uploading photos. How do you feel it was enshittified?

If they were charging for photo storage or a certain number of friends, or fees for business pages, I’d agree. I don’t see monitization or the ruthless pursuit of profit as the main force behind why Facebook sucks these days.

They’re attempting to massively increase the number of new students without also massively increasing the support required.

You can’t just bump intakes 40% without a plan.

That’s not a deployment order, and I feel this has been taken out of context by people unfamiliar with the military. I can’t say with certainty what this is, but it could be guidance like “don’t wear your uniform in public if you’re in Israel”. It wouldn’t have no restrictions on releasing it if it were anything important.

I build ratio on private trackers by getting as much freeleech stuff as I can, even though I might not be into it. Timing is key also, I’ll snatch anything I think will blow up. If you get in early you can get lots of upload. This worked great to get my initial ratio built up on what.cd and redacted.

Ah, I stick to torrenting. Pirate stream websites have always seemed sketchy to me.

I’ve been pirating for years and never encountered an ad beyond subtitle ads. Is this anime specific or something?

I get it. I really enjoyed Spotify’s recommendations, but I had to quit as part of my “fuck streaming” pledge. My questions were genuine, I hope they didn’t come off as antagonistic.

I switched to Plex / Plexamp, and I have to say whatever algorithm they’ve implemented has greatly helped me discovery things in my local library. It does a great job at “vibe mixing”, by that I mean you’re not going to shuffle from rock to classical to electronic. It’s even nailed some transitions that were both beat- and keymatched.

Might be more than you’re willing to undertake, but it allowed me to drop the Spotify sub.

Napster was not great for discovery. These were the days of 56k modems. Even with 128k mp3s it took a while to download a song. Idk, maybe I used it differently, but Napster was definitely a “look for specific song” application.

Discovery came later with Kazaa and DC++ and the beginnings of broadband.

the way i listen to music only really works with a discovery algorithm

People have been listening to music without an algorithm for hundreds of years. Even digitally, algorithms for discovery are fairly new. What’s so different about how you listen to music?

They waive the 20% fee on bandcamp friday, all money goes to the artist.

Bandcamp is a decent platform… for now