I know, I know. People don’t understand how they’ve already conceded the war with language.

Me: Like…Yeah, I’m just going to “jailbreak” the small computer I bought to… run a program.

The public unironically: Oh man, I hope you don’t get arrested.

This is a super helpful reminder to remove my a Google Photos and fully switch over to my shadow Immich server to stop them being used for training data. Thanks, Google.

To be honest, the poster is “SPU,” so this is probably 90% to promote the site. (Not that I really care that much in this case, I like South Park and think episodes that have Muhammad in them should still be available despite religious extremists being upset.)

Well, I just nouned your verb right back to the way it was, checkmate.

You’ve just justified another $100 million in salary to David Zaslov.

All the people talking wonders about the “warmth”, “tone”, and other supposedly desirable qualities are very mistaken. What they are fawning over is noise, feedback, muddiness, lack of range, lack of definition, and so on. Vinyl records are shit. They make sound by literally scratching something.

I moved to all-digital music-making and -listening in the 90s, and agree that a lot of the “analog” benefits are imagined or the result of misunderstandings how technology works.

But I think you’re missing the point. Don’t forget that noise, feedback, muddiness, lack of range, lack of definition are all legitimate effects often intentionally applied to make music sound a certain way.

A cassette is objectively lower quality by sampling rate, reproducibility, etc, but you agree that it affects the sound. At that point, I think you have to admit that a contrary personal preference for cassette or vinyl is valid. It’s not objectively “worse” because many people actually and validly find those “bugs” to be “features.”

It’s fine to like the digital revolution, but I’m just identifying you’re making a value judgement, and others can rightly value differently.

I’ve seen this sentiment expressed multiple times, but you explained it beautifully. Our parents got to be people. We’re just resources.

Sorry, you need to tape the poop to a wall for it to be art.