Cats offer us mice because we are incompetent at hunting ourselves.

So cool, thanks for sharing! I believe it was sufficiently long ago that you shouldn’t risk this or that body part over it: what did you bring? Nagra? Condenser mikes? i tried this once (it was otherwise my everyday carry) and it was shit. Top of the line at the time. Still shit recording.

One thing in “my” time was bootleg concert tapes ; I guess that hasn’t changed, concerts are unique and fanatics would just buy it.

Quality was horrible.

My (58yo) VHS cinéphile collection was freaking extensive. Back then, as today, we didn’t watch TV but I bought, and scrutinised to no end, the program & set the VCR to record. I always had blanks, 3h for long movies and 4h for 2 “normal” ones. When we moved countries, at a time when DVDs where a thing, a friend of mine asked to keep the tapes because it was so good. Every Hitchcock, every Bogart, every Kubrick, every… You name it. Series even.

Yeah quality was shit, but “tomb of the fireflies” and “princess bride” totally made to the deepest of my heart, until today and forever. At work I had “Singing in the rain” as a testing tape - each time I used it, you had everyone passing in front of the beamer stop, and watch.

Emotion trumps quality.

Wrangle out of the clutching, greedy hands of marketing departements the names “Abarth” and “Cooper”, then give them to actual performance workshops working on bettering affordable cars.

Hispano-Suiza

Avions Voisin - monocoque chassis as soon as 1923. The man behind (other) revolutionary cars as the Traction, The 2cv and the DS, Lefebvre, started there. For engineering marvels that the Voisin cars where, never forget that Monsieur Voisin graduated in …Fine Arts. Explains the bankruptcy I guess.

Yup. Lightweight, Rigid, and Classy.

The “s” suffix is for Slim, which you don’t really need if it’s used at a desk in a fixed position. S series generally are lighter, slimmer (eh) and harder to repair / more fragile. That said, when careful, these are slim, elegant professional machines with excellent Linux support.

If it’s too good to be true, it’s malware

If it isn’t released yet, it is malware

If it is an .iso file but not a Linux distribution, it is malware

What infuriates me with malware, which idgaf because “arch btw”, is that I reseed that shit unknowingly. Sometimes a lot.

Always check file before you let it seed forever as you should.

You can must do that in qBittorrent. Also, that has nothing to do with downloading malware, while being a good recommendation if your ISP reports torrenting to the copyright owner (like orange in France)

I don’t use them, I don’t know. Aren’t they supposed to buy content themselves and just be a kind of reseller?

Leïla in persian is the Lilac flower

Could you take a 50% contract, and claim 50% social benefits? These last 50 won’t be much but will help.

That’s kinda what I do here in France, but I only get short contracts, then unemployment, then work etc to about 35~55% a year.

Another thing that helps is not going 50, but like 80 - it helps a ton to have 2 afternoons a week, I have many friends who did / do that.

My mother was a nurse, I feel you. Took early retirement as soon as she could.

When my babies napped in my belly, I would fall asleep immediately. Got one hand on their back that wouldn’t move, and zzzzzzz

Discovering that I can, with measure, work a half day this morning without paying too dearly for it.

Recovery is slow, I was afraid I wouldn’t achieve it.

Today’s arch experience : upgraded after 6 months or so. Yeah, had to upgrade signatures first, had to remove manually conflicted stuff, and that’s it. Works, as ever.

Now yesterday I tried installing stremio on my wife’s ubuntu. Gosh wtf, how do they expect any normal consumer going through gît and stack’ just to install that piece of crap.

Stremio, for the “illegal” part of it, is just torrenting without sharing. It’s awfully convenient, but you’re ditching the very point of torrents with it.

AFAIK, the only limitations by using it as a guest is the inability to save movies… Which is extra stupid since you are torrenting them, but hey, it’s free so you are the product.

If what you are looking for is a nice interface to all your content, Kodi is the OG here.

Classics

When I work with Ardour professionally, I always make a donation on a per-project basis, depending on budget of said project.

It is truly Pro Grade software, it deserves it.

And if the budget is small, I do i small donation, easy :)