I mean Amazon did this for their mp3s. It was literally just an id3 tag with a unique identifier. Not hard to remove but “good enough” to keep regular people from overly distributing it. You’ll never win against the real Pirate community no matter what you do, so just give people real incentive to buy and actually own.

Grimm Fandango (one of the best games ever made) along with Myst and Riven also run on Scummvm!

Stille Volk’s cover of Iron Maiden’s To Tame A Land:

Stille Volk - Adoumestica Una Terro

I’m all for protesting the government and their actions. But I am a bit torn on this.

It’s like being a US tourist while Trump is in office and being denied everything because you are associated with you government.

I hate it too. But I am not my government.

Cdparanoia to make sure I get a good rip. Then flacenc to convert to flac. Then Picard to tag and organize it.

Windows 95 crashing for the 5th time that day corrupting another high school paper.

I knew nothing about Linux, but bought a red hat 6 cd and installed it. I never dual booted or ever went back.

This was in the day of getting a modem that actually worked on Linux was a PITA as everything had turned into software based winmodems. And it wasn’t like you could just order one online. You had better have hoped Best Buy/circuit city/compusa had something.

Lindows. I can’t believe it still exists in some form…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linspire

I also have a framework 13. It has been great! I run the latest fedora and everything works great out of the box.

My only annoyance is fedora disable hibernate by default and now that s2idle is the default instead of s3, too much battery is used while sleeping. That said, it isn’t difficult to enable s3 and hibernate.

I use s3 deep sleep which then hibernates after and hour. Works great for me as I don’t do work on my personal laptop so I’m only using it on evenings and weekends.

Mine are also Futurama;

• Hypnotoad - Server
• Morbo - Desktop
• Nibbler - Laptop

Technically it’s a cross on PlayStation since it uses symbols not letters.

My grandma was from the Midwest, mostly South Dakota. My grandma was very sweet and so it really cracked us up when she said that.

When my grandmother met my now wife, who is from Alabama, my grandmother told her “well, we all have to be from somewhere”

Yeah, it started off as a fun way for the little kids to play their favorite songs. Then it turned into a fun way to allow my guests to DJ at parties. Now I use it as a way to explore my digital collection. Truthfully, my digital collection has gotten so large, I tend to forget about things. Being able to scan and flip through organized physical cards has been a neat way to explore.

My fan rarely turns on even as a developer.

I have a framework laptop that I run Linux on. It has been a fantastic machine so far!

I have a pi with a hifi berry hooked up to my stereo. It runs mpd and mounts my music over nfs from my server.

I have a few ways to play music:

1. I have an RFID reader and have a bunch of RFID cards with artwork printed on them. Tapping the reader causes that album to play
2. I also wrote a simple web server in elixir + live phoenix so I can select and control stuff using a tablet or phone.

The wife and kids love the RFID cards.

Vikunja is very slick!

Youtube channels (I unsubscribed from everything on my YouTube account, hardly ever login, and only use RSS to follow the channels I want)

This is the way to do it. I can’t stand youtube’s interface and its recommendations, auto play, and other anti-features frustrate me. I find that on youtube, when I go look at a channel, I often can’t figure out which video is the most recent, and really struggle to see figure out what I’ve watched and what I haven’t.

Using RSS let’s me see when there is a new video posted just from the channels I am interested in. I don’t have to go hunting. FreshRSS will watch it through youtube-nocookie.com, but I often find using yt-dlp is better experience, especially for anything longer than 5 minutes.

Parent’s is more complicated, but this simple script may be a good place to start. In this case, I follow a channel that posts new music videos for discovery. This automatically downloads (just the audio) using yt-dlp to a local directory. It could easily be modified to download the video (just change the -f flag). I run this with cron once a day.

https://gist.github.com/line72/ceef5402881d6d3ae732e7b7c9cbf01b