SwampYankee

joined 1 year ago
[–] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 9 points 9 months ago

Of course!

smacks forehead

[–] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I mean I have 64 GB but I'm not wasting it on browser tabs. I've got people at work who never close anything, they'll have 15 tabs, 28 PDFs and 7 Excel spreadsheets open 24/7 because it takes them an hour to remember where they saved them otherwise.

Literally me when I hear them complain about their slow computer:

[–] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 2 points 9 months ago

I was in the same boat as you about 5 years ago - I had been stubbornly using iTunes, but it was so slow and the store was just an annoyance, it was getting in the way of me actually listening to my music. I ended up choosing MusicBee over Winamp or foobar2000 because it has all the library management stuff (even a sync to mobile device function) and a great interface right out of the box.

[–] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 20 points 9 months ago (9 children)

just don’t close the tab

My RAM is screaming.

[–] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 14 points 9 months ago

0:28 is the deciding factor, clearly.

[–] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)
[–] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 5 points 10 months ago

Yeah I took digital art classes in the 90s and the teacher and all the students pronounced it jif. I never heard the hard g until that dumb YouTube video.

[–] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 22 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, I have friends who say it with a hard g and I never say a damn thing, but I say jif once and it's "jraphics" this and "jod" that. I get it, you watched that stupid video in 2012, congrats.

[–] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 9 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Historically it doesn’t matter what the creator of anything prefers unless it’s an “unveiling” and they name it on the spot.

I can't for the life of me find it now, but the gif was introduced with an image that contained in its metadata a statement that "it's pronounced jif". You can still find it somewhere and open it in notepad and read it for yourself.

[–] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

emo-stroking

Is that what my girlfriend & I were doing in her bedroom in the early 00s listening to Brand New and Death Cab?

[–] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 1 points 10 months ago

For gaming, you've got Steam, which is pretty close to the ideal legit content delivery service. You don't even necessarily have to pirate in order to demo games if you're comfortable paying up front and making a decision within 2 hours.

Nothing similar exists or has existed for TV/Movies. Netflix was pretty good for a while, but you've never had the option to download the content to your own hard drive. Now you're not even allowed to log in to your account on as many devices as you want.

Give me a service that's a free storefront where I can pay a one-time fee for content that I'm actually interested in and download it to my hard drive as many times in as many places as I care to. Bonus points if I can stream to other devices that I'm logged in to and lend my purchases to my friends & family like I can with Steam. I don't care if there's DRM in the form of me having to log in to actually use the content if I can use it the way I want.

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