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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • It would be one thing if we were debating different ways to solve health care, education, incarceration, mental health, homelessness, wealth inequality, or something else.

    While I personally think the right is wrong in their solutions I’d be happy to debate them.

    But the right isn’t talking about these issues or solutions for them. You can’t have a debate when you’re talking about two completely different things.















  • Ugh. NBCs coverage is so bad. I guess I’ll be using a VPN and watching other countries’ broadcasts.

    I would happily pay for decent coverage on Peacock (and have). But NBC ruins it every time. They:

    • give spoilers in event titles which is frustrating when you can’t watch events live because they happened during the night
    • they only focus on sports Americans are competing in. Good luck watching badminton or other interesting sports
    • they focus way too much on inspirational stories of American athletes.
    • they are too celebrity focused (although if we are going to have to deal with this I’ll at least take snoop over most)
    • peacock is horribly organized and it makes it really hard to just follow a single sport form start to finish.

    It is just a bad, bad experience. I love the Olympics but I refuse to watch the crap that nbc does.



  • It’s a lot more work, but if you love music I highly recommend hosting your own with your own collection. Navidrome is a fantastic open source server with lots of great compatible clients.

    When I talk to some friends who are music lovers, I often ask them about control. Control over what is available and control over what versions are available.

    I initially loved streaming. Having a bigger collection than I’ve ever had available anywhere! But two things really started to frustrate me.

    1. every once in a while an album would disappear.
    2. you have no control over which version is available. Is it the original version you grew up with, a remastered, or a re-recording?

    One of my favorite artists is Blind Guardian and at some point they released remasters of all of their early albums. I strongly detest the remasters, but that is often your only choice on streaming services.

    I love having my own collection, organized how I want, with versions that I want that won’t randomly change or disappear.

    I’m not going to lie, it takes work and is not necessarily cheaper (especially when acquiring albums legitimately) but the payoff and satisfaction is worth it.