ProTracker modules, that takes me back to my Amiga days! I don’t think I’ve ever heard them described as “spicy midi” before though. I may have to steal that. ;)

Also XMPlay runs flawlessly via Wine. I have it installed on my desktop for the occasional music file VLC won’t play and Qmmp is no help with. :)

Depends on your overall score. If you’re currently in the black, you’re a little closer to being able to buy plane and rail tickets. If you make it to the red list, you might even get “reduced administrative burdens” which I think is a euphemism.

+1 social credit point to poto

I’d toss .hack//IMOQ into the mix, such a grindy game and borderline impossible if you don’t over-level yourself, several allies, and your gear

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Because it’s everywhere and I’m tired of people trying to make me try it.

I never claimed anything of the sort.

I stated that the fossil fuel companies are breathtakingly rich and willing to share that wealth with politicians in return for policy decisions that favour fossil fuel companies.

You stated that I was completely wrong.

You now appear to be shifting the goalposts as if you claimed I am merely missing the point as opposed to being completely wrong, so I’m done here. Enjoy the rest of your weekend. :)

I mean, I kinda like both? Supermarkets for resiliency and the benefits of scale. Markets for the kind of stuff you probably wouldn’t find in a supermarket and the benefits of a broader marketplace.

Completely wrong? Let me test my understanding. You’re claiming that fossil fuel companies are not breathtakingly rich and willing to share that wealth with politicians in return for policy decisions that favour fossil fuel companies?

Only insofar as instance mods are already “centralised control of the Fediverse”.

Because the fossil fuel companies are breathtakingly rich and willing to share that wealth with politicians in return for policy decisions that favour fossil fuel companies.

See also “lobbying”, “bribery”, and “corruption”.

I’ve worked for the same company for about twenty years. I’m still rank and file because I’ve repeatedly turned down supervisory roles. Like in your situation, the pay for the more stressful job isn’t much better and comes with a lot more responsibility.

Instead, I negotiated to get myself off the rota system and onto fixed hours. I am the only member of staff outside of upper management who’s on fixed hours. Literally everyone else works shifts. Middle management don’t like that, but I consistently perform well on whatever plausible metrics they dream up, I’m generally well-liked, also they can’t get rid of me because I know where the bodies are buried*.

In summary: I believe you’ve made the right choice, because I made a similar one. But it’s not my choice. The choice is yours alone.

*this is a metaphor for institutional knowledge, as far as I know there are no bodies buried in the old trolley shed behind the Inpost locker

NFCs, bitcoins, silver, gold, whatever. If the only way people can cash out is to get someone to buy what they’re selling, there’s always going to be an element of grift to it. It’s just some are more grifty than others.

Never tried it, sorry

Make the police do some work for a change. The next time it happens, call 999 while it’s happening. Tell them honestly you’re concerned for his welfare. And keep doing it until some resolution happens. It might take a few 999 calls but eventually they’ll have to do something.

Correction, Winamp still does this today while using a fraction of the resources.

Though if you’re on Windows I’d recommend Xmplay instead, it plays basically everything.

I’m on Linux and I use VLC.

Downvotes aren’t even a thing on my instance. We only have the upvote button. I like it that way tbh :)

Overly simplistic example:

• You have clothes. You need food.

• I have food. I don’t need clothes, but I do need water.

• Someone else has water. They need clothes.

We could do a complicated multi-party trade. Or, rather than set one of those up for every single necessity of life, find some item that everyone’s willing to trade for. Instead of using items which have intrinsic value such as gold (which we’d presumably also have to trade for), we can use a token whose only purpose is to be that universal item. We call that “money”.

The way we represent that token isn’t really important. It can be metal discs. It can be pieces of paper. It can be numbers in a computer system. But crucially, because everyone is willing to trade what they have for some amount of money, we can each trade the things we have too much of for money, and then trade that money for the things we need.

Again, this is overly simplistic and missing a hell of a lot of nuance. But that’s how money works in the most basic possible terms.

Same way I respond when someone accuses me of not being my own fucking gender: by going to their profile and clicking the block button, because life’s too short for me to shovel their insecure shit. :)

Filters are your friends. :)