LucasWaffyWaf @ LucasWaffyWaf @lemmy.world

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I know of at least one band whose music has been reportedly used in Gitmo for torture purposes. Skinny Puppy's album Weapon was written in response to that, and the band billed the US government $666,000 for the unlicensed usage of their music.

I've about 2,000 and counting FLAC files on my micro SD card for high quality audio. Many from my CD collection, and a nice amount obtained through other means. I'm already at 90 gigs used in my 256 gig card.

I'll be getting a new phone at the end of the year, and to transfer all that music (plus my commissioned art collection) all I'd have to do it just pop the card into the new phone.

No wrestling with cloud storage subscriptions or having to worry about my digital stuff being in somebody else's hands. Just keep it on a tiny card smaller than my fingernail and back it up periodically to my desktop and my laptop. Best part is that I don't even need any adapters to use headphones, as Motorola phones still have headphone jacks.

There's people with downloaded movies and shows they like having local access to without any streaming woes, folks who take tons of photos and videos, etc. Having an SD card slot is one of the requirements I need for me to want to use a phone.

"Do you read Sutter Cane?"

Chinese, preferably Cantonese, just because I wanna be able to visit my best friend in Hong Kong and get around without any sorta language barrier.

The most disgusting thing you've read so far today

I don't think I could ever bring myself to dress like that in public x3 Trench coats just aren't a thing here thanks to Columbine.

Why do ya need tons of money for shorts? I can buy some $15 shorts at Walmart just easily.

I was hoping that the future would be like Star Trek, a beautiful high tech paradise where we worked our problems out and live in a post-scarcity world. Instead we're getting Deus Ex, minus the shades and trench coats.

Name recognition sells clicks better than being concise and clear in your messaging.

Nawh, I deffo can believe it.

Heavy bass can sound muffled and undetailed Excess treble can feel piercing, grating, fatiguing. And of course excess volume causes hearing damage. Mawp.

Link to the shop plz?

Prolly better apps out there (I'm naturally weary of anything like this that's advertised so heavily by sponsored YouTube channels), but so far I'm quite enjoying Babbel. I wish it had the option for like a kinda soft competitive thing like Duolingo had. Trying to work enough to stay at least in my current bracket, and rewarding the player for doing lessons in the morning and before bed, absolutely helped my autistic ADHD ass with sticking to the routine. Gotta maintain that streak, right?

Saw the green background and immediately heard the voice in me head. "So like this one time..."

I've been having better luck with Babbel lately since it actually teaches ya stuff rather than throwing vocabulary at ya. I've learned more grammar in 2 weeks of Babbel than an entire 10 months learning Dutch on duo

Shit, Samson's SR850 headphones are $50 and they sound absolutely OUTSTANDING for the price. Get some deeper ear cups and they become the comfiest things on earth, too.

Now when are we getting Dungeon Runners again...

They can only be called the Party of Responsibility if it's within the America region. Otherwise it's legally required to be called Sparkling Hypocrisy.

Batteries are easy to get thanks to Cameron Sino! They make brand new batteries for old devices from cameras to PDAs.

As for parts, depends! Some you can easily find broken/untested units for cheap to grab parts off of. Others like my daily driver, the Sony Clié PEG-UX50 (It even flips around to hide the keyboard!), is rarer since it was top of the top of the line, and therefore wicked expensive ($700! Today that's worth $1,200!) Working units can be found but command high prices, and it needs a special dingus cradle for charging. Without the cradle, you can't charge as it doesn't take USB power.

A lot of the time, untested units usually just need a new battery and they kick right back on. Every untested device I've bought was much cheaper than working, and one fresh battery later it starts right up.