I hate listening to my younger brother talk about technology. He is just a sheep in an apple pen, and perfectly happy. I don’t get it.

Good. Internet people are awful at political discussions.

Who needs therapy when you have pacman?

For being a complete douche.

Fish or rhythm section?

I’ve “refreshed” a couple coworker’s old PCs with Linux Mint XFCE. It’s actually gone pretty well.

“All I do is browse the net.”

Okay, I’ll put the browser right on the desktop, so you don’t have to search for it. Be patient, it’s an older computer. But at least this works, unlike Windows.

And I haven’t really heard too much from them. Internet works. Basic needs fulfilled.

I feel like someone who knows a bit more could be more of a pain. But for very basic computing needs like paying your bills and surfing IG, it can go well.

Even the state of the economy is spun these days. Who even knows at this point, depending who you ask and what factors you look at.

Good bot, if this is how you earn your keep.

Different software purposes and all, but it vaguely puts me in the mind of the Sony compact disc DRM scandal.

Get off my lawn!

Oh yeah. I haven’t seen that video and thanks for the recommendation, but I lived through Clear Channel and the rest scarfing up all my local radio stations and turning them to shit just as the internet was beginning to really catch on. They made it easy for the iPod revolution to happen, playing the same garbage on every station.

Here’s why I think it’s not just us getting older: every generation in the past would look at new music and be freaked out and shocked… we’re bored.

Music has been predominantly bland for 20 years or more, in the mainstream channels. It’s depressing.

And I want to say I just got older and so mainstream music isn’t for me, but… it’s bland. I’m not like older people aghast over Marilyn Manson. I’m older and fucking bored with how lame music is now.

“As ‘sustainably’ as possible.” I love that one, because it makes it sound like they’re being kind to nature.

Nope, just profit.

Good! You’re learning.

My trust in anything on the internet has eroded over the last ten years. Information, news, offers…it’s all pud-pulling capitalist circlejerking and the most cynical propaganda imaginable.

Three.

Thanks, deregulation.