Notices by egregious philbin (ieure@retro.social), page 2

#TimeSavingTip piss and shit at the same time

Suggestion for what to call bicycles now that electric bicycles are popular: "bicycles" or "bikes."

Suggestion for what to call electric bicycles now that they're popular: "mopeds."

@ifixcoinops Oh, let me tell you about the worst mug I own (photo attached).

Many many many years ago, someone I know went to a lot of effort to make this for me. I immediately loathed it, but mumbled some kind of thanks. It got used a bit in a pinch, but I just really disliked it. Next move, it went to Goodwill with a bunch of other accumulated junk I couldn't fit.

And some months later, someone who knew me found it at the Goodwill, bought it, and gave it back to me. I mumbled some kind of thanks.

Haven't tried to give it away again, I've the feeling it might keep turning up.

@technomancy @researchfairy @mike Remove the nazi instances and this is a list of the most awesome instances on fedi.

...shocked woof.group isn't here.

@emilygorcenski Ah, I see actual sentencing is July 11th, not June 11th. Thanks.

Happy Trump sentencing day to all who celebrate.

6/11, never forget.

@technomancy TNG is such a wild mix of really solid episodes and completely unhinged nonsense.

@est Your images aren't showing up again.

@est Oh, direct link works, maybe it's my instance.

If Apple, Google, and Microsoft didn't have entrenched platform monopolies, garbage like the Microsoft "AI" spyware likely wouldn't even get built. The market doesn't want what they're selling, but users have no choice but to take whatever abuse the vendors heap upon them, because they can't easily switch to a better product.

And they have monopolies because the US government won't enforce antitrust laws. All technology is political.

(Don't "Linux" me, I've been running it longer than you've probably been alive, I know what it can and cannot do.)

Finally got myself a machine to run FreeBSD.

@mcc nature is healing

@mcc "Later this month, Microsoft will showcase new AI features for Windows 11, which could become the first solid reason to leave Windows 10 behind."

could it.

@annika Yes, sounds helpful!

Based on what I was reading last night, it seems like the two options for FLAC-with-chapters is .flac file with embedded cue sheet, or FLAC stream in m4b container. The latter seems more promising.

I have some FLAC files of The Hitchhiker's Guide radio series. These are ripped directly from my CDs, which have the episodes broken into multiple tracks.

I want one FLAC per episode, *but* I also want the track splits to be chapter stops within that.

Is there a tool out there that does this already, or do I get to write one?

Concatenating *without* adding chapter stops / metadata is trivial, and I know how to do that already.

(Answers/boosts appreciated)

@technomancy @a Haha. Neat!

@technomancy @a scheme firmware you say

On the Frediverse, you must be named Fred.

On the Fredaverse, you may not be named Fred.

@seraph lmao they Scunthorpe Problemed themselves

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

@technomancy I'm writing software in Python, so I need a native Python packaging thing which an OS-level package manager will drive.