Have you considered self-hosting Plexamp? It supports lossless quality and lets you both steam and download your music at any bitrate you want (even 128 if you really have to, but fuck me that hurts to type.

That’s what I do, and before long trips with spotty service I’ll download a dozen albums or so in flac so I’ve got a decent lossless selection for flights/etc

Trying to think of an appropriate vehicle to name “Toast the Knowing”

I name my bicycles.

Steely Fran is my touring and every day ride (she’s a Salsa Vaya, a steel-frame gravel bike)

Moon Unit is my fat-tire bike for snow, dirt, and rockhopping fun.

Probably an unpopular opinion, but memes.

Yes, I’m old, but I really want to believe that at some point the rest of the world is going to figure out that there’s nothing particularly fun or funny about weaponized propaganda formatting, and go back to sharing actual information.

No… that’s not true… That’s impossible!

I would love for you to be right. If you’re in the US, though, voter data doesn’t seem to support that.

It would be amazing to live in a country where half the populace agreed that my son has the right to simply exist in peace but I don’t think we do anymore.

Tinfoil hats on? Alrighty then:

All these Verizon outages are intentional and part of the plan to invalidate the 2024 election.

We’ll see it happen again on and around election day, maybe xitter will go down too.

Whole voting districts in Georgia won’t report in, citing system crashes, security breaches, whatever they feel like making up. Republican Secretaries of State will declare the election compromised before vote counting even starts.

Obviously there’s also a hurricane and massive flooding, hence the tinfoil hat, but let’s not forget where and when we are in history, and that The Business Plot was a real thing.

So, a streamer then.

Iowa here, same thing. This state has a very progressive history, but that’s being erased at lightning speed

Me too, love it

Why would they post it to the dark web? The whole point of terrorism is to be as visible as possible. When terrorist groups claim responsibility for things they want it to show up on every media outlet, not some post on onionztftu478dy4zzs.darksite that nobody will ever see or be able to verify.

They contact news agencies directly for that shit.

My personal opinion, but dissociatives suck. They’re not fun, you’re not going to learn or gain anything from it or grow in any way, you’ll just be unable to move and have extremely unpleasant hallucinations for a few hours.

Did that shit exactly once, thought I was a fucking boat for 3 hours, really wanted to stop being a boat and couldn’t.

You do you, but honestly just get an actual psychedelic. Mushrooms have never let me down.

Part a large body of water using telekinesis.

It’ll be epic.

Can confirm JIRA is an unusable mess. Submitting IT tickets was probably the worst thing about my last job. So much time wasted filling out irrelevant fields of information.

I enjoy eating peaches in the shower Any messy fruit, really, but stone fruits in general.

You can just shamelessly get in there, get that nectar all over your face, and enjoy it. Probably more enjoyable if you have a beard and need to eat carefully.

I no longer drink, so this is like my shower beer now.

There’s just no need for it. I like the ability to upvote/downvote posts for visibility, but a karma or point system just encourages whoring, which leads to a dirth of lazy and low quality content

Karma-whoring. It’s already started with the stupid “upote my can of beans” posts… Dude nobody cares about your internet points, either activity participate or fuck off to Instagram.