i wouldn’t say “i don’t do albums” is a negative response. i even asked about it to see if it’s just me. then you start talking about formats and fidelity rather than music, which other people engaged me about.

i “get” why people like vinyl. it’s a ritual thing. i can’t do rituals due to how my brain works. i also “get” why artists make albums. it’s a way for music to tell a story, for narratives to interleave, to experiment with emotional changes. i “get” all that. i understand it. i know it. i would love to listen that way. it just doesn’t work on me. i don’t know why. i’ve tried, god knows i’ve tried.

jumping to the conclusion that i do not understand, and then reiterating that i do not instead of trying to explain it, and using unattributed quotes, is being cryptic. it is not clear.

and regarding cobain; artists know that the way people interact with their work is not up to them. throwing tantrums, accusing people of being “fake” for being… people, that’s a teenager’s way of looking at the world. it’s not enough to create something people love, they must love all of you, or it’s “fake”. this happens all the time. look att blink-182, toto, chumbawumba. fucking rick astley. the difference is what they make of it. and to be clear, i’m not being down on curt. the man was obviously going through it. i’m just saying that you’re not making the point you think you are with that.

that would be interesting! the few “albums” i have gone through recently have all been by mashup artists, so the genres have been all over the place but the “touch” of the artist has been there throughout.

i realize you get off on being cryptic, but i can’t accept this gatekeepy bullshit. I’m too old and neurodivergent to care about whatever profound wisdom you want me to discover. be straight with me, or shut up.

what a weird thing to say. please explain.

going from “i don’t listen to albums” to “maybe you don’t like music” is incredibly strange. i listen to tons of music which i love. i just don’t do albums. I buy loads of songs on bandcamp and have multiple constantly growing playlists hundreds of tracks long.

You will never hear a recorded song more clearly than vinyl

that’s just demonstrably not true. maybe on a perfectly calibrated player in a completely dust-free lab environment with no air movement on a never-played vinyl that was just pressed and has never been moved. as soon as one of those conditions fail to hold the sound is distorted. from an acoustic perspective, live music also tends to have really weird sound and it’s usually muddied by the environment.

i mean i get it, but at the same time people need bandaids.

we had a lot of vinyl when i was a child. i listened to that one ELO track a lot. i have no real nostalgia for the sound.

so the local-only recommendations based on anonymized data about things that ublock stops, and the opt-out malware scan?

thank you for replying with something substantial. thankfully this is all stuff that’s inconsequential and/or easily disabled.

but if you had to pick? since you’ve so obviously studied it.

answer my question.

i have. which part do you find objectionable?

telemetry is not spyware.

Google collects data because their business model depends on them knowing as much about you as possible. Mozilla collects the data they need to fix bugs.

i don’t do albums. as a kid, we basically only had recorded-from-radio cassettes. when we got a CD player in like 1999, we mostly bought those “now that’s what i call music” collections. i didn’t really listen to music myself at all until like 18-19. i didn’t see the point. as a result i basically can’t sit through an entire album of the same genre.

is this weird?

would it not have been better to do something?

if it was, it happened really fast since the association didn’t exist before 1986.

before the video game crash, game systems were sold in electronics stores. afterwards, when Nintendo wanted to lose the association with the crash, they went t toy stores… and toy stores gender every product, at least back then, so they had to decide which side to put it on.

i use a Kobo Clara HD. It runs linux out of the box, the system memory is on a removable SD card inside the case, and the user account is defined in an SQLite database on disk. If you add an empty user account to the database, it removes the “create account” screen and disables any Kobo online services. Then you can install KOReader and upload files over USB as everyone else has said.

Bing Crosby

asking questions like this is how i found out that one of the allowed characters in names in my country is ÿ, which is fine in Latin-1 but in 7-bit ASCII is DEL.

i did think about it and it matches my experience. i will read the rest of the thread.

Edit: i have now read the rest of the thread. nobody seems to agree and i see no sources.

well when you challenge an opinion you usually offer an alternative opinion.