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Marketing manipulation. We have been conditioned to precieve value in some things over others. It eleminates the idea that you as an individual have to engage and investigate to find your own value of a piece of art. I'm not saying that the popular pieces of an artist aren't incredibly good. Just understand that an artist probably has dozens of other work you might want to engage with and appreciate.

I've seen this soon many times at art museums. Sure Starry night and Mona Lisa are great but the artists' other masterpieces are literally 10 steps away and people seem to casually ignore. The power of the totebag fridge magnets.

I'm doing my part!

But seriously I would encourage everyone to try a dual boot with Linux even if you don't end up switching. Just to get the numbers higher. Developers see these numbers and if it gets high enough they are going to take it seriously. Can't wait to see what happens with the steam machine numbers.

Sony was always the "exclusives" company. For the PS5 I believe they outsold the Xbox equivalent all most 2:1 but I think that is because more and more people have gaming PCs. I still can't believe PS5 sold something like 90 million! I think Sony is fighting a losing battle now steam is pushing for agnostic hardware and I only see Sony continuing this business model with exclusives that will never come to PC. Right now they are doing the math to determine what it would take to get the average person to buy a new PlayStation vs how much they made from Sony pc sales. It's going to get harder every year with less developers going totally exclusive and the component cost increased. I'm guessing they will use the same model for ps6. Sell the consoles based on excluses then wait a few years once the console sales dip and move them over to PC. Steam machine is a real wildcard here.

Fun fact. The cover of Speakerboxxx was based on this image.

I'm looking for this exact rundown. If there is anything close to musicbee I'd love to know.

+1 for Scavengers Reign. Incredible show! Although different I recommend the movie Mars Express and TV show Pantheon.

This the short experiment film Wavelength 1967. But more recent Skinamarink 2022 that was largely influenced by Wavelength

Solaris. Yes this is a good answer.

Do you have labour day off and an eight instead of ten or twelve hour work day? It's because of a general strike. It's up to you if you think they are effective.

I really do love it. Fedora has been great. Daily tasks and tools seem good. Games!? Amazing! steam has really really impressed me. Everything works for the most part but I am trying my best to figure out how to move on from Adobe (ps, illustrator, premier, after effects, lightroom) for graphics and other music production software (Ableton/ Audition/MPC). There are a few programs that I'm trying to replace but it's a struggle. I'm open to suggestions but peoples snarky comments to "Just use..." are not helpful unless they understand the capabilities of each program in the first place. Telling me to replace Ableton live with Reaper doesn't help. Maybe Reaper can replace Audition but Ableton live has different tools and capabilities. A lot of people offer Wine as a suggestion and it works for some things. I don't mind fiddling a bit but after few hours of trying to adjust settings to get things to work I boot back to Win or use a mac just to get it done. I'm willing to learn some new programs but it's a struggle for specialized design, art, media programs. All that said I am open to suggestions for programs.

One that seems to be lacking surprisingly is a really nice local music player like musicbee/foobar2000? Maybe it's the rise in "streaming music" but Clementine and others don't seem even close to musicbee.

Yes. Lol. Total eclipse. Obviously never ever look at the eclipse until the sun is completely covered "totality". And even then have an alarm handy beforehand so you know when it will move out of the total eclipse phase.

Total solar eclipse. I've seen a few. There is something so strange about the omnipresent sun you have lived with your whole life suddenly be gone and there is a black space that you can look at with your eyes where the sky used to be and everything is dark like the night. On a human level I'd image it's the closest thing I'll get to seeing the Earth from space. Once you see it you will absolutely understand why older civilizations wouldn't shut up about it. We understand almost everything about when it will happen and what it is but the experience you can never understand. If you live less than 6-8 hours away from a place you can see a total eclipse do it. An eclipse with glasses is OK but it is a million times more impactful looking at total blackness where the sun once was with your own eyes.