I still long for the old Scene Torrents days. RIP SCT

I have mixed emotions of love and hate.

The fine will be charged to the social media company for failing to control missinformation. Not the users.

Nbz360 was the fastest app purchase of my life. Less than 5min and I knew I needed to give that man some $.

I built a home virtual server host on Proxmox. It destroyed itself 3 times in 6 months. I gave up and installed server 2019 with HyperV. Has been rock solid for years.

https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/what-is-the-forced-to-drink-milk-meme-heres-the-explanation-behind-that-image-elon-musk-tweeted

Why does the Keyboard look fake?

I got to see them recreating this at the Sydney Royal Easter Show a few years back. You could tell it was scripted but it was still super fun to watch.

It was already April 1st in Australia.

If you run windows then try 🪟+. (Full stop) To access an array of ascii emoji.

Torrents are all well and good until you want an album from more than a couple of years ago.

My current workflow. Find a band that I like. Add it to lidarr. Wait 10min. All of their albums are in Plex and can be streamed from anywhere in the world.

Not sure if you mean find recommendations of new stuff to listen to, or the download source? Recommendations from Last.fm Download source is currently Deezer. Lidarr+ scripts has a bit of a learning curve https://github.com/RandomNinjaAtk/arr-scripts

Spotify was OK back when I used it after Google Music died. YouTube Music’s algorithm sucked so I used Spotify for about a year. Then I installed Plex for movies and TV but also found it was also great at streaming music. PlexAmp gives me access to a good suggestion algorithm. I made the decision to give them my $$ instead. Now with lidarr+scripts I can have any music I want with almost zero effort. Plus, as the OP said, I get the fun little side hobby of music curation.

It is the only platform where I can follow specific people without a algorithm getting in the way. They all need to choose a new one to move to.