I listen to video game soundtracks from the 80s and 90s, and most of it is japanese from the pc98/pc88 and x68000. There is no streaming service with this. I have a collection of about 5000 soundtracks that I change out from time to time on my mp3 player which I paid about $30-40USD for and I wear conventional headphones. I have a pair of redundant backups for my collection which is about 150gb. No need for any music streaming. If anyone is curious and wants to hear it- my favorite soundtrack right now is called “X-na” on the x68000. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpvM2IcXai4

It’s more powerfull to tell them you won’t even use their crap if it is free. This is why FOSS feels good. I sleep well at night.

Gimp

agree 100% on gimp. It took me about a year to get used to it and now I have a free license for photoshop at work, but I still prefer gimp 2.8 on my work computer with windows. At home I use Gimp on linux all day nearly every day and do texture editing for games all of the time. Very productive tool.

That’s OK- I don’t think there is anything I want to see anyways. When my mom comes to visit I usually just get a VPN and spend some of the time together watching whatever new movies she knows about (that which I pirate for her) but I am rarely impressed with the stuff and usually just fall asleep. My last TV was the heavy kind it takes 2 people to lift. I sold it and my DVD player on craigslist for 5$ each- then went and spent the 10$ on pizza and breadsticks at little ceasars.

I haven’t had a TV in about 20 years, but from what I understand they are all “smart” and need the internet these days. If I decided I wanted one, most certainly wouldn’t want something that could go online.

Now- I would love a nice 60 inch display to play my MS DOS games on though- that would be sweet!

I use yt-dlp in the linux command line environment to download a playlist of thousands of videos of retro video game music. I can have it download the audio, convert to mp3, and only process the stuff that I haven’t downloaded (if I update the playlist and add new stuff). It’s very powerful.

Thanks guys for your comments. I think the problem here is that I am late-middle aged and I’ve been using AutoCAD 2000 for 25 years now. If you are younger than me, you will understand when you get older =)

See- now I would love to be able to run something like Autocad2000 (Yes I know it’s OLD) on Linux. I learned Autocad for 2d drawings when I was young and still use it today. For modern 3d stuff, I use FreeCAD (open source). I design my own circuitboards and always find autocad more useful for this. This is why I run a dual boot linux/windows-7

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Super proud to see that someone has the mentality to do this!

Am I the only one around here that wants to see them burn in hell just out of principle?

Don’t be a newb. Learn the command line and use yt-dlp.

I have been using Freetube since October of 2023 even know there are browser based blocking options. I just like it so much better. The only thing (and this is minor) that bothers me, is I fall asleep a lot of times with videos kind of running in the background and my laptop goes into ‘auto suspend’ after sometime. I normally have a linux terminal window in the background and I run a command to make it suspend after 45 minutes when I lay down. When I wake it back up I have to hit “ctrl + r” for a second to re-load the video other wise it does not like it. This is on top of the 10 or so seconds it takes my computer to wake up from suspend and get an IP address on my network again.

well… it doesn’t. Mass bends space-time which is the reason why things appear to fall. Einstein figured that out a long time ago.

can I ask- what kind of OSTs? I have about 5000 individual OSTs, composed of games mostly from the 80s and 90s.

I’d like to do the same, however on VLC (in Linux)… is there an easy way? (sorry for my ignorance) EDIT: I found a tutorial and tried to open a random youtube video, I think I may be missing a codec or something. When I click play nothing happens, but I think it i accessing the video since I can see a thumbnail. I think this is a problem on my end.

I usually watch youtube (well via Freetube) on 480, maybe 720 when I am paying attention and 360 when I am laying down. I prefer these small file sizes because I can skip left and right in the video time with the arrow buttons like the file is local and not online. I haven’t pirated a movie in years (I would not want to watch anything new) but I download a lot of old racing from the 80s and 90s and it is already 480p, so as long as it is in english, not black/white I am happy.

And this is fine, because you’re using your cash to “screw the system” which I hold utmost respect for.

I stream natural gas, electricity, garbage pickup and internet. That’s all.