I don't aim for lossless anything, but I spent a lot of money on CDs the last 2 years, mostly at thrift stores. Rip, put into Plex library, repeat.

This was the argument about biofuels 20 years ago. They require energy to make. Just like any other fuel we burn. Refining oil into fuel requires a lot of energy. If we focused on using byproducts from other industries to make biofuels, that might make sense. I put e85 into my vehicle if it's cheap. My mileage suffers. There hasn't really been a move to use biofuels anywhere but on vehicles. I had hoped ethanol might be an option for small engines like lawnmowers. Ethanol burns cleaner, which would be a good move. 80% of my landscaping equipment is battery powered. All that is left is my snowblower, and if the trend continues, I won't need it much longer. We only had one significant snowfall last winter in south central Wisconsin.

Sure, on my own PC. I have stuck with windows mostly for gaming. Linux is always on my mind as an alternative. On my work computer, nope. IT has a pretty tight control of what can be installed.

I want to be able to move my task bar. I want my start menu organized the way it was in win 10. I don't want a search box in the task bar. I want to organize my stuff. This isn't Google, it's an operating system. The new Outlook is dog shit. The dark theme is high contrast and really jarring. I can't arrange and choose columns for my inbox. Quick parts is gone. So is the quick action function. My company has not forced us to use the new Outlook, but I am not looking forward to changing my workflow. Enshitification is the word we're using now, right?

Drinking culture is alive and well in Wisconsin. I decided to stop drinking after years to drinking on a daily basis. I feel a lot better in many ways, but finding ways to socialize without drinking are limited. Oh well.

They clearly learned their lesson with the Wii. That was an easy system to crack.

They got rid of some keys features that I use on a daily basis. Quick parts is gone. They also got rid of the ability to choose what columns appear in the inbox. I want my categories in their own column. This has been a standard option for years. They also took stuff out of the contextual menu so I have to go up to the ribbon for many routine things. The dark mode also looksike shit. At some point my company will probably make us move to the newest version, but I'm not looking forward to it. The task bar in Windows 11 also pissed me off. Why can't we move it? Why doe the start button have to be in the middle? Don't use outlook at home. At work I have no choice.

Off to college to get some dept, indoctrination and exremelism.

It's fitting.

Marketplace is the part of Facebook I use the most. Communication and transactions are so much easier. I just sold a sailboat and some darkroom equipment. It's an easy way to liberate myself of stuff I don't want of need. The algorithm will show the right people what I want to sell. I keep tabs on some friends on Facebook, but none of the interactions are all that memorable or fulfilling. I feel that way about most social media interactions at this point. Why am I even posting this? Nobody really cares. I going to go shop for radio equipment on marketplace now. Have a nice day.

I won't subscribe to Lightroom. I migrated to Darktable. It's just as robust. I am free of Adobe's business model. Fuji RAF files account for the specific nature of their X-Trans sensors. If the industry settle on a common file, I think the format would become bloated with camera specific data.

I HATE HATE HATE the new Outlook application. They removed and crippled things I used daily at work. We don't have to migrate yet, but I'm sure we will have no choice soon enough.

I have spent the last 12 years in front of a laptop. before that, it was a desktop.

Chairface Chippendale only got the first few letters of his name (CHA) before being thwarted.

A furnace filter with activated carbon and regular house cleaning probably helps more than masking whatever smells.