My absolute least favorite artist ever is releasing some new crappy album tonight at midnight. Anyone else not remotely interested?

I'm now using Ubuntu once more. I've used Debian on the desktop in the past (mostly just as a consequence of what was available at the time). I ended up liking it. It was stable. It was far more stable than just about anything else available. 

Anyway, I'm back on Ubuntu for the time being. My new computer came with it. It's faster, has Skylake instead of Ivy Bridge, and it's a very noticeable speed boost. I'm quite surprised. It plays CSL quite well considering it's on integrated graphics with a dual core CPU. It's the first machine I've ever used that was usable for CSL in any capacity whatsoever. 

I still have my mac that I will use for music production, but the mac cannot handle more than about 10-15 tracks before it starts to have trouble. I'm going to need to replace it within about a year or so, but for the time being, I'm once again on Ubuntu. 

Anyone using it currently on the desktop? What do you think of the new LTS? (Personally, it works well for me, outside of Ubuntu's insistence on using snaps instead of regular Debs).

What does Thomas display? Mobile?

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not in German :-(

Crossposted over at the coffee house.

So it's not really been talked about too much but with awesome fpga based mini consoles like the mega sg available I've started thinking... What would happen if people could get an fpga expansion card to simulate hardware for backwards compatibility purposes.

For example, what if instead of running an emulator, you loaded a mega drive/ genesis core and used an app to load the rom as a cartridge and link it to the fpga.

Crazy I know, or better yet, loading an Amiga core and booting into the simulated Amiga while sharing the drives and such through a kind of passthrough.

What got me considering this was two very real systems back in the day.  The Ibm 286/mega drive/mega cd Sega terradrive and the pioneer laseractive which has a genesis expansion module.  Both used an expansion card of some sort which did passthrough to output stuff effectively having an integrated 2 in 1 setup.

Now I know it's kinda crazy but with how Linux allows dual video cards to have one be passed through to a VM it's not the craziest idea either.

There's also a ton of advantages if it works, like how modern bus speeds are faster than entire systems back in the day.

Just an idea though.

According to a court ruling, Tesla has taken it too hard to advertise its cars. The Munich I Regional Court banned the California company on Tuesday from using the term “autopilot” to advertise its vehicles.

RIP. Used to love MythBusters. Ars Technica wrote up a great obit here https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/07/l...ssed-away/

https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/

This is pretty big. I'd imagine a whole lot of people are going to be getting some love letters from their ISP in the next couple of months...

Essentially, this site is the data collected from a couple of bots running various torrents to see which IPs connect to it and are downloading certain torrents which include copyrighted material (or in some cases, non-copyrighted material.) for instance, back in the day, I would use TPB or KAT to download games and movies, but nowadays I just use private trackers to download anime or fully-legal torrents to download Linux distros because HTTP transfer of large files is usually unreliable.

Luckily, in my case, I never got caught back in the day (Canada is very lenient on torrent-use and piracy, often times not caring unless you turn a profit selling unlicensed content), and nowadays I use a (premium) VPN to torrent anything, so these guys don't have any data whatsoever on my IP.

So, I'm gonna turn this into a somewhat informative thread.

Actress Kelly Preston has died following a two-year battle with breast cancer.


(CNN)Actress Kelly Preston died after losing her battle with breast cancer, her husband John Travolta said in a post on Instagram Sunday. She was 57 years old.
Preston had been battling breast cancer for two years, Travolta said, and "fought a courageous fight with the love and support of so many. My family and I will forever be grateful to her doctors and nurses at MD Anderson Cancer Center, all the medical centers that have helped, as well as her many friends and loved ones who have been by her side. Kelly's love and life will always be remembered."

Lisa Marie Presley's son and Elvis Presley's grandson, Benjamin Keough, has died of an apparent suicide ... TMZ has learned.  Law enforcement sources tell us Ben appears to have died Sunday in Calabasas from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.  Not much is known about him other than the fact that he's got a super-famous family. He's the son of Lisa and musician Danny Keough -- and his sister is actress Riley Keough, who's been in a number of indie and horror films over the years, including 2019's "The Lodge."  Of course ... his grandparents are Elvis and Priscilla Presley.  Ben has kept a low profile throughout the years, but the one thing he's well-known for is looking almost identical to his famous grandfather, The King himself.  Lisa addressed the similarity, saying ... "Ben does look so much like Elvis. He was at the Opry and was the quiet storm behind the stage." She added, "Everybody turned around and looked when he was over there. Everybody was grabbing him for a photo because it is just uncanny." She even wrote a song about Ben called "Storm and Grace." Storm's his middle name.  He was also a musician ... he even struck a record deal back in 2009 worth $5 million. He's got a couple acting credits under his name, but aside from that, not much else is known about him publicly. He has few social media accounts.  One of the last times he was seen out with the family was during Elvis' 40-year death anniversary during a vigil at Graceland.  Benjamin was just 27.  RIP