And you helped make it happen Joe, good job.

I’m more concerned that apparently 6 people read that and then not only A. understood it but B. agreed with it.

There are many viable and better alternatives than what’s on that list. there’s really nothing there that should make you think “oh…I don’t know what to use now” most of the stuff listed is garbage anyways. Like take Zen Browser for example. you can essentially do that yourself on just about any fork of firefox by simply editing the userChrome.css. Librewolf is another example of “doing it yourself” on just about any fork or firefox or just firefox itself.

VLC doesn’t surprise me, dude rants all the time about how great vibe coding is.

Librewolf doesn’t surprise me.

Kitty 100% does NOT surprise me. The dev is an absolute tool who thinks his shit don’t stink but the guy has no clue what he’s doing at that end of the day. he rags on multiplexers or the simple act of copying via keyboard multiple lines in the terminal cause he DOESN’T know how to do it so therefore those things are “garbage”. of course he uses copilot, when it comes to AI he doesn’t even know of a “good” one to use. Don’t use Kitty, it’s slop from end to end. For example launch tmux in Kitty and then try to change your “kitten theme”…I’ll wait.

imho in a weird way cassettes were better/more fun. Like wanting to record a song you like so you’d sit in front of the tape deck for hours on end listening to the radio waiting for that ONE song to come on so you could record it. It would take you hours, maybe even days, to make that mixtape of songs you didn’t own.

Also when I was a kid I had one of those fisher price tape decks that had the microphone attached to it. I wanted to make a mix tape of all my favourite songs from my NES games or games that I would rent (like the Battletoads theme song, or the music from the Batman videogame) so I would pop the game in then hold the microphone up to the TV speaker and record the songs.

I used to work at a Blockbuster, I’m not sure I’d want to relive those days.

My favorite was when customers would come in with the cards we mailed out letting them know they were in collections for a late return. something like $4.25 (yes we’d send people to collections for the cost of a rental) and they’d always have the same complaint “I’M TRYING TO BUY A HOUSE AND THIS IS DESTROYING MY CREDIT, REMOVE IT!” which I always did cause man…it was $4.25.