GoofballJones (u/GoofballJones)

GoofballJones commented on Ken Parker, famed luthier, has died kenparkerarchtops.com... · Posted by u/dagmx

sivers · 5 months ago

I had my Parker Fly with me at a gig in NYC, when back stage I met Les Paul. He had never seen one, and he admired its radical choices.

So we found a nice big permanent sharpie, and Les Paul signed my Parker Fly.

GoofballJones · 5 months ago

Les was known for that. I heard a story of him doing a signing and these two guys came and one had a Gibson Les Paul for him to sign. He turns to the other guy there and he said he didn't have a Les Paul, but he had a Strat. Les signed that too and told him "there, now you have a Les Paul".

GoofballJones commented on Interview with Andy Yen, CEO of Proton VPN compiler.news/proton-vpn-... · Posted by u/SerCe

lordofgibbons · a year ago

The way I look at it is that my ISP is very open about collecting and selling "anonymized" data based on users' internet usage.

On the other hand, a reputable VPN provider has everything to lose if word got out that they collect or sell information.

The privacy calculus is: 100% chance vs some small chance.

GoofballJones · a year ago

Legit question: What can an ISP collect when most of the time I'm going to secure "https:" websites? I mean, they can only see the website I'm going to, but not what is going on there, right?

Is just collecting where people are going that lucrative to sell?

GoofballJones commented on TikTok goes dark in the US techcrunch.com/2025/01/18... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

GoofballJones · a year ago

I don't have the app, but from what I can tell, using a VPN doesn't help either. I guess when you downloaded it from the U.S. Android/Apple app stores, it flags you somehow, so a VPN can't help?

Dunno, I'm wayyyy out of the loop on all of this.

GoofballJones commented on An oral history of "We Built This City," the worst song of all time (2016) gq.com/story/oral-history... · Posted by u/coloneltcb

GoofballJones · a year ago

Spoiler alert: It's not the worst song of all time. There is no one single "worst song", just as there's no one single "best song". It may be one of the worst, sure. But when doing something this subjective, there's no way everyone in the world universally agrees on everything...including "worst" and "best".

I don't care how many "experts" they asked or whatever, it's not the worst song. It always bugs the heck out of me when I see clickbait crap like this. If they think "We Built This City" is worst than...say..."My Pal Foot-Foot" by The Shaggs, then it just means this writer is full of shit.

GoofballJones commented on The decline of the working musician newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/tintinnabula

GoofballJones · a year ago

I don't know. I still have gigs every weekend. It's still a major part of my income. I fill-in a lot for other people too. Guitar, Bass, Percussion.

Can I survive only on weekend gigs? No. But then again, I can't go without them either. Most of the time I look at it as a part-time job.

GoofballJones commented on “Something has gone seriously wrong,” dual-boot systems warn after MS update arstechnica.com/security/... · Posted by u/WaitWaitWha

Kokouane · 2 years ago

This is great when you completely discount almost all gamers or people doing graphical work? Proton is only so good and many games are still completely broken.

GoofballJones · 2 years ago

They'll always come back with "Just use GIMP. It's as powerful as Photoshop." Yeah, maybe Photoshop in 1999.

GoofballJones commented on “Something has gone seriously wrong,” dual-boot systems warn after MS update arstechnica.com/security/... · Posted by u/WaitWaitWha

daft_pink · 2 years ago

i’m just so over microsoft. mac is expensive, but otherwise great. nixos is awesome. have to use a windows vm for work, but thankfully IT deals with it. when microsoft launched wsl, I thought it would be amazing, but all their forced bing integration has driven me nuts and i’m out on them.

GoofballJones · 2 years ago

Every Mac I've used for the past 5 years haven't been expensive. I switched away from Windows 5 years ago, and not looking back. Heck, some of the video cards for Windows costs more than my entire system here.

GoofballJones commented on Butterflies flew 2,600 miles across the Atlantic without stopping smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/raybb

GoofballJones · 2 years ago

I mean...where they gonna stop?

GoofballJones commented on Steve Albini has died pitchfork.com/news/steve-... · Posted by u/coloneltcb

GoofballJones · 2 years ago

And we just saw him in the last few months in a bunch of podcasts talking about the anniversary of In Utero. Sad news.

GoofballJones commented on Apple users are being locked out of their Apple IDs with no explanation 9to5mac.com/2024/04/26/si... · Posted by u/alwillis

cjk2 · 2 years ago

This is not exactly true. I can lift and shift to Google or Microsoft or standalone if I want to in a day easily. I just don’t want to!

(I have tested this - always have an exit strategy)

GoofballJones · 2 years ago

Yeah, I never understood this whole "you're locked in, you can't get out of their ecosystem."

This has always been BS. I've switched from Apple to PC to Linux back to PC to Apple back to PC and then Android etc etc. It's actually quite simple. At the moment I'm using Apple stuff, but there's nothing holding me here other than just me being here.

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