@johnglass Ah yes. I'd forgotten that they did that these days.

@VTDARKSIM qobuz.com is particularly strong for classical music, soundiiz.com is excellent for transferring playlist (even if you subscribe for only one month to do the transfer). Both are based in Europe.

@dentangle kagi.com

kagi.com 2600:1901:0:daa1::

Leaf me alone! It's my party and I'll sniff if I want to.

A frosty start to a Ballarat, Victoria, morning.

#winter #frost #leaves #ballarat

@007 Just mute specific accounts then you’ll never see them again even if they're using that hashtag.

@Arapalla Nice SloMo, and nice colours.

Kagi prioritizes quality, trust, and human relevance in search - no SEO spam, no ads, no synthetic noise.

We also depend entirely on word-of-mouth marketing and community recommendations. Every mention you make to friends and family has a real impact.

Please keep spreading the good word 🙏

#Kagi #Search #NoAds

@Arapalla I've been using Swiss-based Proton Mail for some years. Very privacy focussed. Uses their own apps on smartphones/tablets. Also web based. I subscribe to their full package which includes VPN, 500 Gbytes storage, password manager, calendar app (though I don't use that one), crypto app (I *definately* don't use that), … I pay AU$292 for a 2-year subscription for all of above which works out at $2.80 a week. There are lower entry tiers but I don't know the cost off the top of my head as I don't use them. Their's also a basic free-tier to start with to see how you like it.

https://proton.me/

@decryption I bought one of these front Harvey Norman some years ago. Worked fine for my purposes: keyboard, mouse, DAC, backup disk, scanner, …)

https://www.dlink.com.au/home-solutions/DUB-H7-7-port-usb-2-0-powered-hub

@johnnydecimal You store 2FA recovery codes is the password entry. Click "edit” and you find a “Notes” section for text (but not images or files unfortunately).

@WiteWulf @vincentneo Interesting. It works for me on both USB connected iFi Hip DAC 2 and iFi Zen DAC. I didn't realise that other hardware might operate differently.

@WiteWulf Have you tried this app to automate the switching:

https://github.com/vincentneo/LosslessSwitcher/tree/main

@bcshort I don't recall “CPAN” per se. The public network I remember was APANA whose members provided dial-up access.

https://apana.org.au/Internet.html

sneak level 💯

@RichardBrockie 26TB! And there I was in 1978’ish loading microcode into a PDP 11 from an 8-inch floppy (~250kB).

“ … end-rhymed quatrains in iambic tetrameter …”

This is so far over my head that it’s reached the stratosphere.
https://mastodon.scot/@scotlit/114466765027267800

@RichardBrockie @siracusa Indeed. Me too. I've never heard the plural. Maybe some heard “flies undone" whereas the speaker said “fly's undone”, and Wikipedia's incorrect.

I swear there used to be a time when my reaction to new software features wasn't a resigned sigh followed by figuring out how to switch it off.

@berniethewordsmith Tidal is “OK”, but, at least for the time being, but I prefer Deezer (I have subscriptions to both).