Jarhead

Eh, re:entertaining and such, people (even older people) tend to forget that older generations of music were also filled with their fair share of bands and acts in it just to make a quick buck. We tend to filter them out over time and only ever remember the greats. Everyone remembers the Rolling Stones for example, but how many people today remember The Monkees? They were one of the (many) bands that were just making a buck, just like how (to take an example I've mentioned in detail here before) Nickelback was when I was growing up as a kid, or hell Puddle of Mudd (even though I absolutely still blast Burry today). Nevermind music back then, as it does now, also was sending some kind of message, albeit exactly what changes depending on the then-current trends/issues/blah. Beatniks of the 1950s, hippies from the 60s/70s, punk/ska/etc from the 90s/00s, etc. -------------- Anyway, ironically enough a song that's been stuck in my head these last few weeks is exactly that: some artist expressing the history of a certain musical vocal program (Machine Love by JamieP):

Blue Thunder - Meteor https://youtu.be/rqoXU84Oh4I?si=J9Gbsh482bV1sAD8

Been listening to a lot of Meteor over the past few weeks. Having a synth wave mood in general but I generally have liked his tracks overall.

...At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen?

Brute Force Commando by Vulta

1TB microSD card for the phone Passport application for work

Slightly related video, but TLDR people dislike Nickleback in particular because the band is a prime example of so-so musical talent and by-the-nunbers record companies conspiring to push generic music to popularity and stack fat stacks in the process. Plenty of bland bands exist for sure, though this is more a case of people going "I bet you this slop will make bank" and customers falling for it hook line sinker. Not that I'm any better; I owned Silver Side Up back when it was contemporary and even today I still gladly sometimes listen to generic stuff (hell, see some of the stuff I post here). Personally as far as this sort of rock goes, while I unironcially like Photograph, I like Puddle of Mudd a bit more but even then mainly because of that one song in Ace Combat 5.

Sure, and a kid can illicitly drink booze from their parents' fridge. Doesn't make it right nor does it mean age checking for booze is inappropriate.

It's pretty simple: some materials are age restricted. Kids can't buy booze or smokes either, offline or online.

https://youtu.be/8Spr4t9esNo?si=9R9xrotCiHpN-3tO

Black Friday hardware haul. We managed to get two of the Lowes bucket giveaways which had a fair bit of tools, batteries, etc. Since we didn't have tools for said battery system, I went ahead and picked up a 4-tool combo that came with another 2 free. Also picked up a ladder at Home Depot, some poinsettias, and some paint supplies.

Emotion Engine by dazegxd, but with Nightrunners in the background:

Funny enough, most of my failures have been Seagates. Granted, these are SMR Barracudas pulled out of external enclosures to save a few bucks. But overall Backblaze data generally doesn't point out any meaningful difference in drives anymore usually, so I just go by what's available / what's the price per TB.

x2 Toshiba X300 Pro 8TB hard drives. Have one drive in the NAS reporting SMART errors and another that simply will not spin anymore.

I've finally got around to joining the DIY club