Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

@nigeldgreen@mastodon.org.uk The last Maiden record was really good.

@nigeldgreen@mastodon.org.uk I like a lot of my early 90s faves still, a lot of the older outfits still making great records. I've watched a lot of YT vids about how cookie cutter production has hurt many bands.

@byterhymer@mastodon.social Would have been all about it a decade ago but a decade ago it never happened, haha

@nigeldgreen@mastodon.org.uk I can't really listen to a lot of it, and God knows I've tried. I don't know if it's production (they all sound so similar now) or just the music.

@byterhymer@mastodon.social They're all like that. It's very weird and if it's not your scene it can feel really odd.

When I was in LA a young woman at the bar where I ate dinner asked if I could talk to her because she was getting bothered by the person next to her. It took me a while to realise it was *me* that was getting worked.

@thatbrickster It's beyond hilarious. Lennart has truly gone home. It must be what they hired him for.

@thatbrickster Why do I find this so amusing?

@fribbledom Fucking hell, that's perfect.

@byterhymer@mastodon.social Also Redmond and others utterly entrenched in there. And Facebook.

@byterhymer@mastodon.social 'Big' open source is kind of icky. I went to a con in LA and really it was indistinguishable from a lot of blue chip things. Lots of foundations throwing money around, partying and while fun the disconnect between the values they're meant to have and the 'fuck it lets make it rain' vibe was really terrible.

@byterhymer@mastodon.social They got themselves into. a highly influential position in the ecosystem just by pumping so many LOC into various things, even running off Canonical which is kind of amusing. But to what end?

@byterhymer@mastodon.social I know some Redhat people that were not ecstatic about it, one container engineer even ocnsidered it completely irrelevant, ironic given this was one of its goals.

@byterhymer@mastodon.social I wonder how history will view systemd. It was about much more than in init war, it's about how entire projects can be steered by committed actors.

@notaslut @opal @Effortless@noagendasocial.com Most people underestimate just how much work a relationship is, and this can all be forgotten when chemistry fires certain feelings off.

@notaslut @opal @Effortless@noagendasocial.com I used to laugh at people describing their relationships as 'its complicated' because, I bet it's not...

@Effortless@noagendasocial.com @notaslut They're just so unhappy, so they throw themselves into idealism or fads. None of it works.

@notaslut @Effortless@noagendasocial.com See also "you can have it all" No, you can't.