Recent content by Jer

Anyone have the presale codes for the Tuesday or Wednesday presales? I’ll usually get at least a Ticketmaster or Live Nation code in my email, but nothing so far this time around. EDIT: The generic Wednesday presale codes that shouldn’t get anyone’s dander up are apparently: Live Nation...

Got an Intellivision emulator running on my Steam Deck, and while it’s not usable for games with heavy keypad dependency or for any 2-player games, it’s great for single player games that mostly use the side buttons. There are some really awesome games for that system’s era — The Dreadnaught...

It’s a good album, as is Hold Your Fire; but the rest of their 80s albums are great to excellent, IMO.

Perhaps not every post needs to be viewed through the lens of one being in an argument. And yet you’re ready to jump right in with derision anyway.

I’m going to blaspheme and say that Signals is also on the weaker side, though “Subdivisions” is an all-timer.

FTFY! Hold Your Fire is the only weaker one in the bunch, IMO, and it still has a few great tracks.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/new-ebu-research-ai-assistants-news-content Not on a device, but AI summaries of news stories are misleading nearly half the time, regardless of the AI platform used. And, of course, more and more people are getting their news this way every day. Lovely.

Since we appear to be entering a boom time for unnecessary and/or inappropriate use of internet connectivity and AI in random devices, I thought a place to share some of this nonsense and discuss it would make sense. A couple of examples that recently caught my eye...

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/smart-beds-leave-sleepers-hot-and-bothered-during-aws-outage/ Both sad and hilarious. No local control for purely local functions? You have to hit a cloud API just to raise or lower the height or temperature of your bed? Unfortunately, I can’t say I’m...

Leah offers up some dope symphonic metal without any growls here, while Opeth does the same with progressive death metal. Easy votes for me.

Definitely my favorite.

I think she was banned, actually. Don’t know why.

I’ve seen that happen with other accounts before. It might be a deactivation vs. deletion thing. The mods would probably know.

No, I shuttered it after two years due to lack of participation. And she had asked me to remove her account there, too. She just wanted to exit her online identity, I guess…?

Well, according to Peacemaker they’re as big as the Beatles, at least in dimensions where !