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I mean, you always see this around new technology/fads, all the time. When it's new or ongoing, there's either an excitement at the novelty or being in the minority of people doing it; people see the chance to do some of the things that fix limitations of the current process and there's always those willing to try that out.

For a day that's already compounded with expectation and often hyped as a sort of zenith in one's life, it's easy to see being able to customize things exactly to the way you're having them play out in your head as really alluring.

And, once the hype dies down or we get used to the novel aspects, all the things you mentioned with get greater focus in the general attention, again, and people will likely value those things more (because, ultimately, you're not wrong).

But I do feel like this is a pretty consistent phenomenon with almost any trend and you always see an uptick of adopters because the ability to solve some pain points is novel.

Clowning is one of the highest art forms tbh

Not enough ready to acknowledge that, unfortunately.

Thank you

It's astounding how many Linux users engage with tools founded in left-leaning ideas while insisting politics aren't brought into their fav.s.

I hate the conclusions Libertarian Linux users draw but at least they see the parallels.

If it feels a little costly any, the PineTime's also pretty good. Not remotely the same degree of plugin ecosystem due to being written in C but definitely serviceable and only $27.

(not advocating over the BangleJS – as I haven't owned one and it does look more featureful – but mostly mentioning as I don't see a lot of people mention it, either)

Incident on 57th Street by Bruce Springsteen, live at the Main Point '75

It's always hard to gauge, with Bruce (obviously not an unknown but, also, lots of people who've only casually listened to him, if even that), but this one's a live performance for a track that doesn't get a lot of radio play.

Also a great example of his early storytelling work and great use of violins, to boot. The whole original album is a classic but this one's great as a one-shot.

I think the weirdest thing I ever saw him do was discuss meeting with Meta when they were working on Threads, get called out for it so he made a post somehow distancing himself from it and saying something along the lines of, "C'mon, guys; I'd never cozy up to Meta," and then, when Threads started federating, posted a screenshot of being able to see a post from a Threads account from PixelFed and gushing about how incredible this was.

Dude is suspect, for real; glad to see I'm not the only one getting that.

EDIT: just read through what you linked to and wow; that's so much worse than I originally thought. That's an inane degree of unprofessionalism.

I hadn't; any source, by chance (or summarization, if not)?

I dunno why but this comment was the one that made me burst out laughing.

By that argument, it looks like an SD card.

I'd argue that the ~~insanely satisfying stim toy~~ shutter of the floppy keeps it unique, though.

This is the way.