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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • There was this company doing something similar with CDs. They sold the physical medium and then let you download the ripped files and store the CDs at their place. In fact, you could just buy the record online and directly download a .flac from their website. And if you wanted, you could have the physical medium shipped to you.

    Apparently that was legal, but they have gone bankrupt a few years ago iirc. They were called Murphies (idk about the spelling).




  • I recently got a WorkSharp ken onion sharpener (there’s a video about it on the same channel) and I think this is the solution for 90% of people that want sharp knives but don’t want to spend the time learning and sharpening by hand.

    The learning curve is very flat, it’s fast and the results are really good. You can also easily replace the abrasive (there’s even cheap 3rd party ones).

    The only downside is that you can very easily ruin your blade if you’re going ham with the coarse belts, as they do indeed remove material with relative ease. And you’re getting a convex grind instead of a flat one which might even be a positive thing.



  • When I was younger, you’d still buy games in a physical store and one time I found a great sounding game “Fury” (an online PvP RPG). I went ahead and bought it with my pocket money and was super eager to play it. I even remember reading the booklet in the car while driving home, imagining how fun that game will be.

    At home I then installed the game just to find out the the fuckers have shut down the game servers just about 2 years after the initial release of the game rendering the game absolutely unplayable.

    I’m still kinda pissed about that, and I still have that box lying around somewhere.