Amphetamine

Motivated — NF The Perfect Drug — Nine Inch Nails Dragula [Hot Rod Herman Remix] — Rob Zombie Reload — Rob Zombie Ebihara Shinji — Tsu Shi Ma Mi Re Ace of Spades — Motörhead Jesus Built My Hotrod — Ministry Anthem — Brian G./DJ Spinn Mega Dose — Disciples of House Hey Man Nice Shot [Big Mac] — Filter Rocket Skates — Deftones This is the New Shit — Marilyn Manson Bawitdaba — Kid Rock El Phantasmo And The Chicken Run Blast-O-Rama (Wine, Women And Song Mix) — White Zombie Control — Puddle of Mudd Bruises — Ünloco Real Solution #9 (Mambo Mania Mix) — White Zombie Warped (Edit) — Red Hot Chili Peppers Still In Hollywood — Concrete Blonde Bodies — Drowning Pool Satan [Industry Standard] — Orbital

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Crystal Method

Dubiliscious Groove — The Trip Hop Test, Part 1 Trip Like I Do — Vegas Busy Child — Vegas Cherry Twist — Vegas High Roller — Vegas Comin' Back — Vegas Keep Hope Alive — Vegas Vapor Trail — Vegas She’s My Pusher — Vegas Jaded — Vegas Bad Stone — Vegas PHD — Tweekend Wild, Sweet and Cool — Tweekend Roll It Up — Tweekend Murder — Tweekend Name of the Game — Tweekend The Winner — Tweekend Ready for Action — Tweekend Ten Miles Back — Tweekend Over the Line — Tweekend Blowout — Tweekend Tough Guy — Tweekend You Know It’s Hard (John Creamer & Stephane K Mix) — Ultra.

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I love the Flow functionality of the Logi+ app. It’s pretty awesome when it works. Mostly it’s effective.

But:

The Logi keyboard does not Flow.

So, I keep typing where I should not type, or do not want to type.

Complicated

Fantastic Garden — Bruno Coulais. In The Middle Of Infinity Pt. 4 — 3:33 Ghost Town — DJ Shadow What’s the Matter? — Yppah Ancient Voices — Broadway Project Voice of Chunk — The Lounge Lizards Nickel & Dime — Journey Deep Delirium — Lamb Praying Mantra — Material The Big Sea — Funki Porcini

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The Great Re-Rip Project of 2024

I’m ripping my physical CDs one more time. Really, twice each. Once ripped to WAV for Plex, a second ripped to lossless for iTunes. I’m hedging my bets against Apple not letting me serve my collection locally any longer. ITunes continues to be iTunes. I can’t believe how slowly it all runs, aggravated by needing to use external storage—but it works. With Plex, I have a migration path to an open source OS and commodity hardware.

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My biggest risk, with respect to long-term retention of any digitized or otherwise computer-based information, is myself. I repeatedly invent new scenarios from which I am unable to recover.

I had a small amount of angst about ripping CDs to WAV and not doing any conversion to a more compact format. However, seeing Plex push straight PCM to my AppleTV or DLNA to my receiver, I’m feeling better about the decision. Plex deals with metadata with a fair amount of grace.

Working to unsubscribe from good intentions and momentary interest. Working to a more sane and sustainable inbox. I’m ridiculous.

Apple still sells the USB SuperDrive. I’m using one with a USB-A to USB-C adapter on a Re-Rip project. I’m thinking I should pick one up as a spare.

I use Apple Wallet functionality almost every week day, both via phone and watch. I did not know that the “bank card” in my Apple Wallet would expire independently of the physical card expiration.

It does. Looks like a two-year registration that must be redone, and isn’t a simple matter of updating an expiration date and CVS.

Apple Wallet then sent transactions to a credit card and put me over my limit. I did not note any notification anywhere the preferred bank card had expired. I’m wondering if I missed something, somehow. And I’m feeling disgruntled.

I only noticed at all because I went to check a balance and it was not what I expected. In the Wallet app on my iPhone, the entry for the bank card had a red expired indicator. But there was no indicator on the Wallet app icon itself. Thankfully, nothing had been declined and that was the worst of it.