Finally seeing the Mac Mini offered with the amount of internal storage to properly manage a large iTunes (Apple Music, Apple TV) library.

While the cloud is getting better and better, I still like the idea that I can play media without approaching data caps.

When someone posts a collection of music they think is good and then you spend money on music: Rare Shoegaze Gems From All Eras Unearthed

It contained exactly none of the bands I expected. And the world just got a little larger.

When you pour yourself a delicious coffee in a tumbler and then leave the tumbler behind. Monday.

I’ve entertained several times the idea of a private Wordpress instance to archive all the blog things from ever. Wordpress will import a lot, but significant gaps are Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. This is me regretting giving my words to the care of corporations.

I did get my Twitter data. Tweets aren’t particularly portable at this point. I’m not interested in self-hosted Worpress to see if maybe someone else’s script might import them correctly. Not finding any service that will simply ingest them automagically. So that is on pause.

True to form: Vikings make the playoffs on a wildcard and choke in the first round.

Thinking hard about advice I received from @isucceed@mastodon.online, to abandon services that can be controlled by an oligarch.

Wondering how soon I might get an archive of my data from Twitter? I’d guess they aren’t going to be in a hurry. My intent is to merge those posts into Micro.blog and then to ghost Twitter.

My latest thinking on the API blocking on the Billionaire Social Club is that the API’s will be turned on when the developers agree to pay for the privilege. Or pay more. Not sure what it takes to get an API key, to begin with.

Maybe a strategy to kill an albatross of an investment is to make so many offensive decisions that it is litigated out of existence. Genius!