I'm not sure I agree with the article, or at least not its title. It argues mostly about things the Pope didn't say.

I'm sure he could have said a lot more, but he wasn't wrong.

> I would like an audio device which can play mp3, podcasts, internet radio.

Get a second-hand Apple iPod Touch, remove all apps you don't need.

For just mp3 and podcasts: get an iPod Classic (or Video) and install Rockbox.

Rockbox is amazing.

Looks like a useful project. Wish there was a picture to see how it looks though.

Creating more software does not solve anything if that software is mostly a functional duplicate of other software. Or, in other words, all companies re-invent the wheel many times over. It doesn't matter if you 10x the development of software that brings nothing new besides being written in a shiny new framework.

We should, IMHO, start getting rid of most software. Go back to basics: what do you need, make that better, make it complete. Finish a piece of software for once.

No, absolutely not.

Unless it's to do official government business like taxes, I won't use any website requiring official digital ID.

If that means I can't use most of the internet, so be it.

Yeah, 1993 here. Same.

Not only one thing after another, but often the same things all over again after a decade or so.

No, not the same.

You had more periods of stability and low inflation/ZIRP to build wealth and skills.

93-00, 02-08, 2012-2019

Millenials only had the one, and you were pretty SOL if you graduated anywhere between 08 and 2011. Oh and the later period of this (2017-2024) saw astronomical price increases on real estate.

There's a reason we're called the 2nd lost generation.

For command line you won't go wrong with abcde ("A Better CD Encoder") or cdparanoia if you don't need all the bells and whistles. For GUI take a look at asunder.

Removing the bitterness makes it an orange. We already have those.

I like grapefruit as it is. Let's not do this.

Software will be even more a commodity than it already is. A hundred apps that do the same thing, what's the point? Rebuilding everything in a new framework every three years, why? The money is gone, or will be very soon.

We've been automating people out of a job for decades. And now we've outfoxed ourselves.

Same feeling. It used to be something, and mean something.

Even in graphics, there are only two leading engines, with other minor follow-ups.

Everything is rehash of another rehash, and infinite recursion.

What is the point in all this if it means we can't get value from it?

Who is extracting value? Who is defining value? I am really curious and want to know this value that people keep saying.

Idk about west, but in many part of the living world, value is having access to clean water, reliable food, electricity, and health.

Apart from that, what is valuable?

I have everything set up as direct debit. I see, maybe, two invoices a year, if that.

To be honest, I don't "do" my finances. I look at my bank statements (on my phone) once every couple of months or so. It never goes wrong.