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Lol so true. I had to help a group of them figure out how to use a key card to a hotel room, then heard Jamie Loftus podcast on them and it all made sense.

Funny you should bring up Mensa.... Not the brightest people, more like a bizarre cult. He would fit right in.

For work I am right there with you. I have been streaming SomaFM for as long as its been around. Several of the channels on there are perfect for working: beat moves forward, no lyrics, great flow.

I do have my own server and about 8 TB of music, 90 percent of which is free and non commercial anyways, lol.

I suppose that is to be expected. They were really not noticed, and spotify more or less put every other option out of business.

Bitcoin specifically was never meant as a currency.

Sure it was, look at the name of Satoshi's paper: Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System

I was going to say that to make this accurate they need to show the complete car for windows.

There is a copilot in the passenger seat writing down everything you do and making suggestions left and right, and the screen has to have ad's on it.

The back seats are empty and the rear doors are locked because you don't havn't licensed them.

I could never get on board with spending money to stream music. There are a TON of radio stations, free streaming services, small independent artist collectives, and more hours of live free music than I could probably listen to in a lifetime.

I am the weirdo though, I get it. I VASTLY prefer live music over studio work.

Whatever happened to magnatune? Are they still around?

In the past: Redhat, then Mostly Debian or Debian derivatives. Mepis was great for the time it was a thing (2003 - 2005). Also Gentoo for awhile.

Nowdays: Arch and Fedora mostly. I put Fedora on a laptop a couple of years ago while trying to see what would work with it and I have been extremely surprised by it. Packages are really up to date, I have gone through a major revision upgrade with no problem at all. Arch is great, but you have to pay attention and deal with change. Fedora is just as up to date but I don't have to manage the changes.

And Fedora recently added KDE as an official release instead of a "spin" which is all the better. I hope they keep going, I read that they are not a big team and one of them just left.

It was great to trade and move value around. You could send to other countries, or do work for it. But Bitcoin fucked it all by basically being a ponzi scheme. People below will talk about it and how it holds or increases in value. Thats because most people are still buying in and hording it. Making it terrible as a currency.

I never bought crypto, I only traded, bartered, worked for it. I never put it on an exchange or used another company. Another sink of value and a stupid place to keep it. But that is the vast majority of people now.

So it is not good for anything anymore. Except speculation and hoping your are not the last holding the bag.

So I wanted to see for myself.

Ubuntu... ugg the worst of all distros. I had issues with it since it came out. I never got why it took off. Although I did like their fonts, colors, and Unity. (Even as a KDE person).

So my experience: download Kubuntu. Install. Click update. It of course throws an error. I ignore it and click update again. This time it succeeds but it seemed like forever. Why is that? I can't stress this enough: Nearly everytime I have tried to work with Ubuntu the very first thing it does is throw an error. Never a good look.

Anyways: Click on software center. Go to settings. Click enable Flatpack. Click on Flatpack add Flathub as a repository. (That step is a little confusing actually, but it is there). Search for Strawberry music player: it offers to add it from Flatpak.

No command line ever used.

The confusion sometimes comes from looking up info, which will lead to the command line. Becuase command line is always the easiest way to share information. Same thing with windows, when I go to fix stuff, they offer powershell. A dozen gui steps and pictures reduced to a single line.

average user at using the command line to install flatpak.

Kubuntu require you to use a command line to get flatpaks? Usually it is just a toggle in a package manager. I think Fedora is on by default.