It’s a fair cop, but society’s to blame!

Not until there hasn’t been any for a century. P.S. Best of luck.

Desperate strategy they’re hoping will fool some of the people some of the time.

Trusting complete strangers with highly personal information is never a good idea. Even if they promise to take good care of it, before or after they’ve already got your money.

I’d guess, with all the veterans living here, that the ‘near future’ isn’t so dangerous.

With all those noises moving parts inside, playing an OLD machine felt like tickling a hippo.

Ur so right! Diffy-Q has its uses, but analog was too advanced for us to grok so we had to settle for it. Newton ‘discovered’ gravity, and calculus, then found out how useful calc was!

Non-linear? Hella faster! Nature went with analog long ago. No analog, no music!

Me too. Especially more at home weatherwise that my old one. (Stayed too long … just becuz my ancestors made a mistake.)

Glad to hear that! Yep he’s got a sense of humor -and- knows his stuff.

When we humans are feeling powerless (usually, we’re right), we often do those things.

When we move somewhere else, for a while we’re relieved. Slowly we realize everywhere has problems.

Hmm. Sure, Vlad. Wait: how much will that pay, per child per month?

Unlike the guy the history books call ‘Alexander the Great’. A drunken mass-murdering King who never stopped sharing his misery until the day he died. Some hero!

Oh well … at least we’ve still got Popular Mechanics.

There might be a slim chance. But in the words of mid-20th-century writer Robert Anton Wilson,

“Under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. We have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. We have never seen a totally sane human being.”

Eventually there has to be one, so try to hold on to that idea.

Gnome purists would be very offended tho…

Safer to try every keypress to find out how to get to the terminal.

Guess not, Gnome desktops have nothing on them.

It’s a great service. I found several of his expertly-created 78 tunes on there that I hadn’t heard in decades. (Some scarce stuff is almost never NOT available on 33 or 45rpm)

Another reason: Some people get deeper into multiple pieces of music because they like to compare performances of them. Fidelity doesn’t matter a whole lot. You want to compare how some bands or singers performed a (non-hit) song recorded in the 1930s or 1950s. You listen around the fidelity. People in the 1950s made million-selling hits everyone heard on AM radio or 45s. Fidelity is over-rated.

There is indeed a way to use lasers to read 78s without touching the surface, and the gear is availble. Though probably not at a price most of us would like. Here’s one example: https://www.elpj.com/ But after decades of work, they seem to have problems … /Laser_turntable#Performance

Welcome. I didn’t realize until I read that how complicated using the ‘right’ styli can get. Or that most ‘shellac’ 78s were mostly made of other crap. Interesting topic!

Got here from iCab.

You can install Mint alongside Win in a dual-boot configuration … then you can switch to it to figure out the gaming situation. (You just need to learn how to do that dual-boot install carefully. I recommend reading in the LM forums to learn that: https://forums.linuxmint.com/ ) OR you can install LM on a second drive, as many have.