You’d probably like Richard Cheese (vulgar rap and rock done as vegas style lounge music).

For less vulgar, but still fun genre switch up, Paul Anka’s album Rock Swings is nice. Similarly there’s Pat Boone’s album In A Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy.

In previous years I’ve found new stuff using Pandora Radio, Youtube Music, and occasionally just by browsing music communities. Reddit’s listentothis sub used to be really good for finding relatively unknown bands a number of years ago.

Pandora Radio advertises that instead of doing a basic genre or artist comparison, each track they have is manually analyzed for specific aspects of the track like “call and response”, “wall of sound”, “excessive vamping”, so it makes connections crossing genre lines.

To be clear, Ethernet cable has no bearing on whether a connection was/is dial-up. It just means that it’s a wired connection instead of wireless (WiFi).

At that time WiFi wasn’t super widespread, so it wouldn’t be super surprising if a laptop didn’t support it. Especially if the laptop itself was a few years old.

With enough speed for youtube, you probably had some form of DSL, coming into your house through a coaxial cable, into a coax modem, then back out through ethernet cables.

I’d be shocked if the dbzer0 (piracy) instance blocked it.

I’d also expect that this has more to do with cloudflare than the specific instances.

I see that lasting until the first time some record ends up reading “backspace backspace backspace! No you stupid delete! Delete. Dee feet delete”.

my only input device to the medical records will be the AI transcriber

I understand that you keep steering away from legal arguments, but that can’t be legal either. How could a doctor not have direct, manual access to patient records?

Anyway, practical issues:

You need some way to manually interact with patient records in the inevitable event the AI transcription gets it wrong. It only takes one time messing up transcription on something critical and you have a fucking body on your hands. Is your hospital prepared to give patients the wrong dosages because background noise or someone else speaking makes the AI mishear? Who would be held responsible in the case of mistreatment due to mistranscription? Is your hospital willing to be one of the first to try and tackle that legal rats nest?

A secretary is able to do a sanity check that what they heard make sense. AI transcription will have no such logic behind it. It will turn what it thinks it heard into text and chuck it wherever it logs to. It thinks you’ve called for leeches when you said something about lesions? Have fun.

Whenever there’s an issue with the transcription service you’d be screwed too. That could mean network outage, power outage, microphone breaks, any part of this equipment breaks, and this whole system falls apart.

My dude, the DS Lite is 20 years old already. There’s plenty of video game hardware still kicking 20 years out. The only hardware in the switch that shows any signs of wearing out over time is the analog sticks in the joycons and the rechargable batteries. Both already have replacements available and will likely continue to.

You can also play it docked, with a wired controller, if you somehow can’t get generic rechargable battery replacements for it.

Hardware does not break down that fast.

Just to stave off anyone else coming in and going “ackshuallee”… it’s true that you could technically do that with libreELEC. It’d be a fool’s errand of using SSH to get to the terminal and install all the programs and dependencies, and you’d still need some way to do arbitrary terminal commands from the kodi menu (I think there are plugins for that and for launching arbitrary programs though).

I played around with that myself for a few hours and gave up.

I’d love something actually good, but the closest you’ll get probably is running Kodi or whatever media frontend you want on top of a stripped down “normal” OS, with a separate frontend for games/programs like HyperSpin. Find a way to launch one from the other and you’d be set.

You’d still have to deal with Kodi not being able to pull full quality video from streaming platforms too, assuming you aren’t just sailing the high seas for your media.

The only difference with Steam is that you have to crack the game files, and Steam DRM is notably easy to bypass. Either way, once you have the files you have it.

What in the absolute hell are you talking about with the IP shit? I feel like I’ve had a stroke.

In normal circumstances, your IP address is always available to each and every server you connect to online to retrieve content from.

Like at a restaurant, you put your order in, they need to know the table you’re sitting at to bring the food out to you. The table is your IP here.

This is absolute base line principles of TCP/IP! It’s the reason “servers” are called that, they serve the content to you!

You could always have someone else go to the restaurant, then bring the food to wherever you are, that would be the equivalent of a VPN, or a proxy, etc.

But tl;dr- everything you access online sees the IP address for your connection. It’s not some security issue that any specific site points that fact out. It’s how the internet fucking works.

Sure as hell isn’t a red flag in a privacy policy. Most sites leave it out because it’s like saying the sky is blue.

I can’t even. You get wet if you go swimming. Your IP address is seen if you do anything online.

There’s a secondary issue of the ability to delete data. The fediverse is, in a way, anti-privacy. All it takes is for one instance to defederate between when you post something and when you delete it for a copy of it to live on forever.

people like me always reset them once purchased

How? I have a new monitor with a panel that is pre-set to reduce eye strain paired with one that is absolutely trying to look good on a show floor. So flux is great for the old monitor but makes the new one un-ignorably orange.

Not sure how you’d pipe external audio into these, but it might be worth looking at visualizers on PC. Stuff like milkdrop, or whatever format Winamp used to use.