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John Denver sings Black Sabbath's War Pigs (but not really):

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What kind of electronics was the Utopia plugged into? Did you bring your own gear?

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Allah-Las - Zuma 85

Jack of All Trades (2000) Bruce Campbell does it again! It's in a shorter format than The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. (22-minute episodes), but brilliant, nevertheless. American secret agent Jack Stiles is sent to the fictional French-controlled island of Pulau-Pulau in the East Indies in 1801 by President Thomas Jefferson to stop Napoleon and various other threats to the United States.

Can't people just record with their smartphones?

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The Kills - Keep On Your Mean Side

I was going through the macOS 15 Sequoia (and iOS 18) reviews today. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/macos-15-sequoia-the-ars-technica-review/ Not a lot of interesting features, in my opinion. They seem to be catchup updates, enhancing usability, security, and fixing bugs. The promised AI features are late and they will be added to macOS later. OpenCore Legacy Patcher (OCLP) updated to 2.0.1 recently. They've detected problems running the new macOS with 2018 MacBook Air and 2008 Mac Pro/Xserve, but otherwise things look fine. People have been running macOS 15 betas on OCLP for a few months so far. https://github.com/dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/releases https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/macos-15-sequoia-on-unsupported-macs-thread.2428654/ I'd recommend anyone with older Macs (pre-2018, generally) to hold off on upgrading to Sequoia for a few months at least, whether officially supported or not. People seem to say macOS 14 Sonoma works quite well on unsupported Macs with OCLP. Your mileage may vary. macOS 14 Sonoma and 13 Ventura (and iOS 17) also got some security updates today.

New pro Spectera (Wireless Multichannel Audio Systems) from Sennheiser - wideband, bidirectional:

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Bluetooth 6 was just announced. I checked the list of new features and most of them aren't particularly exciting for consumers, except the one where it is centimeter-accurate for distance estimation (useful for some gadgets).

Yes. There's nothing wrong with the new products, they're simply incremental updates to established phones, watches, and AirPods.

Shpongle - Are You Shpongled? Back to basics

They needed to save $13 billion to pay Ireland's back taxes. ☘️ Google is also on the hook for $8.25 billion in EU antitrust fines.

An eminently skippable series of product updates.

I'm listening to Propaganda's A Secret Wish right now! They also have an interesting remix album called Wishful Thinking that you've probably heard as well. I was just about to put on some Hall & Oates. Great minds think alike.

The Crow - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack It's exactly like I remember...

The Motors - Airport The Spinners - Games People Play Martha and the Muffins - Echo Beach

Imagination - Belouis Some

Yes - Roundabout (2008 Remaster) Sometimes a tune will just pop into my head... obviously a staple of classic rock FM radio. Most of the comments are about JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean on Netflix.

Bryan Ferry - Boys and Girls

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Thanks, everyone!