Craig Maloney ☕ ✅ @craigmaloney@octodon.social

Zaccaria Pinball

https://store.steampowered.com/app/444930/Zaccaria_Pinball/

I love pinball, and I love Linux, so having a high-quality emulation of pinball machines. There are some great tables in here that are really fun to play.

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@Zveryok I'm not in the market for anything new. This literally does everything I need.

The Yamaha CDC-735 CD Changer:

http://www.hifi-review.com/153565-yamaha-cdc-735.html

This was the CD player that pretty much said "I am never going to find another CD player to replace this". And it was. This CD player holds 5 CDs and allows you to switch out four CDs while playing a fifth. The sound was amazing and the controls, while not immediately intuitive, did everything I needed. It even supported indexes on CDs (remember those?)

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Python (the language).

My first love was Atari BASIC. My second love was Perl. Along the way I learned Pascal, Java, C, and a few other languages.

But Python? That's when everything started clicking. Object Oriented Programming, Functional Programming; it all started to make sense to me with Python.

Sure it's not the fastest, and I've run into more type-checking errors than you can shake a stick at. But I still love it.

BBC Music Magazine

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Music_Magazine

I know I have a reputation as a metal head but I love reading about classical music. And BBC Music Magazine has been a constant companion of mine for many years. The cover CD is quality material (complete pieces, not snippets) and the reviewers provide a good perspective on the music.

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Squeezebox (Logitech)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeezebox_(network_music_player)

I have yet to find a music library program that has grown with me and my needs like the Squeezebox. I've been able to have my entire music library with me at home, work, and in the coffee shop without much difficulty. Getting things set up is a bit fiddly but once it's working it's a thing of beauty.

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Fate Roleplaying Game.

Fate is really cool because it is a specific take on the Fudge RPG engine but moves beyond it to make something unique. It blends storytelling with a flexible engine that scales up and down with little fuss. Plus the support for it is great with new supplements coming it regularly.

And it's CC-BY which means you can use it for your own projects.

http://faterpg.com

I'm sensing a lot of negative emotions in the world right now. Time to do something positive.

For each like that this or one of the subsequent posts on this thread I will tell you about something I like. Only restriction is it has to be something you can enjoy as well so stuff like my family or friends are not something I'll post ( sorry, but you'll have to take my word that they're awesome )

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@Elizafox They used to have an app on the Logitech Squeezebox that was pretty nifty.

The Logitech discontinued the Squeezebox and the app stopped working. Because reasons.

@Elizafox Yeah, I'm not sure if the compression they use is the same as what goes to the radios but sibilants is strong with Sirius Ecks M.

This week's soundtrack:

Degenerate by Patient Zero

https://patientzero.bandcamp.com/album/degenerate

#ccmusic #music #bandcamp

I feel delicate

...relax. It's OK.