This is your occasional backup reminder - if you haven’t yet, go start setting up backups of any kind.

If you think you don’t need backups, delete everything you have on the device you’re using right now.

If that seems like a bad idea then you need backups.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@hfalcke/117455063326697336

Yep. Me 3 years ago:

https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/110791346726665161

"Who controls the algorithm, and what is it optimizing for?" is a more useful question than "chronological or not?"

Rather than just complain about the new Apple Music app icon, I thought I’d present an alternative.

The branding of the service may be shifting to black and white, but your music is full of colour. What if everyone’s icon was unique based on what they’ve been listening to recently?

The first one picks album art colours from my own "Heavy Rotation" playlist, second is someone listening to Finnish top charts, and the third person has been bopping to "best new songs" in the "New" tab.

- launching a rocket that’s too big for the starting launch pad and blowing up the pad
- building the rocket out of stainless steel because shiny
- not giving a shit where the discarded stages go
- giving up on the “send astronauts to station” contracts because they’re boring
- building a basic car out of the default metal panels
- putting thrusters on a car for some reason

Elon remains the world’s least interesting Kerbal Space Program noob messing around on his first day of the game