Blocked three people today, which is three more than my monthly average. Gotta love the internet.

The top take from chuds (who have presumably done nothing wrong their whole lives) is "if those files were so important, you should have backed them up."

I was backing them up. To OneDrive.

Learn to read you fucking neanderthals.

I'm more upset than I've been in a while.

Windows 11 sets the default documents folder to onedrive\documents. Anything that gets saved there gets backed up to one drive. This includes various save games, all my Reaper stuff, and various other odds and ends that I like to, you know, save.

To save disc space, OneDrive also defaults to files being online-only. They're not stored on your device, they're just listed there. So despite what they call it, this is in fact not a backup at all, because it doesn't create an extra copy. It is actually just transferring your most precious, irreplacible, personal files to Microsoft in the background, and trusting that nothing will happen. You can see where this is going, but just to underline the point with a bleeding fucking dagger, I did not ask for any of this, I just clicked save like I have done for the last twenty or so years of my life using Windows.

Since I don't care about and have never intentionally used onedrive, I signed out of it. Flash forward six months, the files that I thought were on my computer (because I can go see them there in the folder) are in fact gone from my hard drive, and also Onedrive nuked them from orbit.

Years of my life, gone without a trace. Thanks so much, Microsoft. Whoever came up with all those ideas probably got massive performance bonuses, because we're in the worst timeline.

Goodnight.

I had so much fun with the first one that I went up for an encore! Nobody requested it with their words but I felt it spiritually.

As 40th birthdays go, this was pretty solid.

@molly0xfff Hey just wanted to let you know, when you load web3isgoinggreat with a screenreader, it says "loading" over and over forever all of the time. I basically can't use the site because of this. It sounds like a live region being rude, should be a relatively easy fix.

For the curious (Scott) I am using a short plate reverb and two compressors on my vocal: vocal rider to level the takes, and rchannel to bring it forward and add presence. (rchannel also adds eq but I digress) Then I put a C4 compressor on the master to glue the instrumental to my vocal. Speaking of the instrumental, it is from the Eight Bit Big Band and is well worth a purchase!

https://the8bitbigband.bandcamp.com/album/five-nights-at-freddys-big-band-version

We're really quite surprised we get to see you another night. You should have looked for another job, should have said to this place goodbye. Why would you want to stay five nights at Freddy's?

I played this for someone and they said they thought it was creepy/stalkerish--not my performance, but the song itself. This surprised me quite a bit! I don't get that vibe off it at all. If anything, the singer is showing some vulnerability here, I feel like.

See the marketplace in old Algiers, send me photographs and suvaneers. Just remember, when a dream appears: you belong to me.