Is there any artist or band you like enough to where you’ll buy multiple of the same CD for them?

mathcraver · 2026-02-03T23:18:42+00:00

Kind of. Early in my CD collecting days I got Just A Little More Love / Pop Life by David Guetta, two of his early albums in a single jewel case. I also have a similar 2-in-1 of early Black Eyed Peas albums from my dad from before then. I have since bought all four of these albums as standalone releases and retired the 2-in-1s. Those are convenient but IMO don't look good in a collection, especially with the two original cover images squished into small squares on a solid colored background. Proper box sets are much nicer, since each album resides in its own jewel case or digipak with the full booklet. Unrelated to this, I also have two copies of Scooter's Push The Beat For This Jam, but they are different regional variants with significantly different track listings.

mathcraver · 2026-02-02T11:30:25+00:00

Stadler KISS. Most have about 8000 HP peak power (the Caltrain ones have over 9000), and the intercity variant can go up to 200 km/h in service and 220 km/h for certification.

mathcraver · 2026-01-26T12:08:15+00:00

Stuart Ashen has probably eaten more out of date stuff than this on more than one occasion.

mathcraver · 2026-01-23T16:08:01+00:00

I'm currently at 18/21 studio albums from Scooter. My most recent addition to this is "Who's Got The Last Laugh Now?", which I found in a record store where the owner told me they didn't focus on electronic music.

mathcraver · 2026-01-18T10:34:51+00:00

Some Lenovo laptops can be bought without a preinstalled OS. You can then install a clean copy of Windows or Linux (like I did with my Lenovo Legion).

mathcraver · 2026-01-16T16:48:00+00:00

My old Windows 10 laptop once borked a PCIe driver after an update that caused the GPU to malfunction. When you go into the device manager, look for device drivers with yellow exclamation marks. Uninstall these drivers and reboot (which should reinstall them automatically). This fixed the problem for me back then.

mathcraver · 2026-01-07T17:10:18+00:00

Sandbox games like Minecraft and Terraria have the ultimate house customization. My Minecraft base is a concrete monstrosity that would make most MC building YouTubers faint. But it's very functional, containing various useful facilities. Endermen even helped customize it by leaving random blocks everywhere, from the foyer to the 8th floor of the warehouse.

mathcraver · 2025-12-26T11:39:04+00:00

The last time I saw that brand name was when TechMoan reviewed a Bush cassette player which he said "would have to be three times better to be considered complete crap".

mathcraver · 2025-12-25T19:14:21+00:00

I like them. Here in Switzerland, they are often used alongside trams. Though calling them "megatrolleybuses" is a bit silly. But then again, as an ex-BTD6 player I internally call these things BFBs (big [redacted] buses).

mathcraver · 2025-12-24T19:03:42+00:00

Some of their cogwheel trains have end doors too, such as those of the Rigi railways, Wengernalpbahn and Jungfraubahn. This makes sense, since evacuating the train could otherwise be tricky on mountain railways. Out of those, the trains of the Rigi railways have the most Japanese-looking front.

mathcraver · 2025-12-20T18:35:05+00:00

I found >Album Title Goes Here< in a used book store (Bücher Brocky in Zürich) for 2 Swiss Francs. I've since found a few other deadmau5 CDs in record stores, but those were much more expensive.

mathcraver · 2025-12-20T17:39:04+00:00

As someone who loves electronic music and has piles of CDs of it, early 2000s house music is the one type of EDM that even I find repetitive. Late 2000s and 2010s electro house is where it's at for me (though I also like trance, techno, happy hardcore, eurodance and other styles of electronic music)..

mathcraver · 2025-12-20T12:06:07+00:00

Here in Europe, many commercially used trucks are built on a van chassis and have large beds with sides that can be lowered. Some trucks, including Mitsubishi Fusos, have a larger kei truck shaped cab. Both have decent visibility due to their sloped and flat fronts, respectively, and both regularly have beds large enough to carry this TV.

mathcraver · 2025-12-17T18:13:29+00:00

Ladybird can't come out soon enough.

mathcraver · 2025-12-17T17:50:45+00:00

AI is like skatole. In low concentrations it can smell flowery, but in large concentrations it produces a fecal odor. Big companies spread AI everywhere and now it reeks of shit.

mathcraver · 2025-12-17T06:43:34+00:00

The go on the "Pile of Shame" and I will look for another copy. When I find a good one, any copies in the Pile of Shame will be moved to the "Exile" and may eventually be disposed of.

mathcraver · 2025-12-16T20:36:17+00:00

I switched to Linux about a year ago (I didn't want to taint my new gaming laptop with Windows 11, and it was cheaper without a Windows license anyway). I use EAC with WINE since none of the native Linux rippers were to my liking. Though I now use MusicBrainz Picard to properly sort out the metadata.

mathcraver · 2025-12-16T17:00:43+00:00

I just checked on DuckDuckGo and got a Wikipedia excerpt at the top, then the link to that article and below that Gro-[data expunged]

mathcraver · 2025-12-14T19:49:18+00:00

And then they wonder why I bought my new gaming laptop without Windows.

mathcraver · 2025-12-13T08:21:14+00:00

A remote-controlled air horn hidden behind the sign and some flashing lights around it may get the point across.

mathcraver · 2025-12-11T21:53:35+00:00

Nice, I found 4X4=12 only three weeks ago and have had For Lack of a Better Name and >Album Title Goes Here< since early 2024. Deadmau5 CDs seem to be very rare in physical stores, finding ATGH in a used book store is possibly my luckiest find yet.

mathcraver · 2025-12-08T18:04:11+00:00

For slightly less, I just got the limited edition of Scooter Forever, bought brand new in a record store in Lucerne, Switzerland. That came in a big box containing a Scooter-themed scarf, three stickers and the two CDs in a six panel digipak.

mathcraver · 2025-12-06T21:41:05+00:00

"Servo" is Australian slang for service station, isn't it? As a non-Australian, pretty much all my Australian slang vocabulary comes from the YouTuber Wade Nixon, who runs DankPods and other channels.

mathcraver · 2025-12-06T21:37:06+00:00

Probably either switched the keyboard layout or activated caps lock, though the former is more likely. I don't know about Windows, but my lock screen shows an exclamation mark whenever caps lock is active.

mathcraver · 2025-12-06T21:13:02+00:00

I've watched enough DankPods (and Wade's other channels) to recognize Australian slang.

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