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baggins

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Music (mainly prog rock) and veggie loving, geeky cat butler living in Hertfordshire UK. A lover of all things LOTR (since I first read it over 50 years ago) scifi and what have you. Ex soldier (Royal Artillery) and other trades ;-)

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Are you ever disappointed by bands that completely change their music style?

I’ve noticed that the majority of bands I’ve loved since I was younger have entirely abandoned their old style for music that feels far more bland and uninteresting. It breaks my heart to no end when a band I’ve loved releases a new album and by halfway through you’re done with it....

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Marillion. - Edited

The Fish era was magnificent. But losing such a dynamic and powerful front man means a band will have to change. Steve Hogarth took them to a new levels, which for me ended with Brave. After that? I kept with them for a while - fronting the money for albums and with a couple of thousand others have my name in the Marbles sleeve notes etc. I buy the albums but they don’t get more than one or two listens - they’ve become a sort of Crowded House tribute band.

Fish on his own? Cracking when doing Marillion stuff (still think he’s one of the best frontmen going) but his own material is just meh. Vigil was a good album. He needs Rothery and Kelly.

On the other hand, Genesis lost a lot of die hard prog fans when Peter Gabriel left - but gained a hell of a lot more MOR/US fans. Unfortunately Ray Wilson couldn’t fit into some very large frontman shoes. And Peter went from strength to strength.

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To show us what a decent and honest bloke he is, why not pay for them himself? He can afford it.

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How many died because they were on a waiting list though? Don’t get me wrong, any waiting list is one too many but this headline seems like clickbait to trigger people.

And no, I didn’t read the article because the URL didn’t work :-(

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I’m lost here. Didn’t he get booked a couple of days ago? Is he due in again?

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Ah OK. Thanks.

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Immortality would great if it wasn’t for Sunday afternoons.

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I beg to differ.

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Seriously, could they not get a shorter cameraman, or lower the tripod? A lot of these pics are taken at this angle.

The twat is posing. Why was he not made to stand straight and not pull a face like he’s on a wannabe supervillan dating site?

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It can and has. There’s no way I could keep in touch with old army mates. They won’t all move to other platforms. I don’t even know of an alternative for group chats and finding people.

Unfortunately I have to go along with it. I keep it locked down as much as possible, use it only on Linux desktop etc. But there you go.

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That works for you and friends - fine. It does not work when others are on FB and will/can not leave for another platform.

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I know these are there - I said so in my post. It does not work when others are on FB and will/can not leave for another platform.

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I know these are there - I said so in my post. It does not work when others are on FB and will/can not leave for another platform. None of that is comparable to to FB for group chat, looking for people, swapping pics etc. People may not want their phone number given out (a bit ironic when FB has everything else I know).

It’s so easy (and dare I say lazy?) to just say ‘FB bad, use phone/Signal/email etc.’ but not offer any real alternatives. Let’s face it, FB has this covered. It’s so simple to get your nan, mate to join because all their friends/relatives/workmates are on it. There’s no shame in admitting that it provides a valuable service for some people.

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That’s not a bad idea - I might try that with a spare tablet I have.

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No. Simply not suitable or practical.

But you do you.

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That article is dated Apr 3.

Latest version here

Mind how you go - it’s still Alpha.

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Ah right - I took the link from the right hand side of the page. But that’s **Tor Browser **. 🤦 I’ll correct it.

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undoubted millions of youtube videos over the last 17 years

4 million would be just over 644 videos watched every single day for each one of those 17 years.

I salute your dedication.

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Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.

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Proton doesn’t have a messaging app.

They have email.

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We have/had the same issues here in UK with Boris Johnson and the like.

The fan clubs of these scumbags are so removed from reality, it’s painful.

Google Gmail continuously nagging to enable Enhanced Safe Browsing (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

The difference between the two security features is that Safe Browsing will compare a visited site to a locally stored list of domains, compared to Enhanced Safe Browser, which will check if a site is malicious in real-time against Google’s cloud services....

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Been doing this for a while now.

I go back to Gmail every now and again to check if I’ve missed anything, it’s just a cesspool of junk and spam.

Good to be away from it

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Yes, a sort of Deep Purple.

Which suits me just fine 🙂

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‘No legitimate public interest’

This just sums up how these bastards only have their own agendas.

Utter scumbags, the lot of them.

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Listonic for shopping lists etc. KDE Connect Proton - Mail, Calendar, VPN, Pass, Drive AdGuard Songs Wavelet Pulsar+ NHS app Radio Paradise

Good Omens: Season 2 is finally upon us, and it's wonderful. (www.imdb.com)

I loved the first season because I’m a huge fan of Pratchett and Gaiman, so was a little nervous that the next series, with no source material to adapt wouldn’t hit the mark. But then I saw that Neil had asked John Finnemore to help him write it, and that sealed it for me. No one could replace Terry, but John Finnemore comes...

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Not yet. No spoilers please!

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