Dutch Black Metal
An all female black metal band. Not as inspiring as Witch Club Satan but I’ll take female black metal over male black metal any day because men suck.
A Bandcamp Friday purchase.
Scottish Darkwave
Discovered this Glaswegian band on Facebook a few days ago. They don’t have an album or EP available yet but I did get these two tracks on this recent Bandcamp Friday
The Strawberry Jams
So Team Becker have released the Strawberry Jams on Bandcamp. They’ve made it a free download with a “name your price” but I urge everyone who downloads it on March 6 (next Bandcamp Friday) to offer a very generous amount to help with Jason’s care. Alternatively, there is also a link to the PayPal account where you can also donate money to help. I’ve already used it, so should you.
Little Linux Things… #1
So for the last couple of weeks I’ve been lazing about at home on holiday. To keep myself occupied I decided to give Linux another go, since I’d been hearing it has got so much better for serious gaming. After a lot of fucking about with various distros, I finally settled on RegataOS, which is a Brazilian distro that runs on OpenSUSE. And so far, the biggest criticism I have of it, is that unlike pretty much every other distro out there, this one has no support forum. The only official support seems to be on a fucking Telegram group. Uh, fuck that Russian shitshow. Anyway, the few issues I’ve had with it have been covered elsewhere on the net and all in all, it is running beautifully. So good, in fact, that I’ve hardly spent any time on Windows 11 this past fortnight.
Anyway, more later but for now I just want to point out one important difference between Linux and Windows; in Linux, USB actually works properly! Seriously, on Windows transferring a 2 GB file to a USB3 memory stick takes ages because it averages around 30 to 40 MB/s. That same file, on that same memory stick takes seconds on Linux because it is being transferred at an average of 130 MB/s. Good job, Microsoft.