Random Wednesday
Feb. 18th, 2026 09:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vivienSometimes I look at the Craigslist free stuff page. Today there are five free pianos on offer. One is paying $50 to have one taken away. It's so sad. Pianos went from being prized possessions to free giveaways. If I had the space, I'd give one a home. I don't play, and with my hand and wrist issues probably shouldn't learn, but it would be neat to have one.
I finished The 'Burbs series on Peacock while I have it for the month of the Olympics. It was lots of fun. Good suspense, interesting characters, good performances, and a cliffhanger that had me wanting more. I may pony up for another month of Peacock if it has a season 2. Maybe. I'm tired of streaming services and having to pay and pay and then still having commercials. Peacock is $10.99 per month with plenty of commercials. No thanks. I've been seriously working on my DVD collection for several months now because if I want to watch a favorite show or movie, I'm not paying for it if it's not on services I already have. I'm also concerned about content with queer story lines and characters being pulled. I prioritized those. I, uh, have a lot of DVDs now.
The future is so freaking stupid. Commercials you pay for, devices listening to you, AI, fascism, billionaires run amok.
And still no flying cars.
I finished The 'Burbs series on Peacock while I have it for the month of the Olympics. It was lots of fun. Good suspense, interesting characters, good performances, and a cliffhanger that had me wanting more. I may pony up for another month of Peacock if it has a season 2. Maybe. I'm tired of streaming services and having to pay and pay and then still having commercials. Peacock is $10.99 per month with plenty of commercials. No thanks. I've been seriously working on my DVD collection for several months now because if I want to watch a favorite show or movie, I'm not paying for it if it's not on services I already have. I'm also concerned about content with queer story lines and characters being pulled. I prioritized those. I, uh, have a lot of DVDs now.
The future is so freaking stupid. Commercials you pay for, devices listening to you, AI, fascism, billionaires run amok.
And still no flying cars.
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Date: 2026-02-19 08:52 am (UTC)And the only thing we were promised was flying cars.
I'm going backwards too, into buying CDs and DVDs at the junk shop, and real print books (even though I now prefer reading on my phone.) But they keep taking the books I paid for off my phone and making me redownload them, just at the point where I'm out of signal and was relying on them, so yeah. It was all good for a while but now it's just stupid.
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Date: 2026-02-19 03:30 pm (UTC)I never trained myself to read on my phone or tablet so my book collection is physical as well. Music is more digital because I back up my iTunes files to two places once I convert them to mp3. But I have a lot of CDs too.
Forget minimalism!