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Show threadBillTonggFeb 24, 2025
Unfortunately not (although it’s not really surprising).
Show threadBillTonggFeb 23, 2025
I have children older than you. It’s a matter of perspective - I think anyone under 50 is young, and no doubt in 10 years time I’ll think the same of anyone under 60. I don’t feel that I really grew up until I was well into my 30s, and my career didn’t really get anywhere before I was 40, but now before I know it I’m retired. Relish your youth - it’ll pass soon enough!
Show threadBillTonggFeb 23, 2025
Excellent, you already know about WFMU! I need to listen to more shows - mostly I just stick to This is the Modern World and sometimes Clay Pigeon on the main broadcast channel, plus Irene Trudel and Continental Subway on the Drummer stream, but there’s so much more on there it makes my head spin.
Show threadBillTonggFeb 23, 2025
Neither. He talked about the impact of always being connected, always contactable, and how he needs self discipline to resist the obvious attractions phones have. He didn’t say anything specifically about social media, which is the thing I struggle with, thanks to its addictive functionality.
Show threadBillTonggFeb 23, 2025
Quite. Certainly not on Desert Island Discs. Perhaps on a programme like Hard Talk.
BillTonggFeb 23, 2025

Former Apple designer Sir Jony Ive has said he feels “responsible” for the “not so positive consequences” of the iPhone.

https://lemmy.world/post/25949870

Former Apple designer Sir Jony Ive has said he feels “responsible” for the “not so positive consequences” of the iPhone. - Lemmy.World

Jony Ive will be on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Desert Island Discs’ today, Sunday 23 February 2025. Press reports quote him saying that he feels responsible for the ‘not so positive consequences’ of the iPhone, but that he is still proud of his work. Speaking to Lauren Laverne on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, Sir Jony said: “I celebrate and am encouraged by the very positive contribution (of the iPhone), the empowerment, the liberty that is provided to so many people in so many ways. “Just because the not so positive consequences, I mean they weren’t intended, but that doesn’t matter relative to how I feel responsible, and that weighs, and is a contributor to decisions that I have made since, and decisions that I’m making in the future.” Listen on the BBC Sounds web page or app from 10.00 London time, and the programme will be archived there to listen again for the next 28 days. Apart from hearing what he has to say about his work and about technology, it will also be interesting to hear which selection of records he would chose to have if he were marooned on a desert island.

Show threadBillTonggFeb 23, 2025

WFMU (a radio station in New Jersey) has a weekly show on one of its web streams. It’s called Continental Subway, presented by an American called David Dichelle, who lives in Germany.

He plays all kinds of music in many different languages, as well as different versions of folk songs in English - he’s working through the Roud Folksong Index and has reached Roud 350, The Topman and the Afterguard / The Sailor and the Soldier. However, most of what he plays isn’t in English and as well as music from many different countries each week he will play 8 or 10 songs from a particular country chosen at random. This week it was Chad.

Very highly recommended, not least because all the shows back to 2017 are archived, so you can listen again when you want, and it’s listener supported so there are no adverts. Links to all the shows and playlists here: wfmu.org/playlists/CW

Continental Subway with David Dichelle

Playlists & archives

WFMU
Show threadBillTonggFeb 22, 2025
This deserves many more upvotes than you’ve had. I guess most people here just don’t get the reference.
Show threadBillTonggFeb 20, 2025
Good point. The English civil war and the French revolution both went the way they did because the ‘rebels’ had armies which equalled or exceeded those of the government. Same with the other regicide that comes to mind, Nicholas II of Russia in 1918. So much depends on whether the military remains loyal.
Show threadBillTonggFeb 20, 2025
Yes, similar here. Windows 10 had been telling me I needed to upgrade to 11 but that my PC (a Lenovo X1 Carbon with a pretty decent spec for 5 years ago - i7 and 16GB of RAM) couldn’t support it and would have to be replaced. I had run Linux Mint for many years on a Samsung from around 2010, which still works, so I thought now is the time to dump Windows. Installed Mint 22 and everything just works.