ramblings from alphacerium
what’s this? a tech post on this tech blog? preface why? recently my laptop started running dangerously full on disk usage (who’d’ve thunk 150gb was not enough for a daily driven linux install ¯\_(ツ)_/¯), so i decided that rather than trudge through my drive and clean out junk id just back up my entire \ drive onto an external hard drive, clean reinstall and upgrade Fedora Workstation 40. i also…
After the huge success of their previous 3 albums, world-renowned heavy metal band Metallica released their 4th album on August 25th 1988. The album was the first to feature Jason Newstead on bass, after the death of Cliff Burton in 1986. The track list seems short, with only 9 songs on the record, however with each at least 5 minutes, the album ends up being an hour long journey. Tracklist…
Released in 2012, Visions marked Canadian electronic solo artist Grimes first record while in the spotlight, and her third full album release since she broke into fame in 2010/2011. The album, according to Grimes, was written over three weeks, with the recording session lasting 9 days without sleep or food, and a “ton of amphetamines”. While recording, she became convinced her music was…