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Techno is the obvious one for sure, like this excellent tune from one of the masters, Oscar Mulero: https://youtu.be/FAqfA6UEIVQ

My vote, I remember my dad playing me that and DsotM and I preferred the more psychedelic vibe for the former

Nonplussed and forbearance. Got the latter into a work email earlier, easily the highlight of my day

I do, but the other way as I’m getting old and can’t down them like I used to. Met up with a mate to watch the F1 in the pub garden on a sunny Sunday, just had a couple of halves as I still wanted to try a number of new drops

Though I completely understand using alcohol to loosen up a bit, for numerous social situations. Definitely used it more that way in my younger days, to varying degrees of success

With everything that’s happening over there rn, probably the US

I think I actually like it more for the memes than as a song at this point

Old U2 is actually pretty decent, I quite like The Unforgettable Fire

This isn’t the smallest you can go per se and isn’t a laptop but I’ve happily run PopOS on my Surface Pro 8 for over a year. You lose the front camera due to the proprietary blobs, and there’s some tweaking needed such as to get the keyboard working for LUKS decrypt but it’s pretty damn good for those tasks you mention. I read a lot of comics and RPG rule/corebooks and it’s perfect for that plus some light browsing and media consumption. Biggest downsides are the battery life which isn’t great compared to on Windows (around 5hrs or so, up to 7 with light usage) but that’s Linux for you, and ofc it’s more awkward to balance the folio keyboard on your lap. But for all that, it’s pretty convenient to take around plus you get the benefit of that bright, Surface Pro display

It has it’s place but if a choice between that and raw raster within the same power envelope give me the latter every time

Got to say, Marc Alaimo and Louise Fletcher (RIP) two of the best recurring guests Star Trek ever had… Both on the same damn show, both as villains no less

Oh man, and then some. Promising playoff run season before last only to pretty much get kicked to the curb last season

Assuming you mean ice and not field, it’s not popular here in the UK with football (soccer) dominating but I’ve been to some local games, very fun to watch even though ofc the standard is pretty bad hah. One of the TV channels here used to show NA sports late at night so I got into NHL as a teen using my dad’s VHS player to record parts of games. I was the weird kid at school who used to bring in NHL 2001 or ESPN NHL Hockey on Xbox

Unfortunately I’m a Canucks fan lol, though I did catch Rangers-Blackhawks in 2015 at MSG when I visited NYC which was awesome!

Only managed to see him with Madeon on the Shelter tour, not usually my thing but that track was so good and yeah the vibes were immaculate!

Seen Porcupine Tree a few times, Steven Wilson once, awesome stuff

My fave artist, Borusiade, is quite niche and arguably their style of music had it’s peak in the electronic scene around 2017-21 so it’ll be a long shot to see them now sadly.

Awesome, still never made it to Stonehenge yet. You’ll have a blase! Annoyingly, I’m London for a few gigs next weekend or Saturday for the Solstice would be ideal

A future wave and welcome, bring your brolly! Whereabouts will you be visiting?

Music is central to my life, so upcoming releases, gigs, clubnights and festivals are my escapism drugs. That and uh, the actual drugs

Going to the wedding of some close friends too in July, they’re great people so I’m sure it’ll be a blast!

Finally, slowly but surely making progress on my house which I bought three years(!) ago, both in terms of much needed maintenance and filling out with furniture. Still lots to be done!

I’m glad :) More along the lines of “buzziness,” another rec along very different lines is this Ethel Cain track, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvIURYg4qY4 which is off one of my favourite records of 2025 so far, Perverts.

If you like that, the natural follow up is Midwife… Check this track off her album from last year, No Depression in Heaven https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT0uFGSKQQU Going even further back along similar lines is early Grouper, like this from her 2007 record Cover the Windows and the Walls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39nQSD0a97A

I know it’s easy to say but time will help, hope you feel better soon