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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • “I Put a Spell on You” is commonly attributed to CCR since they covered it on their debut album, but it’s actually a Screamin’ Jay Hawkins original.

    The now infamous Billy Ray Cyrus debut single, “Achey Brakey Heart”, was actually a cover of The Marcy Brothers’ “Don’t Tell My Heart”. They were released within a year of each other but the Cyrus cover exploded in popularity in Australia (yes, Australia), and the rest is history.

    Cyndi Lauper’s biggest hit, “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”, was a Robert Hazard cover.

    Elvis Presley had a really bad habit of ripping off lesser known (black) blues artists. As in, of the 24 songs off his first 2 albums, 20 of them were covers, bad.

    There’s so many more I can think of off the top of my head, like Johny Cash’s cover of NIN’s “Hurt” getting Trent Reznor to say it “wasn’t my song anymore” after seeing the video, but I think that’ll do for now.




  • Pop!_OS.

    I have tried many Linux distros since I finally abandoned Windows for good, but in spite of the fact that I prefer Fedora over the other kernels, Pop!_OS as a distro, along with Pop Shell, is just everything I’ve ever wanted in an OS and all else just feels inferior.

    I’m a dev, though, so it would make sense that an OS made by devs for devs would be my cuppa.

    Most users won’t need 90% of what I, specifically, love about the OS, but it’s also the first distro I’ve found where everything I want to use just works out of the box without spending hours troubleshooting, and that’s not nothing.