theskyisfalling
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- Comment on Advice on moving my Spotify library to Navidrome 6 days ago:
Soggfy was just the first thing I tried that worked without crawling for shitty yt downloads of the same things and so I stuck with it. If the audio quality is the same then I really don’t see what difference it makes in the grand scheme of things.
I will try out zotify so thanks for the name but it isn’t like it will be any quicker as I’ll still do everything in “real time” as I want to maintain my account and not get banned as it is a family plan and I don’t want to negatively impact the other people that use the same plan.
Also I know people love to use command line but soggfy is just a modified Spotify client so I can just open it up and start what I need in a couple of clicks
- Comment on Advice on moving my Spotify library to Navidrome 1 week ago:
You are only going to be able to get 320 mp3s from Spotify at the very best, I use soggfy to intercept the audio and rip the tracks so you need to let the playlists run (although you can up the speed they play at) and there will also consequently be some organisation needed of the files afterwards so it is far from automated but works fairly well.
A lot of the tools around take your playlists and find what it thinks are the correct tracks on YouTube and then rip from there so be wary of the quality you might get from those.
I compared a track I ripped from Spotify with a 320 mp3 of the same track I had bought with a spectrometer (I think that is the correct name) and they looked identical
- Comment on Can deliberate noise harassment still be a crime if it's done every day from 7:30 AM till 10:30-11:30 PM? 1 week ago:
I’m surprised the police actually came out at all, they usually don’t give a fuck.
As someone else said you need to go to the council, they will have a department specifically for noise complaints and anti social shit like this. You will probably need to fill out a form online and then they have officers for this specific problem who will call you and probably come out to visit. They will be your best recourse to finding a solution to this.
- Comment on Is it weird to juggle in the park? 5 weeks ago:
I am an adult male who goes to the park / beach to play with and practise my levitation wand (flow toy) which is way less “normal” that just juggling.
Aside from the fact that who gives a fuck, it is a public park and anyone who thinks a man juggling is weird is the one with the problem the opposite is actually true in my experience.
The majority of people ignore me and the ones that don’t are genuinely interested in what the fuck I’m doing or how it works. Some people will watch from a distance, some people will engage and ask but no one tells me it is weird.
Go practise your juggling man!
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #13 1 month ago:
Couldn’t agree more with your take on Early Access bullshittery. I too refuse to pay for anything that is “released” and described as much. It is just another thing after micro transactions that have further ruined gaming and despite a personal boycott of these practice’s still gets ever more common :(
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #10 1 month ago:
That is how I felt about Dave the Diver, was really enjoying the first part of the game and was excited to keep playing but they kept adding more and more shit on top that seemed unnecessary and it just made me lose interest entirely.
It could have been great but turned out to be a bit Meh for me.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #10 1 month ago:
That is a blast from the past! I absolutely loved ‘Z’ when I was younger but had forgotten about its existence!
Shame Atomfall decided on denuvo otherwise I’d have liked to have played it but I will not support games that include that trash.
- Comment on Sit down with your co-workers for a beer and everybody smiles. They even make tv shows about it. But sit down with your co-workers for a little opium and everybody gets their panties in a twist. 2 months ago:
I don’t even like working with my co-workers, I don’t want them to ruin anything else!
- Comment on YSK about SomaFM, an independant non-commercial internet radio with really nice and diverse curated channels 2 months ago:
Wow they have a dubstep channel and judging by the last played tracks listed they are actually playing proper dubstep as well as the more commercial american style sound.
No DnB though.
- Comment on How do you like to transfer large files between friends across the internet? 2 months ago:
Just share the folder on soulseek. Probably not advisable for any sensitive information though xD
- Comment on Harry and Ron were always bored in class because Rowling's magic system is boring as hell 3 months ago:
Sanderson is such a beast, everything he has written that I’ve read is solid gold!
- Comment on The PS2 turns 25 years old today. Crazy, right? Perfect day for revisiting some classics. What are some of your favourite PS2 games? 3 months ago:
A few titles that I never really hear anyone mention:
Mister Mosquito
Wetrix
Steambot Chronicles
Auto Modellista
XIII
And then some of my favourites that everyone knows about:
Burnout 3: Takedown
Smugglers Run
State of Emergency
NFS: Underground
Manhunt
Shadow of the Colossus
SOCOM, specifically the online MP
To name but a few, I don’t want to write an absurdly long list which is just too easy to do.
- Comment on Favorite Racing Game Soundtrack? 3 months ago:
Flatout: Ultimate Carnage or Need For Speed: Underground
- Comment on Centuries-old leasehold system to be abolished in England and Wales 3 months ago:
Thanks for the additional info. I am generally not super knowledgeable on politics so I will go check out your links :)
- Comment on Centuries-old leasehold system to be abolished in England and Wales 3 months ago:
There was a vote in 2011 to change the voting system that the idiots of the UK voted against changing. I was a kid then and that was the first time I voted but even as someone who has almost zero interest in politics I could see that moving away from fptp was the (what I thought) obvious choice.
Apparently not.
After the absolute farce that was brexit as well I don’t believe the the population of the UK are able to make a good decision that benefits the country and general populace. The majority of the population aren’t able to employ critical thinking and are just easily lead towards shitty decisions.
I don’t believe that even if we did get another vote to change this terrible system that it would actually pass unfortunately. I have no faith in the ability of this population to make good decisions.
- Comment on EA has open sourced Command & Conquer: Red Alert under GPLv3 3 months ago:
Loved Renegade so much. Played the shit out of the MP back in the day.
- Comment on Lemmy’s essential 25 PS1 games 3 months ago:
Fuck yeh. We used to do that but one person had to play under a duvet because both of the TVs faced in the same direction.
- Comment on Google/Apple map navigation should overlay weather 3 months ago:
People don’t pay enough attention driving as it is constantly looking at their phones, adding tiny icons and lines to mark weather systems would be just another thing to distract already terrible drivers.
If you want to look at the weather then pull over and do so, I don’t think it has any place as additional distractions in a vehicle imo.
- Comment on How is my bedroom being heated? 3 months ago:
In the UK? I doubt it very much. It isn’t beyond possibility but under floor heating really isn’t very prevalent here.
- Comment on How is my bedroom being heated? 3 months ago:
You are in the UK now so the chance of it being underfloor heating is very slim indeed unless you are in a new build from the last 5 - 10 years or so, even then I would doubt it though.
It is probably a combination of the amount of insulation we put in walls, floors and roof spaces along with the fact you downstairs neighbour or neighbours if there is a basement will be using theirs and obviously heat rises.
I know many people here that live in flats above other people that will never switch their heating on and live comfortably.
It is likely that those radiators are your only heat sources coupled with presumably a gas boiler to serve both the radiators and your hot water taps. There will be some kind of controls for it somewhere though, not all systems with have a thermostat in place. My current house has 3 radiators with no thermostat. It is either on or off or you can set time intervals for it to switch on and off by itself but there is no temperature based control.
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? - Sunday thread 3 months ago:
This year has been my first foray into self hosting in general. I have been doing a lot of learning and have a long way to go but have got to the point where I have proxmox running with a few VMs running an arr stack, a jellyfin server and a Plex server.
I’m just super happy to get everything running and now need to fine tune stuff. Currently trying to figure out why the Plex server is down half the time externally.
I’m having a lot of fun!
- Comment on What is your favorite app for Lemmy? Include Platform 3 months ago:
I used connect for nearly 2 years, I like the way it looks and operated and was fairly happy, however after an update this week that introduced a shit load more bugs and didn’t really fix any of the outstanding ones I finally got sick of it.
So this week I have been using Voyager all week, think I’m gonna jump around a few different ones and try and find a new place to stay.
- Comment on PayPal owns brands like Venmo, Honey and is heavily integrated into eBay - if you're looking to stop giving your money to bad companies, take a second to search their subsidiary brands as well. 3 months ago:
“Heavily integrated into eBay” except it isnt any more.
Firstly the article is a year and a half old but although you can still use PayPal on eBay to say it is heavily integrated is bullshit. EBay started moving away from PayPal years ago and at this point have integrated their own systems linking to your bank account to take the place of what they used to use PayPal for.
- Comment on I want to feel like a bad-ass wizard 7 months ago:
I just estimated how much space I needed and channelled the right spell :p
- Comment on I want to feel like a bad-ass wizard 7 months ago:
I mean you only have to change a few words to figure out what they intended to write so I’d say not awake fully?
“In this setting the art of the mage was reading the battle and estimating how much space you need to channel each spell”
At least that is how I read it
- Comment on Need for Speed: what is the best title of the series? 7 months ago:
I really want to try Unbound, it is the first title that has looked interesting to me in the NFS series for a while it is just a shame that I have to use their launcher, if this wasn’t the case I might actually even be willing to break my rule of not giving EA any money (although I would buy it when it was on deep sale that they have fairly often). Shame.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 released in December 2020. Almost 4 years later, what is your opinion on it? 7 months ago:
I tried it for the first time this year, I put in around 10 hours to try and get into it and honestly I found it pretty dull. I didn’t think the combat felt particularly satisfying and the story as far as I got in it did nothing to interest me or draw me in.
I’m not saying it is a bad game because I certainly dont think that but for me personally just nothing clicked, it felt like a slog just to get through the 10 or so hours I put in and I dont have enough time to force myself to like games any more so I just moved on.
- Comment on Cycling will be more dangerous due to council clampdowns, say campaigners 7 months ago:
Couldn’t agree more, bikes belong on the road not on pedestrian pavements!
These delivery drivers are a fucking scourge as well. I have had a few run ins this year with them driving their mopeds through pedestrian areas.
I hope the council do clamp down on this bullshit behaviour but also invest in cycling infrastructure too. I’m lucky where I live has a pretty good network of cycle paths but it is still lacking.
- Comment on Day 104 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 7 months ago:
I still remember so many moments from this game and I haven’t played it since release, such a great game!
Following the blood trail in the pitch black in particular I always remember for some reason, probably the creepy baby cries that accompanied it.
- Comment on Sonic & Knuckles celebrates 30th Anniversary 7 months ago:
Sadly I had to sell all my original hardware but I might have to break out the emulator, it has been a while!
