LainTrain
@LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Default Settings Are Eating The World 1 hour ago:
- Comment on Why have energy drinks been banned for under-16s in England? The real question is why it wasn’t done sooner 14 hours ago:
Yeah, but with Farage as PM I do wonder how much longer the current devolution arrangement will even last for.
- Comment on Why have energy drinks been banned for under-16s in England? The real question is why it wasn’t done sooner 17 hours ago:
sigh
- Comment on Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack | LeshiCodes 19 hours ago:
That’s not really even close to what I asked.
- Comment on Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack | LeshiCodes 1 day ago:
Just gonna repost my comment from the thread on the Technology community yesterday for suggestions and discussion.
I used Navidrome and Symfonium with Picard for metadata and relied on a combination of Bandcamp, Rutracker and yt-dlp with a YTM free trial, along with the Spotify data export and manual python scripting elbow grease to fetch, tag all the music from my Spotify and recreate every playlist as m3u8.
Despite Symfonium constantly losing its silly always online DRM license check and locking me out of both my cached and remote (via PiVPN to Nginx on home server to Navidrome) songs due to me having multiple Google accounts on my phone and the app freaking out because it would check the wrong account, forcing me to log out of all accounts and reset the app - losing all my customization, I had a fairly functional setup, even with playlist cover art and everything on Symfonium (despite it not being a feature in Navidrome itself).
My playlists were just as they were on Spotify down to each specific song title, album cover and most importantly of course metadata correctness and song order (I have never used shuffle in my life).
Unfortunately I went back to Spotify in the end because most music i listen to is niche and fairly Indie and thus either a pain in the ass to pirate or simply outright unavailable externally, and to maintain consistent proper metadata for what is there was like a full-time job even with Picard. I still did this for half a year. Mostly because I just did it while WFH.
I eventually simply gave up downloading more music and listened to the same few thousand songs in my transferred playlists on repeat which for me led to a feeling of stagnancy and eventually depression in life, after I begrudgingly came back to Spotify I immediately discovered several hundred new songs and created multiple new playlists just during my walks to and from the grocery store alone.
My ultimate problem is that on Spotify if I look something up I can just listen to it right away and immediately add it to my library or to a playlist of my choosing.
In contrast, when self-hosting I would have to first look up the music on Google, go to YouTube to listen to it, look up album/artist on Rutracker, filter out albums/songs I don’t want from the discography torrent add it to my qbittorrent if available, mount the NFS share on windows with my staging folder, add metadata with musicbrainz Picard and have it move to the correct folder, then rescan on Navidrome webui, rescan on Symfonium local cache, then add to a playlist, then listen.
This is like, 2-3 hours of conscious effort just for me to skip to the middle of the song, listen for 30 seconds, decide I don’t like the song and delete it later. It’s way too much.
The unfortunate truth is that despite feeling good about whatever miniscule amount of effect I might have on stopping this wealth transfer from artists and listeners to Spotify and our corporate overlords while those same overlords win elections and take away my human rights while I can’t even easily get a fitting new song in decent quality to listen when attempting to find some peace in that mess, the alternatives just aren’t worth it for me.
Yes I could just accept to have less, to just make do with the music I have, but that requires motivation that’s frankly hard to maintain if you look around and see how the rest of society behaves.
Feels like I’m cutting off my nose to spite my face tbqh.
I would love for it to work as it does with Jellyfin and Immich, I have replaced GDrive, Netflix, Google Photos and damn near everything, Spotify is my only subscription left, but it just hasn’t worked for me to move off of it long-term. I’d love suggestions on how this problem can be fixed though.
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 1 day ago:
Wish I had your money experience tbqh, because Spotify algorithm is the only algorithm I use (that I’m aware of, anyway) and it’s the only one I find that doesn’t just suggest me random crap, but is almost dead on to what I want every time I’m building a new playlist, and while I had a fairly developed and diverse taste to start with, I have found hundreds of artists that I would consider myself a fan of through Spotify. It’s genuinely a lot to give up to never find any artists like that again and go back to a much more narrow cone of vision for music :(
Even though I talk a big game about quitting algos everywhere else on Lemmy, I also can’t say I was ever particularly impressed with recs of YT’s, Google’s, Tumblr’s or Insta’s or TikTok’s algos in comparison, hence why all those were very easy to delete/block/disable.
Worth noting though, your phrase “came on” makes me think you are talking about some sort of smart shuffle or auto-generated playlist feature, which I never used. My only interaction with the Spotify algorithm is scrolling to the bottom of a playlist I’m making and seeing the list of songs that are listed at the bottom as recommended, if I like it and there’s a place for it on the playlist, I will add it. The only flaw in this mode of interaction is after many many playlists, and the fact that I try not to repeat any songs between playlists, I find that what it tends to suggest is just songs I already have in my other playlists.
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 1 day ago:
This 100%.
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 1 day ago:
I used Navidrome and Symfonium with Picard for metadata and relied on a combination of Bandcamp, Rutracker and yt-dlp with a YTM free trial, along with the Spotify data export and manual python scripting elbow grease to fetch, tag all the music from my Spotify and recreate every playlist as m3u8.
Despite Symfonium constantly losing its silly always online DRM license check and locking me out of both my cached and remote (via PiVPN to Nginx on home server to navigate) songs due to me having multiple Google accounts on my phone and the app freaking out because it would check the wrong account, forcing me to log out of all accounts and reset the app - losing all my customization, I had a fairly functional setup, even with playlist cover art and everything on Symfonium (despite it not being a feature in Navidrome itself). My playlists were just as they were on Spotify down to each specific song title, album cover and most importantly of course metadata correctness and song order (I have never used shuffle in my life).
Unfortunately I went back to Spotify in the end because most music i listen to is niche and fairly Indie and thus either a pain in the ass to pirate or simply outright unavailable externally, and to maintain consistent proper metadata for what is there was like a full-time job even with Picard. I eventually simply gave up downloading more music and listened to the same few thousand songs in my transferred playlists on repeat which for me led to a feeling of stagnancy and eventually depression in life, after I begrudgingly came back to Spotify I immediately discovered several hundred new songs and created multiple new playlists just during my walks to and from the grocery store alone.
My ultimate problem is that on Spotify if I look something up I can just listen to it right away and immediately add it to my library or to a playlist of my choosing.
In contrast, when self-hosting I would have to first look up the music on Google, go to YouTube to listen to it, look up album/artist on Rutracker, filter out albums/songs I don’t want from the discography torrent add it to my qbittorrent if available, mount the NFS share on windows with my staging folder, add metadata with musicbrainz Picard and have it move to the correct folder, then rescan on Navidrome webui, rescan on Symfonium local cache, then add to a playlist, then listen.
This is like, 2-3 hours just for me to skip to the middle of the song, listen for 30 seconds, decide I don’t like the song and delete it later. It’s way too much.
The unfortunate truth is that despite feeling good about whatever miniscule amount of effect I might have on stopping this wealth transfer from artists and listeners to Spotify and our corporate overlords while those same overlords win elections and take away my human rights while I can’t even find a fitting song to listen when attempting to find some peace in that mess, the alternatives just aren’t worth it for me.
Yes I could just accept to have less, to just make do with the music I have, but that requires motivation that’s frankly hard to maintain if you look around and see how the rest of society behaves. Feels like I’m cutting off my nose to spite my face tbqh, and I am still angry at the combativeness musicbrainz picard users show when you point out just how often the metadata is total ass and how it would be much better and easier to make a metadata scraper off Spotify instead, which is the target platform for music now for anyone who independently distributes via the likes of cdbaby or Distrokid etc., which accounts for roughly all music I listen to and also my own.
I would love for it to work as it does with Jellyfin and Immich, I have replaced GDrive, Netflix, Google Photos and damn near everything, Spotify is my only subscription left, but it just hasn’t worked for me. I’d love suggestions on how this problem can be fixed though.
- Comment on Important Notice of Security Incident 1 day ago:
Actual answer.
- Comment on Day 418 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 days ago:
Thought this was San Andreas from the thumbnail
- Comment on How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips? 5 days ago:
Why would I game on shit settings when I can game on good settings for the same/less money?
- Comment on How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips? 5 days ago:
Do you not play many games? Good luck playing CP2077 with PT or heck even MSFS2020 at good (read: max) settings on 1440p.
The deck is great but I can’t even run NMS on high settings on it.
- Comment on Belgium to recognise Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly 5 days ago:
Wow, I didn’t catch that gotcha. Bad Belgium.
- Comment on How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips? 5 days ago:
Yes, a 3090 can do Path Tracing, that’s why I’m asking for one. It’s not a artificially high goal - it’s how I play one of my favourite games of all time - CP2077.
Obviously both the 4090 and 5090 can do that too and better, but that’s essentially out of reach for mere mortals, and even if it weren’t it’s not enough of an upgrade to really justify the massive price tag.
Still, If I were to get a new GPU, I wouldn’t want a graphical downgrade, ideally an upgrade, and AMD can’t provide so they’re not a serious option.
- Comment on It can be made quickly and efficiently, even by people without skills or talent 5 days ago:
Grimy? I’m squeaky clean! Not as pure as metal of course but I try.
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Obvious /s
- Comment on Ofcom Refuses to Investigate GB News Over Call to Shoot Disabled Benefit Claimants 5 days ago:
Haven’t heard of those
- Comment on Ofcom Refuses to Investigate GB News Over Call to Shoot Disabled Benefit Claimants 5 days ago:
- Comment on It can be made quickly and efficiently, even by people without skills or talent 6 days ago:
Relatable but when someone shows “art” made by meat bags instead of our lord and saviour the machine
- Comment on 18% of people running Nextcloud don't know what database they are using 6 days ago:
Honestly I’m not sure I’d know Immich used Postgres if it didn’t outright say so
- Comment on Thank G*d I grew up in the 90s. Everything is woke now. Smh my head 6 days ago:
Bleh that was just in the US
- Comment on Thank G*d I grew up in the 90s. Everything is woke now. Smh my head 6 days ago:
Idk about the PS1 as I def had the PS2 by then, but the rest checks out, that was def my life
- Comment on no wonder my insurance premiums keep going up. 1 week ago:
Nah chill out and stop projecting, I definitely believe in CFS, Fibro, ME and ADHD and to some extent the bundle of symptoms that are speculated to occur as a result of post-viral fatigue commonly dubbed “Long Covid”, though I think there isn’t concrete evidence towards that characterization of it - which emerged on Twitter from a hashtag, not from established scientific or medical sources, and as of yet we don’t know for sure if it’s connected to covid.
What I don’t believe is that I don’t think everyone who thinks they have these disorders - actually has them - which is fact, and I’d like to see you try and prove that misdiagnoses, especially unprofessional self-misdiagnoses literally don’t happen.
This is all irrelevant to my original question anyway, you’ve still yet to provide a single explanation for why the study links increased mortality to Covid-19. Are there increasing deaths again? Why? Is it direct? Indirect? Why did they omit this highly important fact?
Key part being 19, because it started in 2019, and ended in the first half of 2020 because we have this thing called a vaccine.
What is it doing in 2025 still?
Is it mortality caused directly by the virus - as in, people are dying from it now, and if so - why would that start happening again? Stronger variant? More vax hesitance? More misinfo? More conspiratorial lunatics like you lot making up disorders to drink horse dewormer for or whatever you rigtoid loons got yourselves into these days instead of organizing to improve their material conditions?
Actually I’m pretty sure I got a good idea for what could be a big factor just based on this conversation and it’s not a stronger new variant.
- Comment on Thank G*d I grew up in the 90s. Everything is woke now. Smh my head 1 week ago:
Bojack Horseman actually came out in the 90s. That’s why in the theme song it talks about running in th 90s. For more movie facts subscribe to my webzone.
- Comment on Children as young as 11 tempted to try betting after being ‘flooded’ by celebrity endorsement 1 week ago:
No def not, most people I know and myself would be killed under any religious moral system because their entire existence is sin because that’s what’s written, but they’re some of the kindest, most humanist and sane people I’ve met, they just aren’t religious. Often they have individual moral frameworks that are some variation of the marxism-adjacent maximization of happiness/minimization of suffering or nietzchean fulfillment of potential.
I also have no problem calling it sinful either if it’s a useful shorthand tbf, it’s just words after all.
- Comment on Children as young as 11 tempted to try betting after being ‘flooded’ by celebrity endorsement 1 week ago:
Morally wrong yes, sinful no.
Frankly if someone used a religious framework to justify why something is good/bad it’s safe to say a lot of people will take away from it the exact opposite.
- Comment on How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips? 1 week ago:
Ray tracing? No no, I said Path Tracing.
- Comment on no wonder my insurance premiums keep going up. 1 week ago:
I can only say what the pandemic was to me, I’m sorry it seemed worse to you. To me it ended in the summer of 2020 and was primarily characterised by good vibes of the lockdowns due to a lack of cars.
Nonetheless the facts are we now have effective treatment plans and vaccines for prevention. Long covid and all that is still primarily speculation.
So can you answer the question of how the study links mortality to covid? Are all those extra deaths from covid? Are people skipping the vax?
- Comment on no wonder my insurance premiums keep going up. 1 week ago:
But what I couldn’t find in this study is WHY they think this increase in mortality is due to covid.
I am not claiming they are wrong. I am not casting doubt. I am not anyone or in any position to do that.
I am simply missing an explanation, an explanation that I feel should be front and centre, in bold red text, maybe wordart, for how something relatively minor from 5 years ago is causing anything at all 5 years later.
To me, yes it is very unintuitive because the pandemic is grossly outdone by virtually everything that’s happened since.
And yes, maybe I’m very deluded, but if you can’t explain it to an idiot like me who’s trying to understand and genuinely align themselves with truth and knowledge derived via the scientific method, then what hope is there for communicating this stuff to the rest of society to benefit from, when many aren’t so willing, and would happily equate data driven analysis and findings with the subjective opinion of their uncle that he obtained through “doing his own research”?
- Comment on Children as young as 11 tempted to try betting after being ‘flooded’ by celebrity endorsement 1 week ago:
All the guidance from like, schools, where they’re taught stuff? Hopefully not that it’s “sinful” but the realities of gambling instead.
- Comment on My reaction to learning that KingCobraJFS died a few days ago. 1 week ago:
Who? What?