LainTrain
@LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on One in three GPs in England do not work in NHS, says BMJ study 8 minutes ago:
If you listen to them speak for more than a minute I wouldn’t be surprised if one in there or them aren’t even a doctor either
- Comment on Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes 19 hours ago:
Overrated franchise has dogshit legacy sequel. More news at 11.
- Comment on Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds? 22 hours ago:
Ikr I’m also suffering from this rn, but in my case throw on chills until I pop paracetamol and then I’m on a grill, bone aches like I got Raynaud’s in my legs… Yup it’s flu time!
- Comment on ‘I have to do it’: Why one of the world’s most brilliant AI scientists left the US for China 1 day ago:
TL;DR: “Donald Trump is dismantling the very aspects of US society that once made it so appealing for international talents.”
- Comment on I member when this happened LMBO! 3 days ago:
Lol 2018 was a good year
- Comment on Why the video of Charlie Kirk being shot was kept on social media platforms 3 days ago:
Fucker got what he deserved, I watch it over and over and I feel absolutely nothing for him, no empathy, no connection, he is a threat, neutralized. I would’ve been very pleasantly surprised if a leftist did this because it meant someone out there getting off their ass to fight for what’s right, and what’s right to subdue the threat of the political right, if the means of peaceful discussion, debate and correcting misinformation have failed us, then by any remaining means is fine by me.
- Comment on Why the video of Charlie Kirk being shot was kept on social media platforms 3 days ago:
Thanks.
- Comment on If the UK government proposed to increase tax by 1% and make trains free would you be in favour? 4 days ago:
Yes. Absolutely. I would happily pay more tax for this. 1% is a very tiny amount.
The trains in this country are shockingly abysmal and they cost an arm and a leg, despite being the absolute basic requirement for a functional modern economy.
As someone only on basic rate of tax and fairly low income struggling to make ends meet, I would still happily pay taxes for this, both in addition and especially instead of the BBC for it to spew far right hatred or endless consultantocracies and other assorted privatized money funnels like what’s become of the NHS (especially GPs), alongside council, DWP and TV loicence enforcement goons with their endless investigations, cutting triple lock, winter fuel allowance and other ways boomers drain the economy.
I think there are better ways though - like taxing the top 1%, much higher carbon/road/infrastructure taxes on car people (only fair because of their increased personal pollution, infrastructure use, space occupation and damage to the environment and people).
Even this 1% tax doesn’t need to be flat, it can be scaled with income brackets, with each step being 2%, as long as the math checks out.
Even moreso - Land value tax, and shifting council tax to property owners instead of tenants/residents and second home tax and property for investment tax, ramping it up to as high as it’ll go to fund property buybacks for councils, then charging rents without profit margins baked in to make trains more affordable.
But if it’s what it takes to get anything done in the current political climate dominated by the far-right, tributes to some random pro-gun grifter influencer being shot in another country flooded with guns and Sir seat warmer in chief as PM cowtowing to the demands of flagashaggers, Farage and his oligarch sponsors and various dodgy American govcorp and MIC-adjacent glowing lobby groups then that would have to be it.
- Comment on Brainrot Tiktoker at the Kirk shooting 4 days ago:
It’s not rational, it’s looking for a chance for something better than wage slavery.
- Comment on Brainrot Tiktoker at the Kirk shooting 4 days ago:
Yes but power isn’t actually something everyone wants. People do however want to put food on the table and not worry about rent.
- Comment on Brainrot Tiktoker at the Kirk shooting 5 days ago:
Stuff like that does happen, but in capitalism it’s incentivized, because fame is a gateway to cash
- Comment on Why the video of Charlie Kirk being shot was kept on social media platforms 5 days ago:
Links? I missed the whole thing
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 5 days ago:
VR issues put me off and honestly Win10 20H2 was cancerous enough frankly, 1903/1703 was as much as I could tolerate the endless bugs, design issues, fundamental flaws, it’s a house of cards that utterly collapses under the weight of ads and general enshittification.
You say Linux is complex but idk, it’s pretty intuitive for basic use to setup and install, it’s just customizable so people make it a hobby, and as it’s fully open source, people who are into computers like to learn how it works, because unlike windows, they can do so with some certainty.
On Windows the sheer amount of software it takes to make the beast keep back is unreal, OldNewExplorer, ClassicShell/OpenShell/StartAllBack++ ($$$), RetroBar, WinAeroTweaker, Windhawk, SecureUxThemePatcher, DWMBlurGlass, Microsoft-Activation-Scripts/KMSLiteAuto, SystemInformer/ProcessHacker2, BootICE, HackBGRT etc etc.
The list goes on, with you having to subject yourself to GPO Editing to disable updates, and the horrors of Powershell syntax (yuck! Scripting languages shouldn’t be a shell! Shell languages shouldn’t have an object oriented tumor!) if you’re a power user or a good friend to someone who isn’t and you want to go in there and Get-AppxPackage | Select yada yada to uninstall the assorted Microsoft PUPs, Adware and other malware that comes pre-installed like Edge, Cortana and the new gippity Cortana (whatever it’s called), “The Xbox app” whatever that means with its horrid overlay it puts over directx apps like some sort of necromanced GFWL etc.
In other words
- Comment on Failure to tackle dependence on food banks in UK driving public discontent 6 days ago:
G7 Economy everyone.
- Comment on Default Settings Are Eating The World 6 days ago:
- Comment on Why have energy drinks been banned for under-16s in England? The real question is why it wasn’t done sooner 1 week 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 1 week ago:
sigh
- Comment on Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack | LeshiCodes 1 week 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 week 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 week 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 week ago:
This 100%.
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 1 week 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 week ago:
Actual answer.
- Comment on Day 418 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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 1 week 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? 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
Haven’t heard of those
