Wolf314159

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My smartphone isn’t a phone with “extra” features to me. My smartphone is a portable personal computer with extra sensors, a GPS receiver, and wireless internet, which also happens to have a phone app. I don’t want to carry an extra “dumb” phone. I would prefer my smart watch to be the communication and identity hub for me and my devices: holding the SIM card, acting as a wifi hotspot, routing calls and internet to my handheld brick or laptop, etc. Instead of acting like a third party add-on, it would be a mostly distraction free core. Let me use a smartphone, laptop, steam deck, cobbled together cyber deck, or whatever else have you as my local screen, storage cache, and/or proper desktop. Then I can put the screens down or leave them behind without feeling cut off or potentially stranded in a world that practically requires it to navigate with any ease. I want a smart watch that enables me to leave the house without car keys, driver’s license, and credit cards; essentially with nothing but my watchphone. I want to be a cyberpunk Dick Tracy. What I want, with the freedoms and open standards I want, with the privacy I want, without being locked into a single monopoly walled garden, is probably a pipe dream. I want what is probably the next evolution of the “year of the Linux desktop”. But a kid can dream.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Important Notice of Security Incident⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not very helpful for connecting family, friends, and especially grandma.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Important Notice of Security Incident⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Jellyfish cannot to setup to securely and safely be exposed to the Internet. It is only safe to access through a VPN. That rules it out as an option for sharing with friends, family, or even my own spouse. You call it phoning home to the mother ship; I call it paying Plex to manage user authentication for me. Until Jellyfin’s security holes are patched and it becomes clear that the Jellyfin developers actually care about security, it stays locked down to my LAN. Setting up a VPN is difficult for the average user on a good day, impossible in some circumstances on even the best of days, and is not access I want to hand out (and support) to all the people I share my Plex with anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack | LeshiCodes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So edgy. Steppin Razor over here folks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack | LeshiCodes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If someone wrote this article in the early 90s, it would be called “Why I ditched the radio, and how I created my own CD collection.” I think rephrasing it that way really shines a light on why it’s mostly still comparing apples and oranges.

  I have a pretty substantial collection of music hovering around 5,000 albums or 1.6TB (mostly lossless FLAC these days, but still some moldy old mp3s and ogg vorbis files from my youth). I’m not even counting the physical media I still hold on to. I still use Spotify for discovery and playlists. I don’t think the depth and breadth of my library will ever match the depth and breadth of the music that I want to listen to in the very next moment. Lots of times I want to listen to the stuff I’m familiar with, and I do that using my own library. But, when I want to: remember a song I heard in the wild, share a holiday playlist with friends, make an obscurely themed playlist of songs features peaches, preview a musician’s or band’s stuff, discover other things that musician has collaborated on, or simply discover new music; I still use Spotify.

  There are (or were) bits and pieces out there (many that pre-date Spotify) that can do some of these things. Last.fm (fka Audioscrobbler) was good for tracking listening habits to compare and share with others, it helped a little with discovery. I used allmusic.com a lot long ago to discover the artists that inspired the artists I was listening. If I wanted to share a playlist, I made a mixtape (really it was burning a mix CD). But, all of these collected information only, not the music itself. If I wanted to actually hear a new song, I had to go somewhere and find it first. That often meant literally traveling somewhere else or ordering from a catalog and waiting for delivery. Every new music discovery was a bet made with real dollars that I would actually enjoy the thing or listen to it more than once. Even after napster paved the way for free listening via piracy, one still had to work to actually find the music.

  Spotify (and similar services) finally collected (almost) all of it under one app, so that I could discover and listen seemlessly. It is instant gratification music discovery. I’ll never give up my self hosted collection, but I also don’t have much hope that any self curated collection will be able to complete with the way that I use Spotify. Spotify is just the new radio. It’s never the end of my listening though. Just like with radio, when I find something I like enough, then I can expend the energy (or more often expend the money as directly with the band as I can) to add it to my collection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal genres⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hot take: Most metal is just Classical Music II Electric Bugaloo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What strategy would you use to estimate the number of hazelnuts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d ask a couple thousand people to guess in private. So the most popular answer would probably be either surprisingly close to correct or Cuppy McHazelnutface.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This was a big deal. You could play a game on your cell phone⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to playing games on my calculator. I suppose you still can, but I used to do it. I remember I had RISK on my TI-89, but the games on my TI-82 were on par with the version of snake shown in the post.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The people developing vegan meat alternatives must have eaten a lot of meat beforehand so they can replicate the taste and texture.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait till they hear about the people farming, harvesting, and shipping the vegetables.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have always been at war with the Kingdom of Myrm⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Primates make tools to help eating ants, among other things. It’s a bit of an unusual snack, but people eat ants too. We are anteaters? How much of your diet needs to be ants before you’re considered an anteater?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disco Panic!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to be confused with disco snails.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How fast could a human accellerate (while staying alive)?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in awe of a stomach so delicate it can be turned by an animated stick figure physics diagram.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4011⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Somebodies lying (or at least being deceptive). I checked the link. There’s no mention of 20 countries anywhere. Nobody said 20 countries here either. Setting that pedantry aside. In fact, even if it were used by significantly fewer than twenty countries, the ones that without a doubt do use them are spread around the globe. Thus, they are used globally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Einsteinium⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this AI slop or someone cosplaying David Byrne during Stop Making Sense?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A fucking Members Only pizza.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’ll destroy all your painstakingly crafted and curated ID3 tags much faster than Picard. I’m not salty or anything. Anyway, the lesson for me was that music is simply too complicated from a library perspective to trust to highly-automated tools like beets. Picard kind of encourages you to go directory by directory and release by release, and that is a good thing. These days so are does most of the library stuff for newly added things, but I usually end up fixing it all basic to my standard with Picard later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK | Man arrested in dawn raid after sharing Facebook posts backing Palestine Action⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  0? Hardly. For a simple pop-culture counterpoint, V for Vendetta was written as an indictment of the UK’s slide into fascism. It was published in 1982. Fascism doesn’t happen overnight, it’s a slow boil erosion of rights and democracy that works in the shadows of government over decades to dissolve checks and balances from the inside and within the law.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dedicated music server or all-in-one media server?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Plexamp has gotten better lately. It can save your progress on audiobooks now. It’s a per library feature, so I have one library of music (that does not save progress) and one for audiobooks (that does save progress). I used to have trouble with some audiobook formats (M4Bs needed to be converted (really just renamed) to mp4s, but that wasn’t necessary for the last few I loaded. Plex still has a little trouble with standards around multiple authors and different productions (and different readers) of a single book, but that’s more of an ID3 tag problem and is resolved if you’re consistent in normalizing the tags on your library. I’ve also used the syncing features a bunch for offline time (like on a plane or on long trips). For a large library, I see syncing offline files as a necessary feature.

  And before the Jellyfin fanboys chime in, if Jellyfin could match these audio and syncing features (and be easier to setup for access outside my LAN and sharing with family), I jump ship in a heartbeat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Debatable⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that was my first thought after getting over the weirdness of it, “How manageable is this hair going to be after getting home and later as it grows out?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex server patching required⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “pretty easy” is a bit of a stretch

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THIS is true wisdom⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah, I was just venting. Every place has their quirks. I wish I had your lowkey Fridays.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THIS is true wisdom⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  LOL, not everywhere is like this. Fridays are always the day an emergency project gets dropped in my lap that absolutely must be done before the next Monday because somebody else has a deadline they need to meet (that they’ve known about for months) and they need our work for a critical part of it, but they never seem to remember until Thursday night.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THIS is true wisdom⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve also worked at places where the boss demanded a doctor’s note to return to work. I just said “No, I’m not doing that.” That’s always been the end of it. I returned to work once I was well and continued we all continued on as if it never really was about health and safety in the first place. Lots of places have policies on the books that are either outright illegal or unenforceable, but they get people to tow the line out of fear. If a few of us call their bluff, it’s better for them to quietly move on so that we don’t escalate the situation and shine a light on that policy. If word got around that the policy was unenforceable, they wouldn’t be able to bully the rest into compliance.

  Moreover, not every “sick leave” is something that is contagious, migraines for example. I’ve even taken a sick day preemptively because I got to work and discovered that I’d have to work in close proximity to someone that was actually sick and contagious, but refused to stay home.

  Also, if the company is requiring a professional evaluation in order to work, surely that is something that will be fully expensed to the company. I suppose that dynamic would be different under universal healthcare. But sending people that are recovering from a contagious disease that will resolve itself on its own would still be an incredible strain (and an unnecessary one) on the entire system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a lot of people in this thread proudly sharing how they stereotype and have preconceptions about people that they don’t actually know. And them their justification is that everyone should be a two dimensional single issue character archetype with literally no conflict or contradictions. Have you people even met any adults, especially professionals and academics, that aren’t your parents or your teachers?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Forgotten Realm of 1990s PC Barcode Scanning Kits | LGR⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Once upon a time I got a CueCat to catalogue my book collection on a (probably now defunct) Web2.0 service. This was before smartphones and apps, and before I had even a laptop. At the time it felt retro-cool and really did help me speed things up in that task. At the time, I had to box up most of my books and CDs for storage, but I wanted an easy way to know in which box each thing was. I think I even had plans to use it with my CD collection next, but building the backend for turning barcodes back into a reference to a playable directory of ripped files turned out to be too much trouble. Could still be doable if you could query a Jellyfin or Plex database based on UPC codes. Now we all just yell into the void and hope the nearest “AI” hears us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A fair punishment for the obscene hoarding of wealth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The et cetera: Shouldn’t be allowed to work overtime either. And they should get taxed more if they work a second job, so only 40 hours per week. Attach ridiculous fees to any attempt at saving money in a bank, can’t have their money earning interest for them. They should also be in a high cost of living part of hell with no public transportation. And they should be forced to buy their own safety equipment. They should have to pay for healthcare out of pocket, no good health insurance. And they should be penalized for aging the same way too, with new billionaires coming in cheaper and forcing them out of their position and making their experience a liability in finding new work. Let’s throw in some inflation to keeps things spicy. An HOA that is constantly fighting them and won’t let them grow food. How about random detentions and beatings for being the wrong shade in the wrong part of hell town, the part they work in. And they should never be allowed to forget for one moment what they had in life and how they squandered it on petty selfish things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s also an argument for not having your own domain for emails, because you may one day loose that domain too, and someone could poach the domain to impersonate you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good evening I choose getting the job done.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Perfect is the enemy of good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The Google Nest Mini is a smart speaker, not the smart thermostat with a similar name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She's a keeper⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, come on. Being not too proud to ask for help, allowing someone else to feel useful and genuinely being appreciative of their help? That’s pretty fucking hot to be honest. Maybe I’m a slut for being made to feel useful and appreciated.