kaidenshi

@kaidenshi@lemmy.world

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

  I could swear I read it exactly that way, but looking back I don’t see it, perhaps I inferred it from this:

  My setup uses sabnzbd integrated with Lidarr for handling downloads of content I’ve purchased.

  To be clear, Lidarr/Sabnzbd can ONLY download from Usenet, which (as far as I know) is not an authorized download channel for any legally purchased media. I get what he’s saying, that he buys the music from a legit source and then downloads it from Usenet for simplicity and automation’s sake (which is exactly what I do as well), but the inference appeared to be that he was somehow pointing Lidarr/Sabnzbd at Bandcamp directly.

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

  I understand the author’s intent to support artists by purchasing their music on various platforms, but by using Sabnzbd to download music from Usenet, this is essentially a guide to pirate music. The only thing in this setup that isn’t automated is purchasing the albums, and at one point the author says he uses Sabnzbd to download from Bandcamp. No, he doesn’t, that’s impossible; Sabnzbd is a Usenet client and nothing more.

  I applaud the author for trying to be honest and support his favorite artists with legal purchases to justify his use of these apps, and it’s a great setup. But let’s not pretend that most people following this guide will actually legally purchase any music they download once they see how seamless and fun it is to pirate it.

  And I say all of that as someone who has a similar setup with Lidarr and Sabnzbd, I am not judging anyone who chooses to pirate music. And I do purchase actual physical albums of some of the music I download so I can support my favorite artists. I just wanted to call out the author for being a bit disingenuous about his setup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People angry that Superman represents kindness are outright admitting that they don't want to be good people⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well he did do one good thing in his life. He killed Hitler.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not just that it was useless to some people, it was a genuine security risk. OpenBSD’s port of Firefox has it disabled by default, and LibreWolf strips it out of the browser entirely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unihertz specializes in small phones. They aren’t flagship spec but they are midrange at sensible prices. They also have keyboard phones and even a phone with a built in DMR radio for Amateur and GMRS use.

  Not a plug, I don’t even own one I just love that they are daring to be different.