UniversalBasicJustice

@UniversalBasicJustice@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point I’d nearly appreciate the removal of old.reddit or RES. My desktop browsing experience hasn’t changed in roughly a decade and a half and that’s a shitload of inertia. A few trims of my subscribed list has limited my exposure to the worst of the slop and botting.

  Mobile is absolutely a different situation for both Reddit and Lemmy alike. I found Jerboa shortly after the API disaster and have stuck with it since, but I probably need to look into tweaks for desktop/browser Lemmy. RES and old.reddit are a killer combo but fuck their ‘official’ app and the ‘new’ interface.

  Regardless, I no longer participate on Reddit and highly prefer interacting here; more interesting and informative conversations by far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using Molly (Signal) with UnifiedPush⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Keyboard and mouse input for the phone is a gamechanger for me. Having a manipulatable window that I can drag and drop files to is super nice as well.

  Also since Slay the Spire doesn’t have cross-saving and all my progress is on my phone I can play it without staring at my phone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using Molly (Signal) with UnifiedPush⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with you in spirit but would also like to shill for scrcpy in general if you aren’t already using it. Mirroring phone screen to my laptop is fucking amazing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jesus hates American "Christians"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Meanwhile, all of my birthday parties were keggers

  Wisconsin?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal on the inside, business on the outside⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Totally valid, no rush. My guitar whispered to me a bit yesterday but its been a few weeks so I stuck to warming up rather than pushing for tempo.

  I’ve mostly been working on Black Dahlia Murder’s Statutory Ape and Protest the Hero’s The Dissentience in terms of full songs. A few scattered PtH riffs off Palimpsest; intro to Sun of Nothing and the sweeps at the end of Selkies by BTBAM to round things out.

  Haven’t written anything in years, just working on my chops.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal on the inside, business on the outside⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A few more;

  Alluvial

  An Endless Sporadic (Guitar Hero fans know)

  Scale the Summit (but only the first couple albums - Carving Desert Canyons specifically)

  TRAM (Tosin Abasi plays jazz)

  Teramobil (GREAT introduction to my favorite modern bassist, Dominic LaPointe)

  Trioscapes (Between the Buried and Men’s bassist Dan plays jazz)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal on the inside, business on the outside⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I often can’t work to their music because my brain fills in their vocals for me, which is sometimes too distracting.

  Can relate 100%. I have audio processing oddities that make understanding lyrics difficult. With how many times I’ve listened to their albums (1500 times in a row for Palimpsest! I’ve got the Last.FM receipts for it, even) I know the lyrics mostly by heart. Instead of my brain being distracted trying to comprehend it gets distracted trying to sing along. Thus, instrumental for getting work done.

  Also I can’t keep my boys Between the Buried and Me out of this post any longer. Suuuuuuuuch a fucking band. The new album rules, too!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal on the inside, business on the outside⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  CHON, Covet and Mestís are pretty laid back and so fucking excellent.

  Cloudkicker has been around for a long ass time; early-mid 00’s on Myspace. One of the progenitors of the ‘bedroom guitarist’ project, although he toured with Intronaut as his backing band awhile back.

  Arctopus and Blotted Science are fucking weird and I love them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal on the inside, business on the outside⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hehehe I knew that would draw you out. Where’s your riffs?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal on the inside, business on the outside⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Tosin is the greatest guitarist of the millenial generation.

  Also his co-guitarist Javier has an excellent project as Mestís.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal on the inside, business on the outside⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Arch Echo

  Behold…the Arctopus

  Blotted Science

  CHON

  Cloudkicker

  Covet

  Haunted Shores

  Intervals

  Mestís

  Also; I think mentioning Protest the Hero in the context of instrumental music does a HUGE disservice to Rody Walker’s vocal talents and lyrics. However as a guitar nerd and PtH fan I approve of their inclusion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal on the inside, business on the outside⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Technical death metal to amp up on the drive in, instrumental prog to get the work done, black metal to decompress on the way home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal on the inside, business on the outside⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yo you get it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is a "Jerk Hut?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The hut employs you as a crust stuffer actually. At least the tips are good!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendations for the current sale⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell yeah! Thank you so much.

  Then there’s eternal classics like Stardew Valley, Balatro, Terraria,FTL, Into the Breach, Slay the Spire or Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

  Did you check my installed games? Sure, I’ve replaced FTL with Void War (same game tbh) and play Slay the Spire on my phone (and laptop via screen mirroring) but that list is ~80% of what I’m looking to move on from!

  I’ve found success with static backgrounds and turn-based games. I have made due with 1600x90 at 50% texture rendering for CK3 but that’s different. I’m not sure if they’re on sale but for the sake of listing more laptop friendly games: Across the Obelisk, For the King, Tales of Maj’eyal, Loop Hero and Project Zomboid do well.

  Minecraft and Rimworld depends on modlist. I tried to downsize my 150-odd Rimworld mods and ended up with 200, c’est la vie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So like StumbleUpon but vendor-locked to already popular services. Any possibility it could get a Fediverse edition? That sounds actually useful instead of supporting continued-useage of platforms with boardroom controlled content-selection algorithms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendations for the current sale⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Looking for suggestions for 2D low-spec/laptop friendly games. Picked up Ale Abbey thus far, simulator/colony managers are my jam right now but want some variety too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone NOT steaming their Music?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We are stuck in the same spot. Musicbrainz Picard might help? I checked it out but metal genre tags range from simple to way too specific to poorly categorized. Might help you get the tagging done at least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone NOT steaming their Music?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have never paid to stream music. I grew up with dial-up and terrible cell reception making torrenting a chore (shout-out leaving Limewire up overnight for one song) and streaming a total non-starter. In high school I checked out stacks and stacks of CDs from the library to rip onto my computer.

  With the help of better internet I was able to access torrenting and luckily my special interest in the metal genre kept me off the ISP radar though I use a VPN nowadays. You may be able to find a tracker specialized in a specific music taste - depending on your attitude towards torrenting. I do my best to recompense the bands via merch (especially vinyl) and concert ticket sales.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Based and Red Pilled Gigachad, many such cases 😔⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Corporate control over an algorithm that decides who is served what content is a platform-agnostic tool of power over society. We’re seeing that danger manifest in old and new ways every single day. That lever of power allows whomever owns that particular medium to push whatever content they like. That is the entire motivation behind and purpose of the Fediverse and other decentralization efforts.

  Zuck and muskrat separate populations, push propaganda and influence discussions at an unprecedented level. The control a single corporation, a single authoritarian point of power has over such vast swathes of population dwarfs the propagandic power of Goebbles and Stalin by a couple orders of magnitude.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you truly believe that this is a human being?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unexpected but appreciated Roundabout

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Every Nazi who remains alive will kill women, children and old folks. Dead Nazis are harmless. therefore, if I kill a Nazi, I am saving lives." - 
Lyudmila Pavlichenko.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What about defeating it as a possibility instead? Eliminating thoughts is exactly what the fascists do. If instead we remove the possibility of huge corporations and billionaires conspiring with governments to abuse their population we can still teach it in school, still admit to and learn from history rather than eliminating the thought and thus deny the mistakes of the past.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal genres⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Check out Blotted Science and Behold…the Arctopus! Anything with Ron Jarzombek (Blotted) and Colin Marston (Behold) should scratch that itch. I don’t have much microtonal in the library but now you’ve got me wanting to dig deeper. I’ll get back to you in a few days!

  Otherwise if you’re cool with avant-garde in general I’d also recommend Dodecahedron, Imperial Triumphant, Igorrr, Meshuggah (THE polyrhythm kings), and Unexpect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal genres⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Guitar virtuosity is rampant in metal! You should take a look at Tosin Abasi - start with TRAM, then his bandmate Javier’s project Mestís, then his band Animal’s as Leaders’s album The Joy of Motion. TRAM is modern jazz, Mestís is very Spanish influenced, and AAL is one of my favorite bands of all time. All (primarily) instrumental.

  CHON and Covet are both chill prog/math-rock with incredible guitar work. I’d recommend CHON’s Newborn Sun EP or Homey LP. Covet’s first two releases, Currents EP and Effloresce, have been my sleeping music every night for a couple years at this point.

  I can recommend heavier/harsh stuff as well, but based on your current preferences these are good starting points. Feel free to keep replying or DM if you want more!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal genres⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As a dedicated metal-type autist for over 15 years I am proud to say I’m not on this list. I am the Ambassador, the Professor, the Diplomat. I welcome any and all into the fold and love to help people find their niche. My personal taste leans towards prog, black, and death but my knowledge runs deep and I love to share it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal genres⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you considered going instrumental?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kick faces possible $49 M fine after French streamer Jean Pormanove dies on air⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Seriously, all these comments about fucked-up and predatory content…has anyone considered quitting Facebook? Or just algorithmically-served content altogether? Am I crazy for preferring to build and do my best to expand my own silo rather than having billionaire-owned corporations do it for me?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The least problematic early black metal band⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No sweat my dude, shit’s tough all around. Feel free to shoot me a DM or figure out the appropriate public forum to continue our discussion lol.

  life is hard

  Good luck, stay safe, Hail Satan 🤘

  And remember; Failure is not an option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The least problematic early black metal band⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hehehe I’m just picking nits and stanning for Marston as well. Remember me from our recent conversation?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The least problematic early black metal band⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You got it my dude. I’ve also got a separate list for space if that’s your jam!