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- Comment on The Groyper angle explained - 'this assassination was a shitpost' 1 week ago:
Me either, but on desktop it doesn’t care. (unless it’s thanks to Linux/ff/ublock but I doubt that) I didn’t realize it forced you on phone on until recently. Sorry!
Here is essentially the same thing with less detail. I haven’t decided where I like uploading things these days yet.
- Comment on Ethical alternatives to Spotify 1 week ago:
I recently started using Qobuz also. I was impressed that there are Linux apps, including a (3rd party) downloader that lets me download FLAC. (Otherwise I think you need to use their app in Windows or Mac to download FLAC - the web downloader only let me grab MP3.)
However, although I have loved it, my use case is different than yours, so not really apples to apples. I have a media server running in a VPS, so ethical downloads are my primary requirement. For Download --> Self-host --> Self-stream they are a perfect fit, IMO, though I’m sure there are others.
I like it because I’m not buying music from Amazon, or Spotify, and that it’s DRM free, primarily. I will also buy from Bandcamp sometimes. (To be fair, some amazon music can also be downloaded DRM free, but I think anyone reading this probably already knows that. I can’t remember if FLACs were available to me never or rarely, because I didn’t use Amazon music much.)
Despite that, I’m watching this thread with interest, because I’m certainly open to other options.
- Comment on The Groyper angle explained - 'this assassination was a shitpost' 1 week ago:
Fair, will do!
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- Comment on Dude... Who the hell wrote all this cr@#? 1 week ago:
Crapound?
- Comment on Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research 1 week ago:
Don’t worry, maga will get us back there soon enough…
- Comment on Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research 1 week ago:
if someone is not able to distinguish between fiction (regardless of the medium) and reality, then the problem is much deeper than pearl-clutching religious fanatics insist on believing, and will NOT be solved by abolishing all the “bad” fiction
We’ve been trying to make this exact argument to the exact same group of people since the earliest days of D&D and I’m sure someone was having the same conversation about some other thing before that. 😠
- Comment on UK government trial of Microsoft's M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost 2 weeks ago:
I like to imagine we are witnessing malicious compliance from the model.
- Comment on UK government trial of Microsoft's M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost 2 weeks ago:
I love that the only thing the oligarchy can focus on is making sure we can all use AI to work more.
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- Comment on Dodged the maga family visitors on 4th July by happy accident, now trapped with them at wife's birthday celebration. 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Dodged the maga family visitors on 4th July by happy accident, now trapped with them at wife's birthday celebration. 4 weeks ago:
It’s only respect for my wife that gives me the strength to hold it in. She’s not got a lot of family close by.
- Comment on Dodged the maga family visitors on 4th July by happy accident, now trapped with them at wife's birthday celebration. 4 weeks ago:
When they do this just stare right at them, with a blank expression. Keep the stare for about 10 seconds until it starts to get uncomfortable for everyone, and then just say “hmm” while maintaining eye contact.
I kinda like this one I might try it! Though in this case I was granted a reprieve because they couldn’t stay as long as expected. 😁
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- Comment on GitHub will be folded into Microsoft proper as CEO steps down 4 weeks ago:
😁 Sorry. 🙂
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 4 weeks ago:
Proton developers are working on Wine code. Their patches go upstream. If you are using Wine, you have benefited (massively) from the sea change that has occurred (directly and indirectly) as a result of the development of Proton.
I remember the naysayers predicting that Gabe would never in a million years make the required investment because the state of Linux gaming was (in their assessment) that terrible.
And now we’re having argue about whether it actually did anything for us? In the comments about an article about how much it did for us?
That’s not an argument I’m having, I watched it happen.
- Comment on GitHub will be folded into Microsoft proper as CEO steps down 4 weeks ago:
Not only that, but can we stop trying to pretend that MS has changed and that those of us watching them since their inception are not just refusing to move on when we continue to remind people of EEE and their other business practices?
A tremendous number of people predicted this would be bad when it happened in 2018, and a surprisingly large number of tech pundits were ready to suggest we were just being being a little too hard on poor old microsoft and a little too predictable as longtime Linux users.
CAN WE NOT forget this time?
Same request on the whole Hitler/Trump thing actually. Let’s really remember it next time around, not somehow forget in a couple decades. At least the how and why will be tremendously well documented for historians this time around.
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 4 weeks ago:
Do you know what I did last week thanks to Proton? Installed EndeavourOS on my freshly purchased laptop, installed steam, and installed a bunch of Windows games. Then I played them. At no point did I wonder whether they would run.
Now, you may think being able to do that isn’t something that is going to get more people using desktop Linux, but as much as I’d love to agree with you, then we’d both be wrong.
I say this as someone who used to care about convincing other people to use Linux. (Before shifting into “you can lead a horse to water…” mode, and now I just don’t give a shit.)
However, what I gained from that experience is this: In twenty years of being Linux-only on my personal desktop, the number of times I have read the phrase, “I’d love to use Linux, except for [some statement about a game or games]” is astronomical.
Now, is Proton going to make desktop Linux the best choice for everyone? Clearly not, duh. But it is remarkably disingenuous to suggest that it’s not had a massive benefit to the Linux community and ecosystem as a whole, including, and dare I say especially, desktop Linux. It is flat out impossible to imagine that a substantial portion of current and future Linux users aren’t people for whom Proton solved what they considered to be a substantial barrier to usage.
- Comment on Reddit is using AI to determine users beliefs, values, stances and more based on their activity (posts and comments) summarizing it to Subreddit Mods. 4 weeks ago:
100% it can, and worse yet, it can be scraped and analyzed like this by Meta, or Reddit, or your nearest fascist dictator.
But that’s also pretty much the entire internet in any forum or social media platform, so although I don’t like it, I figure that’s more or less just part of using the internet.
To me it’s much like the whole “There’s no expectation of privacy in public.”
- Comment on YSK that you probably can tell a Policeman (or ICE agent) to go fuck themselves without legal repurcussions. 4 weeks ago:
I was alive in 2020 (and before) I’m well aware how little they often care about the rules.
- Comment on YSK that you probably can tell a Policeman (or ICE agent) to go fuck themselves without legal repurcussions. 4 weeks ago:
Hmm this is a good point, but I don’t entirely agree.
I know that I have wondered many times if I can drop a random (or not so random) ‘eff you’ as I pass, and I’m glad to know I probably can, whether I ever actually do or not. Knowledge is - knowledge.
Few of us here would align ourselves with the group trying to suppress information right now, so although I recognize this is not always a smart decision in every situation, I’m not really willing to get onboard with the idea that disseminating topical information from reasonable sources is a problem.
- YSK that you probably can tell a Policeman (or ICE agent) to go fuck themselves without legal repurcussions.legalclarity.org ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to youshouldknow@lemmy.world | 15 comments
- Comment on My petty gripe: forced software updates just make everything worse 4 weeks ago:
Thanks, been reading those words from various commenters in a browser window on my Linux desktop for longer than some people at Lemmy have probably been alive. But it’s always nice to hear familiar phrases again.
- Comment on My petty gripe: forced software updates just make everything worse 4 weeks ago:
No one remembers how vulnerable windows server and windows desktop OS’s were before they revamped updates?
I remember how much it sucked when ignorant users ignored updates forever and MS didn’t really seem to give much of a shit about security anyway, yes.
MS is a great choice if you want to borrow a computer that someone else controls. Less so if you want a computer that is actually yours.
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 4 weeks ago:
Same folks who couldn’t handle a Bishop preaching mercy, either.
- Comment on IYKYK 5 weeks ago:
I had the same recollection. Turns out it’s common-ish.
- Comment on Roblox Retaliates Against Child Abuse Survivor Who Exposed Platform's Predator Problem 5 weeks ago:
Jesus. How is this thing still a thing? (I guess that’s also part of the answer to my prior question…)
- Comment on Roblox Retaliates Against Child Abuse Survivor Who Exposed Platform's Predator Problem 5 weeks ago:
Thank you very much! I mentioned it to my oldest son (who is now in his twenties) a couple years ago because my youngest son (who is autistic) seemed like he might be interested in the game. He very emphatically said it wasn’t really what it looked like and that he would not recommend it. I didn’t ask for more details, but I guess I get it!
- Comment on Roblox Retaliates Against Child Abuse Survivor Who Exposed Platform's Predator Problem 5 weeks ago:
Thank you very much!
- Comment on Roblox Retaliates Against Child Abuse Survivor Who Exposed Platform's Predator Problem 5 weeks ago:
Can someone give me the out-of-the-loop on Roblox?
I understand that it’s an online gaming platform where there have been accusations of things being unsafe for kis. While bad, this is something that has happened before. Anything specific here that this is in the news so much, or just that it’s the biggest most current example?
