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- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 1 day ago:
Maybe it is worth saying that it isn’t that it can’t run on it, it is that Microsoft is trying to stop it from running on it. Two registry keys and 11 replaces 10 on anything 10 works on. But they don’t want to tell anyone that.
But the premise is sound: to the end consumer they hear “buy a new computer” while the old one works fine, and the new ones price is starting to climb…
- Comment on Spotify is finally launching support for lossless music streaming 2 days ago:
so far…
- Comment on Spotify is finally launching support for lossless music streaming 2 days ago:
That’s nice. I have been streaming lossless for myself for what, two decades now? I see no reason to pay spotify for anything.
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 3 days ago:
To be clear: I am talking about running my own sever/stream.
I almost always have it with me because the internet is nearly everywhere. On a plane, in my car, at work, at the place I am typing this to you which is thousands of miles away from my server. When I am at home it still is playing from my NAS on my local network.
How am I supposed to cart around 5 TB of music with me? I don’t want to have to copy a tiny bit to my laptop, tablet, phone, and steamdeck. If I absolutely know I am going to be out of internet range I can have it copied temporarily to a device with downloads, or syncthing. Even doing that at least I can be nearly anywhere in the world to do the download.
Its not like this is hard, or expensive.
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 3 days ago:
Hey some good people are here on Lemmy under selfhosted. I am sure there are more.
A server can be nearly anything, a $50 used computer can work, the cost of hard drives can run a bit more. Its a neat little hobby and doesnt have to be expensive. OpenMediaVault (as the OS) is free and get you started as a NAS out of the box.
In any case, lots of people are happy to help and there are tutorial videos as well.
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 3 days ago:
You do have it on your computer: your server.
So when I listen to music locally, I just open clementine and it knows all the music on my server.
When I go out, I stream to my phone from the same server. How often is your phone NOT on the internet? I mean its a phone right?
Here I am about 5,000 miles away from my server, and I still stream to myself, to the laptop I am working on. Should I load up my phone, laptop, tablet, and steamdeck prior to leaving the house, or just know I can stream anything from my 6TB collection at any time?
If you DO feel you need to have some offline, it still makes sense to have a server. Just use syncthing or any decent music program to bring over what you want before you leave the internet.
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 3 days ago:
Why would you not stream that to yourself? No need to buy hardware to get in the way.
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 3 days ago:
My server says streaming is working great. My radio station list says streaming is working great. SomaFM is working great, and the archive fills the rest.
- Comment on Pay-per-output? AI firms blindsided by beefed up robots.txt instructions. 3 days ago:
Doesn’t really matter what I think, its a different concept that pirating. Hence a different thing than what was getting ruled on.
I mean AI or not look at it this way: if a company wanted to train their workers and pirated all the training manuals, piracy is the issue, not the training.
- Comment on Pay-per-output? AI firms blindsided by beefed up robots.txt instructions. 3 days ago:
Totally different. Anthropic could have bought all the books and trained on them. Pirating is a different topic.
- Comment on Microsoft mandates a return to office 4 days ago:
Yeah, I keep thinking that. They know everyone is thinking that.
- Comment on Microsoft mandates a return to office 4 days ago:
So damn stupid. So they laid people off recently right? They say they are not doing this to decrease their workforce, but I have to wonder.
Also, how many of these “teams” will be returning to the office only to have to work with other teams that are not in their office anyways? Seems like that happens more often than not in global organizations. Anyone know how centralized Microsoft work groups are?
The last person I knew who worked at microsoft was back in the old balmer days who got hired to do nothing to kill a open source project. They put a bar in their office and drank themselves to death. Paid well though.
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 4 days ago:
Having my email lost over the last thirty years, and aggregated and associated means that I get a constant barrage of spam and phishing attempts. Some are very clever. I don’t fall for them but it’s annoying and it does build a profile over time. It also makes hammering at my email server to force the password a constant.
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 5 days ago:
I set mine up in 2012 maybe? So been a long time… But in general not just plex.
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 5 days ago:
Yeah I want thinking when I wrote that. But the idea still stands encrypt the emails.
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 5 days ago:
Decode like any other PII, so it is encrypted at rest and when stolen.
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 5 days ago:
Can someone finally realize we need to hash the emails too? I don’t really give a fuck about my passwords, I can change them and they have 2fa.
But changing my email? Pain in the ass and far more irritating to deal with.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 1 week ago:
9 days on Lemmy and you are already being a jerk and using votes. Miss reddit do you?
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 1 week ago:
Really? I have a bridge to sell you. Talk about a tool…
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 1 week ago:
It is so sad that isn’t true anymore. I know what usenet was, but today it is just a collection of paid companies. You can really tell because of all the honored take down requests.
Is there even a university or other public entity connected anymore?
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 1 week ago:
Yeah, they are. So why do you think they set all of that up for you to freely stream torrents? What is in it for them? Data? Malware? What?
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 1 week ago:
Ok, is it possible if most people aren’t blocking ads, then maybe it is the ads themselves?
There are so many and they are getting longer. I wouldnt sit around to watch videos if they are interrupted every minute. The average rando probably goes back to TikTok, Facebook, or Instagram if they have to wait for something. If I used any of those services, I know I would jump ship.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 1 week ago:
Most of the hate should be that he really doesn’t know what he is doing and should have a disclaimer as such.
- Comment on How OnlyFans Piracy Is Ruining the Internet for Everyone | Innocent sites are being delisted from Google because of copyright takedown requests against rampant OnlyFans piracy. 1 week ago:
I find them better. Most of the time. Google is needed every now and then.
DuckDuckGo gets to the point and skips the seo stuff… Mostly.
Although at this point search is nearly useless no matter what you use.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 2 weeks ago:
I think you name the range, and then you can do the same using ctrl+shit+L
I may not remember right, but I haves used calc and excel interchangeably since it was open office. Some things in excel drive me up the wall, some things in calc do to.
Either way, the best thing I found was get the data out of spread sheets and into something that can work with it better. Like sql or pandas.
But I get that for financial work, it is a staple. Which frightens me to no end.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 2 weeks ago:
And my kids school requires every parent to have a Google account to track progress and share information.
- Comment on Google encouraging healthy uses of their new AI image generator 2 weeks ago:
The thing is it doesn’t matter. People already couldn’t tell if things were real or not. Facts have been out the window for a long time.
This doesn’t change anything. People are just stupid.
- Comment on LPT: Go get a shot, now. 2 weeks ago:
I saw a study the other day that mentioned that Sweden during the pandemic had a median time of 30 days sick leave for those who had Covid.
In the US that would be rare if impossible for a lot of people. I would think if someone could get a shot that would lessen symptoms or duration in a country that has such a poor health care safety net it might be worth while.
- Comment on Instagram Caught Hiding Posts That Say "Immigrants Make the Country Great" 2 weeks ago:
We are way beyond finding allies. Call it what it is.
Does Walmart actively distort your news, your information, your opinions? Does it select what you see for an agenda?
I have a distaste for people shopping at wallmart, but this is beyond that.
Remeber, there is nothing Facebook provides that anyone needs. It is a choice.
- Comment on Instagram Caught Hiding Posts That Say "Immigrants Make the Country Great" 2 weeks ago:
there need to be a lot more stuff
but that is just the thing, you need to make the stuff. That is how it grows.