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Good bot but I already provided a link!

The fact Qobuz has a download store is great, though I've heard they've stopped people from downloading from the website, forcing you to use the app. Not so great.

Same with ListenBrainz. I actually coded a manual scrobbling plugin for MusicBrainz Picard to handle things like this. Should get that through to the MusicBrainz guys.

For last.fm there are apps on Mac that do the job, on Windows with the AM Preview I found AMWin-RP which is mainly a Discord rich presence handler but also does last.fm too.

Kind of in the same boat right now. I'm using Apple Music right now for the following:

• Lossless should be the base level at this point, not a premium.
• The library management in Apple Music is way superior to Spotify, especially for uploading local files. Going to upload some Bandcamp stuff to my Apple Music library in the future.
• I have an issue on Spotify for Android where my 10k+ liked songs list slows to a crawl. This doesn't happen to Apple Music. Yeah, it's choppy when scrolling but I'd rather that than Spotify taking seconds to load the list.

Though it's not perfect...

• there's no Linux client at all, and though Cider is a great effort there's some things that I miss using it (gapless playback is one, it's essential for album listeners like myself) so I'm having to install a Windows VM to run Apple Music.
• There's some weird gaps in some artists' libraries. I listen to quite a bit of Kaskade, and I find it weird that some of his music isn't on Apple Music in the UK even though it is on Spotify.
• Scrobbling is an issue. I actually coded a manual scrobbler plugin for MusicBrainz Picard to deal with this.

The smearing he tried to do towards Christian was the moment I decided I was packing my bags and going. What a piece of shit. Only subs I truly miss are r/HobbyDrama and r/Eurovision.

I've had that happen to me on Reddit too. Firefox really needs a fork that's similar to Vivaldi IMO. Something that brings the power users back to Gecko since Vivaldi is doing a better job for them than Firefox has in the last few years. They even got on the fediverse before Mozilla did.

FWIW, Common Crawl - a free/open-source dataset of crawled internet pages - was used by OpenAI for GPT-2 and GPT-3 as well as EleutherAI's GPT-NeoX. Maybe on GPT3.5/ChatGPT as well but they've been hush about that.

I now have the mental image of Spez frantically struggling to explain to advertisers why their posts were appearing besides werewolf breeding zone memes. So thanks for that.

I don't really use social media for that, to be honest. I just get info from my friends, but if I seek out news myself I'll usually just check the BBC, free news that has to be as impartial as possible. Maybe the Financial Times is alright too, but they paywall their articles and they're more intended for investors than the average person.

I really need to watch that new Puss in Boots. Watched Shrek 2 months ago and found it okay - it only made me more hyped for PIB.

ExFAT works fine but I believe you lose journalling and other filesystem corruption recovery methods. Depending on the kernel version, NTFS3 is the NTFS driver bundled in the Linux kernel. I've tried it and it worked pretty well until it corrupted one of my data drives, and I've stuck with NTFS-3G since then, it's been tried and tested for years at this point.

Xbox controller or DualSense, depends on if I'm playing PlayStation or not.

I think the Vision Pro is the only headset I know of that officially supports prescription lenses. I honestly wished other headsets supported them officially.

Pretty much, UK here and the NHS is also such a mismanaged joke at this point that private health insurance is looking a lot better for me. I've had a friend of mine whose dad succumbed to cancer because the NHS didn't get to him soon enough before it went terminal and then they proceeded to blame him for not coming sooner. This was before the COVID pandemic but these stories only increased afterwards.

In the UK and I was 5, so I would not have known about it that much back then. I only found out about 9/11 years later when I was watching a Discovery documentary on the Shanghai World Financial Center and they were talking about how 9/11 influenced some of the decisions made for that building.

Pretty much. I was actually purchasing a computer build and it was cheaper to give the build a cohesive RGB look. The main thing jacking the price up was the RAM. The RGB RAM was cheaper to get than the non-RGB one.

I don't think RGB would be that bad as an aesthetic choice if all the companies actually stuck to one standard like how we have SATA, USB, etc., but they don't. Most of my RGB components are from Corsair so it's not a huge problem as iCUE can control it, but if you've got different vendors and/or you use Linux, it's trickier. This is what OpenRGB is trying to solve, and what Level1Tech and Gamer's Nexus are trying to sort out with OpenPleb.

And at the end of it, they'll just ask you for your phone number anyway

The smug, smarmy attitude Redditors are known for even when they're obviously wrong.

!winelinux@lemmy.world to access from your local Lemmy instance

Probably not, unless Reddit closes for good or the channels decide the quality has dipped enough for it to be unprofitable. Only one of these sorta channels I've watched was SootHouse, and it wasn't so much them just reading it, but reacting to it and cracking jokes about it. Just a group of British peeps just being funny.