MrVilliam @ MrVilliam @lemmy.world

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Russia, if you're listening, this might be a good plan to get more fodder for the front lines in your "special military operation" in Ukraine. They think they're good fighters too. Win bigly.

I was about to comment this! I learned about that app from a few Lemmy users recommending it, and it's the real deal. Podcasts still generally have ads inserted in (which you can fast forward through), BUT I learned that you can set rules for your subscriptions which apply to each episode, like "skip the first 45s of each episode". Go to subscriptions, tap the settings gear wheel, and find auto skip!

I haven't tried it myself, but a friend used LMMS for a bit and put together some pretty good sounding songs. He just couldn't get vocal recording to sound good so he lost interest, but that's probably more on him than any software issues. Idk what the sample situation is with LMMS, but if you weren't aware of it, I'd say that's worth looking into.

I've started playing around with Reaper (I used Audacity for a very long time) and it seems to be a really good DAW. If you find samples in .wav format, it would be very easy to import those and adjust them however you need. I'm far from fluent in Reaper though so I'm sorry to say I can't offer much help in navigating it.

I also am very interested in an answer to this question. I like making music as a hobby so I really don't give a shit about permissions since I'm not selling anything.

Nope, valid answer! Piracy isn't about theft, it's about sharing. Many people pay good money for equipment to be able to share content that they paid for. Nobody gets mad about people visiting friends to watch a movie that only one friend paid for, so most piracy is basically just that but with many friends and without having to visit. Buying an antenna is the original jellyfin server, but on somebody else's schedule, so live sports is the perfect application of this. If I watched sports more regularly at home, I'd absolutely buy an antenna. I'm tired after 3 12-hour shifts (including today) plus my wife is at work, so I don't feel like going out to a sports bar this time. Which is also a valid way to share this content!

I was just about to bite on that but came here first to see if anybody had a good reason against doing this. So far so good?

I got into this for hockey streams. Sometimes, especially for high traffic events (like the super bowl), streams get pretty rough for me.

Another source that's mostly for soccer streams (if anybody here could benefit from this into) could be found just by googling the words foot and bite, but replace the space between those words with the letter Y. Very handy to be able to find for in the background or on breaks while at work, especially around the world cup.

Oh lol. I must've missed that one. Thanks!

I must be missing something. Excuse my ignorance. What does the president of Mexico have to do with this?

Agreed. I had a similar moment with Stairway in the shower. The Dies Irae in the last bit of the guitar solo really moved me. I have no idea how I never noticed that. I'm kinda scared to revisit Comfortably Numb with that level of attention. It will probably also be a powerful one, and I already think it's incredible.

This meme about something that actually happened would make more sense if it were about something that didn't happen? I'm not sure you understand what words mean.

Radiohead - How to Disappear Completely

Radiohead - Exit Music (For a Film)

Led Zeppelin - Rain Song

Pink Floyd - Great Gig in the Sky

The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter

Pearl Jam - Black (especially the MTV Unplugged version)

Nirvana - Where Did You Sleep Last Night (MTV Unplugged)

This isn't every song I could put forth, but it's a good short list off the top of my head. They're breathtaking, emotional art when actively listened to with good headphones or speaker setup with volume up and no distractions. Even if you know these songs already, I encourage you to have a focused, active listening session. I think other than Rain Song which is probably like 7 or 8 minutes, all of these songs are only like 4 or 5 minutes long. We should all be able to take 5 minutes out of our day to enjoy some good art. If that 5 minutes is really precious, then I specifically recommend How to Disappear Completely because I interpret it to be about dissociating from anxieties and expectations and responsibilities for just a moment of peace, almost wishing for failure because what success you've found is contributing to the lack of time and peace that you so crave, and feeling guilty for that when you know that people would give anything to have what you have. That song didn't mean anything to me until I put it on in the shower (I love my waterproof Bluetooth speaker) after a rough stretch of work, and it slammed into me harder than any song ever has. It was the exact right time and place for me to be listening, and it allowed me to let go of much more than I even knew I was holding onto. It was like an emotional enema, flushing things out that I didn't even know were there. It wasn't fun, but it was what I needed, and it might be what somebody else reading through these is looking for... Have a good cry!

Ground News is far from perfect, but it's the sweet spot for me. It shows you headlines of the same story as reported by different outlets and tells you where on the left-right spectrum the outlets sit. It also shows a spread of what percent of reports on the story are left, center, and right. My biggest issue with it is that it tends to label some centrist or unbiased outlets as left. CNN is more center-right now and AP is pretty much as unbiased as it gets, but they're both labeled left.

There's a paid tier that really narrows shit down, but I'm liking the free tier just fine. I feel informed but not inundated, aware but not overwhelmed. I launch the app usually 2-3 times per day and just spend maybe 2-3 minutes scrolling and reading each time. That's plenty for me. I do miss the comments at r/politics sometimes because people would call out shitty sources or elaborate further or engage in meaningful discussion.

I think that still makes sense. Sometimes it feels like stuff like streaming and amazon orders have reduced our need to leave our homes. In general, this is largely a good thing, but I fear that people are becoming a little too isolated and aren't being exposed to social interactions nearly as much. I don't think people know how to respectfully disagree anymore, and I think that might lead to higher tension and make socializing even harder on people. I'm only 35, but it really does feel like most kids are having a more passive childhood than I remember having, and many adults today also live passively while feeling nostalgic for their more actively lived childhood. I don't think people are particularly happy with life being this efficient and convenient.

So yeah, go out and get a movie and some Chinese food. Have a conversation with a stranger. I bet you'll enjoy that more than doordash and scrolling through netflix.

I fondly recall excitedly using Netflix on my PS3 all the fucking time in like 2011. It was cheap, there was an app right there on the device I already bought, and there was a pretty good selection of content that got updated frequently enough. I had friends who would pirate and I was interested in getting into that until Netflix came along and completely fulfilled the need for me. The incredible convenience made it worth it over the work to learn how to pirate and the time to safely find everything and the risk of getting caught, and then even after doing all of that it would be on a computer and not just a couple of button presses from my couch. I know piracy has gotten to a point now where it's much more convenient, but back then it was a totally different beast. All of this was. YouTube was so much better for users and for certain classes of creators. Media and media platforms across the board are fucking terrible compared to back then. We used to chastise people for still having cable because Netflix was so fucking incredible in comparison. Idk what comes next, but these streaming companies are on the way out if they don't figure it the fuck out. At this point, I'd rather go backwards to go to a goddamn Blockbuster these days.

Your local library probably has a better selection of movies and TV for free than any streaming service you might consider paying for. Let's starve these beasts.

There is no safe season in Texas. It gets tornadoes in Spring and hurricanes in Fall. And because every year is getting hotter and hotter, Summer in Texas is probably also gonna get pretty rough soon. And every time ERCOT struggles, the price of energy soars because of their bullshit predatory small print. I truly don't understand why anybody would choose to move to Texas these days.

You're completely correct, until enough of us buy other products to impact their bottom line. Scaled up production makes things cheaper per unit, but if demand drops out because we're buying it less, then their cost per unit goes up. Then they raise prices to make up for it. Eventually alternatives become relatively competitive and then there's a domino effect of more people jumping off of plastic. At least for some things. We will never get away from plastics entirely, but we're way more wasteful than we need to be. There aren't enough systemic incentives for companies to change their production, and there aren't enough legislators willing to change that, but we can influence it a little bit by voting with our wallets. It's very low impact, but talking about it in places like this can make the low impact a little bigger and lead to a bigger conversation about the global responsibility of industrialized nations to bear more of the burden because we can afford to. Idk I just don't want to grow old and tell younger generations that we knew what we were doing was wrong and would hurt them but we just didn't feel like doing anything about it.

Barely related, but a lot of people don't know as much as they think they know about recycling. That symbol on the bottom of your plastic jugs, jars, etc that looks like the recycling symbol was the result of a campaign to intentionally mislead people into thinking that the containers are recyclable. Those symbols along with the number are identifiers for the types of plastic involved. Different recycling plants are equipped to process different materials, so I'm not saying that no plastic is recyclable, but you're probably best off just assuming that your plant can't handle your plastic. Why? Because if they can handle any plastic, it's probably just one or two of them and you'd need to ask them to be sure, and you'd need to wash away all the food particles and remove labels and adhesive. I've heard that failing to do this can contaminate other material which renders that stuff unrecyclable as well, but I'm not sure that's still true or ever was so don't @ me on that point lol. I'm also not sure about sorting, but that could be necessary too. And after all that, it's still very hard to recycle plastic, and you can probably only do it once or twice before it's not usable anymore.

So what should we do with our plastic? Easy. Stop buying it. Okay, not so easy, but you can choose aluminum or glass containers instead wherever you have the choice. Any reduction is an improvement. Going a step further, see if you can't reuse your plastic for something else before disposing. Once you've gotten a few uses out of it, then you can go through the process of recycling if it's possible. I'm no genius for suggesting that, btw. That's literally just what "reduce, reuse, recycle" is telling you to do. It's in that order for a reason!

TED Talk complete. Hopefully most of you already knew this, but this was for the handful of people who didn't know!

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Why do that when my bed is so much more comfortable?

I think I'd probably pack a bed, TV, microwave, and mini fridge into it and go travel and see a bunch of the world without worrying about lodging. I could also use it at work to eliminate my commute and save myself the high rent of living in Northern Virginia lol.