banneryear1868 @ banneryear1868 @lemmy.world

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Yeah I've never fully switched to Spotify because of that but I do like their library and ease of use, the playlist function we use for parties a lot and it's just easy and everyone understands it already.

As a Phish head and purveyor of bootlegs, and sometimes specific masters of classic albums, my personal music collection has always been a sacred space.

I've been using Musicbrains Picard for tagging and Plex for streaming but will be switching to Jellyfin for my new build.

Actually have been using foobar2000 upnp server on my internal network more often lately. BubbleUPNP for an Android client works really nicely.

I found in recent years the quality was hit by spammers who were basically regurgitating content from other social media sites and spamming it to whatever subs would allow. Even though they'd get banned they'd have like a dozen alts, all co-mods on the same subreddits, and just make new accounts to get around it. You'd report them for ban evasion and nothing would happen. It would be political spam too, like you'd have accounts posting to "antifascist" subs and red pill subs just so they could cover all the bases.

Speaking of quality, it basically became the things your parents like on Facebook or Google Image results for "epic internet meme." Political humor was reduced to AI images of angry Trump looking damp with captions like "oh no I'm going to jail." For niche-interest subs it basically becomes people posting pictures of boxes of products they bought or asking which products to buy, people getting angry and debating about products and people who sell products.

Case in point that Oliver guy who would sell his books and shit on his subreddits and respond to every comment with links to his own blog posts, sold anti-Trump merch that hilariously looked like it was pro-Trump, posted ACAB stuff but also made racist copaganda comics, pretended to be an enlightened leftist but also wrote a red pill book about how rape is natural. Guy got banned for harassing mods of other subs and got his network of 20+ spam subreddits and dozens of alts banned, but the admins don't do anything when they try and rebuild their spam network.

People's identities become fully commodified then a technology is invented to simulate it. Late stage capitalist dystopia things.

Him, berries, and the rubber guy are probably all buds.

The early to late 2000s was definitely a special time on the internet. I logged on in the early-mid 90s but I think it peaked in the late 00s. Consolidation of services/monopolies and saturation of smartphones I think killed it. Internet used to be something you did actively, now it's a thing in your pocket you distract yourself from shitting with that beeps at you all day.

I met a friend's partner for the first time and she said something funny that had this unique quality I instantly recognized. She was in fact another rare woman /b/tard. We can crack each other up at any moment and our professional colleagues haven't a clue about this weird online subculture with its twisted sense of humor. It's not even just repeating memes its like a whole mindset you get infected with for life. You can almost instantly recognize when someone else has had their minds ruined by late 00s 4chan. That type of stuff just doesn't happen now, it's just like "hueheu look dis," "euheuhue omg funny, look dis now hgurhehue."

The only ones are really use are site: and -notthisstring and find they work. With granularity I mean adding things to the search string.

Google was really valuable before web services were so monopolized and consolidated like they are now. It's almost more useful to use the specific websites search function for many things now. Before this, you could run searches and it would have all these personal and small websites indexed. Oh look, here's a guy who lives his whole life as Peter Pan and has a website about it, cool... now it's just a profile on some social media site same as anyone else.

I've found it still works for oddly specific requests, if you make your search string more granular. Generic searches are garbage now, especially images.

Yeah that's exactly it, MSAA isn't too bad but FXAA makes edges look pretty blurry. Temporal anti aliasing is also really blurry looking sometimes but gives the impression that the edges could be crisp.

Same one I ordered for my new build, 4060 ti 16gb oc. Hope it can last as long as my current build I've had for over a decade with minimal upgrades.

Hey America how's it going?

Jesus Christ.

I actually prefer the crisp edges without as much post-processing effects sometimes. Source engine games look great to me, just minimal crisp and clean geometry. I find a lot of modern graphics distracting, but it depends on the game. I do love really pushing graphics for a game like Skyrim.

I just ordered parts for my first build since 2011. I've had my Sandybridge i5 at 4.5ghz most of this time... until the fans died and it overheated, replaced the fans and it was fine, brought it to 5ghz somehow so it could live out its last days in glory, it's been two years. That'll do pig, that'll do.

Yup I think a lot of this stuff should be nationalized and that the energy market should be used or simulated to determine the operation of it.

Specifically rate-payers at least in most places, and the cost for these projects is added to some sort of Global Adjustment applied on top of the KWh price. GA is usually capital projects like those, plus making sure the price is high enough to cover the cost of actually distributing the power. Sometimes electricity can be "free" or even in the negatives in the market for example especially at night, especially if you just commissioned nukes in preparation for something else being decommissioned and now have an overnight surplus that you're trying to incentivize consumption of or give to your neighbors.

Solar + battery would work for people who have houses but not industry or mid-high rises. The transmission grid doesn't just function as a means to get energy places but it connects everything in to one system as a means to stabilize everything. So when that electric arc furnace is turned on there isn't a brownout because the huge demand has been scheduled and generation can be dispatched accordingly. At the distribution grid which is the lower voltage lines connecting homes you can be a lot more creative with microgrid and feed-in-tariffs, in a lot of places these distribution lines are managed by local distribution companies/LDCs which operate separate from the Independent System Operator/ISO which operates the transmission grid and an energy market if there is one.

The big demand right now is a replacement for the capabilities of fossil fuels. There's a lot going on with energy storage tech right now.

Very similar especially with friends who were taking MDiv, and I actually lead the Christian fellowship at my school for 3 years before becoming atheist agnostic. I had a driving job 30 hours a week and would listen to philosophy and all kinds of lectures and popularized academic courses after I went through a bunch of literary classics. My ancestors also founded the Mennonite Brethren church and there's a lot of radical beliefs like pacifism I was exposed to through that environment, I'm the first generation to fully assimilate.

Oh also Linux can be great at audio! I have two raspberry pi based devices specifically dedicated for music which run puredata and supercollider, both synthesis engines. One uses Lua scripts as its presentation and development layer with a Foss community around it, the other is similar but more puredata "patch" based. Incredibly interesting musical applications, so Linux is really at the heart of what I do.

When it comes to recording and "production" though I really rely on Ableton's workflow because it's very conducive to "live" creativity and there is very little in the way to get basic ideas down. And gaming is simpler still on Windows, as are many other mundane tasks that become forum-diving exercises on Linux. The only machine running windows is my main desktop because of this. I work on computer systems all day and at home I just want that machine I don't have to think about and just does what it does. Windows is shitty for many reasons but it fulfills that for me. Laptop and everything else is all Debian all the time, with the exception of my routers and switches. The first computer I ever built when I was 11 was initially Fedora before trying many distros so Linux is truly my first love. Windows is just better at certain things still, sometimes I just wanna be user.

I use Audacity and Reaper as well but Ableton Live is special in how the workflow is, also Ableton does seem to run in Wine, but not VST plug-ins which are key.