Never said don't resist, I just said if you go seeking trouble, be prepared to deal with trouble.
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Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.
It's good that you have hope, but don't just not prepare.
Doesn't sound like a great idea.
Consider this: a roided-up Republican in a coal rolling truck with a ton of Trump stickers cuts you off. You follow him. He leads you down a sketchy street, slams brakes in front of you, backs into you, then jumps out and assaults you with a lug wrench (what you'd change the tyres with). You come to in the emergency room and tell your story, and people just don't get why you followed him rather than just let him go.
Now who do you think is joining ICE?
If you go looking for trouble, be prepared to deal with trouble.
Definitely more advanced than what I do! I've also been collecting for a long time, and I've just been storing the media. I went from Windows/x86-64 to Mac/ARM64 a few years back, and I have kinda limited options that way. I would have just gone to Linux if my computers didn't die, but at the time, Apple made sense.
I do Apple Music, but, that doesn't answer the question. I also self-host my music via a Plex server. I got Plex Pass for well under $100 on sale years and years ago. Much harder to recommend now. Plexamp is awesome for music, and I also use Prologue (iOS app) for audiobooks hosted on Plex.
For tagging, I use Mp3Tag and tag manually. It was free on Windows, but the guy wants $30 for it on Mac. It's a long story as to why, but after he was kind enough to explain it to me... I paid the man. (For my part, I'd used it for free for many years and I got a lot of miles out of it, and still do, and it's a good, well maintained app from a solo developer.) There are free alternatives. Not so many good ones on Mac (part of why I paid). For album art, I get them from Apple using this handy site (not mine): https://bendodson.com/projects/itunes-artwork-finder/ — you can use 600px or you can use either 2000px or 3000px, I forget which. I'm good with 600px. I think Apple uses the smaller size for phones and the bigger one for TVs and Macs (especially as iMacs have 5K screens now).
My library might also not be as big as yours is. Plex says I have 14,462 tracks indexed. Maybe those are rookie numbers, I dunno. I pretty much have everything I want. All I'd really want now is to take my Apple Music playlists and download them to m4a 192k or similar. I have a few decade playlists that are like 500-600 songs each (80s, 90s, and 00s).
Not Apple though. Apple just hand waves the numbers.
I'm guessing because of the genocides? After the Holocaust, Jews pretty much got a Get Out of Jail Free card for decades to say/do whatever... Judaism doesn't really recruit though, so this wasn't really an issue until the Zionist war machine began committing genocide in Palestine. Between that and what happened in China, people are starting to let Muslims get a pass, just because they're so persecuted.
I didn't really think they had a pass since so many of them are being slaughtered.
Christians haven't actually been persecuted in ages. The thing is, Christianity is the most evangelical, so they go into other countries and try to convert everyone. Not everyone takes to it well. So when people resist conversion, Christians act persecuted, when no one was threatening them in their homes, but quite the opposite.
As an Atheist I just wonder why we can't all just get along.
Internet Explorer and Netscape were $39.99 each back in 1997. To beat Netscape, Microsoft bundled Internet Explorer with the third edition of Windows 95. They took a loss to gain market share.
IE, back then, being the dominant browser, is the same problem we have now with Chrome. A bad actor having control of Internet code due to a big market share in the browser market.
We'd have been on the same XDA forums if we had the same device. Otherwise we may not have met. I never owned an LG phone, though I was considering the LG G5. I also liked the one with the second screen, the grandfather of every "notched" phone (its second screen was "attached" to the main screen and to the right of the camera). V something? LG had some good ideas.
I had a Galaxy S3, and an HTC One M8. I do not recall what I went by on XDA. I use a new name every year or two. It's entirely possible we crossed paths one way or another. I've been online a long time.
I cracked my 16PM screen the other day. Fortunately it was just the screen protector. I love how spoiled we are now. Wet wipe, dry wipe, dust sticker. Then this plastic applicator that holds the screen protector by these pins perfectly centred on the phone screen, and you pull this tab while pressing down and it applies perfectly every time. My old screen protector was up there almost 2 years, since I bought the 16PM in November '24. This is the second one, I have one more in the box.
I've cracked a few screen protectors but never screens.
Yes, Christian Selig. I wasn't sure about naming him, but I guess he is somewhat of a public figure in that his name has been out there in the discussions and he did not necessarily use a handle for anonymity. I do not think I knew he was Canadian, eh. ;)
I didn't think he was involved with Voyager. I thought Voyager was based on Apollo code. So, six of one and half a dozen of the other.
Android phones. I mean, Google has been an advertising company the entire time (2008 to now) that Android has existed, but the enshittification has gotten worse and worse. I still like Android, though. I'm an Apple guy, but I haven't forgotten wiping Android phones and flashing them with custom firmware, and getting the "AOSP-like" CyanogenMod, or the bone-stock "Google Play Edition" Android on an Android phone meant to slam 5 ads in your face every second. It was always a losing battle, but it was fun.
I still want a newer Android phone. I have a Galaxy S10. It's still a good phone, but it should be the next phone I replace, before replacing my iPhone 16 Pro Max (which should last another 7-9 years).
As for printers, HP is always a losing bet. They suck. Their lasers aren't bad at work, but they're not great either. It's always something with HP. I've heard Brother lasers are cheap enough and rock solid. I don't really need a printer though. If I did, I'd get that one Brother laserjet everyone's talking about. Just web search "that one brother printer" and look for the review that just says "stop worrying about printers and get that one brother printer." Follow their link to Amazon to get the part number, and shop around.
I got banned for saying paedophiles should face harsher punishment. I wasn't even thinking of the American president, but a lot of that Epstein stuff was in the news at the time and they framed it as a threat to their guv'nor, I guess.
Lemmy is cool but it's not perfect. Karma farming doesn't work (but people still try it), so that's cool. There's a big echo chamber around Google/Android, Linux, Germany, Palestine, Ukraine, and a few other things. There's a common theme there, and you're probably welcome if you don't fit all of those, but, read the room and "when in Rome, do as the Romans do." Lemmy is kind of the "anti-Reddit" and that's not always a good thing. But, as it grows, more diverse opinions and niches will grow. For example, I'm a Mac user. Not too many of us up here. Hopefully more join up.
Fun fact: Voyager is based on an iOS-only Reddit app called Apollo, though I'm not sure how closely related the two projects actually are. Back in the day, Apollo was the client to use on Reddit, but the developer was not willing to make an Android version. Also, he used to work for Apple, and described his project as "the Reddit client Apple would make, if they were so inclined". It was the best one for a long time. Reddit accused the guy of trying to blackmail them, or something like that, but he had been recording the conversations, and he released the receipts. Naturally, everyone took his side and boycotted Reddit for a while. They all came crawling back eventually. Reddit banned third party apps, then began making their own app worse and worse to the point where it was basically unusable. So Reddit has been eating its own tail for a while now. Eventually it will catch up and eat more of itself. You can still find some good (old) content up there, so Reddit links are not worthless in web searches, but they're trying to keep non-members from accessing it.
Anyway, while I use Mlem on my iPhone, Voyager is what I use on my Android phone. That phone is from 2019, and Voyager works great on it. I also have Voyager on my iPhone. I like both apps. You can't go wrong with either of them.
I assume they already know and have made the decision to not let it bother them.
Since he came up in conversation yesterday, I'll use him as an example: say someone comes up and says how Chris Brown is such a good singer.
If I have any opinion on his actual singing, the conversation can go well even if I think, say, Drake is a better singer. (I did explicitly choose two R&B singers with different controversies.)
But if I say "yeah but did you see the police pictures of what he did to Rihanna's face?", then I feel like we're about to be in a fight. They're a fan, they probably already know. I just don't see that conversation going well.
You could say that you don't like artists who abuse others without directly referring to the specific incident, but if they ask you about who you like, you really have to be careful who you put up on your pedestal, lest they call you out as a hypocrite.
So I let it go.
Now if an American is telling me he likes Chris Brown, he likes Drake, and he supports Elon Musk and Donald Trump, he's pretty much told me his position on women (and minorities) and I know this is a person to keep at arm's length. I'll speak to them, I'll be polite to them, but I'm not going to introduce them to my younger sister or her 13-year-old daughter (if I had a younger sister, and if she had a 13-year-old daughter). But if they just wanna talk music, sure, we can have that conversation. I'd rather speak with someone who thinks it's not okay to beat women, who thinks it's not okay for grown men to have inappropriate relations with young girls, but if we're just a couple people online separated by a huge distance talking about music? That's fine.
Is "a guy's girlfriend" from Obsession? (Oh, I see the spoiler.) Also sorta applies to It Follows, though the stalker wasn't anyone in particular; in fact, it could be "anyone".
How about "an adorable little girl who looks at you funny"? Samara from The Ring (RIP Daveigh), MEGAN, Arya Stark from Game of Thrones if you're one of the dozens of people she killed... there have got to be more. Wednesday Addams was kind of a horror icon, or tried to be. It just seems there are a lot of creepy little kids in horror.
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Vista was not bad. It gets a lot of hate, but Vista SP1 was rock solid. But 7 came shortly after and Vista never had the Aero Snap/Peek stuff and that was game-changing. 7 should have been a Vista service pack. Vista got shafted.
There were also driver issues, but that’s the fault of lazy vendors. Vista itself was fine, but only just fine.
I like Windows 11 at work well enough (and I have about 30 years of experience with that platform) but at home I’m a happy post-PC Mac user. Honestly there are a couple things Windows does better, and I’m familiar with the platform. But Microsoft needs to learn how to get out of their own way, and the way of power users.
Eventually, you won’t be able to and we’ll be back to what my generation learned early on, don’t trust what you see on the Internet.
These days I just get my phone to read to me. I've read books in the past, books are fine, but they're not a flawless medium. Audiobooks are way cooler. Case in point, Dungeon Crawler Carl, but that's an easy win. A good narrator makes a lot of difference. See also, Dexter (Michael C. Hall) reading Stephen King's Pet Sematary or Wil Wheaton reading Ready Player One (and its sequel) by Ernest Cline. Or the main character's English voice reading the light novels (YA, to Japan) of your favourite anime series. So you get Cherami Leigh reading a bunch of Sword Art Online books, and then she reads the Cyberpunk 2077 book (where she played the player character) but sounds completely different. Then, you self-host an audiobook server (Plex works, but it's super expensive now... Audiobookshelf is good if you have a computer it supports), get a compatible player on your phone, and just sync the ones you want to read (listen to). You can stream them, but it's better to download them over a strong WiFi connection.
It means it's going to be hot. I suppose that tells you what hemisphere it's in.
I'm aware it's also the 250th anniversary of the United States this year, but I don't really care. If they were doing great things, I'd say I'm happy for them.
I'm sat at a cafe supporting a local, women-owned and LGBTQ+ owned business on my laptop browsing Lemmy. I should be writing. That's what I do on cafe day. I'm just not in the mood.
Generally I agree with this sentiment, but did either American party campaign for AI data centers and/or technological deregulation in 2024? I suspect Trump may have, but I kind of doubt it. I always thought the Dems were the ones who wanted to push the tech industry. Now I think both of them do (maybe different companies/industries but they both wanna cash those checks).
Okay, so the name sucks, but if my kid breaks her laptop, I still gotta pay it. I didn't break it. The kid broke it. But it's still my responsibility.
I don't have a kid. If I did, I'd hope I had a kid who wouldn't break nice things. But, let's be real. Kids and cats break nice things. I also don't have a Tesla. But if you own something (or you have a pet or a child) you are still responsible for what they do.
It's going to be interesting if we ever get those cars that go out on our behalf and do ride sharing gigs while we're at work, earning back the money they spend keeping themselves charged. I wanna say one of the EV makers floated that idea. It never happened. But if it did, while you're at work your car does damage. Who are they going to blame? Maybe you have insurance that covers it. But you'd still be responsible.
Navidrome looks like good stuff. If I ever move off of Plex, I'll absolutely be looking at it. I'm running macOS, but my goal is to buy a gently used Windows PC from a business or something (like they couldn't upgrade it to Windows 11 or whatever's after that) and replace Windows with Linux, and use it as a server. My Mac (M2 Pro, 16GB RAM) is more than enough machine to run multiple servers, but I'd rather do that with a dedicated machine running some *nix that I can terminal into from the Mac. Navidrome does run on macOS with minor tweaking that is not above my skill level, but when I set up the server I'll be looking real hard at alternatives.