My journey was Windows-> Ubuntu -> Mint -> Fedora -> Arch.

(Infuriatingly i still use windows for gaming, but nothing else.)

Did i mention that i use arch?

More importantly:

fucked up all my data with no backup.

One time i messed up a script and accidentally copied 40,000 mp3s to the same filename. 20 years of music collecting, literally going back to Napster, all gone.

Well, not completely gone. I’ve got everything uploaded to iBroadcast, and I’m pretty sure i can download my library. But I’m not sure i deserve to.

Surely it’s because they want to increase the amount they pay the musicians.

If you like to upload your own music (like Google music), iBroadcast is the tippy tops. You can still use bandcamp (with or without yt-dlp) for discovery, and then upload what you like to iBroadcast.

iBroadcast is what i use. That plus rutracker and you can sail the high seas like it’s 1699.

Hi everyone, JP here. This person is making a reference to the Weird Al biopic, and if you haven’t seen it, you should.

Weird Al is an incredible person and has been through so much. I had no idea what a roller coaster his life has been! I always knew he was talented but i definitely didn’t know how strong he is.

His autobiography will go down in history as one of the most powerful and compelling and honest stories ever told. If you haven’t seen it, you really, really should.

ITT NO SPOILERS PLS

I dated a girl named Password for a while. She was a lot older than me, she was born in the year 1234.

Anyway, @op the exact same thing happened to me. I gotta get smarter about opsec.

Me: Oh, I get it, this “Lemmy” website – it’s like The Onion but for nerds?

My fellow lemmings: No, they’re serious. run0 is real.

Me: Hah. The Onion, but for nerds! I love it.

The 8gb ram MacBook works great for […] writing resumes…

Um I’m not sure where you heard that but ChatGPT requires a shit ton of memory

(Sorry, I’ll show myself out)

The enumeration on the losing side of that debate is probably correct. But as a person who was in my early 20s in 2000, I’d like to offer what I will characterize as The Historical Context and Definitive Conclusion to This Debate.

No one actually gave a shit about that debate. Sure, it came up, but it did not alter anyone’s party planning. We weren’t actually celebrating the changing of the millennium, we were celebrating because we had a permission slip to do so. Any attempt to withdraw that permission was unwelcome.

In Paris on December 31st, 1999, at around 11pm local time, someone threw themselves in front of a metro. The trains were free that night (because it was the 100 year anniversary of their opening iirc), but because of that suicide, at least one of the train lines was substantially delayed. The streets from the center of the city to the north side were crowded well toward dawn as everyone chose to walk home instead of wait indefinitely in a stinky train station.

That person, who chose to end their life on the tracks that night, holds the core truth of the debate within his death: it’s a ridiculous debate and those who would fight for it should just stay the hell home and let the rest of us drink a lot and dance.

I still get block messages in Vivaldi, but not Firefox.

Chicagoan here, chiming in: I saw this guy like 4 times on my way to work this morning.

The idea is sound but for most places I’ve heard of (ie in my city), condos just pay a management company to do all the landlord stuff, so even as an owner, I still have to call some crabby woman when the roofers drilled a hole in my A/C and fight with her – and then also fight with the roofers – to get it fixed

For sure. Look, I hate Stack Overflow as much as the next guy but you gotta admit, for the big picture, long term, best practice for the future of software development, that’s the correct format: one question, focused discussion, end.

Discord’s failure to make its history available is really going to put a big hole in the middle of our cultural wisdom.

Mumble does that one thing just fine, but it doesn’t do all the things discord does.

And it’s not just the fact that discord does all those things that’s made it so dominant; it’s the fact that it does all those things in one place.

Even just the core features of voice chat, text chat, and the ability to set up a new server where you have extensive moderation control in one click – it’s what people wanted.

They don’t need a handful of different programs to glue together a shittier experience, they need a FOSS discord/slack.

??? I hope you don’t actually think this

There’s no reason to require everyone on earth to prioritize a better computer interfacing environment over their free time.

My time is worth way more to me than video game voice chat – but it’s not either/or. Thanks to other developers, I can have both.

Edit: tldr: I think I probably could’ve saved myself a lot of time by just saying that discord is like slack but for friends/fun.

I didn’t think people use it like lemmy/Reddit. People use it like IRC. That’s the analogous tech. IRC is better in almost every way, but not in the most important ways: ease of use, and voice chat.

I know only a handful of people who could set up a server for IRC, but in discord, it’s a one-button process. Sure, you can use a public IRC server, but then your channels are harder to organize and you don’t have as much moderation control. I dn’t think

I would vastly prefer IRC, but even if it was easy to set up, I would still need something for voice chat, and, sure, there are plenty of voice chat tools, but not ones that integrate with text chat so well.

I think a lot of people like the API and the bots built from it, tho personally that’s not something I use much.

I’m in probably ~50 servers: groups of friends, video game guilds, tech chat (eg HTMX, Lit, Svelte), random interests (eg mechanical keyboards), and community servers for video games (eg a couple of LFG servers, a couple servers where I can ask questions to tryhards, streamers’ communities, etc).

I would vastly prefer to use something FOSS, but there just isn’t something that does it so well and so easily – and even then, I’d probably have to use discord for a bunch of these things.

The Bibles have nothing to do with his campaign. In the context of the Bibles, he’s just a dude selling bibles, he’s not a representative of his campaign, the money isn’t going to his campaign, and it’s not being spent on his campaign.

To be specific, there’s no law against a church giving money to a political figure; there are laws against donations to political causes – and political campaigns are political causes. Trump the person can sell whatever he wants and use that money however he wants, or, in this case, license his name to whatever, etc.

There’s no reason a person can’t pay for their own campaign, and there’s no reason someone with more money than sense can’t just give another person free money with no strings. We don’t tend to this because we don’t tend to have candidates that could believably get money from people for reasons unrelated to their campaign – with any career politician, it would be a transparent pretense. But not with Trump, he legitimately can get people to buy whatever, because it’s him they like, not just him-as-president. The shoes, the Bible, the steaks – they’re proof of that fact.

The money he’s getting from the Bibles is not political money and he’s not spending it on his campaign. There’s just no there there.

Trump’s debts are not “political,” especially the fraud verdict (the $400m one) which is his biggest problem rn. There’s no reason a person can’t sell a Bible and use it to pay for the judgement against him for fraud. Like, that’s a weird sentence, but it’s true.

His campaign is definitely short on money, but, financially, his main concern right now is the fraud judgement, and after that the rape/defamation judgement, then maybe the lawyers next? Tho he probably doesn’t plan on paying them. So, yeah, Trump’s going to need some money for his campaign, but he needs to keep the Trump in Trump Tower or he’s completely fucked – legally, financially, and even politically.

Look, I hate him too, but this is just not money laundering.

Like, seriously, this. “Vote for me and I’ll help make laws that you like!”

This is literally what democracy is supposed to be doing. If this was what Trump was actually doing here, it might be the first time he’s just followed regular principles of politics.

Maybe it’s just my lemmy app (jerboa ftw) but I like how your post got read as a markdown list item, like this is the 27th thing you had to say on the topic but the other 26 got deleted.

It’s not illegal to sell bibles. I’m sure there are loads of churches that will fill their pews with them, but they’re not sending money to the campaign, they’re sending it to Trump. Why would he make this harder for himself, he can just take the money and put it in his pocket, there’s no reason to get the campaign involved.