Neat!

The plural of software is software. Not softwares.

Huh.

And then they apparently immediately fired a bunch of staff.

Thanks for the heads up.

Qobus is french, and allows you to buy files outright.

Bandcamp is owned by Epic Songtradr (US), but if you buy on so-called “Bandcamp Fridays” they forego their cut, and the full amount goes directly to the artist.

Some artists on Bandcamp also allow you to set the price to 0 (bandcamp is “pay-what-you want”) allowing you to download the files for free. You could then compensate the artist in whatever more direct way you find suitable.

I see you don’t need more convincing.

Dungeon Meshi has one of the more populated communities on Lemmy, !dungeonmeshi@ani.social.

It’s mostly just fanart as we’re between seasons, but the episodes discussion threads are likely to be quite active again once the second season starts.

Symfonium is not open source. It is a paid app by a helpful and responsive sole dev.

If you want FOSS, that’s Finamp. But it is not as good. It does also implement offline play features.

The Symfonium dev has responded to and implemented two requests of mine, making me quite happy to pay for and mention their app.

My combo is Jellyfin+Symfonium

With Symfonium you can manually download playlists and favorites for offline, and/or have a “rolling cache” where the most frequent listens are automatically kept synced for offline listening.

My collection is far too large to keep on my phone in its entirety, but with Symfonium I don’t need to, and if I’m ever caught without internet, I’ve still plenty to listen to.

Jellyfin does not organize the music, it’s a way to browse and access it. For a nice client for desktop, look at Feishin.

To actually organize the music, you want something like Picard.

If you don’t know about soulseek, hit up !soulseek@lemmy.dbzer0.com

It’s been by far the most effective way to actually find files.

Lots of good channel suggestions.

But I would also nominate COSMOS.

Both the original hosted by Carl Sagan, and the new series with Neil deGrasse Tyson.

For me, they brought the epicness of reality, scientific history, and the vastness of the universe, into focus in a way nothing else did.

They made me feel a hopeful and powerful “humanity is fucking AWESOME, and can do INCREDIBLE things”. It’s not just informative. It lights a fire in you for the way humanity fights its way through the dark, using the scientific method as our guide.

Triangle

God yes. I miss it dearly.

Deadlock is scratching the itch for me.

Also Battleborn Reborn has made the campaign, and bot matches possible again.

Work has gone into making online matches work, and there are some videos of test games on youtube.

Work has stalled for now, as the main dev is busy with other stuff.

Yup.

It makes you think about not just where you point it, but everything it might “slice” as you handle it.

Or even how you set it down, or move around one sitting on a table.

Yes.

Essentially always pretend there’s a deadly and infinite laser coming from the muzzle.

Bad enough to replace actual people with AI fakes, but maybe let’s not have them puppeting the corpses of the dead, yeah?

He was gonna teach her gun safety, with a loaded gun while not respecting trigger discipline or the laser rule?

I’d say that’s “a likely story” but the man’s a Trumper so it’s exactly the kind of stupid I’d expect.

But there are no hacks required to install it on old hardware.

Yes there are.

If you used rufus or ventoy, you’ve just applied them without knowing.

Unmodified Windows 11 ISOs will refuse to install on any hardware with a CPU older than Ryzen 3000 or Intel 8000.

In fact there are less hacks required to install / upgrade to windows 11 then there are to install any Linux distro.

What?

On the vast majority of systems, the vast majority of linux distros will install and run with zero “hacks” of any kind. Literally just boot the ISO as-is and have at it.

genuine copy of windows will receive all and any updates

No. On many machines, while windows will install just fine due to the modifications to the installer applied by rufus/ventoy, the yearly major version updates can fail catastrophically.

A lot of hardware will update without issue, but there ABSOLUTELY is risk.

Windows is just an os. As long as it is compiled for the correct CPU architecture, it is just as supported as any other hardware. The hardware is supported by individual drivers, normally provided by the hardware manufacturer, not Microsoft.

You are confusing functional, and supported.

Something can “technically still work” without being officially supported.

Not being supported means Microsoft can make breaking changes in updates, because they made no promises your hardware would be accounted for in the future.

Just because it works today, no longer means it will tomorrow.

That’s not quite right. Our sun has never gone nova, and is a fairly young main sequence star. It’s still in the first “main sequence” of fusion after accumulating from scattered matter. It’s heavy enough to do fusion, but not heavy enough to really “properly” go boom at the end (or to have done so in the past).

While novas form heavy elements, the originating star either becomes a neutron star or black hole. Sol, our sun, is a a “normal” star (though above average brightness) which means it won’t properly go nova. It’ll just “burn out” and become a white dwarf.

The matter ejected by a Nova flies out into the universe and falls in the gravity wells of other Solar systems. So our heavy elements likely hail from millions of other past stars.

Ah, I missed this in the finnish comms.

Signed. I’m livid that our fucking election infrastructure was recently outsourced to fucking Amazon.

How the hell is that independence?

Virtualtabletop can be selfhosted.

We use it to play Blokus, Rummikub and more with family all over the country. All a player needs, is a device with a browser, and a link to join a given table. Grandma uses an android tablet to play Rummikub with us.

The games already implemented are many, and you can contribute your own.

Wut?

Alchemist and Battlemage cards were fine.

Edit: oh no. It’s a pivot to AI compute 🤦‍♂️

Why does, not taxing moving money end public funding

Because eventually everyone is below the “wealth cap”. Which means no-one pays any further tax. Why would anyone accrue more wealth at that point?

Okay, it can be 2%, and this is enough.

If we’re taxing all transactions, then yes, sounds about right.

Because when the government owns everything, that means the people in government become rich.

Are you suggesting we privatize everything?

Wealth control means giving them the wealth, and not owning by the government.

Ok, but how do decisions get made then?

Government are systems. Just because you change the structure, doesn’t make it not a government. It sounds like you want better government, not “no government”.

Which I agree with.