kadu

kadu , 9 days ago

things like Spotify and Google Music, services which effectively killed any and all MP3 sharing

I’ve been using music streaming apps ever since Apple Music first launched. I agreed with you, I thought it was great and it effectively killed my need for piracy…

…until all those mfs started to mess with the “downloaded songs” feature. I tried YouTube Music, Spotify and Apple Music. They used to work well, but now, even though I download all my musics for offline listening at the gym these apps will randomly glitch out and lock all music away while they try to load, using the internet, my library. The issue is my gym is got no cell reception. And even outside the gym, I travel through some rural areas quite frequently. So when the app decides my offline music requires internet, I can’t listen.

Also, slowly, their catalogues are removing some tracks due to licensing issues and I’ve already lost 20 songs from my library. So guess what? I decided to try music piracy in 2023. And boy, it’s amazing. Music piracy isn’t dead - it’s better than ever.

Quick summary: I used a Deezer trial and a specific tool to download my entire library from Apple Music as FLAC lossless files. I then use MusicBee to organize, download lyrics, listen on the PC, etc, and when I connect my Android phone MusicBee will automatically convert all tracks to high quality Opus and send to the device, where I use Retro Music Player to listen.

Everything works offline, everything sounds perfect, no music ever goes away, lyrics are there, album art, the whole ordeal, it even works on my Chromecast speakers.

kadu , 8 days ago

At the same time their recommendation engine is extremely good and that’s what makes it hard to abandon Spotify completely for me.

If you need something to cover that gap, MusicBee supports using Last.fm to report back what’re you’re listening to and their service will provide the same kind of tailored recommendations. They’ve been around for over a decade, their trends are pretty good at suggesting new songs.

kadu , 12 days ago

I had a comment massively downvoted in an earlier post about this.

One user claimed I was responsible for destroying the environment, because I said I wouldn’t tolerate the bumps much like I don’t tolerate dead pixels when manufacturers say “It’s within spec!”.

The second user claimed to own the device, and that I was dumb because the bumps “are not noticeable at all”

Congrats Lemmy on slowly turning into Reddit.

kadu , 17 days ago

YouTube didn’t “kill the competition”. They never had to.

All YouTube competitors very quickly faced the issues relating to ingesting, storing and moderating video. The scalability is a nightmare.

kadu , 18 days ago

I absolutely hated the Devil Comets on Mario Galaxy

kadu , 17 days ago

remove the password from a Windows account

That used to be true, but no longer works

kadu , 17 days ago

unfortunately

Unfortunately? How is encryption by default a bad thing? It’s amazingly good at protecting data from people who wouldn’t even know what encryption is.

The number of lost laptops in coffee shops protected by BitLocker is insane.

kadu , 19 days ago

You peasants debating over compositors and window servers.

I only interface with my computer over a headless terminal that prints the output using a matrix printer in another room. I programmed my VERY OWN hangman game, and no, you can not look at the source code to find the answers because I OBFUSCATED THINGS, you absolute lump of failed carbon.

kadu , 19 days ago

important to ecosystems

Because they’re invasive species to most places in the world. They’re important for their original ecosystem.

kadu , 20 days ago

The most information I could find about it is a forum thread where angry FreeBSD fans react to an article talking about how the Nintendo Switch used FreeBSD components, which led to people mentioning the PlayStation 3 which led to a user talking about how Sony contributed upstream.

Which means I found literally nothing.

kadu , 20 days ago

That may not automatically imply 100% contribution

Thus the angry fans on the forum.

kadu , 19 days ago

I had to filter “Elon Musk” and “Linux” but after doing that, yes!

kadu , 20 days ago

That’ll be the death of epic

Don’t threaten me with a good time

kadu , 20 days ago

Nope.

Dead serious.

I’d love it if the company who decides to sign exclusivity agreements for PC games stopped existing. And I would doubly love if we could go an entire generation without all games relying on a bugged version of Unreal Engine.

kadu , 20 days ago

It’s so comical that you had to search so hard to “find Valve doing the same” that your link is a 2005 forum post, and you still failed, as it’s absolutely not the same thing.

kadu , 20 days ago

Oh no I’m so offended!

What made you so angry, my dude? Your shaders not compiling correctly? Overpaying for an exclusive release that lacks basic features present in the discounted Steam release that came after the agreement ended?

kadu , 20 days ago

Imagine calling flavor “oils and sludge”

kadu , 20 days ago

I love FPS games. I love MMOs. Heard about Destiny 2 and downloaded it.

Gave up after 2 hours.

Gameplay is great, graphics are great, gunplay is excellent.

However, the experience for newcomers is abysmal. It’s unclear where to go, what to do, who the fuck matters or not to the story, what the story even is, and what mechanics matter or not.

And then there are “full beginner’s guide” articles that actually assume you already understand every location and jargon, and after reading a literal wall of text, they drop some information like “btw during the first 30 seconds of gameplay if you didn’t use this specific resource to craft this specific item, you’re an absolute moron and you’ll develop liver failure and you’ll never enjoy a game ever again”

So yeah, not playing that. Cool for those that got into it when it first released and somehow are able to keep up with the meta.

kadu , 19 days ago

Well, when I join a Discord group for books, I don’t automatically join all book Discord channels ever created.

I don’t see what the difference is, unless you’re willing to explain.

kadu , 19 days ago

If a Lemmy user searches “woodworking” and the biggest woodworking community isn’t on your instance, you have to leave Lemmy

It seems like you have a misunderstanding about how Lemmy works. This is incorrect.

You’ll be able to see all “woodworking” communities that exist in your instance or that are federated with your instance. This difference isn’t subtle, because as long as somebody from your instance has interacted with the external one, they’ll immediately start syncing.

For instance, I can search for “gaming” on my Lemmy.world account and the biggest communities aren’t even hosted here. Yet, I can follow them and interact normally, and I needed zero external sites or tools to find them.

The only possible friction is hosting your own l Lemmy instance, or joining one that is likely to be defederated from others. But most users will not create an account on a shady instance, they’ll likely join the biggest “normal looking” public ones, and so far, federation hasn’t been an issue (apart from debates regarding very politically noisy instances).

This very chain of comments exists because I, a Lemmy.world user, had zero issues joining this Lemmy.ml community.

Oh, and by the way, downvoting my comment means absolutely nothing - you’ve accomplished nothing, because that button doesn’t mean “I disagree”.

kadu , 19 days ago

The way he described how it works is objectively and verifiably wrong - it simply does not work like that. Whether he likes Lemmy or not is a separate matter, that doesn’t change how it works.

kadu , 20 days ago

I agree most motherboards should at least come with 2 or 4 USB-C ports.

That being said, people upgrading all their peripherals happens significantly less often than the PC upgrade itself, and 90% of my current setup relies on USB type A, so if a motherboard (specially mATX) needs to decide what ports to fit into limited space, I’d prioritize USB A for sure.

kadu , 21 days ago

It sounded like a quick way of making your irrelevant company show up in headlines, and it worked.

This “use a Mac somewhere as a proxy for iMessage” thing has existed at least two times before, and failed for the exact same reasons.

kadu , 20 days ago

This statement is literally true for every single language on Earth.

kadu , 22 days ago

My dude really just took one of gaming’s most famous quotes, made it shorter, and it became news.

I really like Gabe.

kadu , 22 days ago

To be fair, CS2 sucks for people already heavily trained on older versions of CS. Newcomers will have a significantly better experience on CS2 than CS:GO.

kadu , 22 days ago

I can take a quick walk over my bio lab and find about 6 different machines whose software require Windows.

Some people work, and they care about their work being done, not spending a week masturbating over tiling window managers.

kadu , 22 days ago

No, not really. If you know how to configure Windows, you don’t deal with ads, forced defaults, privacy issues.

My Windows 11 install contains no Edge, no Microsoft update, no ads, no telemetry, and so on. I can set it up in a new computer in less than 15 minutes, too.

There’s no argument here.

kadu , 22 days ago

I hope you got a backup solution

Reinstalling Windows on another machine?

it must be impprsnt if you’re prioritizing it over yet i software freedom

Yes, getting machines that cost over ten thousand dollars and are crucial for research working is indeed more important than a flawed philosophical attachment to Linux.

But hey, if “software freedom” is so important to you, I’m curious to see how you disabled the mandatory proprietary management engine inside your CPU. And how about flashing that motherboard BIOS with open firmware? Which BIOS recorder chip did you use? Man, it must be so tiresome only using websites whose servers open source their code…

Oh, wait, no, you too use proprietary software on a daily basis. It’s just that the argument only works when criticizing somebody else’s needs right? Gotcha.

kadu , 22 days ago

Are you sure it has no telemetry?

All components that would collect data are removed - my computer doesn’t even connect to Microsoft’s clock syncing server. That being said, my entire network uses NextDNS so I can also tell (and possibly block) all remote connections to servers I disapprove of.

Keep in mind, I’m not talking about using the settings in the installer or the control panel that allow you to “disable telemetry” I mean those components simply do not exist in my system, I have a custom install

kadu , 22 days ago

you now they will re-enable that on the next update

I have my own update procedure that I do periodically. I do not rely on Windows Update and nothing gets “re enabled”. Though once I did use Windows Update and nothing came back, so you’re either mistaken or if it actually happened it was one specific update.

And here’s the thing, Ubuntu broke because I updated my system and it created a dependency conflict. You can use Arch, but then you need a lot of time and knowledge to tweak it and make it work - well, if I need that time and knowledge, why not apply it to Windows instead and get perfect software compatibility?

I have 4 computers at home. 3 run Linux. I don’t have “a dog in this fight” but I find Lemmy’s “Windows bad, Linux perfect” instance on every single conversation simply immature, filled with lies and exaggerations, and honestly, part of the reason why I don’t interact with the Linux community as often as I could, even to provide help.

If a user goes on Lemmy and says anything positive about Windows - or explains why they do indeed need Windows and not Linux - they get downvoted to the point of being removed from the conversation.

kadu , 21 days ago

Do not use dots for things that aren’t extensions.

kadu , 23 days ago

Mac apps not available on Windows are a thousand times more frequent than Linux apps not available on Windows (ignoring non applicable apps, like the distro’s package manager GUI for instance)

kadu , 22 days ago

Your last paragraph is correct…

But as a portuguese native speaker, I never once in my life heard somebody use the wrong gender for a noun, apart from non-native speakers and literal babies.

kadu , 24 days ago

That’s a Netflix issue, not a Windows one.

Netflix requires not only extremely specific DRM, they also have a whitelist of what containers are allowed to see the higher resolution. It’s a whole problem on Android too.

It’s not Microsoft somehow forcing you to use Edge, it’s Netflix.

In other news, my Jellyfin server’s web UI works even if you’re using outdated Firefox versions on Hannah Montana Linux.

kadu , 24 days ago

It’s Apple. They’ll probably support it, but make messages received look ugly, have missing features, have obtuse issues that aren’t clear to the user, instantly explode a built in fart smell cartridge inside the iPhone whenever someone sends you a message

kadu , 24 days ago

SMS, the entire protocol, is not secure. It doesn’t matter what app you’re downloading.

kadu , 24 days ago

Explain that to my Ubuntu install that killed itself over a package dependency no longer existing in the repo.

kadu , 23 days ago

A normal software installation never broke a Windows install in my life.

kadu , 24 days ago

Or more frequently, somebody who thought they were dating but didn’t explicitally ask and somebody who’s got zero intention of dating but isn’t going to make that clear as to not lose the benefits.

kadu , 24 days ago

Shame? I do it with pride. I could be a multi billionaire, I’d pirate content with a smile on my face.

Indie stuff? I’ll buy.

Stuff from big studios, companies, publishers and so on? I’ll pirate it, I’ll help my friends pirate it, I’ll pirate it again just as a backup, and I will feel amazing about it.

kadu , 24 days ago

That logic would be valid… Two centuries ago.

These gigantic companies lobbied your government to change how fair use and, most importantly, intellectual property laws worked.

Disney took classic stories in the public domain and made bank on top of them - and used this same money to prevent you from ever doing the same with their content.

So they abused their size to change the dynamic here.

kadu , 25 days ago

If the conclusion was that it wasn’t justified… I’d pirate anyway.

kadu , 25 days ago

A Canadian would call 25 C a very hot day. As a Brazilian I’d be laughing and considering using warmer clothing.

Claiming that one scale works better for human perception of temperature is quite literally wrong, by definition, as your scale can’t account for how extremely subjective this is.

With Celsius, however, the subjectivity is gone: everybody knows what a fucking ice cube is, everybody has boiled water, everybody knows roughly how warm a body should be. It’s super easy.

Also, what the fuck are you talking about scales that “only go to 38” and comparing it to test scores? Celsius can go to temperatures in the -200 range and essentially infinitely up. A soldering iron is hotter than 38 C, I can guarantee you that.

kadu , 24 days ago

If you use TikTok on a fresh account to test, you’ll see you’re not quite right. It’s scary just how fast and precise the algorithm actually optimizes for your taste and your political views.

And the boosted content is quite clearly associated with how many people liked it.

There’s no deep conspiracy here.

kadu , 26 days ago

The entire rest of the world is using apps with more features and full crossplatform support.

The US is the only one stuck on iMessage and, for some god forsaken reason, pretending alternatives do not exist.

kadu , 26 days ago

That’s not a good explanation. iMessage is the default on iPhones sold in South America and Europe too.

Whatever Google’s latest crap is also the default on all Android devices sold everywhere.

But people still use the multiplatform alternatives.

kadu , 26 days ago

So one of the reasons “Ubuntu is bad” is “gnome is crap” lol

I’m not sure if you’re a parody account or this subjective list of craziness is an actual critique of Ubuntu.