So what do they actually offer, on top of the work of creative people making music? Not much.

OK, so I left Spotify for Navidrome a while back BUT. What Spotify sells isn’t music. Spotify sells curation and recommendations. Most people aren’t music lovers that want to hunt for cool new music. They just want a pre-generated list of songs that they’ll more or less like. That’s actually kinda huge.

A recommendation engine is something I wish fediverse or open source would tackle. I’m on Navidrome now, but I’m definitely listening to way less music now—access isn’t an issue—I just haven’t had time to hunt around for new music. Investigating new bands takes time. On Spotify, you do it without even really thinking about it.

LOL! YES! I remember hearing, “Maybe that’s what he said, but that’s not what he meant.”

But he said Linux is a hassle to use because of updates … Just get used to using the package manager

Yeah, package managers are great… but also… for somethings… flatpaks from Flathub/Software Center are also great because those apps get automatically updated in the background, so you don’t even have to think about updating anything.

Steam, Obsidian, and Discord are on Flathub (easy, popular app store for Linux)

Leaving a social media platform often forces content creators to start over from scratch on a new site.

Don’t Lemmy and Mastodon also have this problem to some extent? Like, all the comms on lemm.ee will have to start over on new instances, no? Is it possible to migrate all subscribers, comments, and posts? Or just partial migrations?

Watching this post. I still don’t fully understand how Usenet works.

Yeah, Reaper is surprising! It’s in the Arch repos and Flathub.

I would have been happy if I had to build it from source or download a random deb from their website. But, damn. It’s on Linux and easily installable!

Open Source, permissive! Do what ever you want with my code!

No, not like that!

Mommy, that source available project is claiming to be Open Source™️! 🚨 🚓

I only have 1 project left on GitHub. It’s a tiiiiny bit popular. Not huge, but I have a decent amount of stars on it. I know some people use it in automated work flows.

I’ve actually been thinking about how to get it off GitHub for a while now. Any tips? Ideally without breaking everyone and pissing everyone off? Or at least with minimal disruption…

Should be popular distro so if i have a problem i can ask about it

I mean, Arch has the Arch Wiki which is very good. (I use Arch, btw.) 😸

I’m surprised Mint is giving you trouble. Where you doing something… risky? Or maybe the hardware you’re running isn’t very compatible?

Otherwise, a distro like VanillaOS (or any immutable distro) might be able to keep your system more stable.

To “waffle” comes from the 1956 movie Archie and the Waffle House. It’s a reference how the main character Archie famously ate a giant stack of waffles and became a town hero.

— AI, probably

Soon people are gonna be on $19.99/month subscriptions for thinking.

Any recommended alternatives?

Ah, yes. Healthline. I had forgotten they exist because I downranked their site in Kagi.

Also brought to you buy Healthline: Rose Quartz Crystal: Meaning, Healing, and How to Use

Yep. 200% agree. I still post questions on SO, but when I don’t get any answers, then I have to go to Discord… :(

the whole XY Problem

lol. I hate this. Just answer the damn question or don’t. I’m not asking you to validate if what I’m doing is weird or not. It’s weird! I know! That’s none of your business. Just answer the damn question or don’t. Simple as.

get closed as a duplicate of the similar post

I’ve definitely had this happen to be before. It’s annoying.

What I do in that case is proactively say:

I’m facing problem X. I’ve tried searching for solutions. I found post X2 and X3 that are similar, but my problem is actually different because of Y.

Sometimes it helps.

Also, if you see people being assholes you can report them. There’s a flag for “unfriendly or unkind”. I’ve definitely used that before.

Even without LLMs, it’s possible StackOverflow would have eventually faded into irrelevance

Yeah, exactly. A lot of groups have a Discord :( or other forums where people ask questions. I know I’ve had to ask questions on Svelte’s Discord :( for example. And I think even once on some YouTube influencer’s Slack…

Sucks cuz both of those places are silos and my questions and answers are forever lost.

Music

I’ve been using Navidrome for a while now and it’s been great!