Licking the boot with his asshole it’s so deep

No thanks. I’d rather have a younger battler like Buttigieg that doesn’t pull punches.

More confusion. How often do you change your username? Few minutes ago it was “whoareu”, now its “kionite231” (eta: I guess it’s lemmy. Your username changes every time I refresh the page between these two)

Where’s the code or info on pieces of the puzzle that you made and are trying to showcase here?

I’m a little confused:

• Are you GreyTechno? Is the repo you put in the post for the page at the post link? The page looks nothing like the GIF in the README, and it doesn’t talk about the webpage at all in the repo. If you’re not GreyTechno, what exactly did you do here and where are your python scripts for the tool?
• Where does the phone number come from?
• What’s the use case, exactly?

Yea, that seems to track

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_and_movement

Kinda confirms to me that the current admin’s strategy is to destroy as much as possible and only address the squeaky wheels on a case-by-case basis.

The small handful of things that we fight back against and win won’t outweigh the sheer amount of damage they do to things we have less awareness of. A single win, no matter how large or trivial, will sate the general public for a time and give them the calmness the admin needs to keep moving forward.

Pretty sure this is a military strategy and probably has a name. Inundate your enemy with so many events they spread themselves too thin to address everything coming at them.

Indeed, it is! I’ve not done the entire red route in one go yet, but I’ve done several different pieces of it from VA to UT.

No, you would just have to start paying for the maps. They’d never do something so cursed as to take that away from you!

Another modern example, back country and overlanding routes. There’s a decent amount of work and danger that goes into it, and not enough public interest for the big dogs to warrant mapping out the paths-less-traveled.

I get GPX routes and roll maps from TAT and BDR because these trails are not even on OpenStreetMaps.

Not really a new thing. Before GPS was in everyone’s pocket, you had to get specialized devices. The companies that made those generally gave you 1 free World Map download (or in some cases only your region for free), but future updates or expansions to it would cost a non-trivial amount.

I’m honestly surprised that one of the big players hasn’t tried to offer some sort of premium map subscription now that I think about it, though.

ETA: also, physical maps and atlases could be purchased on subscriptions through mail-in stuffs before the internet

It’s just one option. You can always go to the artists’ shows and pay cash at the merch table.

I didn’t say they were good or bad points, just points. Compared to other arguments I’ve seen, it was written better than most. Could have been AI generated, though.

Yep, lmao. It was well written and made some points, then the advertisement came and all credibility disappeared.

Yea, I’ve wanted to get on that for a while, but I don’t meet the requirements

Give NixOS a look-see. Takes a different approach to package management, but for an engineer that want’s customization abilities it’s probably one of the top choices. I don’t usually recommend this for newbies, but if you’re an engineer it won’t be too bad and simply using it may give you more skills to add to your repertoire when looking for work.

A lot of people put time into maintaining their dotfiles, but NixOS takes that idea to the infrastructure-as-code level when you use it as your daily driver.

ETA: in terms of gaming, with Wine/Proton + Steam/Lutris/Heroic pretty much any distro will be workable

Yep, living the dream will do that some times.

I wish there was a more focused metal channel. There probably is, I just don’t know about it. If you follow KEXP, Audiotree, and Amoeba Green Room Sessions they do have those kinds of performances from time to time, though.

I miss What.CD so much for this reason. They had the “Artist Web” on every artist and album page that linked you to similar music, and even showing which links were higher percentage matches.

Discovering new music on there was so easy and fun. I even ran across several people that released their music exclusively on What.CD through those webs.

Someone else mentioned a similar comment. Pirating isn’t the only option in escaping the streaming services, though. BandCamp, for instance, you can download your music. They even have a special day every year where 100% of every sale that day goes directly to the artist. They just did that yesterday, actually.

I tried Spotify for a couple of years, paid for it even. I have nothing good to say about it, not even the music discovery part. At least, in terms of personal use. It prevented me from listening to what I wanted to listen to more than half the time, even if what I wanted to hear was on the platform.

I get what you’re saying. You’re right that they are different things in some scenarios. For a generic DJ (think weddings, school dances, etc.), it becomes a crucial utility. Service almost any request without having to lug around hard drives/records and have to anticipate what will be requested. Although arguably, that was part of the art of being a DJ for hire at one time, knowing your audience and music well enough so you only bring what you’ll need.

At the end of the day, said services can just disappear for several reasons. That happens, and you’re shit out of luck. You’ll have to either start pirating or start paying for a new service. Either way you’re rebuilding your library.

Start following YT channels like NPR Tiny Desk Concerts and KEXP. You won’t have to do the leg work, new music (good and bad) will be in your feed all the time.

Having said that, the hunt is part of the fun for me.