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[–] self@awful.systems 22 points 7 months ago (13 children)

fuck this is so target-rich for sneers I can’t decide what to focus on. all the high profile companies’ boards Sammy’s been asked to leave due to massive conflicts of interest? the revolving door of fucking worthless startups (hello Humane AI pin) the WSJ trots out without question? the tacit admission that the only thing that’ll stop LLM bullshit from burning the planet is a breakthrough in nuclear fucking fusion?

[–] self@awful.systems 10 points 7 months ago

nah the dog can chill

everyone else is absolutely cursed though. fucking coming into my tomb calling me “a guy in a rubber mask” as if skin care wasn’t hard enough

[–] self@awful.systems 15 points 7 months ago (3 children)

fuck, I’m an ancient skeleton swearing revenge on the archeologists and/or teenagers who’ve disturbed my eternal slumber

[–] self@awful.systems 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

this is you:

I’ll usually debate people as well, but not those who resort to a logic fallacy as boring as ad hominem for lack of an argument. Seeya.

we don’t need your debatebro ass here. though now that the flood of random posters is mostly over, we also don’t need more gravely unfunny lol monkeyspork random reddit posts either

[–] self@awful.systems 6 points 7 months ago

the incredible efficiency of writing OCRed screenshots to SQLite constantly

so Linux on laptops is frequently a shitshow in terms of power management, but bespoke Linux hardware that comes tuned (like the Steam Deck or laptops from Linux vendors) seems to do a lot better than Windows for efficiency. I’m hoping this is an area where shit gets better for Linux as hardware vendors start to take it more seriously.

[–] self@awful.systems 5 points 7 months ago (4 children)

don’t worry, there’s no way it’ll end up in a distro anyone would willingly use

unless they make it a mandatory component of systemd alongside the other shit they’ve put in there

[–] self@awful.systems 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

exactly! I took this opportunity to start over from scratch (which is why I’m seeking recommendations) with Bandcamp and a pile of automatically organized and tagged FLACs in storage for when Bandcamp enshittifies (coming soon!), and YouTube Music on a friend’s account if I get truly desperate for a shitty recommendation engine

of all these options, the automatically managed pile of FLACs have by far the best API, because you choose what it is (and there’s some very good options even for streaming them to your own devices)

[–] self@awful.systems 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

my playlist for this weekend is growing!

I have alllllll kinds. Being able to share music in an easy manner is actually a fucking disaster of a problem in recent years. Just try to copy a fucking track name out of something like Spotify or Apple Music.

It’s a problem I want to solve.

oh absolutely same, it’s fucking ridiculous how hard it is to share music in any way that doesn’t immediately tie you to a streaming service your friends might not have. I’d really like a web service that’d take a Spotify/Apple Music/whatever share link or a song or album title and output a link to a page that’d just link that song’s data on MusicBrainz and have a bunch of buttons to listen to it on whatever service or the best match on YouTube. I’ve been tempted so many times to create this

[–] self@awful.systems 10 points 7 months ago

the follow-up video is fucking scathing, and I’d like to take a moment to remember all the orange site posters who were fucking wrong when they pretended the rabbit leak was fake

[–] self@awful.systems 3 points 7 months ago

fuck yes I’m immediately down

[–] self@awful.systems 3 points 7 months ago

in the genre of video game music about robots: both The Protomen and The Megas are good

in the genre of seeing, like, some shit man: consider Dan Deacon

Aesop Rock, just, in general

sometimes you want McDonald’s and anybody who has a problem with that is a weirdo and what I’m saying is Pitbull is my McDonald’s

[–] self@awful.systems 7 points 7 months ago (25 children)

utterly off-topic but to usher in the weekend (and because I’ve dropped Spotify): what’s some music

no wrong answers just start listing artists and albums you like

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