I’d name it after my gf if it wouldn’t mess anything up astronomy-wise. She’s big into astronomy

Yeah that’s what I did but Windows will insert itself to the top of boot entries in UEFI anyway lol

They are probably using Xiaomi which is based in China, using AOSP with whatever mods they throw on it, which isn’t based anywhere and is open source, or it could be Huawei too.

I will create a masto instance where this is mandatory to counter balance

I haven’t used Windows at work in years for anything, not for cloud hosting, not for on-prem, not for employee machines etc etc. until the cost-cutters came in and forced Teams and other Microsoft crap to squeeze the market during inflation. The company is just waiting to be killed off now.

Respectable, I’m the opposite, whenever in at the office I feel like I’m clawing at the walls to get out as quickly as possible, the sweat, the noise, the people, it’s just not my thing, at home I live alone in a decently sized apartment in a non-major city and it feels so cash compared to rammed trains and buses commuting for hours and hours like the last chopper out of Saigon.

While the billionaires have AC on private jets, we have those shitty euro bakery curtains. Great.

It should link to comments by default, no? Comments is the content on text-based platforms like Reddit and Lemmy both.

I donate to 404media and like them a lot, but how do I set it up so that I can see full versions of linked articles?

Honestly - you do you and have fun! Don’t listen to those who moralize/pathologize this, it’s pure slave morality shit, especially amongst Christians. Just make sure you’re doing it for you and not for society.

Yeah, I actually spent a good amount on bandcamp over the few months I’ve cancelled all streaming services, but I saw an album I heard on a web radio that I wanted to check out from a tiny artist, too small for piracy, like 2k listens on their most popular song, but it was over $20 on Bandcamp.

It’s their right, and for the first time in a very long time - I just had no real alternative to get it, it was weird having heard music and not been able to acquire it, but I wasn’t gonna pay that much money, I could buy groceries for the week with that! So I just… didnt get it. And to my shock - I was fine, about an hour later i just forgot all about it and listened to something else.

I only ever hear that in movies. I assumed it happens if you eat low grade meat or smth like in the wild west in the US back in the day and it just became an old wives’ tale turned pop culture myth.

I do actually not like spicy food though, especially Chinese and Indian, but I’ve had enough of it to know I never had any gut issues.

Yeah I never had appendicitis but always found it odd there are so many who do all of a sudden. If this organ was so prone to failure all the time would it have not been gone ages ago?

We email now and then. It’s enough.

Music should just be free, because if I’m not paying for Spotify, you’ll be damn sure I’m not paying $20 for an album either. Sorry not sorry.

For any music streaming service, artists pay to a distributor ala distrokid/cd baby etc. to host their music and get back practically nothing, while listeners also pay Spotify/etc., so we all just enrich Spotify, direct wealth transfer style, and now they’re just investing into AI to cut the tiny costs they have as-is and they’re using artists to do do that, extracting more and more value.

But music is just too plentiful, even Spotify feels like a lot of money for just… music, not that I don’t love music and treasure it dearly, but because it just doesn’t feel scarce. It’s not good and it’s not fair.

It feels like every other person can make music at this point, and artists that are good even in the microgenre niche I’m into at any given moment seem endless, I could never listen to it all, it comes out faster than I could even listen to it.

Even the signed big artists make their money touring, not selling records, because most people don’t actually see it as worth their money given the other entertainment options available, even if those more musically-inclined may balk at that, it’s the truth.

Supply massively outstrips demand because of a global market we’re exposed to now, and there ain’t no way in hell most of these folks with 1k monthlies make any money from it at all that outstrips expenses.

So maybe it should just be free. That way we don’t give all our money to the rich, and everyone saves their money, the artists and the listeners alike. Maybe bandcamp should charge like a dollar for higher quality downloads, so that once you know you like it, you can tip the artist a dollar for the FLACs instead of 320kbps mp3s, but other than that I see no other way forward.

And nowadays it feels like many people don’t even bother with music at all because they all just watch endless brainrot on tiktok and random podcasts that are just people chatting about their grocery store trips or whatever and occasionally grifting for the alt-right funkopop or ponzi scheme or whatever, so if that don’t tell you the value of music to the less musically inclined, then I don’t know what will.

You can call me a jealous amateur who wants to make it worse for others because i haven’t “made it”, but I’m just echoing this dude’s points: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVY7-Ti77UQ

Jfc some people got some fucked up dads in the comments here, leaving, slamming people through doors and table legs. My dad was okay, he had a bad attitude but I think he understood dedication and hard work and taught me to love it too. Haven’t spoken in years, but I think about him now and again.

What is it?

The world isn’t benefitting from your research, you benefit from the world’s research based off your own research, on and on it goes and we all get smarter and know more and strive towards bettering our condition, curing our ills and minimizing suffering and maximizing happiness for all.

At least in my opinion it’s why scientific research while a truly neutral morally activity and generally done as an end unto itself - from a broadly humanist standpoint - is worth pursuing, even when the immediate benefits aren’t seen by the shortsighted.

Nah my S.O. is down to game and does so more than me because she’s unemployed, but I on the other hand don’t have the time for it.

Where would I ever get time for that? I don’t have kids but I’m genuinely curious. In-between chores, upskilling and work and S.O., I have absolutely zero time to just sit down and game, and even when I do, I have no energy.