Ce să vă zic, mă, bine ați venit? bine ați venit, rău ați nimerit. La locu’ ăsta îi zice șerpărie, de la șerpii care umblă pe-aicea. Dracu’ știe cum au ajuns…
@loops .ml is also the domain for Mali, but if someone from another country uses it, I guess you can be 90% certain that they are tankies. And going to fediverse.observer I see mastodon.ml is hosted in my country, even in my city! Bro, just… just get out of here! Get out of there or else we’ll start another revolution!
@Servais tbh, Kbin was way too much in development when the APIocalipse happened. But back then it was the only Reddit alternative in the Fediverse that didn’t have extremist devs. So I also used to recommend it heavily, together with other people that probably shared my opinion. However, the rapid growth of Kbin (which was not so stable/feature complete, albeit interesting as a project) must have put a strain on Ernest (the dev/creator of Kbin) who eventually slowed Kbin development to a halt, also due to personal/health issues. He also tended to delegate his work far too little as well, which brought issues to the project in the long run.
Mbin seems being worked on by a team, and there are already multiple active instances with different owners, so I think overall it just seems to have a greater future.
Plus there’s also Piefed, which looks to fix many of Lemmy’s issues that the 2 devs don’t care about and don’t really want to fix them themselves.
As for me, I think I’ll keep my main account here and not create any new accounts to explore other platforms. At least for now. Lotide seemed interesting as well, but its development halted and I still have a bunch of Mastodon accounts to keep myself accessing the Fediverse should my server go bust again anytime in the future. However, Mastodon is based on the Twitter/X UI/UX, which I’m not particularly fond of. And much of the Fediverse has been following Mastodon for a while now, with some notable exceptions.
Also, people do not seem to think of the Fediverse as a whole. The Fediverse has no technical barriers, but it does seem to have some psychological ones - people keep referring to Mastodon as a distinct entity, or to Pixelfed for example, but not think of both as being in the same place somehow.
I’m moderately happy about the Fediverse developments myself; there’s plenty of content and there’s more and more on a daily basis. But it just doesn’t seem to gain so much traction outside the nerdier communities.
I’m also having a general displeasure about social media as a whole, and while I still browse Reddit (my account is still on the older Reddit interface, don’t know for how long) and YouTube, social media is no longer a place where I feel happy going to.
Now, to each their own. If you’re looking to consume stuff on social media, I definitely recommend going full-time on the Fediverse, as it is a growing place on the Internet.
@Billy Somehow, Iran wasn’t worried about escalation, hmm…
@F04118F Didn’t see this lol
@Barbarian@sh.itjust.works wrote:
EU-agnostic
Yea, that sounds more like it, indeed. However, they never miss the opportunity to blame Brussels for their own failures tho.
Well, they gotta pretend they’re not the anti-EU, pro-corruption populist POS they are at home, I guess.
@Fubarberry Thank you. This seems like it should be useful for my situation 😁 Do I need to go through the process of setting a root/sudo account for this?
@Fubarberry I’ve started playing Cities:Skylines (the original one) again, and downloaded multiple mods from the Steam Workshop. It froze one day and I couldn’t fix it in any way than to shut down my Deck. Every upgrades I did to that city were just gone.
Thankfully I managed to improve my public transit by adding more lines, more buses and changing some routes, as well as adding a few more metro stations as infill (sadly I have to redo all the metro lines all the time when I do this).
I play vanilla for now, as I want to make the most out of it without DLCs first. Then I think I will get the snowfall DLC in order to get trams going (as a European I don’t understand why are trams, and partly even trolleybuses, hidden under DLCs but metros aren’t, as in my country almost all larger cities have trams, yet only the biggest has a metro. But I digress).
@Flatworm7591 I heard about libgen and sci-hub from my uni professors. Before that, I never knew anything about them.
@cron that is true, however Ukraine doesn’t do the same stuff. They’re relying heavily on drones and other modern technology to protect the lives of soldiers, and I think this is an advantage that Ukraine has over Russia. Man power will run out at some point for Russia if things go at the same pace.
@dillo@fosstodon.org Omg, I can’t believe Dillo is still alive! I’m following you rn 😁
Btw, is there also a way to sync the bookmarks to Nextcloud? I am currently on Firefox and I am using Floccus for this.
@0x815 very good. The more it stays behind, the bigger of an advantage Ukraine can have on the frontline.
@alyaza Quite well 😁 Looking forward for a few employment processes, hope I get a positive answer to one of them at least.
I got into the rabbit hole of YouTube videos about iPods, iPod refurbishments, upgrade and other media players in general. It’s so fascinating that there are devices designed just for listening to music, especially since even the old Nokia phones came equipped with music players or had music playing capabilities. In fact, I used my phone to listen to music even before getting a smartphone (yes, I know regular mp3 players were a thing, but it was much easier to view what you were playing on a regular color LCD screen with an actual UI). Even more fascinating is seeing people actually upgrading these devices with more storage, larger batteries and new capabilities like wireless charging, Bluetooth connectivity (to connect them to wireless headsets), even making them able to stream from youtube.com/watch?v=ZxdhG1OhVn….
In fact, I am surprised that as of speaking, in 2024, there is still a market for music players, some even being Android based and with Google Play Store access, so you could install Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, YouTube Music or whatever you can find out there (be it a streaming service, music player or whatnot).
This, along with the fact that (as I said) I never owned a dedicated media player myself (none of the likes of an iPod at least), I think is what made me to pull an older phone out of the drawer and try to repurpose it as a dedicated media player myself. And so far, it has been a success for the most part. I don’t know how will I use it outside my house in the real world (even inside the house as well, as I already have the bulk of the music on my PC), but it’s just so fascinating. If you’re interested, I can create a separate post on the DIY community so you can get some ideas.
@user68k I think this will be the first GTK3 app that will have an actual options menu instead of a tucked away hamburger menu with options. I think it’s gonna be interesting.
@Powderhorn These have been the norm in my country already for quite a while FWIW, haven’t tested if they change these prices often or not however.
@clark Ugh. You could probably get away with multiple cloud storage services then, and mapping their folders to the music player of your choice. Also, use file types that are generally smaller in size for storing music (like opus or ogg). For cloud services, use the ones whose apps support Storage Access Framework so they can appear in the default Android File Manager / File Picker thing (you can also use something like Round Sync to access them all, and it does all the job for you). If you’re willing to pay for cloud storage, then one single provider with 100-200 GB can also be more than enough for your music needs if you own more than just a few songs.
Then you can add the folders in your music player settings.
Edit: Don’t forget to also backup your music somewhere in case something happens with your phone or your cloud provider(s)
@clark@midwest.social wrote:
Where should I store the music?
I just store it in the music folder of every device I own. I have a 1 TB hard drive on my PC and my phone has 128 GB of internal storage, with an SD card slot.
I haven’t any clue about self-hosting. I’m running GrapheneOS, is it enough to save the songs in Files and play in an app like Auxio? Maybe sync with SyncThing?
Yes. Any music player will generally prompt you to scan for your files upon first opening.
Edit: didn’t notice your first question. Well, I just get them from everywhere, lol. If you have a tracker that you use for anything, be sure that there will be some music there. If you cannot find it, then just refer to the FMHY’s list of various tools to download music from just about anywhere: Spotify, YouTube, SoundCloud you name it. I also buy music from Bandcamp as it supports downloading it directly for an unlimited amount of times and in any of the most popular formats, or just go to the band’s concert and buy their album directly. This way you’re also supporting the artists directly with your money (if you care about it).
@hedge I am quite a hoarder for cloud services, lol. The most private ones I use are Mega, pCloud and Nextcloud. Alternatively, you can also use Syncthing if you only care about syncing your files over.