Hucklebee

Early testsresults in the Netherlands have shown great succes. Less cyber bullying, more socializing by students, and better engagement in classroom. The students actually prefer it too.

I thought it was stupid too, but I’ve come around to it. A box full of dopamine hits is not for teenagers to decide wether they can interact with it or not.

But every day ends wi… oh. OH.

Thrift stores are your friend for bluray and dvd players.

Tape Decks can be aquired there too, but are a bit more prone to damage in the components.

About a year ago, I started buying DVD’s from thrift stores. I rip them all and put them on my Plex server. I recently aquired a Bluray player and starting to collect those too. Since those take up MUCH more diskspace, I only watch bluray with the physical disk (storage in Europe is unfortunately more expensive than in the USA)

I also started collecting CD’s again (mostly from thrift stores too). I rip these to FLAC and also put them on my Plex.

The beauty of this system for me is that I still have to physically flip through stuff to build my collection. Since it takes up physical space, I limit myself to stuff I actually really want to see/listen to. But by digitizing it, I have the advantage of having acces to that curated content everywhere. The added timesink of ripping and metadata correcting gives me more satisfaction and appreciation for what I bought. A sense of pride and accomplishment, if you will.

So I buy Physical to make sure the collection stays curated and manageable, but digitize most of it for the convenience.

Due to the appreciation of my collection, I now watch more movies and listen to more music than when I had acces to netflix or Spotify.

I think you vastly underestimate how many edgecases there actually are. Every one edge case might be a small userbase, but combined, all those small userbases make a significant userbase for whom Linux is less than ideal. And (just a hunch) on Lemmy, this % of users is actually larger than the population at large. Tech-savy people tend to use more obscure programs.

Some edgecases I happen to know(because I happen to fall into three edgecase groups!)

• VR
• adobe stuff
• Many music plugins

Those are two creative edgecases. And I believe using your PC for creative work is actually quite a significant userbase.

And sometimes even IF a product is supposedly supported on Linux, it doesn’t work straight up. I recently tried to install Ubiquity’s Unify program on my Pop!OS, but nope, errors before even installing. Happened to need all kinds of weird dependencies that are outdated and are hard to install. Even when following Ubiquity’s install guide. On windows it just worked. Another edgecase, but it adds up.

So I disagree on your “majority” statement. Especially on Lemmy, I don’t believe that to be true at all.

But meh, maybe agree to disagree.

So have you tried music production with Linux? Installing VSTs is exactly that: hours upon hours of banging your head against a wall with Wine.

There simply are usecases that don’t work out of the box with Linux that do on Windows because the companies don’t support Linux.

My Synology NAS has 512 MB of ram. She won’t be winning any races, but she’s a fine beauty. Hits NAS with a wrench

This.

It is planned feature for Gimp 3 I believe, hopefully it will be implemented well.

But for now, people that aren’t professional graphic designers should really stop recommending Gimp as a viable replacement. It is a very capable piece of software, but too many professional-grade features are missing.

And it’s never only about Photoshop either. It is the integration that the suite has. Illustrator to Photoshop to Indesign is (mostly) seemless.

I’m currently trying to switch to foss alternatives, but it’s rough.

Hmm, Verizon only? I don’t have it, I’m in Europe. Bought the phone without specific carrier.

Although not tied to your collection, you might find Everynoise cool and interesting.

Got big Mad Men vibes from this.

Maybe we should have like a yearly event for this. Like a holiday. International Linux Year Day.

About 10 years ago I got rid of most of my cd’s because I thought I would just use spotify. Now I’m slowly gathering a cd collection again from thriftstores (or buy albums in store if it’s newer music and I want to support the artist). I rip them all to flac and add them to my Plex.

I’ve noticed I listen to music more now. I find new cool songs by artists by listening through whole albums again. Because of the time commitment of ripping and physically flipping through cd’s, I actually care again about the music that I gather and listen.

I have the OG 46 mm (since its launch) and still charge it only about every 3 days.

Mostly use it to track steps, check time (obviously) and skip songs on my phone.

I’m gonna play devils advocate here… it’s easy to say “don’t hate these people in that other country” when these two countries have decades, if not hundreds of years of violence, hatred and conflict between them. You cannot look at what’s happening while ignoring the past 600+ years.

In ww2, there was no actual reason to hate jews. In this situation, the two parties have had actual conflict with actual victims for hundreds of years.

It only takes the wrong people in power at the right time to have this timebomb explodes like it did.

Is it right? Hell No. But the morales at play here are grounded in a vastly different way than with the nazis.

So, hot take here: preface this with saying I absolutely condemn the surveillance by Israel here.

But I think it’s wrong to judge a nation by what they’ve gone through themselves, with an attitude of " they should know better". Just because the Holocaust happened, doesn’t mean that Israel has better morales or values, or that they would never do such things themselves. Humans are humans. With the wrong people in power, horrible things happen.

It’s perfectly reasonable and necessary to argue that Israel is currently violating human right laws. We should keep doing that.

It is not reasonable to keep pointing at the holocaust and nazi germany as a stick of " look, you became the thing you suffered under", unless in a context of learning from history. “You should know better” creates unreasonable expectations where some nations ought to have higher morales somehow.

Edit: I ment condemn, not condone. Apologies