You’d look weird as hell, but with a pair of binoculars and a stable position, it might actually be.

so cool, hope it spreads further!

Gotta love how they have more than 70% of the market, yet they still need to see line go up, because otherwise they might actually have to improve the product 🫨

fyi, I don’t roleplay often, but if I do, I do it with a local LLM in LM Studio, for instance. OpenAI and the others already have too much, they don’t need to know my kinks too.

Offline AI has the benefit of being swappable, so if you don’t like the results, you can just use a new model

Nice, I think the world’s a little better when we can share our musical tastes. It’s definitely some work to get all that music organized, but I’ve been messing around with scripting with python and that can do a lot of the monotonous stuff like fixing filenames and what not.

And plus you never know, you’ll see songs being uploaded from your library and might think, “who the heck downloaded that?”, as I have many times. Every time I see unique music being downloaded, I feel a little better knowing eclectic music taste is still alive and well haha

Ahh, my bollywood folder is fairly small right now, under 20 tracks. I tend to fill my library either with albums I’m curious about, or with songs I’ve heard and really want to replay for the future.

Once in a while, you can find people who have some decent collections, but since not everyone logs on at once, it’s sometimes a game of cat and mouse. If I can’t find it on the soulseek network, I’ll grab stuff from places like doubledouble, usually for things that are very new.

I haven’t seen too much 80’s horror, but so far, my top 3 80’s horror films would be

1. The Thing (1982)
2. Angst (1983)
3. The Vanishing (1988)

My favourite decade for horror is actually the 70s, for being far more absurdist and sinister. (I could be really off base, since I still haven’t seen many classics)

my folder structure is like:

└── genres
    ├── Acapellas
    ├── Afrobeat
    ├── Ambient
    ├── BASSSSSSSSSSSSSS
    ├── Bollywood
    ├── Breakbeat
    ├── Chutney
    ├── Country
    ├── Dancehall
    ├── DUBSTEP

and people download my files just fine, sometimes they just download entire folders since I organize by genre, not artist.

I mean, I’m poor but can afford such things, I mean, $18 a month for a VPN+seedbox combo is well worth it for some digital freedom, and I could even go cheaper if I wanted less features. The seedbox alone is just $8 CAD a month, so I mean, it’s not crazy expensive.

Surprised no one has mentioned using a remote seedbox. There are providers who allow public torrent use, even if some of them discourage it. You can download torrents via a remote server, and then connect to that server via ssh, syncthing or sftp, which are all encrypted, and has the added benefit of giving you a shot at getting into private trackers, if you ever snag an open invite, where having a seedbox is almost essential.

nailed the lankyness of Lelouch

I had a friend tell me, a linux veteran, that I should “try linux mint, it’s a great experience out of the box”, meanwhile I’m running Nobara + arch linux in a dual boot configuration, and have debian running on a headless server.

The older you get, the less you want the headache, but man, I’m not old yet, I still like tinkering here and there. I hate when things break, but with experience you learn how to tinker safely, and still can have fun without staring at black screens due to some driver misconfiguration.

haven’t used it, but Liberapay seems like an okay alternative.

Same! I don’t really care for watching sports on a TV screen, except if surrounded by people who are genuinely interested in the game, and even then, when the players are putting in an effort worthy of mass praise, that’s what made it felt awesome!

Hmm, Yeah, I guess I’m only now coming around it, not sure . . . I’m 32.

I mean, I realized it much earlier, but did I change my behaviour right away? Of course not.

It’s definitely a topic I’m embarrassed to speak about with family.

I know it’s a normal thing, to not instantly look for alternatives to software you might have used for your entire life, and I get it, if it hasn’t harmed you or done you wrong, then it’s probably fine to stick with what you know.

But as someone who first experienced alternatives to Windows back in 2006, and like others who walked the more beaten path, we’ve grown tired of this stuff. The slow, decline of Windows, and the promise of something better with every update.

It won’t surprise me if one day they decide to full send it and charge a monthly subscription to use the full OS, not one bit. Enshittification, it’s bound to happen. I’m teaching my child about linux now, so they’ll be aware that software doesn’t have to suck.

Try something different, it’s a good way to live, to know you don’t have to remain where you are if you don’t want to. Of course, only if you want to!

well, I have a dual monitor setup, and can concur, have had many issues related to it, but I blame that more on linux/wayland than proton/wine.

really sucks that League doesn’t work . . . I know some people who play and the fact that it used to work just sours the pain.

I guess, at least Dota 2 works? I know they are very different, but I’d say similar enough and worth a shot so long as one isn’t too tied to LoL.

been running an nvidia gpu since 2019, literally switched from windows right as cyberpunk 2077 was being launched, and trust me, it was possible back then, and it’s even more performant now.

thing is, not even protondb is reliable. There’s been many times I’ve tried running a game, and encountered an error not posted anywhere, nor protondb, reddit or steam forums. All the comments on protondb will say, “works great out of the box!”, and I’m just left digging through random forums at that point.