PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 9 months ago

I’ve never met a person in my life that was convinced by an ad to buy something.

I believe that you’re being truthful, but I respectfully challenge the idea that you don’t know some person who was convinced by an ad to buy something. Even if all your friends truthfully insist that their decisions are not swayed by ads, there is probably some product they chose at least partially because an advertisement reached them and left a positive impression about the product.

Ads do clearly work on people who are suggestible enough to be susceptible to them. Some of your contacts are probably these people whether they admit to it or not. If ads didn’t work, they wouldn’t be made. Ads aren’t made inherently to be annoying or make our lives worse; they’re driven by profit. Kill the profit and the motive dies. IMO that’s all the more reason to get rid of them.

Anecdotally, my parents and grandmother watch TV with commercials, and they give me a bug-eyed look when I explain to them that I don’t get advertisements and that I don’t want to see them. Most people I know just want to get content crammed down their content-holes and will deal with ads to avoid the momentary inconvenience of change. So I feel like we’re fighting an uphill battle.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 9 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

I have. Currently too busy coping with life falling apart to watch YouTube courses 🙃.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 10 months ago

Me irl

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 10 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

Actually I tried out KDE Plasma on my grandmother’s budget laptop from about the same time. It was a little too slow with default settings, but once I killed the animations (can be done in Settings app) it ran pretty well. It ran a whole hell of a lot better than the Windows it came with.

I also tested KDE vs XFCE in my old gaming computer, and I actually managed to get slightly less RAM usage in KDE than XFCE, so long as no plugins were used.

Both systems were tested with Debian 12. On the gaming PC, I actually used the XFCE iso, so it was installed first.

So depending on how your distro ships the default KDE Plasma settings or how you set it up, it actually can be a lightweight option compared with XFCE.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 10 months ago

Everyone gets a comment, but no one gets to poop. It’s just how we do it here.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 10 months ago

Oof ouch my eyeballs

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 10 months ago

Excuse me but we’re on Lemmy, we don’t do that here.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 10 months ago

{A | A is an algorithm}

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 10 months ago

Not yet, but I will when I get a job. I want to give back to the community, but I can’t afford it right now.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 11 months ago

Shy

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 11 months ago

Sponsorblock supports Invidious. Go into the Sponsorblock settings under Misc and enable it. You might have to add an instance’s URL (on the same settings page).

In your Invidious local settings, there should be a “Feed Menu” setting. This allows you to choose which tabs appear on your local homepage. (If you have an account, then these settings are for your account and should persistent anywhere you log in.) You should be able to choose “Popular” or “Trending” as one or more of your tabs.

For FreeTube, you can copy the link from your browser (from YouTube or any Invidious instances at least) and paste it into FreeTube’s search bar, and it will go directly to the desired video. If you use Firefox, Privacy Redirect has a setting (under Advanced Settings --> Invidious) to redirect all YouTube requests to FreeTube. You would have to turn the plugin off to search, then turn it on when you want to use it.

FreeTube currently has two sections “Most Popular” and “Trending” that fetch content from creators I haven’t subscribed to.

Hope this helps.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 11 months ago

Narrator: “It didn’t find him well.”

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

1. Violin so I can play sick violin solos over metal music.
2. Drums so I can play blast beats all day in literally every local metal band.
3. Saxophone so I can do this.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 11 months ago

You don’t need a physical keyboard to use MIDI technology. Many audio production programs have a virtual keyboard that will let you play basic stuff with your computer keyboard. However, I sequenced my entire metal album’s drum track by just clicking and dragging all the notes in the editor. (Not gonna post it because I don’t want to dox myself.) You can get Ardour (which can sequence MIDI amongst other things) for free through your Linux distribution, and I believe it can be found for Windows. Else, Reaper is technically not free, but you can use the demo for as long as you want.

All of this is to say that you don’t need any training or equipment to start playing electronic music, particularly that using MIDI technology. A couple hours here and there will be enough to start producing competent music.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 11 months ago

The entire defense industry.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 11 months ago

Yeah because we would definitely be motivated to manufacture fucking Hellfire missiles and landmines without the pressures of global capitalism… /s

Like I get it, getting rid of the defense industry ≠ getting rid of war, but it would be a much more daunting task to wage war if we didn’t have fucking weapons factories.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 11 months ago

Ruin it yourself

Way ahead of you.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 11 months ago

This is probably just a use of different words to not sound repetitive.

Then the BBC could have said something like “More than 500 people were slain in Gaza.” They should have used a word that implies that the more than 500 people were actively put to death somehow, like killed or slain.

Keep in mind that the BBC are journalists; they literally do this for a living. Even if it was an innocent mistake, which I 1000% do not believe it is, it would still be an egregious fuck-up. But we know it’s not a fuck-up…

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 1 year ago

Mostly extreme metal, moreso since going back to college, but I also like post-rock, shoegaze, and classical amongst other things. Try this out for size.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 1 year ago

Connect for Lemmy has that feature.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 1 year ago

I’m not a Connect dev and the app is not open source yet, so I can’t quantitatively give you an answer. As a user, it’s been working fine for me on all feeds.

I recommend posting something in the Connect for Lemmy community. If a feature is broken, the dev probably wants to hear about it.