SevYote

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

There's an XKCD for everything

Always loved the alt text on that one:

I can't remember where I heard this, but someone once said that defending a position by citing free speech is sort of the ultimate concession; you're saying that the most compelling thing you can say for your position is that it's not literally illegal to express.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I honestly can't remember. There's some options listed here. I might have used Soundiiz? I seem to remember it was something I had to subscribe to, but only for a month just to get all my playlists and likes moved, and then once that was done, canceled the subscription. I remember there were a few cases where a song didn't convert because the name or specific mix or whatever was different, but I could just search it on YTM and add it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All the computers in the Electronics lab had it installed on them; we wasted so much time playing. That was such a complete screw-off class, haha.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I moved to YTM when Spotify just would not stop trying to shove Rogan down my throat at every opportunity. The iOS app itself has some rough edges but otherwise, no regrets. I used a tool to transfer over my playlists and likes, and from there it's been perfectly good. Plus YT Premium is nice to have, too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

spoilerI legitimately still use Winamp as my main music player when I'm playing local files. I've had the same skin on it for over 20 years. I'll be crushed if Windows ever breaks compatibility and I can't install it anymore.

Also I still have mIRC and on the rare instance I get on IRC, that's what I'm launching, but it is very infrequent these days. :P

 

I'm thinking of getting a laptop to run Linux on. I've heard Lenovo is generally well-supported (particularly models that come with Linux pre-installed).

Is there any particular hardware I should watch out for / avoid, and / or prefer? Any other brands / models people would particularly recommend?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you mean, curate answers more directly? I haven't really looked at bing recently.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What do you think of Kagi? What sorts of scenarios / search types do you find yourself needing to fall back to a different search engine?

 

Google's results have been getting worse over time, but it seems like the last couple years, they've taken a steep nose-dive, completely overrun with crappy content farming.

I've mitigated a lot of that by doing searches for any kind of product comparison or technical question with "site:reddit.com", but now with the possibility that that trick will become less useful over time as well...?

Yeah. What search engines are other tech folks using?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

r/WhatIsThisThing, r/TipOfMyTongue, and similar subreddits. Some of the simplest and best examples of the power of crowdsourced knowledge. Take a simple question with a simple answer that is basically impossible to search through conventional means, but through the power of those communities you can get your answer in minutes. Simply amazing.

Lemmy is going to have to get huge before it can really replace them. :/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Incremental games is a good one, yeah. It's a space with a lot of shovelware and abandoned / incomplete projects, so it's soooo helpful to have a place to find out about new good ones or ask for help when you're stuck on something niche.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What / why is the not-main server that they're on now?