Or his views on seemingly eating toe nails right off of his feet in public.

I feel that’s a personal matter though. Stallman can have whatever opinion he wants on that one.

Have we ever lived in a more stallmanwasright.jpg time?

Trump will make sure he gets what he needs anyhow, no worries.

RFK Jr: I gotchu fam.

Me either, but on desktop it doesn’t care. (unless it’s thanks to Linux/ff/ublock but I doubt that) I didn’t realize it forced you on phone on until recently. Sorry!

Here is essentially the same thing with less detail. I haven’t decided where I like uploading things these days yet.

I recently started using Qobuz also. I was impressed that there are Linux apps, including a (3rd party) downloader that lets me download FLAC. (Otherwise I think you need to use their app in Windows or Mac to download FLAC - the web downloader only let me grab MP3.)

However, although I have loved it, my use case is different than yours, so not really apples to apples. I have a media server running in a VPS, so ethical downloads are my primary requirement. For Download --> Self-host --> Self-stream they are a perfect fit, IMO, though I’m sure there are others.

I like it because I’m not buying music from Amazon, or Spotify, and that it’s DRM free, primarily. I will also buy from Bandcamp sometimes. (To be fair, some amazon music can also be downloaded DRM free, but I think anyone reading this probably already knows that. I can’t remember if FLACs were available to me never or rarely, because I didn’t use Amazon music much.)

Despite that, I’m watching this thread with interest, because I’m certainly open to other options.

Fair, will do!

I love fall. I mostly dress the same as I did in summer, but greatly enjoy the cool morning air and generally nice days. Fall and spring are my favorites.

Don’t worry, maga will get us back there soon enough…

if someone is not able to distinguish between fiction (regardless of the medium) and reality, then the problem is much deeper than pearl-clutching religious fanatics insist on believing, and will NOT be solved by abolishing all the “bad” fiction

We’ve been trying to make this exact argument to the exact same group of people since the earliest days of D&D and I’m sure someone was having the same conversation about some other thing before that. 😠

I like to imagine we are witnessing malicious compliance from the model.

I love that the only AI goal the oligarchy can focus on is making sure we can all use it to work more.

Proprietary. If we’re part of a simulation, it’s being run by a fucking oligarch.

It’s only respect for my wife that gives me the strength to hold it in. She’s not got a lot of family close by.

When they do this just stare right at them, with a blank expression. Keep the stare for about 10 seconds until it starts to get uncomfortable for everyone, and then just say “hmm” while maintaining eye contact.

I kinda like this one I might try it! Though in this case I was granted a reprieve because they couldn’t stay as long as expected. 😁

Well, this one little clip won’t really tell you who he is, but…

(Actually it will tell you exactly who he is. This was his reaction to Budweiser doing one tiny, infinitesimally small promotional video with a trans influencer.)

Kid Rock: Racist, bigoted, maga (sorry for the triple redundancy)

Proton developers are working on Wine code. Their patches go upstream. If you are using Wine, you have benefited (massively) from the sea change that has occurred (directly and indirectly) as a result of the development of Proton.

I remember the naysayers predicting that Gabe would never in a million years make the required investment because the state of Linux gaming was (in their assessment) that terrible.

And now we’re having argue about whether it actually did anything for us? In the comments about an article about how much it did for us?

That’s not an argument I’m having, I watched it happen.

Do you know what I did last week thanks to Proton? Installed EndeavourOS on my freshly purchased laptop, installed steam, and installed a bunch of Windows games. Then I played them. At no point did I wonder whether they would run.

Now, you may think being able to do that isn’t something that is going to get more people using desktop Linux (or that it hasn’t already done so), but as much as I’d love to agree with you, then we’d both be wrong.

I say this as someone who used to care about convincing other people to use Linux. (Before shifting into “you can lead a horse to water…” mode, and now I just don’t give a shit.)

However, what I gained from that experience is this: In twenty years of being Linux-only on my personal desktop, the number of times I have read the phrase, “I’d love to use Linux, except for [some statement about a game or games]” is astronomical.

Now, is Proton going to make desktop Linux the best choice for everyone? Clearly not, duh. But it is remarkably disingenuous to suggest that it’s not had a massive benefit to the Linux community and ecosystem as a whole, including, and dare I say especially, desktop Linux. It is flat out impossible to imagine that a substantial portion of current and future Linux users aren’t people for whom Proton solved what they considered to be a substantial barrier to usage.

I know I’m in super-cynic mode this morning, but my guess is they finished training on all the data to that point already, so it’s probably not online anywhere currently, but also probably 100% a part of whatever training they are doing. Again, IMO only, and rampant speculation.

Though frankly, all that is worrying me a lot less now that I realize Doge took all the info that any identity thief could possibly want about every citizen in the US (and more), plus whatever classified info they have, and Putin is probably months into Russia’s analysis and training on every last bit of that data. (or there was a recent dead drop in Alaska 🤔 )