This is the way.

Is there a better filesystem that is Mac and PC compatible? I’ve used ExFAT for that reason alone, but it’s a big one.

Fortunately, she was just making a fourth-wall-breaking point about gender assumptions in certain professions.

Is that text from an AI image interpreter? It’s pretty good, seems helpful for search and disabilities.

Unless you use a Vichyssoise fork. It’s all in the wrist.

Oh, so right-wing men with the right genes are the chad and everyone else is the soyjak.

Truly an “interesting observation,” thanks Elon.

The transitive property in action: Mini-soda = Minnesota = Oregon

No reason, just that memes follow demographics of the space. Lemmy is probably full of people who were in their late teens-through-twenties in 2007, so to that group, it remains a funny nostalgic callback.

And I’ll just predict that in 15-20 years Skibidi toilet and all the GenZ/Alpha memes will dominate middle-age spaces.

My good faith response to your good faith question: because having a DRM-free copy on your own server or hard drive is the only way to be sure you will be able to play it tomorrow.

Streaming services are a complex collection of licensing deals that are by design temporary. You may not hear beforehand when your favorite artist’s label’s parent company’s conglomerate’s CEO decides to pull their content because they’re going to start their own streaming service, or another service gave them a lucrative exclusive deal.

And while you’re never going to have a hard time finding Taylor Swift, that one 70s esoteric album may become instantly impossible to find once it drops off a streamer.

In the end there are no promises with a streaming service. On the other hand, you put in a small amount of work to grab MP3s or FLACs, set up your own Plex server (or Emby, etc), and you’re good for pretty much forever.

Similarly, support artists by buying their direct merch, going to shows, and so on, but they are barely seeing any Spotify money. Between Spotify and the labels, they are cleaning the plate and artists are getting whatever crumbs fall off the table (unless you’re Taylor Swift or another global artist).

I’m confused, isn’t this a better spot for the drain hole? When you sit facing the wall? So you have a shelf for your comic books and chocolate milk?

Honestly? Just use YouTube and ublock. There’s pretty much always a better karaoke selection.

I wish I knew as well. I’ve been using Chromecast Audio myself, which works with PlexAmp self-hosting my music.

The problem is Chromecast Audio has been discontinued for years of course - Google did their Google thing, and unfortunately I never found anything else like it on the market. But you can connect those devices to any speakers and sync multi-room high quality audio very easily. I managed to pick up 4 of them when they did their fire sale, and I think you can find them on eBay for now still.

Alpha males wait until they develop rust for that real manly rugged shave.

I would actually be surprised if he releases anything of value. Trump refused to release his taxes, and emulating Trump’s destruction of democratic norms is a base-ante show of fealty right now.

It’s fake, Mountain Dew isn’t mentioned once.

Relatedly, the new Beavis & Butthead episodes coming out are actually pretty good.

As everyone said, the API change was a big deal. But for me, the cover-up was worse than the crime. I was a 13 year user (came over on the Digg boat) with over 100K comment karma. Reddit’s reaction, and Spez’s “landed gentry” comments, were so insulting I just couldn’t support the site.

I thought they may possibly change in response to the boycott. But when Reddit started replacing mods with unqualified scabs, that meant the site content itself was definitely going to go downhill. It also confirmed that it was no longer a site that valued its users (who, as many have said, were providing the very thing that made the site valuable for free, purely in exchange for not being treated poorly).

At that point, why remain? Niche communities are the only reason I ever check back in. And like others, I’m seeing Reddit devolve into karma-whoring discussions that are just a battle of one-line snarky jokes, a huge amount of bot content, and reposts as a rule, no longer exception.

Conversely, there are people on Lemmy who actually want to read, think and actually respond. Pretty cool. I’m good with this trade.

Thanks!

Also - wow, the AI resizing is painfully shoddy. They really do just run it through Topaz and don’t even check the settings, do they? And I guess some (corporate?) YT accounts can swap out videos and not lose their view count, upload date and URL.

I don’t think there’s an answer beyond “New Yorker.”

The goal of a New Yorker cartoon is to make you go, “huh.” That’s all. I’d even go so far as to say punchlines or “points” are probably seen as gauche to New Yorker editors.

Huh… That’s really not nice.