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That’s good to know! It could also be because I just switched over, so it doesn’t have enough reference yet for what I’m listening to.

I bailed on YouTube a few years ago. I had a video with a very clearly public domain piece of music (both the song and the performance) in it, which I didn’t monetize just because I hate ads and the channel wasn’t very popular anyway. Some bot flagged the public domain song for copyright and YouTube not only gave me a copyright strike but also added paid ads into my video without my consent so they could send the ad money to whoever it was that flagged it.

I didn’t even bother to contest that one, I just deleted my entire channel and sent them a very angry message telling them to go fuck themselves lol.

I will never use them again because of that, and I’m so glad I got out before AI became a thing. Fuck YouTube.

I wonder if it could be that the AI trains on popular content, meaning AI slop sometimes looks like Kurzgesagt because it’s ripping it off, which means the slop filter learns to recognize the original content that got ripped off as slop…?

Yeah I switched over to Tidal and I like it so far. The music quality is good and there’s just a simple toggle in settings to turn off anything to do with AI.

The recommendations aren’t as good as Spotify’s but I’d rather deal with that than a barrage of AI bullshit.

I like using qemu with quickget personally for quickly setting up VMs. You can literally just be like quickget ubuntu 24.04 or whatever and it’ll do all the setup for you.

It can do Mac and Windows VMs too, but they take a little bit of fiddling.

I don’t know how many years I was on there but I was pretty active. The combo of killing 3rd party apps and selling everyone’s comments to AI was what made me nuke my account.

Humanity’s relationship with producing energy continually blows my mind, and it’s one of the main things that makes me think that maybe we do live in a simulation.

We discovered fossil fuel energy, which was fine for a bit to kick off the industrial revolution, but obviously is super harmful in the long term. Then just as it was starting to become a problem, the universe went “okay, here’s this magic rock that just gives off energy, you can use that to generate massive amounts of power with no carbon.” And we just went “nah.”

So then, the universe is like, “alright then, how about this: you can just get it from the sun, the air and water. Again no carbon and it’s infinite free energy forever, you’re welcome.” And again, we were like “no we want to just burn fossils.” Even now at the ecosystem is visibly collapsing around us we’re adopting it somewhat, but still dragging ass on it like crazy.

It’s like whoever’s running the simulation keeps dropping the difficulty level to help us not die, and we just won’t accept it. I fully expect in the next century or so we’ll figure out cold fusion, build like two plants and humanity will just collectively go “BORING” and dig up more coal again.

Ubuntu in general I find tends to fixate on one particular thing that not many people are asking for (Unity, Mir, that “convergent phone” thing they were doing for a while, now Snaps) and let everything else stagnate until they get the thing to be almost decent, then they dump it and go chasing after the next shiny object.

I can see why it would be a bit troublesome to base a distro around. I assume that’s why Mint keeps that LMDE version running as well.

I hate to say it, but Linux in general is not great for art stuff in my experience. There’s some good stuff like Krita and Blender, but I’ve found that Linux is generally very twitchy about graphics tablets, and some stuff like Toon Boom/Moho for animation just has no real equivalent in Linux (and I haven’t had any luck getting those to work in Wine so far either.)

One of the strangest phenomena that I’ve encountered when occasionally using Windows is that sometimes there’s a problem that’s so stupid you can’t smart your way out of it. As an example: when trying out Windows 11, I made a restore point after a fresh install so that if I fucked something up I could roll back to a clean install. I then fucked something up and thought “no worries, just roll it back.” I then discovered that Windows only keeps one restore point, and manages it automatically by itself, meaning that when I fucked up, it decided to take the state of the machine immediately after I broke it and overwrite the clean restore point with the broken one and at no point asked or informed me that that’s what it was doing.

Like how do you even begin to deal with an issue like that? The only solution I know of is to pre-assume that everything actually made by Microsoft will behave in an idiotic way sooner or later, and to replace as much of it as you can with third-party solutions as quickly as possible immediately after a fresh install, but anyone new to Windows/not a tech person has absolutely no way of knowing this.

Oh sorry! In Linux there are different ways of formatting your drives, kind of like FAT32 and NTFS in Windows, if you’re familiar with those? Anyway, ext4 is like the old reliable in Linux, and btrfs is the newer one which I think is the default on some distros now.

Anyway, if you open up Konsole and type lsblk -f it should tell you which one you have. I don’t think you can change it without reformatting and starting over though.

I started building a RAID before the prices of hard drives popped off, so I got the enclosure and one drive, I was going to buy the other drives when I had some spare cash. Now a single 8tb HDD (not even solid state!) is $450 CAD and there’s no way I can spend $1350 to finish this thing so it’s just sitting there.

I’m in a pretty mercenary mindset about it these days TBH. I’ve got some money on the table, whoever can provide 32gb of RAM and three HDDs for my RAID at a price that’s not ridiculous can have it.

China seems to be working on it.

There’s a preview version of union in Plasma 6.7 I believe, although it’s a bit bare-bones IIRC.

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Are you using btrfs by any chance? I think copy-on-write can sometimes cause delays in Dolphin. Mine doesn’t always update the free disk space right away when I delete a file, for example.

I really hope China or someone else can step up and just flood the entire market with cheap components eventually.

I deleted my banking app off my phone because it asked me for a selfie lol. I will absolutely switch banks over this.

I always felt like Canonical had a big problem with going all-in on something they thought was neat (the Unity desktop, Mir, that thing where phones and desktops were supposed to merge, now Snaps) and letting everything else stagnate, then getting the thing they were working on to the point where it was almost good, then dumping it and going after the next shiny thing.

But yeah these days I think things like Pop!OS and Mint are better Ubuntus than Ubuntu is.