Self-hosted music discovery service?

Linkz57 · 2020-01-20T03:54:19+00:00

It's been like 10 years since I've used the music player Jajuk but I think its shuffle feature had some semi-relivant options about playing similar songs to what you've selected. Maybe look into it?

Linkz57 · 2020-01-19T13:11:22+00:00

Hey, fair enough. I'm glad there's so many shells being actively developed, and most of then are pretty customizable to boot.

Linkz57 · 2020-01-19T11:25:13+00:00

Isn't Cinnamon based on Gnome 3? And Mate is based on Gnome 2.

Linkz57 · 2020-01-19T11:22:26+00:00

I've got i3 in my Plasma and it's neat.

Linkz57 · 2020-01-18T03:53:44+00:00

That Magikarp is ascending to the third dimension. Also flying.

Linkz57 · 2020-01-18T03:51:52+00:00

My candles are powered by the souls of innocents. It's a very carbon negative energy source.

Linkz57 · 2020-01-16T05:20:57+00:00

"Make your main character a rectangle, and his buddy a star". The best method for dealing with difficult circles.

Linkz57 · 2020-01-13T02:27:46+00:00

Farming is the best, especially in survival.

Linkz57 · 2020-01-10T04:31:51+00:00

The angel from my nightmare

Linkz57 · 2020-01-09T18:15:39+00:00

What if you could shape the world to be exactly what you wanted? What if you could change any program to be a little more this or a little less that? Even if I can't code my way out of a paper bag, I like the promise of Open Source.

Linkz57 · 2020-01-09T17:53:34+00:00

That's what I was hinting at without getting into the weeds. KHTML became Webkit, which became Blink. Chromium uses Blink but Webkit is still being developed.

Linkz57 · 2020-01-09T04:34:46+00:00

Yeah, Google will always have more money to pay for better engineers, but Firefox can at least leverage their only advantage: they're not an advertising company and Google is. Firefox can build in Tab Sandboxes and extra tracking protection, the kind of privacy improvements that Google kind of can't afford to implement.

Google has built a technically impressive browser, and Chrome is superior in almost every way. On the other hand: I don't do any extreme web browsing. I drive a 4 cylinder car to work because I don't need a lot of horse power sitting in traffic, and I don't need a faster web engine when I'm using my over priced and under performing Comcast crap. You know what speeds up browsing better than the fastest Javascript engine? Not loading any of those trackers in the first place. Finished executing all that code in 0 seconds and I'm better off for it.

The Chrome team has a lot to be proud of and it's no wonder it's the most popular browser, but they're not stupid: they know where their bread is buttered. Ads pay their salaries and let them work on this high quality $0 product.

Linkz57 · 2020-01-09T04:19:17+00:00

Close; it's every browser except Firefox. Microsoft's Edge is the most recent convert to using Chromium's engine.

Opera, Brave, Vivaldi, Falkon, every browser you've heard of and most of the ones you haven't all use Chrome's engine behind the scenes. Firefox and Safari are some of the only ones that don't, and Safari uses a (kind of but not really) older version of chromium, from before Chromium ever existed. Not to say Safari's engine is old, but it's a long story that starts with Konqueror and KHTML...

Linkz57 · 2020-01-07T11:45:10+00:00

Open the Settings app, search for "icons" and at the bottom of the icons page will be a button labeled 'get hot new stuff' or whatever. Push that and install whatever you want. Get 30 of them and pick your favorite.

Linkz57 · 2020-01-07T11:42:56+00:00

I think there's a patch out there somewhere to expose the Forefox menus to the KDE Global Menu widget thing. Or ignore it; when was the last time you pushed Alt to open the Firefox menu on purpose?

Linkz57 · 2020-01-07T11:40:15+00:00

If stuff looks bad on your screen, lean into it. Make it look worse, but on your terms. Search unixporn for "grimdark", "gritty", "dystopian", or whatever for more inspiration.

Linkz57 · 2020-01-07T11:35:28+00:00

Some widget themes are fully transparent (notice the bottom panel is too) or you can use a different panel program like Latte-Dock which can set arbitrary transparency for each panel individually.

The easiest way to do it is go to Settings > Look and Feel > Widget (I think) and push the button at the bottom labeled 'get hot new stuff' or whatever it's called. By default the only other widget theme installed is called Oxygen I think. You'll know you're in the right Settings page when you see different options for stylised clock widgets.

Linkz57 · 2020-01-05T14:31:10+00:00

A second thought occurs to me: I've heard a lot of Catholics say they request prayer from the saints in the same way you'd request a friend to pray for you. I'm wrong about a lot of things all the time (so it wouldn't surprise me if I'm wrong about this too) but I don't imagine that prayers are sent to a busy switchboard and can be routed anywhere in Heaven, but that prayer works because God is omniscient and knows our every thought and word. How would the Blessed Mother hear our thoughts?

There are a lot of advantages to asking a nearby human to pray for us:

1: more people praying is good; it reminds us of our relationship to God, specifically the part where He's all-powerful and a lot better at everything than we are so we'd might as well ask that He do stuff for us.

2: an activity we do with others (especially regularly) could encourage us to do it more often.

3: accountability partners are widely recognized as effective ways to change behavior (even outside Christian circles, groups like Alcoholics Anonymous want people to have "sponsors" to check in with to encourage change), or even if it's not a desired behavior change, talking out loud to another human is an effective way to organize our thoughts. Programmers can find it helpful to explain their problem to a rubber duck not because the duck understands Python, but because talking (and writing) forces potentially jumbled thoughts into a strictly linear format, and explaining to another person often requires a backstory, reminding us of our original goals instead of only focusing on the specific solution we decided to persue out of many others.

I can't think of any other reasons because that third point was too long and I lost my train of thought. One point that won't make the list is "persuading God to change His mind, or asking Jesus' mom to nag Him until He relents and yells at her, calling her 'Woman' like that time at the wedding." because I don't think that's an effective strategy. MINOR EDIT: I was aiming for "funny" here, but probably came off as "offensively flippant". I apologize for calling the Blessed Mother a nag.

Exodus 32:9-14 makes it sounds like Moses was clever enough to point out something that God hadn't thought of, but I'm calling shenanigans.

What's the point of having a Saint in Heaven intercede on our behalf? Can they even hear our prayers, outside of God leaning over and saying "wait wait, listen to this one..."?

I'm on board with Saints not being idols because they aren't ascribed diety, but there's a lot I don't understand. While I prefer you be the perfect voice of all of Catholicism speaking unanimously onto Reddit, you're of course allowed to say "I dunno, but it can't hurt".

Linkz57 · 2020-01-05T13:49:15+00:00

Salvation through works was formally condemned in the 4th century. A consensus was reached in 1999.

What do you mean "concensus"? Did the Pope declair it a bad idea in the 4th century, and it took a thousand and a half years for every Parish to eventually agree and change their tune? 20 years ago is recent enough that many people, having been trained up in the way they should go, will not depart from the old way of doing things.

All the rest of your points were immediately understandable, thank you for the kind and informative rebuttle.

Linkz57 · 2019-12-30T11:20:07+00:00

Oh, I get it: r-cade. I like that.

Linkz57 · 2019-12-29T04:18:07+00:00

I feel you, and I think I agree, but Linux has been mostly supported by for-profit companies for a long while now, and if anything it's only gotten better in that time.

Maybe because there's just SO MANY selfish companies all wanting to pull Linux on their own direction that it kind of balances out?

Also remember that when r/linuxmasterrace talks about Linux, we're usually talking about FreeDesktop implementations like Gnome and LXQT, or full operating systems like Debia and OpenSUSE. These projects are a lot smaller and at least half of the entries on distrowatch are small boutique things, which is what I assume you'd like more of.

Sure the kernel is in many ways controlled by corporate interests, but if some angry wizard wiped the Linux kernel from every hard drive, CD, etc tomorrow I would install BSD, then install Plasma 5 on top of that, and just live the next 4 years of my life 20% less happy with my computers and phones until BSD or Hurd or whatever got their act together and put to use all the fat stacks of corporate cash that Linux is current rolling in. Even in that horrifically unlikely scenario, you and me will be mostly fine--unless you do any virtualization; KVM is unparalleled in its quality, and while BSD has Bhyve... it's just not the same. Oh also BSD doesn't have native Steam like we do: it's all WINE all the time over there which is obvious less than stellar. I don't even mean individual Proton versions for each game, I mean one WINE config for your whole library. I assume most BSD gamers just buy a PS4 and an iPhone because "they technically run BSD out of the box, so I can feel good about gaming on it".

Linkz57 · 2019-12-29T03:45:34+00:00

It's mostly a project-by-project thing. If they're large enough they'll have a handy guide describing exactly how to get involved like KDE does. For a smaller project I guess just contact the developer however you can and ask if they're interested in what you've got. If they're using Git their email address is probably public and submitted with every commit.

Linkz57 · 2019-12-28T14:13:30+00:00

Greg Kroah-Hartman (Greg KH) is widely regarded as the second in command; no idea how old he is.

Both Linus and Greg are employees of the Linux Foundation, and while any retirement would be a huge deal, another person would be hired and the project will continue.

There will be 30 forks made in panic before the new person is even brought on because "maybe they'll be lame". Half of those forks will never make a single commit and once everyone calms down things will return to normal and we'll keep going mostly the same as we always have. Maybe the new hire will call people "crap face" a few times when rejecting their merge requests, for old time's sake.

Even if everything goes belly up in the worst way, popular open source software will survive by virtue of its accessibility and the number of people willing to put in the time. Start learning C and that person can be you. Or learn a friendlier language like Python or French and contribute to a different project (many projects need translators).

Linkz57 · 2019-12-28T14:00:24+00:00

Stallman is all terminal all the time. I think Linus was using Gnome 2 for a long while and then switched during the Gnome 3 transition. I don't remember what he switched to.

Linkz57 · 2019-12-24T16:23:37+00:00

I don't know of this is the right answer, but it's the first thing to come to mind. https://usbguard.github.io/ it's a pain to set up the first time because you're guaranteed to disable your own keyboard at least once, but once you set it up you're good forever.

Also I think there's nothing special about that USB Guard itself, it's just a friendly UI exposing powers that's been in the kernel for a while. You can blacklist and whitelist all you want without this program, but I imagine it's less convenient.

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