Yeah I tried it, out of the gate my favourite WM - i3 isn’t supported.

I tried some of the other WMs, and they all kinda sucked imo.

I tried Gnome but it didn’t work for me when I tried using guake.

I also had issues with Spectacle on Plasma (captured area is just plain white).

In both - OBS didn’t work properly either (black screen with some capture methods, massive lag with others) and games were a bit laggy (stutters/frame time spikes).

Last one could be that Wayland doesn’t play nice with the proprietary Nvidia driver or that unlike with Xorg, Proton/SteamPlay dont support launching a gamescope nested session from a Wayland session (or didn’t back when I tried it) which usually ensures silky smooth performance.

So yeah, this was a while back but.

Stuff like swaybg, despite being very well built, only support setting a single wallpaper on startup. This means, if you want to change the wallpaper during runtime, you must pkill the daemon

So this…this is the power of Wayland

That’s pretty cool! I see there’s holes there for antennae, what are those for?

Beam me up, Mr.Curry.

How uplifting

Okay but an OLED wasn’t exactly ahead of it’s time. Every smartphone had an OLED since like 2011 barring iPhone and crappier androids.

Uh-huh. I’ve done enough drugs to know a downer from an upper. Weed is an upper only in the way benzo withdrawals are “stimulating”.

Muh weed not addictive

Yes and? And lol many plebs still get “”“addicted”“” to it anyway.

Muh terpenes

Non-THC cannabinoids

Can’t spell methamphetamine

Bro is cooked.

You are right, I am comparing meth and coffee, coffee is for normatron dweebs and all it does is make em twitch and I’d rather do meth anytime.

I’d rather be addicted and OD’ing on something that gets me something than waste my life on “terpenes” that aren’t linked to overdose.

I’m biased against weed fwiw I’ll admit that, shit spikes my heart rate to like 140, no other drug ever done that, not even borderline lethal doses of cocaine.

It’s super uncomfortable unless doses are extremely moderate, a couple tiny buds barely ground and stuffed in a (so they’d actually stay in the bong bowl(?) and not fall down into the water) would last me like a week if not more of going for multiple tokes daily.

Even when it did feel good though, I don’t miss it, same as I don’t really miss xanax or valium or alcohol or codeine. For me it was not a very productive drug, sure I’d paint once in a while but never would I have called it relaxing or bringing any sort of clarity at all - if anything the complete opposite, its obnoxiously anxiety inducing, I relaxed more drinking coffee on hour 4 of an LSD trip than anything I ever had on weed.

I have been tempted to try it in a combo with Vyvanse to see if it’s more chill that way though.

Uh-huh. You do you bro but I have better things to do than downers.

Gonna get crucified for this, but:

While the comic is cute, the message is bourgeois slave mentality propaganda.

If the capacity to enjoy less is so aspirational as scorates, ghandi et al. would have us believe, then why don’t the rich ascend to this purer existence in a trailer park? Why is it always the poors? It’s because they have class consciousness and we don’t.

These people have an objectively shit life and shouldn’t have to live like this.

Don’t get me wrong - If they want to - that’s fine, but you can’t really say you truly love something you didn’t go out of your way to choose - and it doesn’t seem that way here, and either way - this is a comic glorifying poverty, when there are many who don’t want to live like this but have to, and it’s kinda gross, tbh.

Also, weed is 21st century opium. Yes it should be legal, but you shouldn’t do it if you want to have a life, it’s no different from excessive social media use, it is an artificial relief for an ancient instinct of boredom that you have for a reason - it is your brain telling you to get off your ass and do something. Using chemicals to quell it - is just brainrot coated in an appeal to nature fallacy and new age aestheticism to make it more palatable.

*lose, not loose

That’s a C- see me after class. Otherwise nice troll.

My life is pretty good. I enjoy myself more often than I don’t, have plenty of hobbies and love learning about the world. I love myself, truly.

I also believe in agency and doing the best you can to reach for what you want.

However - you are wrong.

You cannot just “quit a job”. If you are fortunate enough to not have your entire life tied to your employment via a visa sponsorship in effective slave labour, that still means a job search in an ever-shrinking job market where increasingly peasants don’t matter as employees not even as consumers as demand and thus supply - shifts towards the ultra rich.

Un(der)mployment is in reality - sky high and most people can’t afford necessities as is, nevermind savings, and if they can, it sure as shit doesn’t make sense to spend a rainy day fund on months of job searching for no reason other than you don’t like your current role in the ever-more-remote hope that you’ll find something better

It’s not impossible of course, but it ain’t an easy decision to make by any means, the hesitation is understandable.

Similarly moving out of the slums is not possible for most due to a housing market that prices out residents and carers towards buy-to-let investors (landleeches) and private equity portfolio builders - there are now more private equity companies in the US than there are McDonald’s, it doesn’t take being an Einstein to see what kind of dark future we’re headed for.

I understand your frustration though and I feel similarly sometimes when people seemingly refuse to make choices that I do - e.g. quitting corpo social media, quitting algorithmic feeds, quitting using corpo products, consooming less corpo junk media, etc. etc.

Like it’s almost existential to me in terms of crisis how anyone could fall for misinformation about a topic you even remotely think about ever when you have the world’s information at your fingertips democratised for you right there, easily indexable and searchable for free, all you need is intellectual honesty and you can learn something at least in the ballpark of accurate truth about literally anything in under an hour at most, yet people don’t.

As a Marxist, I can at least somewhat understand like someone being a homeless fentanyl addict who stabs people in the alley due to economic circumstances out of their control that led them down a terrible path of crime and misery, even terrible as the things they do are - they’re worthy of compassion, and they deserve better, we all do.

But I cannot understand how one could ever be misinformed on anything they even remotely choose to hold an opinion on. Information is literally free as in free beer in most cases.

It’s very easy to say then, “I am super smart, others are not, that’s why I do the right things”, but I’m not satisfied with that explanation, it’s too self-serving and I just don’t buy that I’m anything like that.

There is another explanation - more or less, people are the same, they vary in priorities, but largely are some degree of rational, if chaotic actors that navigate the same systems you do from different starting positions.

Even when the actions seem absurd to you - there are reasons people do the things they do, the gambler and the porch parcel thief aren’t a different species of being from you, they navigate the same systems you do, but from different positions.

Assume they are the same as you, put yourself in their shoes, and think about what could make you do what they do, and it starts to add up, you can simulate the path of another by navigating through the systems of our society from their perspective and starting point.

This sort of systematic analysis is not easy, but it can get at things we can actually affect, the system is necessary, but not natural. The world was built this way, and just the same it can be built differently.

So, perhaps instead of virtue signaling yourself and your own assumed superiority by pointing out how you made good choices and other people make bad choices like some sort of slave mentality moral Christian who divides everyone into those who go to Heaven and those who go to Hell - you can ask, you can research, and think hard, because there are definitely reasons one can’t always follow your suggested actions, even if those reasons are also not an excuse to sit still and do nothing, either.

Anyway you are also an obvious troll and “magical hitachi wand” sounds like an alt of yours.

But I’m leaving this up just in case someone thinks this unironically.

That seems fairly reasonable. No one should have to put up with noisy neighbours stomping around all night or throwing house parties packing like sardines into overcrowded flats like it’s a bus in India or constantly emitted smells of dogshit, weed and extra smelly south asian food or be harassed for no reason or feel unsafe or otherwise disrupted in their own home or the surrounding infrastructure that they need to use as part of daily life like exits/entrances/walkways etc.

It’s called the social contract.

Edit: If you wondered what the hell happened to the social contract and basic self-awareness, just look at the number of downvotes on this fairly uncontroversial take. These are the people who are blasting tiktoks on speaker on public transport and dumping garbage outside the bins.

Thank you so much! This valuable info needs to be signal boosted for sure

Yeah I think there’s no point in attempting discourse if you find it so alien. Thanks for being honest though, I do appreciate you just saying that instead of twisting my words or giving some half assed nonsense replh attacking aesthetics as so many do both here and on reddit.

Idk if they’re “fresh” or not or what you even mean by that, they come from the supermarket? Not like a farmers bazaar or w/e.

I am simply not going to risk my health and well-being on guesstimates, I want expiry dates, so I can be safe in the knowledge that there’s liability on the corpo that makes them that I can sue.

Any losses in money just aren’t worth the health risk for me, I don’t want to die from thinking maybe the onion smells just like an onion and not slightly stronger which is how I’m meant to know it’s expired.

Plenty of stories of people who’s judgement was good until it wasn’t and confidence was high.

I will not, and cannot be “”“educated”“” out of this because I’m well aware of what to look for for spoiled signs and my mind will not change. I used to have safety and comfort of outsourcing liability and now I don’t, I will not accept that as a good or positive.

No amount of gaslighting by the rich and their useful idiot environmentalists will make me buy into this personal responsibility organic bullshit, nor agree to this downgrade of my living standards for no fucking reason at all. I’m not gonna pay for plastic bags to subsidize the wealthy bailouts so they can fly on private jets either. I take them and I use them once. Fuck the rich and their fucking oceans.

If we burn - and I say we absolutely should - we burn together, that’s justice.

I feel like wasting less food is a non-starter. Here in the UK they got rid of expiry dates on fruit and veg a while back to supposedly reduce food waste (read: sell shittier produceand it’s such an assault on the psyche. Now I just assume they’re all single use and toss em if I haven’t just bought em, probably throwing away way more than I ever have before.

Isn’t the left already seen by most people as crazy hippies who live in delululand?

That’s not really even close to what I asked.

Just gonna repost my comment from the thread on the Technology community yesterday for suggestions and discussion: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/21273053

I used Navidrome and Symfonium with Picard for metadata and relied on a combination of Bandcamp, Rutracker and yt-dlp with a YTM free trial, along with the Spotify data export and manual python scripting elbow grease to fetch, tag all the music from my Spotify and recreate every playlist as m3u8 to be imported inside the Docker, then more elbow grease to actually make the playlist semi-accurate.

Despite Symfonium constantly losing its silly always online DRM license check and locking me out of both my cached and remote (via PiVPN to Nginx on home server to Navidrome) songs due to me having multiple Google accounts on my phone and the app freaking out because it would check the wrong account, forcing me to log out of all accounts and reset the app - losing all my customization and my credit card access for payments until I signed into the right Google account again, I had a fairly functional setup, even with playlist cover art and everything on Symfonium (despite it not being a feature in Navidrome itself).

My playlists were just as they were on Spotify down to each specific song title, album cover and most importantly of course metadata correctness and song order (I have never used shuffle in my life).

Unfortunately I went back to Spotify in the end because most music i listen to is niche and fairly Indie and thus either a pain in the ass to pirate or simply outright unavailable externally anywhere, and to maintain consistent proper metadata for what is there was like a full-time job even with some automation through Picard. I still did this for half a year. Mostly because I just did it while WFH.

I eventually simply gave up downloading more music and listened to the same few thousand songs in my transferred playlists on repeat which for me led to a feeling of stagnancy and eventually depression in life, after I begrudgingly came back to Spotify I immediately discovered several hundred new songs and created multiple new playlists just during my walks to and from the grocery store alone.

My ultimate problem is that on Spotify if I look something up I can just listen to it right away and immediately add it to my library or to a playlist of my choosing.

In contrast, when self-hosting I would have to first look up the music on Google, go to YouTube to listen to it in dogshit quality, look up album/artist on Rutracker, pray that it’s there when a lot of the time it is not, filter out albums/songs I don’t want from the discography torrent and add it to my qbittorrent-nox on server, mount the NFS share on my main windows PC with my music staging folder, add metadata with musicbrainz Picard and have it move to the finalized folder, then rescan on Navidrome webui, rescan on Symfonium local cache, then add to a playlist, then listen.

This is like, 2-3 hours of conscious effort just for me to skip to the middle of the song, listen for 30 seconds, decide I don’t like the song and delete it from the playlist, never to be heard again.

It’s way too much.

The unfortunate truth is that despite feeling good about whatever miniscule amount of effect I might have on stopping this wealth transfer from artists and listeners to Spotify and our corporate overlords while those same overlords win elections and take away my human rights while I can’t even easily get a fitting new song in decent quality to listen to when attempting to find some peace in that mess, the alternatives just aren’t worth it for me.

Yes I could just accept to have less, to just make do with the music I have, but that requires motivation that’s frankly hard to maintain if you look around and see how the rest of society behaves, eagerly falling for whatever corposlop becomes available.

Felt like I’m cutting off my nose to spite my face tbqh.

I would love for it to work as it does with Jellyfin and Immich, I have replaced GDrive, Netflix, Google Photos and damn near everything, Spotify is my only subscription left, but it just hasn’t worked for me to move off of it long-term. I’d love suggestions on how this problem can be fixed though.

Some ideas of mine:

1. Musicbrainz metadata is awful. Half the time the cover art is someone’s photo of some shitty Japanese vinyl with stickers. Pull covers off YT or Spotify. In fact - pull all metadata off Spotify via scraping, with Musicbrainz volunteer metadata serving only as intermediary to connect the audio to the musicbrainz id which should connect to a Spotify option and potentially a fallback option if somehow the music isn’t on Spotify.

2. There should be an intelligent playlist creator of some sort where I can give it my Spotify account export data and it can go off song titles and albums in the playlists within to create playlists in navidrome by finding matches in my library and automatically downloading missing ones and it should be at least 99% accurate (most “Spotify playlist downloader” type websites are 99% inaccurate for instance).

3. Navidrome or one of it’s clients should have a plugin to get suggestions at the bottom of playlists like Spotify via last.fm and play music instantly directly from Spotify/YTM, with a button to add a song to your playlist, when you do so, it automatically downloads it, copies metadata off Spotify, and adds it to whatever playlist you added it to.

All that should hopefully ease the pain and make it so you can discover, listen and add to your library without so many barriers.