I think you are confusing terms. Scraping a website means to download copies of its pages. Mirroring means taking those scraped page copies and re-hosting them on your website. Since you said you were doing both of those things, that would mean you would be mass scraping the site to rehost (mirror) on yours.

If you are not doing either of those, then you are not mass scraping or mirroring. It sounds like instead you just scraped a few pages of piefed, and then modified the CSS/HTML of the page itself for your own purposes?

If so, that’s not as bad as I thought.

However, I can guarantee you that no one here is interested in joining an isolated reddit clone that isn’t federated with Piefed or lemmy, and which is explicitly designed to eventually allow you to throw ads on it for passive income. That is precisely what we all were trying to escape when we left reddit for the fediverse.

But you’re scraping piefed.social to fill your site with content so you can monetize it, while increasing hosting costs for piefed for your own gain.

That you don’t see the ethical and moral problems with that plan is highly concerning.

So it’s… A mirror of piefed.social with your own frontend?

Why?

There are some great tutorials for beginners on youtube of how to make a beat.

As for software, your options will be more limited on Linux, but thankfully there’s some good ones available nowadays. Though one thing to note is that If you’re on a Debian based distro, you’ll need to make sure you download the pipewire-jack package and then add pw-jack to the start of your DAW’s executable to access the Pipewire-JACK backend, otherwise it’ll only work with the ALSA backend.

1. Reaper: A really solid and affordable DAW. It doesn’t have the most modern interface (mostly just noticeable in the settings menu), but it’s extremely versatile, stable, and has the biggest community of support out of any DAW out there, with tons of good youtube tutorials or written articles. The free trial is actually endless like WinRAR is, it’ll just nag you when you start it up for 5 seconds, but it’s the full version, and you can produce full songs in it. This is the DAW I would personally suggest trying.

2. Bitwig: This is a really visually polished DAW, and has first class linux support, but it can be a bit expensive, and the new 6.0 version is a little buggy, while the stable 5.x release lacks some of the really nice quality of life improvements in 6.0. It has a lot of features from Ableton Live, such as the ability to work with ‘clips’ of music that you can arrange freely. The company isn’t as chill IMO as Reaper, and they pulled some greedy stuff a while back that got the community angry at them, which I think they walked back, but I can’t trust them after that. It has different tiers ranging from $99, $200, or $400. The $99 version can’t effectively control hardware synths if you have any, since they restrict the use of Midi CC data. If you’re only using virtual synths, then the cheap version should work fine.

3. Renoise: This is a really powerful and polished DAW that uses the Tracker style of composing, much like was done on the Amiga or DOS back in the day. There’s a free trial, and if you end up liking that style of music making, it’s a pretty cheap DAW at $88.

4. Traction Waveform: This DAW recently added Linux support. I haven’t used it yet, but it’s completely free and quite polished looking. Most people report it being pretty nice, though community support will be more limited since not as many people use it.

5. Fender Studio Pro: Another DAW that recently added Linux support. It used to be called Studio One, but was traded around for a while, and now Fender owns it. It’s a bit more focused on guitars and comes with a lot of Guitar effects, but from what I can see is a fairly capable DAW that could be used for any type of music. It costs $199.

For the FLOSS DAWs, there’s:

1. Ardour: Usually available in your distro’s repo. It’s technically well made under the hood and very capable, but I personally found the UX to be… difficult to get used to, and there’s not many up-to-date tutorials for it, unfortunately. If you can jive with it, it’s a solid DAW.

2. Zrythm: A much more user-friendly DAW compared to Ardour, but not really usable at the moment. They’re totally re-writing it for a major 2.0 release, which is something to keep an eye on for the future, as it’s quite promising.

3. LMMS: A pretty decent FL studio clone, but unfortunately it still only supports VST2 instruments, which is highly limiting nowadays, so I’d probably skip it unless you’re okay with that limitation (they are working on VST3 support, but it’s taking a while).

100%. An android device will recieve updates for 7 years in the best case scenario (on average more like 4 years), while a steamdeck is fully supported with mainline Linux, so it’ll continue to recieve support for 20 years at a minimum (support for 486 CPU’s from the early 90’s are only just now being dropped).

This is a good longer overview,, and here’s a straight to the point demo of what it can do.

There’s actually quite a lot we can do about it, and not only does that materially help our situation, it also reduces the feeling of helplessness and despair dramatically, and you’ll likely meet some friends along the way.

Here’s a handy guide on how to get involved in that sort of stuff.

I’d also highly recommend Full Spectrum Resistance to anyone who wants further info on how to resist (audiobook version here).

I definitely had a few blue screens with XP over the years, maybe once every 5 or 6 months?

7 was super stable on my hardware, I’ve probably had about the same amount of blue screens on that as I did on Windows 10, maybe about 4 or 5 from what I can recall. The bigger issue I had back then was AMD’s GPU drivers were insanely unstable at that point, resulting in constant green screen crashes from youtube videos.

At least for me, blue screens haven’t been too much of an issue, especially since after they reboot, everything is still working as normal. That’s in contrast to Windows 11’s bugs introduced from updates, which often introduce a new persistent problem that a user either has to actively troubleshoot to resolve, or cannot resolve on their own, leaving them to wait until Microsoft pushes out a fix.

Examples of that being:

• KB5077181 breaking Blutooth and causing Samsung devices to lose the ability to access the C: drive
• KB5085516, preventing users from resizing or moving windows, which itself was supposed to be a fix for KB5079473
• Microsoft themselves admitting that multiple major core features were broken for months

I personally consider the severity and frequency of these issues appearing in Windows 11 to be fairly unprecedented in the history of Windows, which happens to coincide with the QA team being fired.

(I didn’t downvote you, btw).

I think a majority of people would consider needing to disable multiple parts of the default installed system to not encounter potentially breaking bugs to be a pretty big indicator that the platform is not as stable as it used to be.

Personally, I never had to disable anything, perform any specific actions, or disable a particular part of Windows XP, Window 7, or Windows 10 LTSC to achieve a very stable system, and new updates generally didn’t introduce any bugs either since MS had a pretty big QA team.

There are now regularly reports of major or critical components of a windows system failing or even becoming unbootable due to updates or bugs in new features in Windows 11, which is very much a change from the norm.

It is likely these bugs are being introduced far more frequently due to MS laying off the majority of their QA team, and instead relying on regular users to report bugs after they have already been shipped.

Not unless you use AI, which encourages water and energy waste that contributes to climate change.

You could try reading the video transcript if you prefer not to watch it. You can access it by clicking on the ‘In This Video’ button to the right of the play and volume buttons on the video itself.

That’s kinda his trademark, actually. He often combines it with a heavy dose of sardonic humor.

Anarchists and Libertarian used to be synonymous, since Libertarian was a way to talk about Anarchism without being persecuted. Later in the US Proprietarians coopted the term Libertarian, and later even Anarchism by claiming to be ‘Anarcho-Capitalists’.

A person who believes that an authoritarian state is righteous and justified as long as it calls itself communist (even if it’s not), examples being the USSR, North Korea, China, and oddly the current capitalist Russian federation. You can find a more in-depth answer here.

I can’t say that I’ve done a purposefully slow jog. I tend to push myself to where I become out of breath and then need to walk to catch it (which is kinda easy for me to do, and may be related to having asthma as a kid, but not entirely sure), so that could be why. A friend gave me a fitness band a while back that can display bpm, I’ll try using it next time to see what happens if I maintain that 133bpm range. Thanks for the suggestion! :D

Honestly deserved since they union busted so hard recently.

FYI, Pixelorama is sold on Steam as a source of revenue like Krita does, but it’s open-source and free to Linux users on Flathub or from their Itch.io page. It’s a great app on par with asesprite.

My opinion is that painting with such a broad brush that anyone who simply jogs in the woods is performing a selfish act and unable to appreciate nature the correct way is an elitist claim, as it doesn’t allow for people who do deeply respect and appreciate nature, but who may also enjoy exercising among it, or for people who experience nature differently from the way you do.

You seem to have an absolute viewpoint that there is objectively only one correct way of experiencing nature. No one is stopping you from making that argument, but you are not entitled to everyone agreeing with that viewpoint and how it is presented.

I just don’t like when people pretend they aren’t taking drugs when they are.

There are many people who do not appear to experience ‘runners high’. I am one of those people, I have never experienced any noticeable pleasant side-effects from exercise itself, just a rather unpleasant burning sensation in my lungs. Regardless, I still ride my bike or jog to maintain my health, and I vastly prefer doing so amongst nature if I can.

you are framing this conversation in a way that if I criticize a broad cultural movement centered around the outdoors for being shallow this necessarily means I think I am superior.

Claiming the way an entire subset of other people experience nature is inferior and shallow compared to yours is kinda the definition of a sense of superiority, yeah.

I have no problem criticizing people who litter in nature, or destroy it in some way, but putting every jogger into the same box, with disregard to the variability of those people’s respect and appreciation of nature just due to the way they personally enjoy it? Yuck.

By saying jogging through nature is inherently selfish compared to walking through it. I’d also say you pretty clearly look down upon those who like to exercise in nature based on your other comments here, and your framing of people doing it for ‘the drug chemicals’.

You say you’re not bashing them, but I’m not sure that defense works since you’re kind’ve framing a different way of experiencing nature as inherently inferior and ‘selfish’ compared to your preferred way, instead of framing it as two equally valid ways to experience it (as long as it doesn’t hurt the local ecology, or leave any litter).

The overall vibe I get is a sense of elitism that only your own preferred slower way of taking in nature and pondering it is the truly valid way of experiencing it. But that’s just my 2 cents.