Yeah unfortunately it does not have the same recommendation engine, just listening stats. I haven’t looked for a recommendation engine because I hadn’t thought about it. I’ll look to see if there’s anything like that now.

EDIT: I always forget about ListenBrainz. Not self-hosted, but definitely a good last.fm alternative that includes artist recommendations.

https://listenbrainz.org/

We can rebuild him.

Worse. Slower. Weaker.

The $16 pack Marlboro man.

You can also buy music directly from artists on Bandcamp Fridays where they still get 100% of the sale going to the artists. I was afraid that would stop when it got sold but it’s not dead yet.

Also, another option is to have a locally hosted Jellyfin or Plex (ha) server and stream to yourself. My music collection is over 600GB so there’s not many phones that can hold it all.

I also self-host a music scrobbling service with Maloja and Multi-Scrobbler docker containers so I can get similar types of stats as last.fm while also having more privacy. I was able to import my stats from last.fm to it as well.

I mean, that part I understand, which is why I either download and keep installers if I can (GOG) or I pirate and store installers (usually also GOG copies). Despite being poor, I have that luxury of hard drive space for these installers.

I guess my point is, I do own those files, I am in control of them, they are mine, there is either no DRM to begin with or the DRM has been stripped.

I still consider that to be ownership on physical media that cannot be taken from me. Discs and hard drives both degrade over time, so either way, they must eventually be moved to a new medium of storage, which is always another type of physical media.

I think the conversation around physical media needs to change and people need to be doing a lot more buying from GOG and keeping torrents of those installers alive so we have a “public cloud” of game installers.

But I mean, I don’t know how to help people on consoles. That’s buying into a closed ecosystem to begin with, it comes with the territory.

Literally all of them because there is no way for a game to exist without physical media. If it’s on your SSD/HDD, it’s on physical media. If it’s in “the cloud” it’s in someone else’s SSD/HDD. It’s always on physical media, just not a nice little disk in a box.

Okay, let’s get down to brass tacks here…

Unless you’re paying for some kind of “streaming” video game service, the game lives on your solid state drive/hard drive… which is physical media.

The license is what allows you to re-download and re-install it over and over.

This isn’t a death of physical media, because even the streaming video game services are storing the copies of video games they stream to you on hard drives and solid state drives. The physical media doesn’t disappear, but rather corporations are using technology to force you to use it how the company wants you to use it, and the bonus to those companies of the increased price of gaming hardware. Now we will have a difficult time owning our own physical media because it has become so costly.

Just because you don’t have enough physical media space to install every game you’ve ever bought doesn’t mean they aren’t all living on a hard drive or old cd/dvd-rom SOMEWHERE. The “cloud” isn’t actually ephemeral. Surprise, it’s just a bunch of other people’s computers.

Which is what these corporations want, they want to be in full control of who gets access and when, because you’re on their property on their hard drives. There is no profit for the game companies in people like us having enough physical media space to keep data forever.

I also choose this guy’s dad.

Short pier. A pier has an end to it. A long walk off a short bridge implies that they just walked over the bridge. The pier implies they walked off the edge of the pier into the water.

/Adage nazi

His brother wrote the iconic line from his second Batman movie

“You either die a hero or live long enough to become a villain”

Word has it that Christopher Nolan didn’t even really understand the line. Which doesn’t shock me since his writing is so bad.

Do they know you can buy Pepsi in aluminum or glass?

It’s still $199 for me, which is the price I remember it being for a few years now but maybe I am wrong.

They said Miller felt DOJ’s agreements—including one reached with South Carolina in December—would increase homelessness and didn’t adhere to President Donald Trump’s July executive order pressuring cities and states to move homeless people into treatment centers.

I mean, this might come as a shocker to the people at Bloomberg, but the goal is to make stateless persons of everyone they dislike so they can claim as stateless people, they are afforded no rights anywhere in the world, and as such the US government is able to do with these stateless people what they please, anything from slavery to hunting humans for sport.

If it’s not abundantly clear, we’re dealing with monstrous people who want to put you between a rock and a hard place and the two different orders contradicting each other is purposeful so they can pick and choose which rock and a hard place to put you between so they can exploit you by having you be “fucked if you do, fucked if you don’t.”

This is why I want one of these little motherfuckers so god damned badly.

I’m so glad that none of it’s components have been hit hard by the AI tech market disaster, price point still the same so far. (crossing fingers for it to stay the same)

That’s a fair take, he may be doing it for the wrong reasons… but I’m just on a “fuck all influencers” bandwagon and always have been, so stopped clock and all that.

I’m actually surprised to see a number higher than the highest state minimum wage in the country.

Nolan’s kind of a dick for a lot of reasons but this is the right fucking move.

I will have to search my comment history but I called this shit a fucking year ago!

If you’re talking shit about preying mantises you’re an idiot anyway, they actually are a great and organic way to control pest bugs in a garden. We buy eggs for them every spring.

I hadn’t paid attention to him in two decades. That’s both really sad and also not that surprising.