harsh3466

harsh3466 , 3 months ago to Technology in Vinyl records outsell CDs for the second year running

For some people it’s definitely the aesthetic/collectible nature of vinyl. Anecdotally, for me, it’s for the listening pleasure. I’m no audiophile. I’m listening on potato speakers on a sub par turntable, but I like listening to records like I did when I was younger.

I do also love the much larger album sleeve artwork, but my primary drive in purchasing an album is to listen to it on my turntable.

harsh3466 , 3 months ago to Technology in Affinity is joining the Canva family

My first thought was, “here comes the subscription.”

harsh3466 , 3 months ago to Technology in Reddit CEO Defends His Absurdly High Pay While Not Paying Mods

Came here for the fuck spez. Was not disappointed.

harsh3466 , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in Noob post: Sometimes the best thing to do is just give it up as a bad job and try something else instead.

Absolutely. I’ve burned a number of things to the ground as I figure out what tf I’m doing. I’ve learned a lot doing it too!

harsh3466 , 3 months ago to Technology in US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones

I’m the same. I prefer apple products generally speaking, but Apple sucks just as much as every other giant asshole company and I don’t like Apple. There’s no ethical consumption in capitalism. Fuck all these companies.

harsh3466 , 3 months ago to linuxmemes in Who was your first?

The year was 2002, and the distro was Caldera Open Linux 2.2

edit to add: Currently running KDE Neon. KDE 6 is pretty great so far.

harsh3466 , 3 months ago to 196 in Rule

That flag is simultaneously trash and 100x better than the current WI flag.

harsh3466 , 3 months ago to Technology in Threads is automatically hiding comments that mention Pixelfed

Obviously not, but the behavior already shows that Meta/Threads isn’t interested in being a good fediverse citizen, and in doing so lends more credibility to the idea that they’re aiming to embrace, extend, and extinguish.

harsh3466 , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in This Week in Self-Hosted (15 March 2024)

Also switched from homarr to homepage and have been happy with homepage.

harsh3466 , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in Preferred E-Book Library Server Software?

FWIW, I was also looking for an ebook server solution. I looked at Calibre/Calibre-web and did not at all like how that worked and how Calibre-web was dependent on the Calibre library, and I hated how janky Calibre was as a docker container.

I settled on Audiobookshelf. I already had that up and running for my audiobooks, and they’ve been adding and improving ebook support, and I’ve been very happy with Audiobookshelf for both ebooks and audiobooks.

I didn’t care for Kavita because of the folder structure it required for ebooks. I may have been biased against Kavita’s folder requirements because I already had Audiobookshelf up and running.

For Audiobookshelf, the structure is:

Author > Series Directory (if applicable) > Book Title (directory) > Book file

harsh3466 , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in Preferred E-Book Library Server Software?

I had the same question awhile back and found no alternative to Calibre with the de-drm (I’m on macOS). So I do the same. Download my ebooks from amazon, de-drm with calibre and upload to my server.

harsh3466 , 3 months ago to Technology in YouTube stops recommending videos when signed out of Google

I noticed this a few days ago or so and I was delighted by it. I never sign in to YouTube and hated the garbage recommendations on the homepage.

harsh3466 , 3 months ago to Technology in Roku Data Breach: Over 15,000 Accounts Affected

Yup. Was waiting for the shoe to drop. Fuckers.

harsh3466 , 3 months ago to linuxmemes in RIP Yuzu and Citra

Me too! I thought it was gonna be all wholesome, but, late stage capitalism is a boring dystopia.

harsh3466 , 3 months ago to Technology in Generative A.I - We Aren’t Ready.

Agree. When I feel like playing and/or have a use case for myself I’ll be looking at open source ai.