I absolutely don’t need (nor can I afford) another QAZ but this is just too good and I must have it 🤤
Streaming my own music was the reason I got into self-hosting in the first place and I’ve been satisfied with Navidrome for over a year now. My preference is to stream via an app on my phone but I’ve made accounts for a couple friends and they stream happily on multiple devices using the browser interface.
As stated, my reason is that I was paying Spotify more money for less music and I was unhappy with that. You pointed out yourself that musicians barely get by in the streaming era so I would rather support them on Bandcamp (I know it has it’s own issues) or buying physical media whenever possible rather than pirating. Streaming platforms may make music you want to listen to seemingly affordable and accessible but that’s not the case for everyone. This is my personal experience.
it’s easier to just sub to something like Apple Music… literally $110/yr for all the music that exists.
As others have stated, not all music exists on every streaming platform. That alone is enough of a reason for me. I recently canceled my longtime Spotify subscription because the price kept increasing while my library kept decreasing. I actually don’t pirate music when I can help it because I’d rather support artists on Bandcamp or purchasing physical media directly. If I can’t do that then I head to Soulseek!
I've never gotten too deep into symphonic metal but Blackwater Park is a masterpiece
Many of these bands are new to me so I'm making my way down your list and Murmuüre is blowing my mind
I saw them live last month and Morning Star was a transcendent experience!!!
Hard to narrow down favorites because my feelings change often, but these 5 have been in rotation most often lately (in no particular order)
- King Woman - Celestial Blues [doom]
- System of a Down - Toxicity [alt metal? nu metal?]
- Violet Cold - Empire of Love [post-black metal]
- Liturgy - 93696 [black metal]
- Thou - Magus [sludge]
And I'll say that I don't necessarily think these are the best albums ever... I don't think I could ever make up my mind about that! Looking forward to seeing everyone else's picks.
GIMP is fine but who can find me replacements for After Effects and Premiere Pro? I need software for video editing/motion graphics and these are the two apps keeping me shackled to Adobe for now…
Always love seeing the back! Both sides look fantastic
I’ve had good luck accessing Channel4 via the NordVPN browser extension in Firefox. Using my desktop VPN (OpenVPN) stopped working some months ago as it was detected by the site but it seems the browser extension flies under the radar.
I love this! The style reminds me a bit of Peter Draws and your freehand line quality is impressive!
I’m a MacBook user and I’ve been very happy with AlDente. It took some reading to understand all the features but I really believe it’s made a difference in the health of my battery.
I'm trying to reign in my iOS camera roll and I figured it would be easier on desktop. Turns out the Photos app suuuuuuucks. All I want is to categorize photos by tag or folder and then remove them from the main view. Albums are nice in theory but they're an extra click/tap away from the home screen and don't hide photos from the camera roll. Is there a better way to do this?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/1312795
> ! > > [Image description: A screenshot of the lemmy.blahaj.zone front page with a custom userstyle applied. The userstyle features a dark gray background with medium gray text and brightly-colored accents of purple, pink, orange, and cyan. The right sidebar cards are a light shade of gray with lighter gray text, pink buttons, and orange links] > > A few weeks ago I decided to try my hand at bringing my favorite theme to Lemmy and this userscript was born. It's still in the early stages so there are some wrinkles to iron out, but I just pushed a big update with better contrast, style fixes, and streamlined code. > > I've received several requests to turn it into a native Lemmy theme but have no idea how to do that. If anyone has any tips on theming, interest in collaborating, or a Lemmy instance where I could test a native theme, hit me up! You can find all the code here on Codeberg.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/1312795
> ! > > [Image description: A screenshot of the lemmy.blahaj.zone front page with a custom userstyle applied. The userstyle features a dark gray background with medium gray text and brightly-colored accents of purple, pink, orange, and cyan. The right sidebar cards are a light shade of gray with lighter gray text, pink buttons, and orange links] > > A few weeks ago I decided to try my hand at bringing my favorite theme to Lemmy and this userscript was born. It's still in the early stages so there are some wrinkles to iron out, but I just pushed a big update with better contrast, style fixes, and streamlined code. > > I've received several requests to turn it into a native Lemmy theme but have no idea how to do that. If anyone has any tips on theming, interest in collaborating, or a Lemmy instance where I could test a native theme, hit me up! You can find all the code here on Codeberg.
[Image description: A screenshot of the lemmy.blahaj.zone front page with a custom userstyle applied. The userstyle features a dark gray background with medium gray text and brightly-colored accents of purple, pink, orange, and cyan. The right sidebar cards are a light shade of gray with lighter gray text, pink buttons, and orange links]
A few weeks ago I decided to try my hand at bringing my favorite theme to Lemmy and this userscript was born. It's still in the early stages so there are some wrinkles to iron out, but I just pushed a big update with better contrast, style fixes, and streamlined code.
I've received several requests to turn it into a native Lemmy theme but have no idea how to do that. If anyone has any tips on theming, interest in collaborating, or a Lemmy instance where I could test a native theme, hit me up! You can find all the code here on Codeberg.
When adding a new task in iOS there’s a toolbar at the bottom with icons to include date, location, flag, or an image. Is there a way to add a priority tag without having to tap the Details icon to go into a separate menu? I like prioritizing my reminders but I hate having to take that extra step.
[Image description: A white fountain pen with a silver clip on the cap and a silver zebra stripe band around the middle lies on a blue dotted grid desk pad.]
I impulse bought a Pilot Metropolitan (F) about a month ago and have had the worst experience so far. First it took 3 days of experimenting (squeezing the cartridge, flushing, cleaning, shaking, incessant scribbling) to get it to write at all. Then I noticed the nib was a bit off-center in the feed so I aligned it and it wrote pretty well for a while. This morning I grabbed it to take some notes and it won't start, even after a flush with water and re-seating the cartridge. This isn't my first fountain pen (not even my first Pilot!) but I'm really disappointed because the Metro seems to be such a popular recommendation as a solid, inexpensive starter pen. Did I get a dud?
I have a rudimentary understanding of how my home network operates, but I'd like to know more. What resources would you recommend for a beginner to learn how computer networking works, network infrastructures, different protocols, etc?
I'm not looking to get into enterprise networking but I couldn't find another community to post this question so I apologize if it's irrelevant!
Decided to try my hand at bringing my favorite theme to Lemmy. It's very rough right now but I figured I would share with the community. You can install it in Stylus here to test. I welcome all feedback and suggestions!
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