Then again, it might be easier to make people stop doing something than it is to make them do something mindfully. Doing anything with intent is difficult.

Not that I disagree with you, I’m just afraid it’s a lot to ask. I guess that goes for asking people to stop using social media as well though.

Yeah, if they need you, but maintaining friendships is hard enough work if one doesn’t actively exclude oneself.

I have a bunch of friends from most corners of Europe, most highly educated, all of them use WhatsApp. I use Signal with those who are on there, but 90% are only on WhatsApp, so I am too.

Worse yet, my friends and family in my home country are almost all only on Facebook Messenger. I stopped using that entirely, and clumsily reach out on SMS whenever necessary. It has absolutely made it harder to stay in touch with people I care about.

I also avoid a lot of other social networks that would have been nice in order to keep in touch with my friends in other parts of the world, which is pretty much all of them as I travel. Pixelfed is nice, but my friends are still on Instagram. Or even Snapchat, even though I’m in my 30s.

Not all my friends are privacy nerds, and I wouldn’t want them to be either. So I just gently push for Signal whenever I can while I hold my nose and continue to run WhatsApp.

That’s part of enshittification I’d say. It’s all about squeezing your users for as much money as you can, and surveillance is part of that.

Based on 404media’s coverage of Girls Do Porn, I feel like PornHub can hardly be described as not being “unregulated and sketchy and extreme”.

Long story short, PornHub was knowingly cooperating with a porn producer operating on the basis of institutionalized rape for years. Lots of women have committed suicide in the wake. The ringleader of the network PornHub cooperated with was recently sentenced to 27 years in prison. I’m of the personal belief that PornHub executives should have been brought in to keep him company—they are as guilty as anyone in this. I really doubt that Girls Do Porn is a unique story in anything else than the fact that it ended up before the courts.

Oh wow, it goes back even further. Incredible.

Historically death camps tend to start out as mere camps, but then suddenly they are full of people who are deemed unwanted anyway and keeping them alive is expensive and difficult so why bother.

On its current trajectory there’s no US camp that shouldn’t be expected to turn into a death camp. And as others have pointed out, thousands “missing” from a huge, poorly managed camp in the middle of a swamp is worrying to say the least.

Americans today are like Germans in the 30s, watching the trains roll by.

Thanks!

Cool, I wasn’t aware of that! Might be worth checking out.

I’m the unfortunate owner of a few Sonos speakers, and Sonos controls are not well integrated in the Qobuz app yet. But I think I heard rumours that better integration being on its way - this is where I would really benefit from being able to control with the Qobuz app. (right now I’m using noson, which is at least much better than the official Sonos app)

Not recorded per se as that would require actual work, but they both push and produce AI slop, demonstrating an uncompromised willingness to piss on the graves of some of my personal heroes.

Qobuz and piracy both offer more ethical alternatives to Spotify. Spotify are not just not paying artists, they are actively sabotaging them and investing their riches in weapons and disinformation.

Fuck Spotify. Make sure to set up your Qobuz account before deleting your Spotify account—that way you’ll be able to keep your playlists.

There’s also a fantastic third party Qobuz client for linux. It’s CLI, but if you launch it with --web it launches a local web client that’s point and click. You can choose any audio quality up to 24bit/192Khz.

I have it hooked up to my hifi system and connect through ssh to control it from my laptop or phone. Works great.

I’d say the Clash were simultaneously highly mainstream and true to the spirit of punk. Dead Kennedys as well, albeit slightly less mainstream.

Honestly I’d say there’s a lot of punk bands that enjoyed something close to mainstream success without being sellouts.

I’d say he’s imitating the 60s more than the 70s, but he writes some good tunes nevertheless. :)

That’s brilliant. Australian culture is criminally underappreciated in Europe.

I don’t believe he did?

Just a victim of globalization I guess. Was introduced to it by a guy who did farmwork in Australia for a while.

What the fuck. Back in my day gooning meant having someone pour alcohol into your mouth, typically from a bladder container such as a wine bag from boxed wine. I have fun memories of gooning with friends in hot tubs. I guess that’s a sentence I can’t use any more.

Yup, the nightly builds are already getting pretty good. Obviously not ready for any serious use yet, but it’s a great project.

Move to a different area if your current area it’s not pleasurable to you. Find a higher quality group of friends or become someone that can enjoy their own company. I could keep listening, but I’m not going to make this thread too long.

I guess a lot of people people don’t have this opportunity because they need to work boring jobs in order to feed themselves. They should be plotting a revolution, but instead are exhausted by work and get pacified by brainless entertainment the few hours they are not either working or sleeping.

For whoever can afford freedom there’s plenty of things to do in the world, yet a bunch of them end up bored anyway. I agree that they could often escape their boredom if they were braver.

I have tried to buy good laptops in the past (ThinkPads) and have been profoundly disappointed, part of the appeal of the Framework for me was that I could choose myself exactly what I wanted from my laptop. And I really couldn’t be happier with the hardware - build quality and everything is really great, and a completely different league from machines I have wasted money on in the past even though I tried my best to do my research.

It’s possible I should have tried System76 or Tuxedo, but I am really very happy with my Framework. Don’t think it makes sense to say it’s worse than the competition. But of course, a small company + repairability is reflected in the price.