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might as well just slap cancer warnings on everything these days. Launch a massive banner to orbit so everywhere can see the cancer warning for the sun. Doctors need to hold a cancer warning sign when a baby is being birthed so it’ll be the first thing they see because you can literally just get cancer for simply living.

Japan has always been conservative. Always. People think because of the things they produce which are fun, entertaining, or technologically advance they would be very liberal and/or progressive but no at the end of the day Japan, culturally, is still very conservative.

So combine that with their declining population, racism that never truly went away, xenophobia, etc it makes sense. I’ve known people that moved there thinking it’d be a great time because they had such a massive interest in the Japanese “culture” but that “culture” was just window dressing. It’s not all fun anime, videogames, jpop, and fashion. They ended up moving back and completely losing interest in all things Japanese. It wasn’t a fun a experience for them.

the only issues I had with KDE when I was recently using it all revolved around the panel. Random crashes with “too much” interaction. Adding widgets for the panel or desktop is still to this day hit or miss. clicking the “get new widget” option is a roll of the dice if it will actually work or not or even find the thing you want. It’s still horrible at loading stuff in there. and installing whatever, again, is a roll of the dice if it will actually do it or not.

I like KDE, it’s a good and solid DE but man do they really need to focus on fixing the panels and the installation/discovery of widgets. The alternative is using the pling store and that’s just a headache on it’s own.

it’s funny because once you start using other distros you quickly realize how easy Arch actually is. I find Arch more straight forward and easier to use that Ubuntu. Ubuntu makes me want to rip what remaining hair I have out.

on my CachyOS/Arch and NixOS machines I just use borg to backup to my dedicated server. Very easy to do. I have a couple alias’ set up so I can view my backups easily through my file manager on whatever local machine. Essentially all you have to do is make a script to tell it what files/folders to backup, what to potentially ignore, how often you want to backup, the time of day you want it to happen, can also tell it to delete old backups. In NixOS it’s painfully easy to set up and can be done within the configuration.nix. On other distros the only difference is you have to set up a service and timer for it.

but I like it, it’s straight forward, never had issues with it.

I mean if you’re going to go the multiple user accounts route for different things wouldn’t it just be easier to just use QubesOS? No account switching and granted it will be a bit slower but saves you the headaches.

the tags are really decent, like the previous poster said it’s pretty much all audiophiles so everything is tagged, a lot of FLAC stuff but you can sort by MP3 (Nicotine+ makes it really easy in that regard)

The great thing about it and because the user base is mostly audiojunkies is that you can find some REALLY obscure stuff. Like things you’d never find on spotify or youtube music or any of that. I once found a set from a band I love from a show I was actually at.

this was the script I used to download my youtube playlist, you can modify it to do spotify also:

#!/bin/bash  

PLAYLIST_URL="$1"  

if [ -z "$PLAYLIST_URL" ]; then  
    echo "Usage: $0 <youtube_playlist_url>"  
    exit 1  
fi  

# Log file with timestamp  
LOG_FILE="$HOME/music-downloads/download_$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S).log"  

echo "Starting download at $(date)" | tee "$LOG_FILE"  
echo "Playlist: $PLAYLIST_URL" | tee -a "$LOG_FILE"  
echo "----------------------------------------" | tee -a "$LOG_FILE"  

# Run sldl with YouTube playlist  
sldl "$PLAYLIST_URL" --yt-dlp 2>&1 | tee -a "$LOG_FILE"  

echo "----------------------------------------" | tee -a "$LOG_FILE"  
echo "Download completed at $(date)" | tee -a "$LOG_FILE"  

I just ran this in a screen session. You don’t have to log everything but I did it so I could check to see what songs weren’t on soulseek from my playlist.

I used screen. Just start a screen session for it like “music-downloads” and then you can quit the session and exit out OR install a DE like XFCE on your server and then use something like xfreerdp to remote desktop in, run the script in a terminal on the server, then just close your xfreerdp.

I first used screen to download everything but then decided to install XFCE and Nicotine+ and just leave it up so people can download from my library also.

because they’re built by individuals who are those things. that’s the controversy. that’s it.

the whole thing is people are upset that Framework sponsored those things because they don’t like paying Framework for their machines who in turn then give money to people they feel are facists.

right that’s why I said worse comes to worse and to take it with a grain of salt. For very simple issues it’s fine, beyond that it’s a coin toss. It’s a fine rubber duck. Like if I missed something obvious but I’m just not seeing it then it might point that out for me. Like for example I recently reinstalled my OS and I couldn’t get wireguad to work so as a last ditch effort I plugged it into Claude and it told me that I had forgotten to replace a privatekey on one of the peers. I had just completely missed it.

yup! I used that to pull my playlists from spotify and youtube to download my songs on soulseek. very powerful tool that worked great. just let it run on my server overnight and had all my songs by the morning.

I have soulseek/nicotine+ on my private server and I just use that. It’s really easy. If you ever used Napster or limewire or Kazaa or whatever it’s exactly like that.

journalctl and log files are very valuable. If it’s specific to an application running said application in a terminal with verbose also gives can potentially provide you with a clear indication of what’s going wrong.

I’m dyslexic so I get syntax errors all the damn time and thankfully using NixOS it likes to remind me on rebuild how much of an idiot I am.

Worse comes to worse you can always plug the error into an LLM like Claude or Chatgpt. But take that with a grain of salt. It’ll give you a good base to start from for debugging but never trust something like Claude that will constantly tell you “it’s a known issue” when it isn’t.

All this being said I’ve had the best experience for help via whatever application/distro/whatever IRC channels on Libera chat.

they sponsored Omarchy and Hyprland. one a glorified dotfiles arch “distro” built by DHH who is pretty much a fascist and Hyprland a buggy neon mess of a WM built by a transphobic fascist.

So yeah, they’re not having a good time right now.

I don’t get it either. I mean the distro at the end of the day really doesn’t matter. like ok, which way do you want to type a line in a terminal to download something. you want Debian, Arch, Fedora, Nix or Gentoo.

People always suggest Mint and I don’t get why. I mean I could have Cagebreak or Herbstluftwm on Mint…is it still new user friendly? no? then it’s not the Distro it’s the DE.

Throw Cinnamon or KDE Plasma on Arch with a Distro Manager GUI, boom now that’s new user friendly.

It’s the DE that’s important, the Distro is whatever.

I don’t think they work anymore. I would have thought he would have used a small one by now especially after Ukraine made advances into Russian territory.

But what the fuck do I know, I’m just a guy front of a monitor speculating on things I’m not qualified to speculate on.

on mine I’m running forgejo, searxng, navidrome, vaultwarden, wireguard, jellyfin, RomM, some VM stuff mainly for compiling, and a bunch of other small stuff like glance.

Then I have a “junk drawer” on it where I just play around with random things in dockers and generally forget about them.

It will never happen and they know it, thus the reason they do as they please. While a good chunk of the western world will condemn them if some other Arab nation decided to put boots on the ground those same western nations would likely send their own boots. At least the US likely would and then it’s game over.

Add to the fact that even WITHOUT direct western involvement there’s no a single Arab nation or anyone with a grudge against Israel that could mass an army of any threat to them or they would have done it by now.

They’re that dorky little pipsqueek from school that had tough older brothers and a father with influence so people allowed the little turd to get away with whatever they wanted. No one is going to put Israel in check and Israel themselves count on this fact.

Release them where exactly? someone still has to pay to move them somewhere to be released. I mean you can’t just let them loose in Niagara Falls unless you want 30 Beluga Whales falling on top of the Maid of the Mist.