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Jesse Welles - The Poor
  • love this one. i'm really impressed with his consistent level of quality on all of these original songs, especially considering how fundamentally simple they are musically.

    him recording banger after banger on his phone in the forest with nothing but a guitar and sometimes a harmonica while droves of industry plants churn out highly-produced slop in a vain attempt to make as many viral tiktok sound bites as possible is a prime example of the fact that good art comes from lots of passion and practice, not from access to expensive professional tools and resources.

  • If you're not using or somewhat into bicycles, why do you think that is?
  • i used to ride my bicycle every day but during the winter i decided not to get squashed by trucks and started walking instead (the sidewalks didn't get cleared, so i couldn't bike on them and i absolutely wont share an icy road with cars).

    but come spring and summertime, i just preferred to keep walking. i think it's mainly because it's more leisurely, which makes it easier to transition between work brain and leisure brain during the commute.

    on my bike i still mainly stuck to the sidewalks (which is somehow fucking illegal here btw) since at least half of all american drivers want to either maim or murder bicyclists on the road, but i have to carefully move to the road if there is a pedestrian on the sidewalk or whatever ahead of me. so even though while walking i still have to be on fairly high alert for the red-blooded american patriots who think the stop signs in residential areas are suggestions, walking is just a more pleasant experience.

    i feel incredibly lucky that i live close enough to walk and bike to my job, especially so considering how deeply carfucked my city is, so my heart goes out to everyone who is forced to endure commuting by car or playing chicken with your life against american motorists as a bicyclist. wear a helmet.

  • Boos for Israel’s entry at Eurovision rehearsal
  • I really don't think anybody had to do any hunting in this case.

    It doesn't seem like you were trying to be antisemitic or anything upon further inspection, but the phrasing and usage of the sarcasm tag is extremely ambiguous if not semantically incorrect. It initially reads as if "although I'm sure that's just a coincidence" was specifically the part that the sarcasm is applied to, in which case it'd just be a blatantly antisemitic statement.

    It's a simple misunderstanding really, but this is the sort of situation where you should just edit the wording of your comment for clarity, rather than try to defend it and argue with people who are just trying to call out antisemitism when they see it.

  • What could your distro learn from another distro?
  • I think NixOS would stand to benefit a lot by taking inspiration from openSUSE's YaST system configuration tool. I think that if NixOS had a well supported graphical interface for creating and managing the system config, it would become so much more accessible to a very wide range of users who never would have given it a try otherwise, which in turn would bring in tons of new users and developers who will want to improve nixpkgs, etc.

  • what's your wishlist for piracy?
  • my personal wishlist would just be a proper homeserver and the typical home theatre stuff like a nice big screen, speakers, etc.

    in a broader sense of how the ecosystem would be improved, i'd say more open source projects and solidarity in general. currently the worst, yet most common sort of piracy is people searching "watch blank online free" and clicking the shady websites full of junk ads, popups and malware just to see a shitty heavily compressed buffering version with baked in subtitles and stuff. piracy should be for the people, not for profit; lowering the amount of technical hoops you need to jump through to get to the good accessible media by having simple, free, and open tools would help a lot.

  • [KDE Plasma] Minimal Dark Customization
  • cool acronym have you tried conducting your research anywhere besides urban dictionary? needlessly perpetuating the casual use of a term of evidently racist origin is an affront to the collaborative spirit of free software that allows us to behold such beautiful configurations and customizations

  • Where do you find stuff you like on the fediverse?

    I love the fediverse movement's goals to create more democratized online services, especially with things like social media, and I believe that if it properly matures technologically and comes to fruition it will have real potential to make the web better.

    At the moment, however, a large portion of users on the fediverse (particularly on mastodon) are libs who post almost exclusively about elon musk, twitter, or trump, with the occasional incoherent yet ferociously racist post about geopolitics.

    I'd like to improve my mastodon feed and explore the fediverse more in general, beyond just free software news and hexbear. For funny posts and politics on mastodon are there any other groups comparable to hexbear? Are there any accounts or communities in particular that you really like?

    Thanks and have a good day

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    Denouncing "Leftists"

    First of all, if you claim to be a "leftist" and hate President Biden then you're most likely just a Trumper pretending to be a Liberal for attention and trolling. Secondly, I can't believe you already made Biden lose in 2024! Every time you Berners refuse to vote for a democrat because they aren't "left enough" you're actually voting for Trump. Besides, Biden is the most progressive candidate and he's doing his best to create us the perfect economy. And did you know that Biden is actually the most union president ever? He even says he supports them. It's ridiculous that we have to keep reminding you progressive voters every 4 years that democracy itself is at stake and the only way to preserve it is by voting really hard for the blue guys. Sure there are bad apples on both sides, but at least democrats are fighting for freedom 'and reason against the GOP who is mostly just putin Trump worshippers. It all comes down to this, Hexbears, what will it be? Democratic Democracy with a President we can be proud of or Trump republican?

    P.S. if you really want a super leftist president you can sign this change.org petition to make kamala and hillary the first woman presidents/vice presidents in 2028

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    I failed the captcha several times and got rate limited while applying for my account !smuglord

    How's everyone doing?

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