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Cake day: July 5th, 2023
  • StantonVitales@beehaw.orgtoFree and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•What non-FOSS software have you been unable to quit?
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    1 year ago

    Well, I’ve tried it since this comment, and I’m using it occasionally (primarily because I like the Delfin app for Arch Linux), but there’s a lot of reasons I still prefer Plex. First and most importantly, I use PlexAMP as my primary music player and I have 1tb+ of music that I don’t feel like perfectly setting up again. It’s a huge amount of work, and I listen to a lot of lesser known shit that just isn’t easy to gather data for, and a lot of Various Artist shit that I’m really particular about how it shows up.

    The other big issue I have is that Collections is a separate tab in Movies, rather than being listed alongside the rest of my library like in Plex, and that’s really just not useful for me. It automatically populated my collections just fine, but if my primary Movies tab is just gonna list each individual movie and I have to actually go to the Collections tab to see collections, it’s just not how I like my library. If I can find a solution for this it’ll go a long way to pushing me toward JellyFin.

  • StantonVitales@beehaw.orgtoMemes@lemmy.ml•As dark as an extremely rich functional society can be
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    2 years ago

    No doubt, most people would hate this and I understand why, but I for one am just not one of those people.

    I live in the northeast US and nothing depresses me like watching the days get longer as spring and summer approach. When winter comes, I sleep through all the daylight hours and only wake up once it’s dark, going to sleep as the sun comes up.

    If I’m ever crazy rich, my dream is the have two houses, on either side of the world, so I can live where it’s perpetually night for six months, and fly to the other house as soon as it starts to switch, so I can live in perpetual night.

  • StantonVitales@beehaw.orgtoGaming@beehaw.org•Pet peeve, games that won't let you saveEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Winning is good, right? Yeah, but not if it’s too easy

    That’s how you feel about it, though, not an objective thing everybody feels the same about. I absolutely cheat whenever I’m finding a game too difficult, and I assure you, I’m still enjoying the game. I don’t know what people get out of what I find to be the extremely infuriating act of repeatedly failing over and over until I finally get it right, but I have not ever felt the sense of accomplishment I’m told I should feel after finally beating something I struggled with. I feel angry and like I wasted a bunch of time when I could have been enjoying something more fun.

    I’m just trying to have a good time, not compete with myself or prove that I can learn just the right way and right time to hit certain button combos or whatever.

  • StantonVitales@beehaw.orgtoMemes@lemmy.ml•Why is it so lonely in the fediverse
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    2 years ago

    Oh man, this is genuinely depressing. I just checked it out for the first time and almost every thread I see is “omg this is so much better than twitter” “Guess we’re all on threads now?” and just complete lack of awareness of the fediverse at all, and I’m just sitting here like “the fediverse has been better than twitter…and facebook…and instagram… and reddit… for a long time now…” but everyone is just gonna throw flowers at Facebook for making a hackneyed handicapped version of it and there’s nothing we can do.

    This time next year everywhere you see little social media buttons and links the threads symbol will be there by default and people will still have no idea about Lemmy or Mastadon. I’m gonna try really hard to focus on how much of a good thing that is because of its lessening of the horrors of Eternal September in these spaces.