I had to step away from Magic and Wizards after the Pinkerton incident, and everything they’ve been doing since just affirms how shitty a company they are.

I didn’t bud light the cards I already own, and I still occasionally play with friends, but I haven’t spent a dime on MtG since, and I may never again.

In the grand scheme of things it means shit. Capitalism gonna capitalism, and ultimately, nearly all capitalist companies are shit. I couldn’t function in this society if I stopped using or spending money with every reprehensible company.

But with Wizards, I felt, “you know what, I just can’t do this anymore.”

Obligatory xkcd

i would start listening to podcasts again if something like this existed.

Remove snaps

It does feel good! And thanks for that xkcd! That one’s new to me.

There is a libreoffice docker image by linuxserver for self hosting/google docs replacement

https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-libreoffice

I used to love playing MtG. I don’t really anymore, and I won’t give another dime to that shit company. Fuck WotC and fuck Hasbro.

Ubuntu LTS, with all my services in Docker containers.

I know Ubuntu gets a lot of (deserved) hate for some of the shit Canonical pulls, but for now, I like Ubuntu and it works for me.

When I rebuilt my server at the beginning of the month, I was gonna jump to Debian, but my god the Debian website is obtuse. After looking at the site and trying to determine what to download to get Debian with non-free (I’m unfortunately working with an NVIDIA card), I decided to go with Ubuntu. I needed a smooth rebuild process and with Ubuntu I know exactly what I’ll get when I download the LTS server.

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You are not!! We utilize the shit out of our library

Did you make their day? Because they were pretty clear that we needed to make their day.

#! /Merry/Christmas

The one that was lifechanging for me is audiobookshelf. I LOVE having full ownership and control over all of my audiobooks, and the ability to enjoy them on any device I choose.

+1 for Jellyfin. Been running it for years now and it’s fantastic. Great device coverage

Wait. An email just to get a download link AND a cloud account. Fuck that.

:wq

;)

This is why I stopped using rss. I fucking hate seeing an headline I’m interested in, clicking to expand and then having to click through to the site to read the article, dismiss the goddam email list overlay, fight with the stupid paywall, and then close the tab out of frustration.

I miss the days of actually reading articles in my rss feed reader.

This is ultimately why I ditched Nextcloud. I had it set up, as recommended, docker, mariadb, yadda yadda. And I swear, if I farted near the server Nextcloud would shit the bed.

I know some people have a rock solid experience, and that’s great, but as with everything, ymmv. For me Nextcloud is not worth the effort.

Absolutely agree. I do what I can to reduce my own consumption.

It’s not a huge thing, but I ride my bike to work as much as possible, try to repair and reuse, thrift shop where I can, and make choices like not giving WotC money.

🎶🎶 Been around the world and found that only stupid people are breeding 🎶🎶🎶

Smooth Criminal - Alien Ant Farm cover of Michael Jackson that SLAPS!

No idea. I didn’t choose rar. These are archives that I have to deal with.

I’m doing a favor for a friend, and the files were given to me as rar archives. Obviously my first mistake was offering to help, though the reason I offered is because I’m learning scripting and regex. It’s a good challenge for me, and I’m learning stuff I didn’t know, so goal accomplished for me. Also none of this is paid or business/work related stuff. Just helping a friend out.

Anyway, now that I’ve learned that rar is proprietary, I’m gonna see if they care if I convert them all to zip or tar. The scripting to convert them will be another good challenge and will avoid this rar problem.

I loved CrunchBang. Wish it was still around.

I have. I won’t buy ssds or sd cards from Amazon anymore for this exact reason. I got counterfeits twice. Once with an sd card and once with an ssd. Now I buy from B&H for stuff like that so I know I’m getting what I ordered.

I was able to return both counterfeits to Amazon so I didn’t lose any money, but I don’t want the hassle of having to test and verify shit I buy to make sure it’s what it’s supposed to be.

Edit: I try to avoid Amazon entirely, but sometimes it’s the only option.

+1 for audiobookshelf. It’s amazing.

Chiming in for Radicale. Been running it for a couple years. It’s great

I mostly agree with you, but I think it’s naive to suggest people under financial hardship can just up and move. Moving is a huge burden in both time and money. It also doesn’t consider finding new job(s), uprooting a family, and that while moving to a cheaper area lowers cost, it generally also lowers wages.

It’s also naive to suggest everyone has $50-$100 a week they can spend on food. There are lots of people who don’t have $50-$100 a month to spend on food.

The people who are suffering most under these economic conditions are the people who have the least ability to take themselves or their money elsewhere.

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Nice. I haven’t seen that one before!

Thanks!

And it still kinda breaks my brain when I look at an expression. When I just look at it it looks like utter gibberish, but when I say to myself, “okay, what’s this doing?”

And go through it character by character, it turns into something I can comprehend.

That screen scrolling tip is gold. I’ve often used that trick to spot anomalies in data. Hadn’t considered using it to spot the patterns for regex.

Fantastic list. Thank you for sharing! I have not seen this one before.

I’m glad they’re useful for you!

Nice anaolgy!

I haven’t. I’m aware of the *arrr stuff, but as I mentioned in the post, I’m writing these scripts to learn. I have no illusions that what I’m doing is better than *arrr or filebot or whatever else might be out there, I just like working on projects as a way to learn.

Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians

An open tcg would be pretty fun and interesting. I’d definitely give that a go if it existed.

Scrapped nextcloud for the same reason. I was able to get it running the way I wanted, but goddam if nextcloud didn’t irrevocably break if you so much as cut a loud fart near the server.

Updating nextcloud was out of the question.

I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted to hell. The Apple TV ui used to be really nice, but when they launched Apple TV+, it turned into this garbage interface that’s terrible to navigate with an absolute garbage remote that took them years to fix (butterfly keyboard anyone?)

(I say this as an Apple user.)

Thank you!! I will try that!!

Also, love this type of thread. My favorite thing about lemmy has been making it my music discovery engine. I’ve bookmarked this thread to check out everything everyone else is listening to.

I use it for my comics, but I didn’t care for the file/folder structure it required for books, so I’m using audiobookshelf for my ebooks as well as my audiobooks.