Yeah I used to use Plex as well. And there’s nothing super wrong with that. I just like the fact that jelly fin isn’t putting a lot of stuff behind paywalls or taking features away. Which Plex has done over the years as well as introducing advertisement and stuff. I’m not so worried about all the extra streaming content they want to provide. I can get most of it through other apps already.

Yes you absolutely can. I have a few like that. I have jelly fin running on a 4th generation i7 system serving all our movies and TV shows. It doesn’t have to be super powerful Etc

Generally, modern distributions you don’t access the command line any more frequently than you would under windows. Basically everything that you would need to do on a normal basis is able to be done from the desktop.

But don’t make a laptop your first experience. Laptops are hard to get even Windows running correctly on. Because of how proprietary and bespoke things are. Tracking down the correct drivers for the correct version of Windows can still drive you mad.

If you really want to learn and have a good time. Go on to eBay and sink $100 into an old business E-Waste Tower. You can get sixth generation core i7 systems with 16 GB of RAM for that if you look around. I bought two last year for around that price. And run one of them heavily everyday myself the other I got for my father. In fact the picture was from it.

The only other solid sanity preserving advice I can give you with regards to all of that. Is that when it comes to Wi-Fi invest in an Intel chipset. I currently have a number of devices running with Realtek chipsets. As long as you get the right ones they will work without any effort. If you get one of the wrong ones though. You’ll pull your hair out. Intel works every time all the time.

And if you eventually want a laptop that runs it. Go framework, tuxedo, system 76, or similar. They’ve designed with it in mind. That or research comparability. I have a mid 2010’s HP elite book with an and CPU and Vega graphics. Everything works perfect but the finger print sensor. Those are always bespoke. Similarly I got an old Chromebook tablet that was compatible with postmarket Linux. The pen and touch screen works great. The camera sensor, because it’s a cell phone module however doesn’t currently. But my only real gripe is the 4gb of ram. Under KDE with Firefox and another couple apps I get close to using it all. But it’s not a big concern. Because it was supposed to be lightweight and minimal. And it’s already far better than any Android tablet I’ve ever owned.

Comedians and court jesters have always been some of the most honest and straight forward. They don’t bite their tongue or fret over access. You shouldn’t discount them. Entertainment is one of the best methods of informing. You will spend infinitely time more learning in an entertaining way. Then beating your head against a dry impenetrable text that you struggle to comprehend.

Seems like lately everyone’s been going Gaga about PewDiePie switching to Linux etc. But if you really want a reasonably unbiased and professional look at it. You can’t beat animator James Lee’s video. His love for fsck is justified. He goes over it warts and all from his perspective. And not that of a rabid Fanboy willing to ignore any flaws.

Hopefully this will be like the law firms that caved. They’ve lost a lot of clients and future prospects. Who would want to be involved with such institutions? Definitely no one with ethics or morals. So I’m sure they will probably be all right in the end. But in the meantime there’s going to be a lot of realignment.

They’ve given you no reason to believe them. They’ve lied to you about everything. I too am a communist. Anarco communist. Everything I stand for is opposed to them. One of us must be wrong.

But here’s something to think about before you decide who’s correct. They want you and others to treat them as if they were communist do you really want to give them what they want? That seems counterintuitive to accept their claims on face value when they’re so dishonest about everything else.

While for my part all I’ve done is try to engage you in good faith and treat if you like an adult.

You. I like your optimism. But I don’t share your experience apparently. A lot of people don’t. About the best I tend to get from a lot of them after I start asking a lot of questions that poke holes in their beliefs. Is silence.

Never once have they admitted that they could be wrong or that there’s a chance I might be right. And as soon as they go back to spend time with their cult. The next time I see them it’s like it never even happened. They’re it back to insisting the same absurd positions. Because they never actually acknowledged or considered that they could be wrong.

It’s not even limited to or that unique to right Wingers. Plenty of gaza activists still to this day refused to admit that the hyperfocus on Biden and Harris was a mistake. Or that by doing that they may have helped Trump win. The field was so flooded with Hyper focused partisan propaganda. That many Palestinian Americans honestly somehow thought Trump would be better and voted for him. But as is basic human nature it’s never their fault. It’s always someone else that shit their pants.

I’ve usually had at least one system running Linux since the mid-90s. In the late 90s when we got our first broadband I had an old Pentium system with 16 megabytes of RAM running a 24/7 stream. Damn that thing was a piece of work lol. I installed Gentoo Linux on it. Well well over 24 hours of operating system compilation with a stripped down kernel. All the music compressed down to 32 kbps mono mp3. Altered with a special noise shaping algorithm to help reduce compression artifacts. And not immediately saturate that sweet sweet 100 megabit connection. All this had to be done in advance. Because the 60 megahertz Pentium could never encode to MP3 in real time. The ice cast version 1 server would just serve it up raw from a semi random playlist.

The full switch back in 2014-2015 wasn’t coincidental. That was right around the year of the steam machines. When valve’s proton was getting pretty mature. That combined with the fact that as I’ve gotten older my gaming is generally limited to just a few specific games most of which aren’t multiplayer or compatibility issues. It really is just much nicer to not have to deal with your operating system telling you your five or six-year-old system is too old to run the latest and greatest. Or that you need one drive or co-pilot or any other of the BS Microsoft is pushing these days. And now in 2025 I will be switching my parents over as well finally. Their systems aren’t eligible for Windows 11. They could run it’s just fine. They’re just not eligible.

Oh wait I do remember music Bee. I looked at it briefly back in 2014? When I was still using Windows. But I think I was too invested in my current workflow at the time to try to figure out if it could fill it. That and I remember some silliness when I added the full Tb worth of files from the NAS. Not sure if it was SMB or the hundreds of thousands of files. It could have been either honestly.

But definitely, foobar and creating your own layouts gets tricky fast. I created one about 15 years ago and saved it. That way I could just reapply it every time I had to reinstall over the years or upgraded to a new system. Because I didn’t want to have to mess with it again LOL

I’d not heard of musicbee. The qt version of slsk was lacking for some time. These days though it’s pretty on par, so it’s more a matter of habit.

Those upset that they are being hurt when it was supposed to be everyone else. Are no ally. Saying it was wrong to seek harm to others is very different than saying “I wasn’t supposed to be hurt”. They can be useful, but they don’t have remorse.

Foobar is great. Used it for a decade at least possibly two. It and the discogs tagging plugin was my go-to for organizing my library of ripped or downloaded files. So much so that I even went to the trouble initially of getting it to run under Linux with wine.

The player however is a fork of Clementine called strawberry. It is available for Windows as well as Mac and Linux. It has plugins and configurability. But not quite on the scale of what Foobar 2000 can do. But if you are looking for a cross-platform software for Library management. It’s right up there with foobar. It comes with the music brains tagger built in. Though I still use their separate application picard. Because it exposes options a bit easier Etc. And best of all it can handle my whole library even over NFS.

At the moment I have let my OCD get the better of me and decided that I would prefer to have everything in largely one, more modern format and fix some of the old tagging and file naming. So I am re-ripping CDs into opus at 160 kbps. Which is well above what’s generally considered transparent. And converting flacs Etc.

Technically there was no soul seeking lol. Just a little nicotine+. Which is a python backed front end to slsk.

You’re getting a lot of downvotes but no explanation.

Communism is a classless stateless society. The fact that all these groups are massive states with untouchable political classes rebuts any assertion of communism. Second is the difference between nouns and adjectives. The Communist Party is a noun. Such parties are never able to be described as communist however. In fact Vanguard parties are an antithesis to communism. And would have to be overthrown before achieving communism.

If you take leninism / maoism seriously. They are supposed to be frameworks with which to jumpstart communism. Sort of like all that " one weird trick to perfect health that doctors hate" spam you see all over the internet. Bullshit.

This. The more power is concentrated the more heinous the actions typically become. A warlord slaughtering families or a village is a tragedy. A despot committing genocide is a Tuesday.

Yup

Always words to live by

pic When I go I go hard. All perfectly tagged and replaygained ready to go. So far I definitely prefer the older stuff. Newer is a bit more minimal and atmospheric. But I can definitely hear detroit in the older stuff.

Everyone makes mistakes, those that can admit it are rare. Those that can forgive rarer still. And both should be role models.

I don’t know, for my money I spent more of the last decade playing Saints Row than GTA. If whoever holds the IP rights. Reboots the s*** of the last one. And turn it into some fever dream or some failed alternate universe. Finding a way to bring back Kinsey gat and the rest of the original crew. And do it with a 50 to $60 price point. My money is going there every time. It may have been the GTA we have at home. But it was lovably absurd in its own right even having an impact on GTA.