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MentalEdge

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Eskating cyclist, gamer and enjoyer of anime. Probably an artist. Also I code sometimes, pretty much just to mod titanfall 2 tho.

Introverted, yet I enjoy discussion to a fault.

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If you don't know about soulseek, hit up soulseek@lemmy.dbzer0.com icon Soulseek

It's been by far the most effective way to actually find files.

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My combo is Jellyfin+Symfonium

With Symfonium you can manually download playlists and favorites for offline, and/or have a "rolling cache" where the most frequent listens are automatically kept synced for offline listening.

My collection is far too large to keep on my phone in its entirety, but with Symfonium I don't need to, and if I'm ever caught without internet, I've still plenty to listen to.

Jellyfin does not organize the music, it's a way to browse and access it. For a nice client for desktop, look at Feishin.

To actually organize the music, you want something like Picard.

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Symfonium is not open source. It is a paid app by a helpful and responsive sole dev.

If you want FOSS, that's Finamp. But it is not as good. It does also implement offline play features.

The Symfonium dev has responded to and implemented two requests of mine, making me quite happy to pay for and mention their app.

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murdermitten

Is Dungeon Meshi worth it if I'm not into anime?

The last anime I actually really liked was Cowboy Bebop. I try getting into it off and on but I'm kind of put off by the common tropes. That said, my d&d characters for the past 20 years have been some variation of "that's an awful lot of hydra meat that's going to waste if I don't cook it" which I understand is the premise of ...

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I see you don't need more convincing.

Dungeon Meshi has one of the more populated communities on Lemmy, dungeonmeshi@ani.social icon Dungeon Meshi .

It's mostly just fanart as we're between seasons, but the episodes discussion threads are likely to be quite active again once the second season starts.

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God yes. I miss it dearly.

Deadlock is scratching the itch for me.

Also Battleborn Reborn has made the campaign, and bot matches possible again.

Work has gone into making online matches work, and there are some videos of test games on youtube.

Work has stalled for now, as the main dev is busy with other stuff.

Can anyone recommend any good science communicators for a 12 year old girl?

When I was growing up, we had discovery channel. That sparked my intrinsic curiousity. My daughter has that intrinsic motivation as well, but only for k-pop now. She likes youtube videos and she likes when I tell her about science stuff. Maybe I can combine that by recommending her some good youtube channels.

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Triangle

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Lots of good channel suggestions.

But I would also nominate COSMOS.

Both the original hosted by Carl Sagan, and the new series with Neil deGrasse Tyson.

For me, they brought the epicness of reality, scientific history, and the vastness of the universe, into focus in a way nothing else did.

They made me feel a hopeful and powerful "humanity is fucking AWESOME, and can do INCREDIBLE things". It's not just informative. It lights a fire in you for the way humanity fights its way through the dark, using the scientific method as our guide.

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He was gonna teach her gun safety, with a loaded gun while not respecting trigger discipline or the laser rule?

I'd say that's "a likely story" but the man's a Trumper so it's exactly the kind of stupid I'd expect.

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Yes.

Essentially always pretend there's a deadly and infinite laser coming from the muzzle.

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Yup.

It makes you think about not just where you point it, but everything it might "slice" as you handle it.

Or even how you set it down, or move around one sitting on a table.

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Bad enough to replace actual people with AI fakes, but maybe let's not have them puppeting the corpses of the dead, yeah?

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You can get headpats as a guy.

Source: Guy that gets headpats.

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Neat!

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I literally don't care that it's star wars.

I'm just happy to see AG racing still be alive.

WipEout and F-Zero are gone, seemingly never to return.

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I have.

But Redout isn't big enough to bring a lot new AG players in.

This, by virtue of having a budget behind it, and hence marketing, will.

And that's the kind of thing that keeps the genre alive. BNG is fantastic, but it's mostly being enjoyed by people who got into the genre through WipEout.

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But there are no hacks required to install it on old hardware.

Yes there are.

If you used rufus or ventoy, you've just applied them without knowing.

Unmodified Windows 11 ISOs will refuse to install on any hardware with a CPU older than Ryzen 3000 or Intel 8000.

In fact there are less hacks required to install / upgrade to windows 11 then there are to install any Linux distro.

What?

On the vast majority of systems, the vast majority of linux distros will install and run with zero "hacks" of any kind. Literally just boot the ISO as-is and have at it.

genuine copy of windows will receive all and any updates

No. On many machines, while windows will install just fine due to the modifications to the installer applied by rufus/ventoy, the yearly major version updates can fail catastrophically.

A lot of hardware will update without issue, but there ABSOLUTELY is risk.

Windows is just an os. As long as it is compiled for the correct CPU architecture, it is just as supported as any other hardware. The hardware is supported by individual drivers, normally provided by the hardware manufacturer, not Microsoft.

You are confusing functional, and supported.

Something can "technically still work" without being officially supported.

Not being supported means Microsoft can make breaking changes in updates, because they made no promises your hardware would be accounted for in the future.

Just because it works today, no longer means it will tomorrow.