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And concerning Spotify: I read they pay an artist at most a third of a cent per streamed song. I think they’re ripping off the artists.

While Spotify doesn’t make artists much money at all, I think the focus should really be on the record labels. Labels are dinosaurs and really have no business being so prolific in today’s music industry. If I had to choose between waging war on Spotify or labels, I’d be coming for the labels first.

Haven’t watched a ton of anime but the one I watched recently that I really enjoyed was Ergo Proxy

Used to, but I haven’t touched the stuff in almost a year now. Started making me anxious/paranoid more often than not

I think it’s a Costco brand one, it’s a chewy peanut butter and dark chocolate bar

This is definitely me. I never feel hungry in the morning until I’m nauseous. Fortunately, my wife found these protein bars at Costco that are pretty good. I’ve been packing one of those with me to work and i eat it just as I’m starting to feel gross (or all the coffee starts tearing up my stomach). Small enough that I don’t feel more sick, but enough food to get me through the rest of the day.

Easily the best track on The Crow OST. Seeing The Cure live is on my concert bucket list. They’ve come through Seattle a handful of times in my life but I’ve never managed to get tickets

I hope the multiplayer is well populated. Q2 was my introduction to MP FPS on PC when I was a kid and solidified my love for it to this day. Would love to jump back in to some railgun-only DM servers

Under A Blood Red Sky is the reason I added Red Rocks to my travel bucket list!

Oh man thanks for the link! I’ve only started listening to The Weakerthans in the past few years and will definitely be checking out this performance

Mine originally was a reference to an album by Val Emmich, “Slow Down Kid”. I used that for a long time and finally decided that since I’m in my 30s it was time to drop the “kid” part. slowd0wn is now my online/gamer handle and has been for several years

Niche communities will organically begin to congregate in one or two places in the fediverse over time. It won’t happen instantly. The same thing happened over at Reddit, but they’ve had almost 2 decades for it to happen, and communities are still fragmented there. Just look at r/gaming, r/games, r/pcgaming, etc. It’s no different on the fediverse, the only difference is that these communities might share a name. So instead of having r/gaming and r/games, you have two communities both named c/gaming.

For now, what I do is search for the community I’m interested (i.e. Linux in your example), take a look at the number of users subscribed to each option and pick the largest one as my main source. If I find the quality of that community to be lacking, I check out the other ones as well.

Custom firmware like tomato or ddwrt can be fun to just play around with and learn more about networking. I used my old router temporarily as both a wifi repeater and as a wifi receiver using custom firmware. I didn’t need it for any particular function, but it was fun to experiment with

I enjoyed my time in Splitgate, but after playing games like Insurgency and CSGO I have a really hard time with shooters having long TTK (fell off of Halo Infinite really quick for the same reason). I grew up playing Quake 2 so the idea of having to drop a full magazine to kill someone is frustrating to me