yeah I wouldn’t use it for doing the whole thing, but have been using it here and there to help me figure out why I’m getting errors and how to solve them. As a newbie programmer it helps guide me back to the right path.
However… even that doesn’t work all the time because it’s still not smart enough to isolate issues coming from imports, plus some other minor hiccups.
LibreOffice for replacing Microsoft Office
I haven’t listened yet but this relates to something that’s been bugging me and I haven’t found the right place to write it. This is also part of why I never got into TikTok in the first place. I did have a TikTok account for a few days and tried to see what the hype was about after all these years. But I was immediately turned off by the fact that after a video plays it goes down straight to the next one. It’s not like Insta where you can control the speed at which you scroll through the content. It forces speed onto you. I could only use the app for a few minutes before getting overstimulated and overwhelmed and had to close it. I never installed it again.
It all comes back to the manifestations of this need for efficiency. There’s cultural pressure to consume the next content chunk, while incentives or abilities to stop and savor things have been removed.
I keep thinking of Thoreau’s advice to “simplify, simplify.” Corporations wanna keep adding all these extra features that supposedly increase efficiency but they just create complications and headaches for their users.
It’d be super cool if we could connect article-hosting services with the power of activitypub or something but like one of those commenters mentioned, the issue would always be spam and security.
wapo said mask off, we’re voting for fascism. wow.
lmao maybe so!
On that note, here’s some other sites I’ve used to find new stuff:
YouTube adds related videos to the playlist. Have you really never used this site before?
But let’s be real, YouTube is not the source you wanna depend on given its owned by Google. The more you listen on there the more data you give them. It just has everything you need to rip from.
YouTube shuffle, Bandcamp feed, internet radio stations
damn I just bit the bullet and am manually updating the metadata for my library of 5000 thousand songs, mostly cause I’m old enough that this was the way I did it before Spotify, so now I’m just going back to my old ways… hope you find a solution though, it’d be mighty helpful
I use Proton Drive in a browser