Let me tell you how yesterday went.

Title: “Yesterday”

Yesterday, at the start of my day i discovered the update for the app i use to connect to my music server has an issue and couldn’t play anything.

After some hours i discovered it works find in other apps and it was not a networking vpn issue and therefot not an issue with The navidrone server itself.

I tried a bunch of other apps during but none allowed to sort artists by rating except eventually one free app that is not open source developed by an anonymous entity in a far foreign jurisdiction.

I do like amplify very much so i lock back in to troubleshooting what the issue is. I discovered it works fine with the public Navidrome demo.. so it is my server after all?

At this point i am back home and move from working on just my phone to a pc on my servers homenetworking making troubleshooting a heck more comfortable. Though i did experience intens withrawelsymptons and overstimulation from having been gone outside without working music for so long.

I also haven’t eaten anything yet because i am still only starting my day in my head though its noon.

At some point i discovered only a single album worked. Pink Floyd dark side of the moon [MFSL edition] which by coincidence is my goto answer to name a favorite album of all time.

I eventually downloaded tracks from the demo that i verified worked and put them on my server to really compare the networking connections. I eventually discovered navidrome has a menu to force transcroding for specific clients. It was coding everything into aac and on the demo it was flac.

Of course i have troubleshooted codecs in the app since the start. But i never found this menu while on a phone.

The pink floyd album is a 24bit flac.. other flacs where seen by amplify as mp4, m4a and mp3 also didn’t work.

Things really don’t add up but i started copying the demos setting for transcoding to my server and this worked for some albums but not all.

At some point i had the brilliant insight to just select the codec name and press delete making the field blank (it responds as a dropdown but also accepts typed texted confusingly) this removed any kind of transcoding interference from the server. Respected the settings of the app. And my music worked again!

At this point it was the evening of my day and i was ravaged of hunger. But i was to depleted to function and could no longer cook. Because i was no longer aware of other options which where in retrospect available i ended up eating one of the ingredients of what i was going to cook but in a larger amount to compensate for not eating all day.

I hated every bite, then i played Minecraft before going to bed.

Always fun when it tries to circumvent the problem i gave it.

“Hey claude i have had this issue for a while and i want to explore to understand whats going on to finally fix it”

Many frustrating back and forth later

“This clearly isn’t working, what if we tried to circumspect the issue by doing something else entirely like workaround i have been using for the last month “

If Ronald wanted they could sell their nuggets and fries in the freezer section of a supermarket. Then everone could enjoy the product of all their taste science at home.

Its capitalism that ruins it.

What if you don’t have a webcam?

“For users with accessibility needs who cannot use hand gestures to complete the challenge, reCAPTCHA continues to provide visual and audio challenges, and develop more accessible and secure alternatives,”

Security is as good as the weakest link, either bots will exploit the accessibility feature making the webcam step for humans unnecessary.. or its just as secure… making the webcam step unnecessary.

Blatent attempt to extract data from you and nothing more if you ask me.

Just one note that i learned on ltt the other day.

Consoles do have discounts on games, apparently there recently was a small internet drama when the ps store had no active discount for a short while.

Personally, i still think consoles suck and not owning your own hardware to do whatever makes no sense, but misinformation is misinformation.

What you are gaining is that you can recommend it to your friends rather then building them a pc with unpaid work-hours, becoming the scapegoat and tech support the moment there is any complication.

Also brings them over to linux as a bonus.

In the fourth panel the smart genie just says.

“As you wish” and promptly teleports away with his lamp.

Regardless of how you interpret it, 3 wishes are spend and nothing more needs to change or happen

Duckduckgo -> selfhosted searxng… startpage has also not yet been involved in any controversy for a non selfhosted option.

Copy paste of why duck duck go is a problem:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/duckduckgo-browser-allows-microsoft-trackers-due-to-search-agreement/

Now I little after this came out they do claim they removed them (odd how that suddenly changes after it was no longer secret) But then much more recent as listed on wikipedia, verifying they still have some long term deals with microsoft in **2025**… microsoft is not going to make a deal with a perceived competitor for nothing in return.

By August 2025, Bing planned to cut off access to its search APIs in a push to sell more AI-related APIs, though **DuckDuckGo believed that larger companies like it with long-term deals would not be affected** 62 Bing had dramatically raised rates for its search API in 2022 after ChatGPT debuted. 62

There is also more general proof that while duck may technically use other sources also. It really is mostly bing:

During a Bing API outage in 2024, DuckDuckGo stopped showing results, indicating that Bing provided a substantial portion of DuckDuckGo's results.69 70

I literally do not understand how they managed to take such foothold in real privacy communities. I used to love brave till the i was repeatedly pointed to the scandals that many people are aware of and informing others about… but considering ddg i rarely see anyone pointing this out. It actually smells like a huge successful marketing adventure to sell bing to privacy enthusiasts, but for that i obvio do not have proof. I often imagine this meme with bing instead of google and a cute duck go as mr incognito

To me the issue seems to be that they are blaming the server for asking tips and not the restaurant for not providing a liveable wage to their employees.

2 year mandated retail service so people respect the job more isn’t the fix, though it might indirectly cause change, provide a real wage if lawmakers and their kids where subjected to it.

My brain also has a adhd type wiring and this post is nightmare fuel.

Its important you take care of yourself and often that means you need to stop putting all your energy in taking care of others.

… my partner has to put so much energy into thing because of my flaws i will never not be scared to lose it all.

Maturity is realising there is no such thing as an adult but still behaving like one at specific times because you understand that that is the better way to get things done in that setting.

Everyone grows up, many people can behave in an adult way (including children), but actually maturity often still feels rare.

I wouldn’t know this from personal experience. Nothing compares to a pc for me.

But according to ltt it is comparable and having done a quick search online for current deals.

Fallout 4 anniversary edition has the same full price on both platforms but ps has a discount making it cheaper atm.

One of em Call of duties (cold war) has a much cheaper full price on steam but the current ps discount makes it almost half of steam’s current offer.

I doubt the comparisons are fair because sony is definitely looking at current steam prices to respond with their own deals. But technically steam is not always cheaper.

Of course if you look at little past the steam platform and recognise that it’s a full fledged pc able to obtain games from many different types of sources there is only one clear winner.

Is this a conversion of or without the power costs?

Autistic people who need multiple weeks of scientific research into a new product to convince themselves to try it present!

Of course were not immune to all advertisement, especially others suggesting/recommending a product but everything i buy are the same products/brands i did 15 years ago. Or a researched alternative. Trying something new is the opposite of safe.

I have no knowledge of this drama or hard feelings for your instance in either direction.

But was that ever a thing? I joined a month after you and there where options plenty.

It sure sounds extreme from a modern pov, but consider the context of the era.

People were much more tolerant of public nudity, atletes traditionally practised nude, brothels depicted images with sexual specialties like a shopping window and had curtains for doors. What Diogenes did was by all means scandalous but not that big of a deal nor a crime.

Diogenes philosophy was a direct call to return to nature, animals have no shame to have sex in public, so why should he? It be out of character to draw such unnatural line. There is the famous story of how he saw a slave drink from their hands and cursed himself for carrying a bowl all this time. The guy really practiced what he stood for.

Of course also worth considering, most that we know was writings of others in later times, we dont know how much is true and how much is rumour. Its just as likely he did so once to prove a point and it stuck.

People living there is irrelevant for the countries existing, people where living on land long before the concept of nations was invented and they may still after the concept of nations has faded in time.

Or, you know more likely in the current climate: government false, power vacuum becomes violent power struggle and at the end a new nation is born with a fresh start to repeat the cycle of competitive imperialism.

They do usually “grow” “up” but i agree, even encourage this dynamic.

Part of (what i would call “real”) maturity is recognising when it’s ok to stop acting mature and just have fun.

It doesn’t say that it only applies to girls its a screencap of part of conversation from people we have little context about.

And “sir”

Shit like this makes my blood boil... "Trauma-dump”… Posting something here that deliberately leaves out half the population …

This is a shitpost community.