chomskysfave5

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[–] chomskysfave5@lemmy.film 1 points 1 year ago

I've tried it, not my cup of tea. Rhythmbox conforms to my GTK4 theme a lot better, and the layout is so much more suited for me.

I feel that Strawberry's layout is ugly as sin, but hey, everyone seems to think Rhythmbox is ugly so maybe that's just me.

I admire any active music library management app tho. Seems like there aren't that many people with local music libraries anymore, so we don't get many new apps like Strawberry or Rhythmbox where MTP transfers, tag editing, lyrics, etc are big focuses. So cheers to the devs of Strawberry and thanks for the recommendation!

My dream is for Rhythmbox to be ported to libadwaita, but that doesn't seem to be in the cards. All the latest GTK4 music players are extremely simple, with no library management features whatsoever. Think Amberol, GNOME Music, and G4Music. I wish I had learned some C when I was young and had the time so I could just port it myself.

[–] chomskysfave5@lemmy.film 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't. I compress the FLACs on my PC (into OGGs) and sync my desktop library with my phone. I have like 5k songs and they take up like 40gigs of space.

I used to use Plex to stream to my phone, but there were too many issues.

[–] chomskysfave5@lemmy.film 25 points 1 year ago (12 children)

About a year ago I switched from Spotify to a local library with the Symfonium music player on my phone and Rhythmbox on the PC. I have not once looked back.

Plus, you get the satisfaction of growing a collection that can last forever.

I highly recommend it !

[–] chomskysfave5@lemmy.film 3 points 1 year ago

People are sharks for argument on forums like this.

[–] chomskysfave5@lemmy.film 4 points 1 year ago

It's like watching a stream of a high schooler that just finished the manifesto

[–] chomskysfave5@lemmy.film 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're preoccupied with this French revolutionary definition of leftism as the ultimate sieve for what makes a leftist and I'm trying to make a point that today's leftism is a movement that isn't capable of self-criticism because it's become a religious movement as opposed to a political one. Things change, we don't live in revolutionary France.

I feel like we're talking past each other here... I wish the vulkan mind meld was a real thing so we can actually get somewhere with this.

[–] chomskysfave5@lemmy.film 2 points 1 year ago

Fedora or Arch, considering it's on the Steam Deck.

[–] chomskysfave5@lemmy.film 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The other day I used my PC without Internet (cable not long enough in current location) and I tried logging into my windows SSD and it just wouldn't let me.

It denied me access to my own computer because I didn't have a long enough Ethernet cable, which I didn't even need for the work I needed to get done.

It's stuff like that which makes me so glad that I'm on Linux now.

My desktop has also never suited me so well, nor looked so pretty! The customizability of Linux goes WAY WAY DEEP. From desktop themes, fonts, layouts to kernel-level customization.

[–] chomskysfave5@lemmy.film 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The word dishonest implies premeditation. I don't think today's leftists are evil or dumb. I think the hardcore leftists are in a well-intentioned trap that creates a dangerous and frankly annoying "us vs. them" mentality in which they are convinced, beyond rationale, that they are doing good, which is all that really matters to them.

It creates a left=moral good paradigm in their heads. Where, like I said, the left can't do anything wrong because the left=good.

I mean, look at how they talk about centrists, who are not really their enemy. They're supposed to be the people you try to persuade, but the left has gone so religiously dogmatic that even centrists are almost as bad as Nazis (e.i. right-wingers)

Look, I'm fundamentally with you. The right-wing is capable of terrible, horrific things. They're more dangerous historically. You'll get no argument from me man. Some of it makes me sick. I believe that morals and values should be a part of politics too. I'm no stranger to leftism either, I was extremely interested in it for quite a while.

But I know a trap when I see it. Clearly something is going here, fucking socio-economics is becoming a religion.

[–] chomskysfave5@lemmy.film 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Vocal comedy, yes.

You're lucky if you get one good visual gag these days. Pain from doing something stupid will never NOT be funny !

[–] chomskysfave5@lemmy.film 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I never disputed your link on the origins of the term.

All I said is that it seems very convenient that the left cannot and never has done anything wrong other than not being left enough. You're either completely benevolent or you're not a leftist, by definition.

There is no act that can't be waived away as being "not actually left-wing."

[–] chomskysfave5@lemmy.film 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, people that aren't "equipped" with an all-emcompassing ideology that conveniently defines their whole worldview for an immediate opinion on everything or that don't happen to have vehement feelings on the issue-of-the-day are literally peasants amirite?

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