The comic: https://smbc-comics.com/comic/2014-08-17

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LOL.

Person tries to make small talk

zymagoras777: OMG. I’m totally offended. What an attention whore!!1

OK, dude. You know you can just ignore the post, right? Just move along.

So what do they actually offer, on top of the work of creative people making music? Not much.

OK, so I left Spotify for Navidrome a while back BUT. What Spotify sells isn’t music. Spotify sells curation and recommendations. Most people aren’t music lovers that want to hunt for cool new music. They just want a pre-generated list of songs that they’ll more or less like. That’s actually kinda huge.

A recommendation engine is something I wish fediverse or open source would tackle. I’m on Navidrome now, but I’m definitely listening to way less music now—access isn’t an issue—I just haven’t had time to hunt around for new music. Investigating new bands takes time. On Spotify, you do it without even really thinking about it.

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But he said Linux is a hassle to use because of updates … Just get used to using the package manager

Yeah, package managers are great… but also… for somethings… flatpaks from Flathub/Software Center are also great because those apps get automatically updated in the background, so you don’t even have to think about updating anything.

Steam, Obsidian, and Discord are on Flathub (easy, popular app store for Linux)

Yep. I didn’t realize the flatpak version worked better. I never get those manual update prompts anymore and Software Center automatically updates Discord when there are updates.

Watching this post. I still don’t fully understand how Usenet works.

Well, clearly this is gonna be something that every republican will oppose, right? Riiiight? The government tracking citizens with a database?? My conspiracy theory neighbor bitches about this all the time. He’s gonna oppose this, right???

Yeah, Reaper is surprising! It’s in the Arch repos and Flathub.

I would have been happy if I had to build it from source or download a random deb from their website. But, damn. It’s on Linux and easily installable!

Open Source, permissive! Do what ever you want with my code!

No, not like that!

Mommy, that source available project is claiming to be Open Source™️! 🚨 🚓

Should be popular distro so if i have a problem i can ask about it

I mean, Arch has the Arch Wiki which is very good. (I use Arch, btw.) 😸

I’m surprised Mint is giving you trouble. Where you doing something… risky? Or maybe the hardware you’re running isn’t very compatible?

Otherwise, a distro like VanillaOS (or any immutable distro) might be able to keep your system more stable.

I really hope the US will at some point adopt the objectively better metric system!

Me too. I’m trying! 🤝

Cool! Thanks for sharing!

Now that I think about it, I think I own a carpenter’s measuring tape. Maybe that’s why they don’t call out cm.

Also just to be clear, my measuring tape is definitely not a standard tape you can buy at a local hardware store. It took some effort for me to find a metric-only measuring tape.

centimeters is probably the most common in households

I’m curious, where are you from? In the US, I’d say we think of centimeters as a pseudo-inch, so I think I understand why people would gravitate to centimeters here.

But do other countries use centimeters as much? I’m especially curious about really metric countries like Japan or (who else?) France? Germany? I wouldn’t be surprised if Canada or UK use centimeters.

Related: centimetres or millimetres

It’s great that the units are linked like this. I actually had to use this once. I didn’t have a container to measure out 1liter of water, but I did have a kitchen scale that could measure 1,000 grams! 🙌🏽

The biggest lesson in my own journey and seeing a lot of people online talk about trying to do the conversion is that people get overly concerned with precision when first making the switch.

YES! I think this is because they’re converting back to imperial units. You can always tell when someone was thinking in imperial because the metric units are like 17.4C or 8.12mm or 98.7km/h. For sure, things don’t need to be that precise. When I convert either way I always convert to a nice number. 100 km/h -> 60mi/h

It’s just like translating language, you don’t translate the literal words of a sentence, you translate the overall idea.

Ah, great link! Thanks! I also decided to try out a new font! 😆