Yeah, arguments that blank percent of people are morally good are insane since… Most people dont really think about long term morals of their decisions day to day if ever. Most people just live and do by convenience without asking if it is morally good but simply believing the self to be.

It needs to be convenient to do good things for people to do them and the convenient option for a long time has been giving up ownership rights.

Very good bot. Having an easy on ramp for new people is so important.

Shitty? Man even try installing on Samsung.

No no, preconfigure some fire sticks and then mail them out. At least we have quick connect for when logged out.

Be warned I dont know how well it works cause I dont use it that way, and I saw someone complain it didnt pull album art for AC/DC and the developer said that it would never would work because the “/” acts as a delimiter for tags and would look for bands AC and DC. So the auto search tool is maybe not amazing.

I mean most of my album art is stored as part of the file. So I dont mess with it much but a quick look at the FAQ suggested it looks up data that matches artist name and albums and you can add your own images on your phone that dont save to the server but stay consistent apparently to the song or artist.

So yeah. Still just a BAMF of a software.

Yeah it has become my go to for recommending to people with struggles with Spotify.

Plus if they ever purchased albums through amazon they have all the MP3 files anyways available to download and I have them throw the files in a drive.

It says it supports network shared folders or NAS that use SMB or webdav… So yeah should.

By the way if you want a really cheap and easy setup for the time being while you figure out jellyfin/navidrome and docker and all that.

Symfonium app can run from a google drive that you can spin up for free and throw some music into. And then if you end up self hosting you can just point it to your server.

Or do as I do and buy random games for cheap. I’m on like hour 4 of Tim-Tim 2; The Almighty Gnome, that I got for like 50 cents.

Honestly a pretty good time.

The wealthy have become very easy to sell to. Disposable cash they dont think about and a tailored algorithm and wide variety of available designer drugs.

Do some ketamine, go on an amazon binge and book a holiday to Greece to see a band you barely like cause fuck it, world is burning and I want a good time.

Honestly we just need to move on and start doing our own things and try to get into a place of power to maybe shore up some of the wealth hoarding.

Man, I remember when the DS was the thinking person’s console of choice. Oh the art you could draw on it and send to others. Oh the traces of goatee.

Fun being key here, not just a slideshow of colored images.

Sure, but you need someone who is inspired by it to have played it to be so. Dont get me wrong I also agree with things existing for the sake of it but thats also up to someone inspired enough.

I think its on the individual to not be responsible to spread themselves out but to actually interact with their niche and keep it alive, I want the games I engage with to be engaged with so that its felt.

I dont think art needs my support as much as people do.

I just type random words into the search bar and see what comes back, the mystery key bundles gave me frog detective 1 to many times.

But now I’m playing a fun gnome game so I am pretty happy with my method.

So like UFO 50? We just need basically demo jams in a packaged form factor

The problem is “passive”. Its not helpful to a game developer to not play their games cause then no one engages with their art. I wouldnt want to pay for a musician I dont listen to.

We do need a way to discover stuff easier. That was one of the joys of the early internet compared to now. But if you want to support indie devs, follow them or find smaller stuff and support it. Ignore the algorithms, decide what you want and look for it. Life isn’t passive.

Spyro the Dragon:

This is basically the pinnacle of game design to me. It is a collect-a-thon of course, but the gems always sparkle no matter how far you are from them so that if you are in line of sight you will know that they are there making it easy to find them.

Far off sections of the map are basically always reachable and rewards you for trying to get there and utilizing uncommon paths through the map.

When you beat the game to 100% it rewards you with extra stuff and a little more game to show it had fun being made as much as you hopefully did playing it.

All with a fun story that wraps it up and doesnt require anything special to jump in. I want to see games that have thoughtful level design and world building while using the game mechanics in fun ways. The fact that you jump into levels directly and the loading screen is akin to you actually flying to the world is all engrossing to the world.

This one uses generative AI to “add details” instead of just adding pixels for more resolution. It can decide what a character “should” look like pushing a more homogeneous design to anyone using this since it will be built in training models of who knows what origin.

Yup, what other person said, heat pump dryers.

They use the insides of the dryer as the closed loop of heating and cooling. Heating air through clothes to get moisture then cooling it on the other side to condense it. Generates water but doesnt have a vent.
Neat use of the tech.

I mean literally the same machine as a rock grinder, generated heat and tumbling items smacking into each other.

But like they are soft. And if you don’t use as much heat it is even gentler, which is why the driers that act as a dehumidifier without heat are even better better.