Half the time trying to play a song doesn't work. Dozens and dozens of javascript errors in the console, most of which seem to be legitimate (trying to parse xml as json, type errors, and other serious stuff). Electron. That's three strikes, I'm out.
Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources
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#122Spotube is a much better alternative IMO: https://spotube.krtirtho.dev/
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#125No Code of Conduct but AGPL and anti-telemetry and anti-CLA is an interesting quadrant on the software political compass
Works for me. I tend to think of "Code of Conduct" documents as adjacent to HR takeovers by far leftists more often than not. I prefer a standard "don't be an asshole*" stance and letting the leaders/community handle itself. * Asshole behavior decisions at the sole discretion of administrators and moderators.
far left used to mean communists when i was young.
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#126So much electron bashing, per usual. Extremely uninteresting conversation. All the points about this have been made by 2020, there's nothing new to add.
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#127> Nuclear supports Youtube, Soundcloud, Bandcamp I am not sure that Youtube supports Nuclear though...
Even saying "Nuclear supports Youtube" is incorrect. It _supports playing from_ Youtube, but it definitely doesn't _support_ Youtube.
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unfortunately the winds are not blowing in your preferred direction. We are being shown time and time again and in increasing frequency that being an asshole is the best way to succeed.
being an asshole is the best way to succeed. Being an asshole is the opposite of success. Unless you think life is a video game and the score is tallied in dollar signs. In which case, you've already lost.
this is very naively reductive. it's been shown time and time again throughout human history that being an asshole/ruthless/competitive leads to better outcomes for you and the people around you that you care about.
humans are not bonobos. sitting around being nice to each other is not what got us to be the apex species on the planet. people break rules (social norms or legal laws) to get ahead, it is happening continually around you and can't just wish it out of existence.
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
Then maybe we'll never see eye-to-eye. I grew up with an iTunes account, but I never spent my money on music. Some weeks my family lived paycheck-to-paycheck, some nights skipping dinner. I downloaded my music off YouTube to my 2005 HP Compaq, put it on my iTunes library and synced it to my iPod Shuffle. Didn't weigh on my conscience when I pirated video games or FL Studio either, not then and not now. If that made m…
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You actually don't understand the consumer desire for free, if you necessarily conflate it with class warfare and moral grandstanding. It seems to be a karma sink insisting upon this, but this is the hacker ethos. Nobody lords information over anyone, any paywall you erect will eventually fall. For fuck's sake, children are being firebombed in Gaza right now, and this is the imperative ethical hill you choose to die on?
Draw out this line of reasoning long enough, and one could argue that Richard Stallman is the worst human alive for "moral grandstanding" the software industry and taking glee in destroying software jobs with copyleft licensing. But more accurately, he ushered in the information age for everyone and prevented it from being cordoned-off behind a proprietary paywall. Yes, he predicated Napster and ThePirateBay and 4chan and all the horrible examples you're apt to draw upon. But he also invariably pushed technology forward - we're better people, that we aren't slaving away remaking the Cairo library for the 30,000th time. Common access to at least some information enables a great deal of art and provides countless value to would-be artists.
I'd like to think that the entire human race is bettered with access to information. It would certainly be idyllic if we could compensate artists, authors and scientists along the way, but humanity would be ruined if all information came at-cost. I am willing to fight for a world where individuals have free access to information, and I reckon my tools are more powerful than the publishers who seek to thwart me. I won't stop when the musicians scream out bloody murder, and if you think that's the most immoral thing imaginable then don't ask how 15-year-old me found the money to afford Jimmy John's.
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
1.25% of Elon Musk's net worth is $5.2 billion dollars, but buying, I don't know, a new PC for that price would not be reasonable. Okay, bad analogy. My point is: just because your budget is high and you've got bytes to burn doesn't mean all those bytes should be burned.
Paying for RAM and having it sit around doing nothing is stupid.
This is true for autoscaling VMs which run one application and when underutilized the load is reconsolidated.
It is NOT true for desktops which run different applications all the time, the user often switches between them, and where uncommitted memory is automatically used by the kernel as disk cache space.