What I meant is that I have a list of about 7000 songs on spotify that I have built over the years, I would like to have THAT list of music. If I go to a self hosted option, that is great, but without the media, worthless… I can download all the music that I want, but that will be a ginormous amount for a tiny amount of songs that I actually like. I’m already hosting a huge movie library, but I fear I might need hundreds of TB more storage to save all the music that I want :)

I guess I’m looking for a “download only these songs/albums/bands from this spotify list” type thing

Linux has emergency modes for booting as well. The old ways would work with run levels, and the newer ways (through systemd) I honestly don’t know. However, a bootable USB is usually the best solution because it won’t boot a drive with a possibly damaged filesystem that needs repairs before accessing it, that sort of stuff. There is a reason why it is a separate storage device to boot from.

I’m just saying that if you take an experimental or very hard to master OS for your day to day work, or storing your family photo albums, then yeah, you’re playing with fire, because the OS can trip you up in many ways. Linux is great, but potentially unforgiving when you make mistakes. Ubuntu Linux is at the point where normal users need to work hard to mess stuff up, but if you go for gentoo or something else experimental or DIY, then yeah, you better be prepared to take the consequences when things go down south

That is the question in the end: Is it ethically good. The question of “Does some imaginary god like it” doesn’t really matter

I meant more “How do I get the media”. I have a 7K songs spotify list which is the only reason I haven’t quit the horror show that is spotify; how would I find this music again outside of spotify?

That looks awesome.

I want to set up something like this as well, I just don’t have that much free time

Any recommendations on getting music and podcasts? I’d like to self host my current Spotify list to dump that service too

Been using Linux on desktop since 2002/3 and since 2005 it’s been Kubuntu, mint with KDE, or KDE neon, now back to Kubuntu again because it just works

So first of all, you could likely still access your drives when you boot from a USB. Goes for any OS

secondly: if you play with fire, don’t complain about the blisters. And yo be clear, with fire I don’t mean Linux, with fire I mean specialty distro

You need to ask yourself what you want. If you want something shiny and cool that does certain security things that are awesome but not really that needed for the average Joe, then fine, go with whatever.

I on the other hand need a Linux distro that works, that I can trust. I have been using Kubuntu (Ubuntu with KDE UI) for over the last 20. There are bugs, like everywhere, but bugs like “this little widget doesn’t respond right”, not “oh my OS suicided again”

Does it matter?

There is no god, not the Christian one, not the Muslim one, not the Hindu one, none of them, they’re all human inventions.

But for the sake of argument, let’s say there is

Do you really believe that that God is sitting there with a tally list on of you touched your peepee and enjoyed it?.do you really think he’s checking the contents of your hard drive to see if you haven’t taken something from greedy corporation that happily supports murderous fascists without paying them?

I mean, ethically? I honestly believe that it’s a sin to pay these fuckers because you’re paying literally to help fascism grow. It’s the right thing to do to just torrent the media, any media, like AI companies also did, without paying a dime. Hey, wt least i don’t take from the average Joe who got ripped off by AI bots.

So to answer your question: stop asking questions and just do the right thing, just download that movie

More users typically translates to more and better software.

Also, that would translate to the end of windows, a nice extra. Once 20% of desktops are Linux, companies will take note, other users will take note. Why pay through the nose with subscriptions, deal with insecurity, ads, constant surveillance, if you can simply have an awesome looking Linux instead?

Well yeah

I’m not proud of it, in any case :)

Anyone has a good tutorial on how to setup a complete are stack with docker on Linux?

Already one that quickly explains what arr does what would be helpful. I know there is radarr, sonarr, bazarr and loads more and I have no idea which system does what or how to connect them.

I’ve found tutorials about individual pieces, but those are of little help

And then the biggest one: I have jellyfin, I’d like to use it over the internet, bit I need to have that obviously VERY safe. How to do that? I know of a popular reverse proxy for those things (name escapes me for a sec) but again, the tutorials I’ve found were lacking at best.

I’m looking for something where I can write a bunch of docker files and start it all up from scratch on Linux, is that possible?

Where could I find these torrents? Been looking, but found nothing

Where could I find these torrents? Been looking, but found nothing

This guy blocks everyone who doesn’t like his AI mess. Interesting

Make sure to use AI for that!

It’s not virtue signalling, I know very well what I’m doing is hypocritical at best, but it’s also unavoidable for me. For one, I’m using it like this at work where they’d love nothing better than for me to start vibe coding. This is the compromise I’ve been able to make so far.

Nah, wouldn’t do that. CSS needs to be well designed to function properly, you need actual developers for that or you’ll screw over your users.

But yeah, to give quick pointers and ideas to flesh out, it’s reasonably useful

If that is enough to warrant it’s extreme energy use, the spread of AI slop everywhere, the pollution, the uncontrolled datacenter expansions, the explosion in hardware costs it created, the countless death and suffering it caused through AI psychosis, the AI childporn bots (hello grok, are you still the world’s biggest child porn producer or did Elmo finally reign you in to again be mecha Hitler?), the…

Long story short, AI will likely end this world in a long list of fucked up ways, I don’t think it’s worth it

Until then, I’ll use it as a suggestion tool, not much more

I’d hope that too but this is the real world and it sucks. More and more, everything must be to apease those in charge, those with money and power and things like VPN gives us alternatives, so yeah… And yes, I’ve heard the first proposals to ban VPNs, to “protect the children or course” (fuck the children, nobody cares about the well being of children, it’s all money and power) and I’m sure those first bans fail, they will just try again next year and the year after etc. until they win.

They only need a single win and we can’t make a law to prohibit this shit behavior apparently

I’ve seen similar processes at work for encryption for the past 20 years or so. Every one or two years they try again, and again, at some point they’ll succeed just for sheer statistical probably

So enjoy while it lasts, I’m getting out of it what I can, while I can

The speed with which I saw this happening in so many countries tells me that we probably only have a few good years left until this is a world wide thing.

Same for VPN, I don’t see those last much longer either

I’m a developer

I sometimes sometimes use AI for an answer to a complicated problem because normally I’d open up 20 pages , have to go through them all to find the right answer

AI gets me the answer right away, though it likely is completely wrong or at least partially wrong. Either way, it gives me a general direction and with that I only have to search through one or two pages to confirm, so the same process is just a little faster.

I laso have used AI on a couple of occasions to ask it to write code for a complicated problem. Again, you don’t copy the code, god no, it’s always the worst, and it is in 80% of the cases still at least riddled with bugs, or just complete bullshit. However, it might give me an alternative idea or a direction to take to implement or fix this complicated feature problem.

That’s the extent to which I’ve used AI and for the foreseeable future that won’t change because AI still can’t code. It’s still wildly flailing around and it might produce something that implements a certain functionality, but it’s a guarantee that that functionality will have more bugs and security holes than features