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Music Piracy Is Back in a Big Way
  • That surprises me, but I suppose it had to work for some listeners or they wouldn't have gotten it past testing. I have even tried clearing my listen history and starting over - still comes up with country and (going to clarify) 'metal' . I like rock and alternative and some forms of pop, as well as a bit of hip hop. cannot fathom why it suggests what it does.

  • Music Piracy Is Back in a Big Way
  • I know this does not make me look good - but I am a YouTube Premium subscriber. I had Spotify, but they jacked up their family plan rate, and it was only a few bucks cheaper than Premium, then I got the ad-free (without adblockers). I mostly did it to help my kids avoid the toxic ads that are littered into the kid content. The main reason I stick with some of this stuff is for the discovery. Pandora was great, Spotify is ok.

    Regardless - the smart playlists, and AI stuff on YouTube music is AWFUL. I cannot put into words how bad it is. Spotify got it right about 1/4-1/2 of the time. YouTube, maybe 1/100. Constantly recommending a country, which I cannot stand. When it isn't doing country, it recommends hard rock/metal which I also do not listen to. I feel like I need a new way to find music, then I could sever ties with all these trashy subscriptions.

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  • Worked in retail many moons ago. Back when organic was just becoming a thing. I can tell you one thing.: A lot of people were getting a deal on organic food -because cashiers would just key in the code for non-organic. The lines were too long, and you look foolish looking things up in the "book" haha.

  • I wanna be a Xitter Idiot
  • It's funny to me...I didn't say they were bad, I didn't say I didn't like them, I didn't say anything except for that they clearly took their music in a more in your face, political direction. That's fine, I support them making that choice. I get that punk is inherently political, and that most music has hints of it. When I started listening, when 1039 came out - I was too young to understand what the music was about. Then came kerplunk and dookie. Dookie has many songs that are just about boredom, wasting time, or girls. Same thing for Insomniac and Nimrod. You cannot argue that EVERY song on those albums was political, it's just not true. They became a pop-punk alternative band. That's great, they still make great music, I just choose other styles and genres. Downvotes aren't hurting me, but it seems excessive for sharing my thoughts.

    For the record, I was a ride or die fan in the 90's. 5 shows, one of them I waited by the outdoor stage for 3 hours to get a good spot. I had my art featured on the earliest version of their website, back in the AOL days. I still love the music I grew up with. Bands style, peoples preferences change...I just don't want to think about the broken world when I listen to music anymore.

  • FreeCAD Discord
  • Correct. I was struggling with a design ..(I am very new to cad) I normally would have gone to reddit, but since I quit reddit with the drama, I came here. Not much going on so I had to look elsewhere. I didn't make the channel, I think it is an official channel. Maybe...? Regardless. They have helped me a ton. One of the users actually recreated my design the "proper" way so I could achieve what I needed.

  • FreeCAD Discord

    discord.gg Join the FreeCAD Project Discord Server!

    Check out the FreeCAD Project community on Discord - hang out with 4087 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

    I pop in to this Lemmy community every once and a while hoping for new content or discussions, but there is not a ton of activity. I ended up finding the FreeCAD discord channel and it seems to have a ton of engagement/activity, so I wanted to share. (but still post here, I would love to see this community become more active).

    Also, the users on the discord are super helpful...like, insanely helpful. I am still learning, so it has been priceless for me (along with MangoJelly on YouTube)

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    I wanna be a Xitter Idiot
  • It's funny - I agree with Green Day in most ways politically, but stopped listening after American Idiot because so much of their music was blatantly political. That's what they were going for, it is CLEAR and OBVIOUS to anyone listening to their music, where they stand. I am all for it, I would just rather be escaping the world's issues while listening to music :)

  • [Solved: wet filament] Help me identify the problem: wet filament, bad z-height, or clogged nozzle?
  • I forgot until looking at your photo that the mini uses a Bowden tube, not direct drive like the MK3S+. Did you replace/switch the nozzle around the time this all started happening? With Bowden tubes, there are a few problems that can arise that you don't see on direct drive. The end of the Bowden tube (that is inside the extruder/hote end assembly) can get deformed or clogged. If you can check that, you may find an issue. Other than that, when swapping nozzles I always had to put the nozzle in part of the way, then push the Bowden in further, then tighten the nozzle.

  • [Solved: wet filament] Help me identify the problem: wet filament, bad z-height, or clogged nozzle?
  • My money would be a clogged nozzle. But a better photo (close up) may be helpful. Things I wonder...

    Does the filament come out and curl back up during preheat?

    Is your heat block messy with residue?

    Have you tried a cold pull, or pulling the nozzle and cleaning/replacing it?

  • Finally got around to trying a .6 nozzle.

    I have always wanted to try printing larger, using a bigger nozzle - just got around to swapping to a .6mm in my MK3S+. Printed a gift for a childhood friend. 300% size. Took just under 10 hrs. With the slicer settings on .4mm it was over 17hrs.

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    Difference between block and filter?

    If I block a community, just for example - say I wanted to block [email protected]. Would I use "filter" or "block?" I am having a hard time discerning the two.

    I get that blocking something like lemmy.world would block the users comments and such as well.

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    Rewards missing from Payday 2

    I claimed my rewards via starbreeze nebula, and I got the skin, the old faithful gun and they all showed up in game...but none of the charms show up. I had completed all heists in PD2 on Deathwish. But none of the 3 charms show in game. Are other people having gris issue?

    Also, pet peeves, the mask you get via the reward doesn't have an icon when adding it to your loadout

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    Wild theory about the temperature sensor on the Pixel 8 Pro

    Ever since the Pixel 8 was announced I couldn't wrap my brain around why they invested money putting a temperature sensor on the device. The functions that keep touting, like checking the temperature of your food or your forehead...it just didn't add up. So here is my wacky theory.

    I truly wonder if there is a bigger plan at play. Just think about Google Maps. The GPS and accelerometer help the phone determine speed, direction, etc. It can detect crashes based on acceleration and deceleration. It can crowd source traffic. I am wondering if that type of data collection is something they are going to try with this temp sensor. Crowd-sourced, live, real-time outside air temps of areas, fire detection, warnings for heat exhaustion risk, they can potentially link it to Nest themrostats (like the nest temp sensors) to help automate your heating/cooling. Maybe they can find some other useful ways to farm our data. Not saying I am for or against this - I would probably turn off the permissions, but food for thought.

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    Payday 3 preorder discounts @ Fanatical ($74/58/33 + free game)

    Fanatical.com has all three versions of Payday 3 available at 17% off. Gold is $74.69, Silver is $58.09, standard is $33.19.

    You also get 1 "Fanatical Highly Rated Free Game" and $5 off your next order.

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    "open betas"

    I am talking to you, Blizzard (MWIII)

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    My 3070 cannot seem to run SDXL

    I have been running 1.4, 1.5, 2 without issue - but everytime I try to run SDXL 1.0 (via Invoke, or Auto1111) it will not load the checkpoint.

    I have the official hugging face version of the checkpoint, refiner, lora offset and VAE. They are all named properly to match how they need to. They are all in the appropriate folders. When I pick the model to load, it tries for about 20 seconds, then pops a super long error in the python instance and defaults to the last model I loaded. Oddly, it loads the refiner without issue.

    Is this a case of my 8gb vram just not being enough? I have tried with the no-half/full precision arguments.

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    Pro Tip: Bypass news paywalls using the new "Reading Mode" app by Google

    play.google.com Reading mode - Apps on Google Play

    Reading mode helps you with difficult to read text.

    Reading mode - Apps on Google Play

    I am sure this wasn't the intended use - but I discovered a useful trick on Android.

    Just recently, Google released a Reading Mode app that takes text and removes the clutter, images, etc - and allows you to read in a high contrast easy to view format. There are options on how to toggle it on, but I chose to use the hold volume up/down at the same time.

    I was viewing a local paywalled newspaper, and had surpassed my 3 free articles/month. For the heck of it, while the popup blocked me from reading it, I tried the reading mode shortcut. It pulled in all the text and I was able to read the entire story. I then tried another news site and it worked the same way. I even tried some of the big new sites like the Washington Post - and it worked.

    I am sure its a bit dependent on how the website is built, but its worth a try if you find yourself running into those paywalls. You lose the photos, but its worth it.

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    Today I learned @lemmy.ml Thanks4Nothing @lemm.ee

    [TIL] Lobster's have two bladders that are located beneath their brain. They release urine to communicate with each other.

    indie88.com How Do Lobsters Communicate? The Truth Will Gross You Out!

    How do lobsters communicate? Chances are the answer will surprise you and also gross you out. Learn the nasty way that lobsters hang out!

    How Do Lobsters Communicate? The Truth Will Gross You Out!
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