It's definitely not as lightweight, but as I rely on subtitles a lot I have to run most stuff through Kodi unfortunately. I find it to work quite well though with the Jellyfin add-on. I don't know if it's because the development of Jellyfin is mostly done in the US, who often dislike subtitles, but this has been an ongoing issue for years at this point.
For election day, "Mother Earth: Her Whales" by Gary Snyder
An owl winks in the shadows A lizard lifts on tiptoe, breathing hard Young male sparrow stretches up his neck, big head, watching—
The grasses are working in the sun. Turn it green. Turn it sweet. That we may eat. Grow our meat.
Brazil says “sovereign use of Natural Resources” Thirty thousand kinds of unknown plants. The living actual people of the jungle sold and tortured— And a robot in a suit who peddles a delusion called “Brazil” can speak for them?
The whales turn and glisten, plunge and sound and rise again, Hanging over subtly darkening deeps Flowing like breathing planets in the sparkling whorls of living light—
And Japan quibbles for words on what kinds of whales they can kill? A once-great Buddhist nation dribbles methyl mercury like gonorrhea in the sea.
Pere David's Deer, the Elaphure, Lived in the tule marshes of the Yellow River Two thousand years ago—and lost its home to rice— The forests of Lo-yang were logged and all the silt & Sand flowed down, and gone, by 1200 AD— Wild Geese hatched out in Siberia head south over basins of the Yang, the Huang, what we call “China” On flyways they have used a million years. Ah China, where are the tigers, the wild boars, the monkeys, like the snows of yesteryear Gone in a mist, a flash, and the dry hard ground Is parking space for fifty thousand trucks. IS man most precious of all things? —then let us love him, and his brothers, all those Fading living beings—
North America, Turtle Island, taken by invaders who wage war around the world. May ants, may abalone, otters, wolves and elk Rise! and pull away their giving from the robot nations.
Solidarity. The People. Standing Tree People! Flying Bird People! Swimming Sea People! Four-legged, two-legged people!
How can the head-heavy power-hungry politic scientist Government two-world Capitalist-Imperialist Third-world Communist paper-shuffling male non-farmer jet-set bureaucrats Speak for the green of the leaf? Speak for the soil?
(Ah Margaret Mead . . . do you sometimes dream of Samoa?)
The robots argue how to parcel out our Mother Earth To last a little longer like vultures flapping Belching, gurgling, near a dying doe. “In yonder field a slain knight lies— We'll fly to him and eat his eyes with a down derry derry derry down down.”
An Owl winks in the shadow A lizard lifts on tiptoe breathing hard The whales turn and glisten plunge and Sound, and rise again Flowing like breathing planets
In the sparkling whorls
Of living light.
Stockholm: Summer Solstice 40072
https://poets.org/poem/mother-earth-her-whales
For election day, "Mother Earth: Her Whales" by Gary Snyder
``` An owl winks in the shadows A lizard lifts on tiptoe, breathing hard Young male sparrow stretches up his neck, big head, watching—
The grasses are working in the sun. Turn it green. Turn it sweet. That we may eat. Grow our meat.
Brazil says “sovereign use of Natural Resources” Thirty thousand kinds of unknown plants. The living actual people of the jungle sold and tortured— And a robot in a suit who peddles a delusion called “Brazil” can speak for them?
The whales turn and glisten, plunge and sound and rise again, Hanging over subtly darkening deeps Flowing like breathing planets in the sparkling whorls of living light—
And Japan quibbles for words on what kinds of whales they can kill? A once-great Buddhist nation dribbles methyl mercury like gonorrhea in the sea.
Pere David's Deer, the Elaphure, Lived in the tule marshes of the Yellow River Two thousand years ago—and lost its home to rice— The forests of Lo-yang were logged and all the silt & Sand flowed down, and gone, by 1200 AD— Wild Geese hatched out in Siberia head south over basins of the Yang, the Huang, what we call “China” On flyways they have used a million years. Ah China, where are the tigers, the wild boars, the monkeys, like the snows of yesteryear Gone in a mist, a flash, and the dry hard ground Is parking space for fifty thousand trucks. IS man most precious of all things? —then let us love him, and his brothers, all those Fading living beings—
North America, Turtle Island, taken by invaders who wage war around the world. May ants, may abalone, otters, wolves and elk Rise! and pull away their giving from the robot nations.
Solidarity. The People. Standing Tree People! Flying Bird People! Swimming Sea People! Four-legged, two-legged people!
How can the head-heavy power-hungry politic scientist Government two-world Capitalist-Imperialist Third-world Communist paper-shuffling male non-farmer jet-set bureaucrats Speak for the green of the leaf? Speak for the soil?
(Ah Margaret Mead . . . do you sometimes dream of Samoa?)
The robots argue how to parcel out our Mother Earth To last a little longer like vultures flapping Belching, gurgling, near a dying doe. “In yonder field a slain knight lies— We'll fly to him and eat his eyes with a down derry derry derry down down.”
An Owl winks in the shadow A lizard lifts on tiptoe breathing hard The whales turn and glisten plunge and Sound, and rise again Flowing like breathing planets
In the sparkling whorls
Of living light.
Stockholm: Summer Solstice 40072 ```
https://poets.org/poem/mother-earth-her-whales
Hopefully people can now stop jumping to conclusions and raging over nothing, but I doubt it.
I'd recommend running Jellyfin server but using Kodi as your frontend, best of both worlds, especially if you use subtitles as subtitles still work really poorly on Jellyfin
Mbin is very much alive an in development. Not as active as Lemmy though
I don't think one takes into account investment accounts with envelope budgeting, if I'm not wrong. All the accounts in this kind of budgeting should be involved in the budget, to be money that is to be assigned. "Give every dollar a job" kind of style. Money in investment accounts is for the most part saving for savings sake. But I guess people can assign that kind of money as well, e.g. "this is money that I'm investing to be able to buy a house in 5 years". I'm not an expert on this so you could look up how YNAB does it, or if Actual has any docs on this.
The article points out that the problem exists in a literature class, where well, you're expected to be able to read a complete book in some week in order to analyze it. That's literally the course.
Yes. You can read about on Actual Budgets documentation. It's free for personal use. You just generate an API token. https://actualbudget.org/docs/advanced/bank-sync/gocardless/
If you're in the EU you can do bank syncing for free with GoCardless integration. If you're in the US you need to go with SimpleFIN which costs a small sum and is in a more experimental phase than the GoCardless integration I think. Either way, GoCardless has been working great for me. Actually far better than YNAB which didn't even support my bank. It's literally just set up and forget.
If one doesn't want to self-host it one can always go through a service like PikaPods who do in fact have a revenue sharing deal with Actual Budget. And either way, Actual Budget isn't really an accounting tool for businesses, or did I misunderstand you?
How can we spread the word of Mbin?
I feel like most people just default their way to Lemmy if they've even found their way to the fediverse in the first place. It's too bad Kbin.social went down the way it did, I feel like the bin momentum kinda disappeared after that. How do we get more people to use and host Mbin instances? Is this desirable?
Actual Budget is a fantastic FOSS budgeting tool that you can self-host
Not affiliated in any way with Actual Budget, but I can't recommend it enough. It's the FOSS version of YNAB pretty much so if you're a fan of envelope budgeting it's a great tool. I'd even say it has quite a few other strengths compared to YNAB (free bank syncing in the EU with more banks supported for example), and you can always be sure that your financial data stays within your reach.
A reminder that Opera is owned by a Chinese public company. I wouldn't trust the browser for privacy reasons.
Great to hear that Mbin is getting some attention!
I think it works well enough if you take into account it's on a phone.
You can play Morrowind on Android through OpenMW Android. I think this is the most updated version but you have to build it yourself: https://gitlab.com/cavebros/openmw-android
Do it! If you're at all curious about Chinese poetry aside from Hanshan, and about Chinese hermits, I definitely recommend watching this amazing biopic of Red Pine as well which is available until the end of October for a small sum (definitely worth it): https://watch.showandtell.film/watch/redpine
Thanks for your insightful comment. I appreciate the advice! I'll definitely start looking for other roles more actively and see what comes up.
Yeah for sure, I prefer his more non-silly poems usually :) Have you read the Red Pine translations of Hanshan? I have Tanahashi's translations as well, but I tend to like reading Red Pine's translation a bit more
Yes, fair. I was just attracted by the no-hassle method of Tailscale.
Quoting Wikipedia here, "Digital transformation (DT) is the process of adoption and implementation of digital technology[1][2][3] by an organization in order to create new or modify existing products, services and operations by the means of translating business processes into a digital format. ". It's about digitalization pretty much.
Is being a developer truly the most flexible job you can have in IT? Currently working in digital transformation
I have a degree in information systems which was a mix between business and IT. While I in my initial job search was really close on heading in the direction of becoming a developer, I instead landed a role as a business systems analyst as well as working with digital transformation. So basically I'm in the land between IT and the business. I do some super light programming for the platform I'm responsible for but I feel like it's the kind of stuff you could learn in a day. I know some basic Java, Python and C# but not really enough that I'd see me landing a job that isn't a trainee developer position or a job for newly-grads where the company doesn't expect you to know anything at first.
While I don't mind the social and more business-oriented aspects of the job, I'm kinda lamenting the fact that I didn't enter into some trainee/junior dev job to sharpen up my programming skills and become a fully-fledged developer. I'd love to work fully remote and to be more flexible, e.g., not as bound to meetings and stuff which I currently am, or become a freelancer. Has anyone made a similar transition from digital transformation/adjacent areas to becoming a developer? Or am I just thinking too narrowly on what my options in this field are? Maybe there are many opportunities for fully-remote work in digital transformation, business system analysis and what not that I'm not seeing...?
Probably why this isn't enabled in the EU. GDPR wouldn't have allowed it.
Is there a downside to using Tailscale when it comes to privacy?
As in, would they be able to access your server?
Is using Android with GApps as bad as running Windows on your PC?
In regards to privacy... even when trying to use FOSS-alternatives and F-Droid on Android?
After having run Windows on my desktop for years (as I thought it was necessary for gaming), I decided to take the plunge to try out Linux again...
... and it's much, much better than I anticipated. Proton has solved so many things. I've been dual booting on a smaller partition so far, but this has convinced me to wipe the whole disk and use it for Linux only. I might still keep a dual boot in case there is some edge case, but nothing so far has been an issue. I've been running Pop_Os! which I also have on my laptop since some year back. Previously I've also always had Arch on my laptop, but always stuck with Windows for my desktop just because of gaming issues.
Who are your favorite poets and why?
My favorite poets are probably Gary Snyder, Mary Oliver and the ancient Chinese poet Stonehouse. I'm just very inclined to poetry that has been influenced by nature, ecology and Buddhism. Poetry that is simple and transient :)
Does the fediverse suffer from the same issues as centralized social media when it comes to mental health and the attention economy?
A lot of people feel drawn to simple living or digital minimalism because they feel a constant need to be connected and stay up to date, and feel less and less in control because of the attention economy and how algorithms are developed to maximize your attention. While the fediverse might not work in the same exploitative way as centralised services does, there's still a feedback loop that keeps you coming back.
To what extent does the problems of the attention economy on the human mind plague the fediverse? Is replacing centralised services with Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed and Mastodon just opting for a "lesser evil" in a sense? What are your thoughts?
How do I change default sort in threads?
Right now the default sort for threads is "Hot". Can I change the default somehow? I don't know if the option exists or if I'm blind, I can't find it anyhow.
Is kbin enhancement suite still in development for Mbin?
Apparently it works for Mbin, but as the only magazine was on kbin.social and no new magazine has been created, I'm wondering about the future of the script. Check it out here: https://github.com/aclist/kbin-kes or https://aclist.github.io/kes/kes_dark.html
Why use MBin instead of Lemmy?
I actually started on Kbin.social, but then it got shut down, Kbin died and now fedia.io seems to be the largest one running MBin. I like the interface on MBin and I guess it's good to have a diverse fediverse with different services, but at the same time, why use mbin when everyone congregates on lemmy instances? The local magazines on fedia are for the most part, quite dead, when compared to lemmy collections. In the end I feel like there aren't enough people to go around to support many more services like MBin and Piefed.
Best podcast player that's preferably open source, for Windows?
I'm looking for a preferably non-web wrapper podcast player for Windows, that's preferably also open source. Having a tough time though. Any tips?