Better yet, help support open data initiatives like OpenStreetMaps or alternatives. No reason why maps can’t be digital without ads.

I don’t know, but this is the second unexplained fire near portland city leadership, and there was also the incident during the election with the ballot boxes.

If I were to guess, there’s someone actively targeting portland city representatives and perhaps a political vendetta.

There’s a few different layers to this. Others have jumped at you a bit, but I hope to talk about this a little more understandingly…

When it comes to music distribution, as in, giving your music to others, the solutions already are in place to provide a federated distribution of music (see groove shark) which would in theory be a good way to provide a place to stream music while also allowing distribution to others. Even if you want to go through paid services, it has never been easier to publish music (though there are caveats, you do generally have to give up royalties to middlemanagers. This is generally ignored by people in this thread, but it is a problem for most artists.) The alternate distributions like groove shark simply don’t have enough users yet, and I can’t attest for whether it has the right features to be a substitute for bandcamp (there’s no ability to set up payment, last time I checked.) It’s really the case that independent labels aren’t making good use of technology that isn’t just putting up a random Bandcamp page.

You’ll notice I didn’t make any mention of crypto above: That’s because I’m not sure of the practical uses of crypto in this particular regard beyond a “buy it as a collectors item” style distribution via NFT and I think that bubble has more or less completely popped.

There’s been attempts from the likes of iTunes to provide encrypted song binaries, and in theory you could encrypt a song using a crypto transaction to store the metadata, but it would both be unpopular and entirely centralized (you would need to have an authentication server for tying transactions to keys.)

So short of not having to deal with payment processors (which is good for anti-censorship, fwiw), there’s not a lot of benefit to using crypto specifically. And transaction costs would somewhat inflate the price of transactions and would basically force users to buy “albums” again (so that you don’t get hammered with transaction fees.)

Lastly, the 5 to 10 years of earning before the rights go “public domain” is a very flawed concept. I know there’s a lot of anti-copyright advocates here on lemmy, but there’s some truth to the idea that artists actually value copyright to protect their own work and it would be very difficult to convince an artist to sign a deal that would effectively limit their own ownership; This is especially true in the era of AI data farming. You’d be better off making the decision (as a label) to claim ownership up to x dollars in debt to produce the album (there’s always a cost, with a slim profit margin to be expected) and then hand the ownership entirely back to the artist once they’ve recouped the cost to produce the album to effectively put it back in control of the artist to let them do as they please. A record label isn’t just about making the music listeners happy, but to empower the artist to create art that they otherwise couldn’t afford. Most record labels are disliked by labels not because they withhold ownership from the listener, but because they aren’t always paid equally in royalties due to ownership clauses in their contracts that allow record labels to extract profit from work that they’ve already well earned the loss with profit on.

Democrats should officially rename it to “The Trump and Epstein Ballroom” before demolishing it. :)

Fox news wouldn’t know how to report that news.

This is really awesome.

What OS did you flash on that Pixel6 to get it working? Or are you using a linux vm on an android phone?

This guy is so dumb, man.

As if “we’ll just kill people” isn’t just a declaration of war. 🙄

The small government is the biggest lie pushed by the right wing side of our country. In fact, when you read where the money comes from, it actually comes from a “Dark Enlightenment” coalition of techno-fascists looking to dismantle democracy.

Let me know how it goes.

Another feature that might be useful in the arsenal is that you can purposely downclock the refresh rate of the gamescope session when the window is out-of-focus, which means you can put less burden on the computer when multi tasking. Obviously the game will run at a lower frame rate when focus is away, but this might be OK if you want to free up more system resources for watching videos.

But like the other use said, a good place to start is making sure hardware accel is on within Firefox (or whatever browser you’re using.)

Right now it is ESO and nothing else, when she tries the whole system lags until she can move the mouse painfully slowly to the browsers X.

Maybe you should consider using gamescope? This is what the steam deck uses internally to isolate games so that they fight with the window manager less often.

On KDE Kubuntu, you should have no problem installing it if you’ve installed steam as a .deb from the website. Basically, install it either from source or repo (whichever is recommended for ubuntu) and then modify your steam game settings to something akin to the following:

gamescope -f -- %command%

This will launch the game in an isolated WM so that it interferes less with your existing window manager. There’s a tonne of settings, so gamescope --help might give you more details.

Steam is apparently working on making this easier to access by supplying it with all steam installations in the future, IIRC, but work there isn’t finished yet.

My honest question for you is what you think it means to be doing something meaningful?

Frankly, the world these days are filled with suits working jobs they either hate or you’re a dude working a job you like that pays you nothing. We’re not really in a place to help people with platitudes about “making a meaningful life” when there’s no meaning to be had.

But perhaps it’s the absurdist in me who feels this way. For the record, I have an OK programming job, and could probably make more money had I decided to not go into games fwiw.

The problem is that they’re already in on this grift. Jared Kushner is one of the top execs behind the deal.

At work we had to remind people recently to not do this. I think it was originally brought up as a joke, but we all felt the need to remind each other just in case anyone was seriously thinking about it.

I would pick the light-blue fishes or the night castle, IIRC.

These radical centrists are messed up in the brain, left and right can agree to that at least. (We’re all fucked!)

Just when you thought this timeline couldn’t get any stupider.

The cable is an interesting point, as I haven’t tried a different cable. Since there’s a non-zero chance that it could be responsible, I’ll try switching it next time I plug it in. I suppose the cable they shipped me could be bad.

I can confirm it’s not the outlet, only because I’ve had a trip in a completely different room after moving the printer to test it.

Is it plugged into a GFCI protected outlet?

Would this help? I’m currently using a standard 3-prong outlet with no ground fault protection, but I suppose I could install one on the given port…

There could just be too many devices with some earth leakage connected to the circuit, causing it to trip without any of them being faulty.

This could be, I suppose. Though what should someone do about this ultimately? I’ve already tried removing elements a piece at a time, but it would only work properly once the ender was off the circuit.

Ah, should note that I’m in the US. I’m also not on the 230V mode and I’m using the 115V power mode, which is standard for my region.

Proud to see you make a non-profit company. It’s a nice step and a good gesture toward the future of your fediverse suite of apps.

I love being part of lemmy.zip so here’s to more years. I’ll try to be more active around here!