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@ DFX4509B @lemmy.wtf

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So, this is the place where I'm going to be generally hanging out and trolling around, while my Pixelfed, Mastodon, and Blacksky accounts are going to be primarily art posting accounts, and I also have a Nooki account.

I'm also going to start to be active more on here than on lemmy.org, so I'm making this my primary Lemmy account now.

I'll link the other socials I'm varying levels of active on below, plus my lemmy.org account which I'm demoting to my secondary account if that instance is going to be more unstable from now on.

  • Upgrade to Windows today!

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  • Or, you know, paper.

    • That's what desk/workspace scanning in the most extreme cases is meant to detect. This is why I really don't like online schooling, because in the absolute worst case, your school will literally scan your place.

    You know what would be a really good way to show if your students learned your course material? Let them show it with a practical test of some kind...

  • What are your favorite classical pieces for background, relaxation, or concentration?

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  • It's not technically classical, instead it's orchestral, but the score from Interstellar is a really good art-making soundtrack.

  • Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out

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  • PeerTube and Odysee have been a thing for a while. Also, Floatplane and Nebula for premium content.

  • Town’s Huge Christmas Mural Was Generated Using AI, Resulting in Ghastly Chthonic Horrors

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  • Like I aluded to twice, participating in a community mural project would be a creative kid's dream opportunity.

  • Town’s Huge Christmas Mural Was Generated Using AI, Resulting in Ghastly Chthonic Horrors

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  • Letting the community paint a mural could also be free at least to the people participating, and as I stated, would be a dream opportunity for particularly creative kids in the community, although I don't know about current kids given I grew up at a time when huge wooden playgrounds put up by the community were a thing.

    Sadly the one where I live got torn down and replaced with a modern plastic facility after 25 years, but the art tile walls and towers made by the members of the community who originally built the wooden facility, were all preserved.

    -sigh- Lawton, OK, you used to be cool once.....

  • Town’s Huge Christmas Mural Was Generated Using AI, Resulting in Ghastly Chthonic Horrors

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  • Noooo........... Why the fuck would someone use AI for this instead of, I dunno, inviting local artists, including the local kid artists (seriously, if you're a creative as a kid, participating in a big community art project like a town mural would be a dream opportunity), to paint that mural?! Leave AI out of shit like this!!

  • Ok, how do you make a good linux media center pc?

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  • The RX 550 is straight-up the lowest requirement for an HTPC as it will decode h.264 and h.265, which is the bare minimum requirement for that use case, so it's a 'Stick this in an old desktop you have laying around and there's your HTPC' kinda deal.

  • If this isn't a warning sign to leave YT as a creator, nothing will be.

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  • At least with physical books, for example, you can just take them home to read and no one will randomly yank them away from you, unlike both YT and also DRM-ridden e-book stores like Kindle.

    Hell, if you straight-up buy physical books, they're yours to do as you please with.

    Also...

    Ideally, video creators would just host on their own website (remember those) and maybe let viewers pipe the video through a frontend of their choosing.

    • That's literally what PeerTube lets you do, well, OK, it doesn't let you host your own website ala Geocities or its modern replacement, Neocities, but it lets you host your own instance and it also lets you use whatever front-end you want, at least in theory. It doesn't go out of its way to shut down alt front-ends like YT does, in other words.

  • Ok, how do you make a good linux media center pc?

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  • Kore on a cheap Android tablet is more HTPC-like than a controller, though.

  • Ok, how do you make a good linux media center pc?

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  • The bare minimum viable is an AMD CPU of some description, and an AMD GPU that can at the very least decode h.264 and h.265; an FX-4300 or R3 4100+RX 550 combo would be a good example for the bare minimum viable Linux HTPC build, as Polaris cards like the RX 550 can decode h.264 and h.265.

    Ideally, you'd have an AMD CPU and an AMD GPU or integrated graphics in the case of an APU, that in addition to decoding h.264 and h.265, can also at least decode VP9 if not also AV1; an R5 3400G would be a decent HTPC APU in that case since Vega integrated can decode VP9 in addition to h.264 and h.265.

    Beyond the hardware, set up the appropriate hardware acceleration so you can decode video through VA-API, and then set up Kodi and get a cheap tablet to install Kore on and use that for a remote.

  • Looking for music player in Linux

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  • Fooyin is great as a FOSS and also Linux-native Foobar2k replacement if playing back locally-stored music. Also, MPD and your choice of a client for streaming from another server in your place.

  • If this isn't a warning sign to leave YT as a creator, nothing will be.

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  • If this isn't a warning sign to leave YT as a creator, nothing will be.

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  • Assuming that audience isn't bots ala Twitter or Facebook, or what the audience on YT will probably eventually turn into.

  • If this isn't a warning sign to leave YT as a creator, nothing will be.

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  • PeerTube is federated YT basically, and a megacorp isn't controlling your instance when it's on a physical server you own, especially if it's a private instance where you're the only one who uploads.

  • Would you date someone that uses a hammer?

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  • Well, that leaves anyone in a trade out of the dating pool then because most of them, eg. in the carpentry field, use hammers of some kind and in some way.

  • If this isn't a warning sign to leave YT as a creator, nothing will be.

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  • Don't have to self-host, there are plenty of public instances one could sign up for, I picked peertube.wtf, but you have MakerTube if you're an art or craft-focused creator, for example, or even CuddlyTube among other public instances.

    Self-hosting is ideal if you have the spare hardware, but you can still post to public instances if you don't.

  • If this isn't a warning sign to leave YT as a creator, nothing will be.

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  • The purpose is to have it so that no one can take your stuff down on a whim since you own and control the infrastructure you're posting on assuming you're using a physical server in your own place and not a VPS.

  • If this isn't a warning sign to leave YT as a creator, nothing will be.

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  • And hope AI don't cannibalize your viewers anyways, which it probably will with the way it's being pushed over there, including by Google themselves.

    Meanwhile PeerTube and even Odysee doesn't have the problem of AI cannibalizing viewership.

    Also, YT's ad revenue system is effectively an MLM, or at least adjacent to one; the only way you'll make it in the algorithm is by getting a huge downline, or in this case getting a ton of subscribers under you who will then spread your stuff around, and the MLM comparison comes from making a whole bunch of slop to get people sucked in; MLMs typically sell wares of low quality at best to wares that are outright dangerous at worst to give off an air of legitimacy when they're really just a pyramid scheme. YT's algorithm operates similarly.

    Meanwhile crowdfunding and even creator-driven premium platforms like Nebula pay out more than YT's ad revenue system will.

  • If this isn't a warning sign to leave YT as a creator, nothing will be.

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  • Odysee's better for generating traction because it has a larger userbase than PeerTube, but shouldn't be your go-to, is what I was trying to insinuate.

    Also, you can at least block the right-wing stuff on there and your decision will be respected, Google doesn't respect the 'don't show me any of this' command at all on YT, and will still show you stuff you told it not to show you anyways, by contrast.

    Basically, Odysee's good for generating buzz and trying to get your name out there without using Google to do it, but PeerTube's better in terms of having control over your content and presence.

  • If this isn't a warning sign to leave YT as a creator, nothing will be.

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  • Or even Nebula if you work in the education/DIY or documentary niches; assuming you can get a big enough audience, you could theoretically sell premium content on Nebula to fund your free content on PeerTube or Odysee.

    I won't be surprised if there was an art/entertainment or commentary niche equivalent for Nebula somewhere, unless Floatplane is that equivalent.