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  • Death to Spotify: a Survey of Alternatives

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  • I still gotta get a tape player

    Sincere question: Why? They sound terrible, and get worse over time. Is there any reason to use them? Aren't they just generating plastic waste at this point?

    The article says:

    To me the reasoning is simple, local bands make tapes, it’s easy to put your own music on them, and to share them with friends.

    But all of these apply equally to Bandcamp or any other way of sharing digital files, or even CDs (I can't imagine it's meaningfully easier to churn out copies of cassettes than CDs).

    I suppose, though, that if local bands are making them - whatever their reasons - then that's reason enough for a listener to use the format. I also guess if people are getting second-hand tapes, then that's not generating new plastic waste, and there's probably stuff to that's not available digitally in any format.

    Anyway, I was watching this video recently - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DWtkSVNvTg - and it was quite interesting, but I've been wondering since then why people would use tapes.

  • Joe Rogan Nods Along As Mel Gibson Claims His Friends Were Cured of Stage 4 Cancer By by ivermectin, fenbendazole (another animal dewormer), and methylene blue (a fabric dye)

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  • What is the smallest city in your country that everyone can still instantly recognise the name of? What is it famous for?

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  • I'm an Australian, and I also don't know why I know Oodnadatta! Probably it's just one of those words that sticks in the brain, and it comes up every so often because it is a key point between Adelaide and Darwin.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oodnadatta (population 102)

  • What is the smallest city in your country that everyone can still instantly recognise the name of? What is it famous for?

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  • Wittenoom, WA - population 0

    I didn't instantly recognise the name, but I've heard the story.

    Coober Pedy, SA - population 1437

    This is a very solid one.

    @gnu@lemmy.zip beat me to the punch with Port Arthur, and I think they've hit the nail on the head there. Although, as they note, maybe the name recognition isn't there for younger generations.

    Here's some suggestions that haven't been made yet:

  • Who was our worst Prime Minister and why? Any notable state leaders we need to add?

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  • Four soldiers killed in Hezbollah drone attack on Israeli military site

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  • The initial Israeli evacuation area was within 2 kilometres of the border with Lebanon. There seem to have been some expansion of evacuations since, but I believe it's still only within a few kilometers of the border. Estimates in March were that about 60,000 Israeli citizens remain evacuated (source: AP).

    The IDF camp in this article is around 55 kilometres from the Lebanese border, and about 30 kilometres south of Haifa (a city which is not evacuated) (source: ABC News (AU)).

  • Favorite horror movie?

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  • Tucker and Dale vs Evil (2010) and The Cabin in the Woods (2012) (go in spoiler-free with this one) are both good comedy horror.

  • Mamma mia what is your favourite pizza?

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  • Hundreds of parliamentarians from 73 countries say "take Cuba off the list"

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  • U.S. ‘Unimpressed’ With Ukraine’s Victory Plan Ahead of Biden-Zelensky Meeting

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  • Can anyone name some mysteries in stories where the answer ended up delivering and was better than the mystery itself?

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  • 'Multi-Account Containers': https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers

    With it, you can open tabs in different 'containers', which have their own set of cookies, etc.. So, for example, you can be logged into two accounts for the same website, just in different containers, or keep all your shopping accounts in one container (and set those sites to always open in that container) to reduce tracking and targeting.

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    • Tab-organisation features (e.g. stacking, trees)
    • Synchronised history - so you can find something you were looking at on your phone on your desktop or vice-versa
    • Containers (Firefox) are great
    • Full-page screenshot (Firefox) is very handy

  • [Solved] Possible to lock a folder? To prevent it from being deleted.

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  • People have already given direct answers, and the indirect answer of 'set up regular automated backups' (which everyone should set up right now if they haven't already), but for the sake of throwing another option out there, people could take a look at 'trash-cli': https://github.com/andreafrancia/trash-cli

    (P.S. I know OP might not have actually deleted the files with 'rm', but this addresses a broadly similar issue.)

  • [Solved] Possible to lock a folder? To prevent it from being deleted.

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  • I think it's worth emphasising here: Don't put it off!

    There are millions who can tell you from experience that good intentions count for nothing when it comes to backups.

    I'd recommend going and setting up Timeshift right now: https://github.com/linuxmint/timeshift

    It's easy to set up, it takes literally 10 minutes, and if you decide later you want to use something else, you can just uninstall Timeshift and delete its backups. But in the meantime you'll be protected with backups.

    It's literally the first thing I install on a new system and it's saved me multiple times from having to do a complete reinstall.

  • US-built Gaza pier, valued at $320 million, swept away by sea waves

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  • Is that unusual?

  • U.S. officially bars UNRWA funding through March 2025

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  • Pure imagination: Tasmanian premier vows to build world’s largest chocolate fountain if re-elected

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  • Sorry to hear about your gravitas situation, times are tough for many of us 😆

  • Perception Check (Official Music Video) - Tom Cardy

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  • Same 😆