In the west - yeah? Obviously third worlders also believe in various miracle healers and televangelist preachers and such, but those countries too have scientific minds and communities and bodies that practice evidence-based, aka “western” modern medicine.

Ikr I’m also suffering from this rn, but in my case throw on chills until I pop paracetamol and then I’m on a grill, bone aches like I got Raynaud’s in my legs… Yup it’s flu time!

That’s not really even close to what I asked.

Just gonna repost my comment from the thread on the Technology community yesterday for suggestions and discussion: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/21273053

I used Navidrome and Symfonium with Picard for metadata and relied on a combination of Bandcamp, Rutracker and yt-dlp with a YTM free trial, along with the Spotify data export and manual python scripting elbow grease to fetch, tag all the music from my Spotify and recreate every playlist as m3u8 to be imported inside the Docker, then more elbow grease to actually make the playlist semi-accurate.

Despite Symfonium constantly losing its silly always online DRM license check and locking me out of both my cached and remote (via PiVPN to Nginx on home server to Navidrome) songs due to me having multiple Google accounts on my phone and the app freaking out because it would check the wrong account, forcing me to log out of all accounts and reset the app - losing all my customization and my credit card access for payments until I signed into the right Google account again, I had a fairly functional setup, even with playlist cover art and everything on Symfonium (despite it not being a feature in Navidrome itself).

My playlists were just as they were on Spotify down to each specific song title, album cover and most importantly of course metadata correctness and song order (I have never used shuffle in my life).

Unfortunately I went back to Spotify in the end because most music i listen to is niche and fairly Indie and thus either a pain in the ass to pirate or simply outright unavailable externally anywhere, and to maintain consistent proper metadata for what is there was like a full-time job even with some automation through Picard. I still did this for half a year. Mostly because I just did it while WFH.

I eventually simply gave up downloading more music and listened to the same few thousand songs in my transferred playlists on repeat which for me led to a feeling of stagnancy and eventually depression in life, after I begrudgingly came back to Spotify I immediately discovered several hundred new songs and created multiple new playlists just during my walks to and from the grocery store alone.

My ultimate problem is that on Spotify if I look something up I can just listen to it right away and immediately add it to my library or to a playlist of my choosing.

In contrast, when self-hosting I would have to first look up the music on Google, go to YouTube to listen to it in dogshit quality, look up album/artist on Rutracker, pray that it’s there when a lot of the time it is not, filter out albums/songs I don’t want from the discography torrent and add it to my qbittorrent-nox on server, mount the NFS share on my main windows PC with my music staging folder, add metadata with musicbrainz Picard and have it move to the finalized folder, then rescan on Navidrome webui, rescan on Symfonium local cache, then add to a playlist, then listen.

This is like, 2-3 hours of conscious effort just for me to skip to the middle of the song, listen for 30 seconds, decide I don’t like the song and delete it from the playlist, never to be heard again.

It’s way too much.

The unfortunate truth is that despite feeling good about whatever miniscule amount of effect I might have on stopping this wealth transfer from artists and listeners to Spotify and our corporate overlords while those same overlords win elections and take away my human rights while I can’t even easily get a fitting new song in decent quality to listen to when attempting to find some peace in that mess, the alternatives just aren’t worth it for me.

Yes I could just accept to have less, to just make do with the music I have, but that requires motivation that’s frankly hard to maintain if you look around and see how the rest of society behaves, eagerly falling for whatever corposlop becomes available.

Felt like I’m cutting off my nose to spite my face tbqh.

I would love for it to work as it does with Jellyfin and Immich, I have replaced GDrive, Netflix, Google Photos and damn near everything, Spotify is my only subscription left, but it just hasn’t worked for me to move off of it long-term. I’d love suggestions on how this problem can be fixed though.

Some ideas of mine:

1. Musicbrainz metadata is awful. Half the time the cover art is someone’s photo of some shitty Japanese vinyl with stickers. Pull covers off YT or Spotify. In fact - pull all metadata off Spotify via scraping, with Musicbrainz volunteer metadata serving only as intermediary to connect the audio to the musicbrainz id which should connect to a Spotify option and potentially a fallback option if somehow the music isn’t on Spotify.

2. There should be an intelligent playlist creator of some sort where I can give it my Spotify account export data and it can go off song titles and albums in the playlists within to create playlists in navidrome by finding matches in my library and automatically downloading missing ones and it should be at least 99% accurate (most “Spotify playlist downloader” type websites are 99% inaccurate for instance).

3. Navidrome or one of it’s clients should have a plugin to get suggestions at the bottom of playlists like Spotify via last.fm and play music instantly directly from Spotify/YTM, with a button to add a song to your playlist, when you do so, it automatically downloads it, copies metadata off Spotify, and adds it to whatever playlist you added it to.

All that should hopefully ease the pain and make it so you can discover, listen and add to your library without so many barriers.

Yeah I remember being out with work colleagues IRL at a pub and there was some friends or a company, it was absolutely rammed as well, some guy kept talking to me because I think he was a friend of a colleague, and he kept buying me drinks, but I straight up didn’t realize he was even talking to me most of the time because of how packed it was, and at work it was tradition for people to take turns to buy rounds for everyone so I thought I was getting drinks on someone from work 💀

If I even understood that this person was trying to probably approach, my reaction would’ve been “literally who” because I never even knew him before, but also, that’s true for 99% of men.

I feel like it’s clear from this seemingly widespread psychological tendency of distrusting strangers that if there’s a kernel of truth to the pseudoscience that is evolutionary psychology it’s that perhaps we as a species were meant to have a much smaller social circle where we’d know everyone intimately and pick a mate over the course of a long time knowing them or at least knowing about them in our little tribe, transitioning from friends to eventually dating etc. that way also if someone was abusive you’d know just because you’d probably know and possibly be even friends with all their exes, the unknown risk is just kinda not there.

Obviously in a global urban world with the sheer amount of people you’d be lucky to even see the same person more than once, all behavior is effectively inconsequential like in an open world video game because other people might as well despawn as soon as you turn the corner. Dating apps are kind of a market solution to this, but obviously corpos have totally misaligned incentives because men to them are the customer who they need to make pay, with promise of women being the product, and men need to be kept on the app as much as possible and thus single to make them the most money, so it’s just fucked.

Actual answer.

27 yo elder here. Found my ‘the one’ on OkCupid back in the day, just prior to its enshittification by matchgroup. Just for the record this is a transbian relationship so idk how if at all it would apply to cishet relationships.

Every prior long term relationship with both men and women and all dates I’ve been on also came from there or otherwise online like social media or forums.

Approaching IRL does suck because most of the time you come off as a total creep intruding on someone just trying to exist, and dating apps at least have a safety net that being there is in and of itself a signal of some intention to date, like you know it won’t be inappropriate,

To be fair, that does suck for men, but I’m also unsure whether IRL would be the better strategy, I’m bi myself and not sure if I’d respond positively if approached IRL, in fact I’d probably think it’s gonna be some sort of scam or crime about to occur I’d be the victim of.

Why would I game on shit settings when I can game on good settings for the same/less money?

Do you not play many games? Good luck playing CP2077 with PT or heck even MSFS2020 at good (read: max) settings on 1440p.

The deck is great but I can’t even run NMS on high settings on it.

Yes, a 3090 can do Path Tracing, that’s why I’m asking for one. It’s not a artificially high goal - it’s how I play one of my favourite games of all time - CP2077.

Obviously both the 4090 and 5090 can do that too and better, but that’s essentially out of reach for mere mortals, and even if it weren’t it’s not enough of an upgrade to really justify the massive price tag.

Still, If I were to get a new GPU, I wouldn’t want a graphical downgrade, ideally an upgrade since y’know, that’s what matters in price to value of computer components, and AMD can’t provide so they’re not a serious option. CPUs on the other hand? Hell yeah I’m 100% AMD, but that’s because they have a serious competitive offering in the 9800X3D.

Maybe to you gaming performance doesn’t matter when buying a gaming computer, in which case that’s your opinion and it’s ok, but it’s safe to say it matters to the rest of us.

Honestly I’m not sure I’d know Immich used Postgres if it didn’t outright say so

Ray tracing? No no, I said Path Tracing.

And runs the few games it does have pretty poorly, all things considered.

Maybe I’m misinformed, but can the RX 6800 do Path Tracing in CP2077 at 1440p native/~30fps or at least on DLSS Quality or even FSR Quality (in both upscalers cases with Ray Reconstruction and no frame generator ofc).

Can any AMD GPU do that at all, at a better price to performance point?

Because I was under the impression that basically no AMD cards can do practically any substantial RT of any kind, and that’s why it’s either missing on consoles or borderline unnoticeable and often confined to reflections where it’s pretty useless.

I just briefly looked it up, and all I could find was someone on steam discussions with an 79xx XTX card talking about the old timey simple Ray Tracing being “possible” at 1080p in cyberpunk on steam discussions. Granted there were some videos that looked promising but I steer clear of YT and reddit.

And as for features you don’t need, idk, to me if I have to buy a GPU, might as well get one that should be able to do more things rather than less for the money. I didn’t even play video games much when I got my 3090 years ago during summer 2021 for like $400 used from CeX, but I’m glad I got something that can, and something that can encode video well, whether it’s recording, editing and rendering gaming footage to share with friends, or transcoding media on a server, or do ML (eg for self hosting Immich).

If I were to buy a GPU now, i’d look at all features, even if I don’t want those things now, I’d ofc want them later, and for that - why would you choose an inferior option?

I have a steam deck. It’s a portable, it’s really cool for what it is but as a main gaming system it can’t exactly compete visually nor performance wise with being able to run Path Tracing in CP2077 for instance, which I’d say is borderline required to enjoy the game’s visuals.

It’s like comparing the PS3 and the PSP or the N64 and the Gameboy Color. Both are cool, one doesn’t replace the other nor does it have to.

What false information?

I run Linux on my PC with a 3090 and my server running Debian oldstable has a 1070Ti.

The proprietary driver works ok. Nouveau is a valiant effort but isnt very useful. I personally can’t imagine having an AMD GPU and not being able to play games or do ML or have NVENC for transcoding (e.g. in JF docker)/video editing, AMD is just not a serious company in the GPU space sadly.

Proper competition is sorely needed. Such a shame too, because I’m quite glad to never have to buy an Intel CPU ever again and deal with their ass backwards ecosystem, it would be cool if AMD could pull off such a comeback for GPUs.

Edit: idk what the fuck is wrong with you people for down voting and simping for shit GPUs. The multi-billion dollar company doesn’t care. Stop defending them for shit products and stop attacking me just because I want to play video games once in a blue moon, jesus!

And when I say play games, I think it implies that I mean play games not at 1366x768 AI upscaled frame generated whatever settings but with Path Tracing on proper max settings, or play games not on a small portable, which is cool but no replacement for a proper home setup.

That looks normal and stylish

That looks sick. Def not my thing but it’s definitely eye-catching.

Wikipedia is a start