I dunno, I felt like this was a huge cop out in the movie Men in Black

I had never considered adding rambling long paragraphs to gpt3 prompts before. That's a good way to make a post seem genuine dude!

I'm not gonna brush off the idea that it's tough as a gay person or someone who thinks gay people have the right to exist to get in with a crowd that often thinks lgtbq people deserve to die

I thought full self driving would be better than it is. My intuition tells me that not treating these self driving crashes like a regular manufacturing defect is wise.

I tried Amazon and Google Assistant devices, and I was unable to find a way to integrate my 20+ year old digital music library into either of them for free. What the fuck is the point of these assistants if they can only play popular music? Is this shit for the most boring people in the world?

They don't usually have any of the music I listen to, so I don't even bother looking at the offers. I don't use the services, and can't imagine enjoying it if I tried. For that matter, I tend to follow the managing companies of music that I like online, so I know when an album I want is coming out, and then get it that way.

I got burned by Apple deleting even my own personal recordings a decade or so ago, so I simply do not trust such "services" anymore.

Even better, songs just randomly disappear and I don't know which ones. I just see "unavailable" unnamed songs in my playlists.

Sadly, this used to be possible with Amazon's service, but they removed the ability to upload your own catalog.

I don’t think this is a constructive line of thinking.

Popular music by definition is popular because… well a lot of people like it.

And so they make services/devices catering to that large population of people.

Just because people like things that are mainstream doesn’t make them boring

> Popular music by definition is popular because… well a lot of people like it.

And a lot of people "like it" because it is pushed aggresively by the record companies. A lot of the so called "Popular music" is garbage you won't hear of after a couple of years.

It’s mostly lowest common denominator music.

You're right, I could have said that better. But you know what? Fuck those idiots sucking down that mainstream trash, happy to be exploited by Google, Amazon, Spotify, and Apple. Fuck those fucking stupid fucks

I believe Google Music was able to do this several years ago, but killed the feature. I could easily be wrong, because I only know of Google Music at all second hand.

I wrote a summary of these types of services here: https://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2021/0... - hope it's of interest.

This feature is back in YouTube Music but it seems that uploaded music is fairly separate from their library. I don't think for example mixes and recommendations use your uploaded music.

Google Music let you upload your own music and stream it on any device.

You can link plex, well at least I was able to a year oir so ago, havn't actually sued the integration

Does Plex work through them? If so you could run a Plex server

Learning 6dof maneuvering is extremely satisfying. If you're looking for something like this, try playing Elite Dangerous with flight assist off and go practice landings.

Free games are not worth it when they are on epic.

KSP doesn’t have any DRM, you can copy it and have as many installs as you want.

I usually have a vanilla + two or three modded installs.

Once you‘ve downloaded and copied it, you can just get rid of epic.

At that point why bother with epic at all. You can get it though alternative channels just as easily.

Because at least it has the semblance of legitimacy?

Look, I’ve fairly liberal views on piracy (arrrr, etc.), but this isn’t the time or place to get into that discussion.

"free" games aren't even free when they're on epic. The cost of installing epic is too high.

You can use something like Heroic and completely avoid using the Epic launcher.

You mean steam ? No drm on epic

There are ammy games on Steam without DRM.

It reads like a gpt response lol

It always has been the best. You can't even scroll down on a modern js heavy site without having to wait for content to load.

Goddamn your healthcare system is fucked up.

Is it? Isn't this exactly the outcome you'd hope for?

Individual consumers pay basically nothing and companies are still incentivized to innovate and create new medicines

Individual consumers aren’t paying nothing. The cost is just being hidden from them so they don’t flip over the tables.

They pay via premiums - mine went up to $2,792/month this year - or if their employer pays those, via the resulting wage impact.

And, as a result, we spend 2-3x what the rest of the OECD spends on healthcare - public and private spending - with roughly the same health outcomes.

Agreed. Injecting a milliliter of fluid worth as much as a new car makes me twitchy.