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I’ll be honest, it could be recorded through a tin can and I probably wouldn’t be able to tell the difference lol. As long as it shows me new songs every now and then, and gives me varied radio playlists, I’m happy.

Interesting. I’m fine if I gotta scroll a bit, I usually set it up before I leave. I’ll give it a look!

Nooooooted. Hell yeah

I do as well, and that’ll be the hardest thing to lose, if I can’t find a good equivalent. Cause I have to swap back and forth from Android Auto to the BT player otherwise, and that suuuuuucks.

I’ve heard of it, it’s on my list. My only real qualm is that I want a good “radio”. I don’t do play lists, I just hit Supermix on YT and let it play through. Spotify tried to give me the “average” of all my liked songs, so I’d end up with a Playlist that repeated the same 50 songs or so. YT Music seemed to give me varied music at a similar ratio of my liked genres, which was exactly what I wanted.

Does it have a radio function similar to that?

What’s the free music streaming service you use that has no ads? I’d like to try it, I’m obviously in the market.

Lmao buddy resorts to this and then blocks me. What a small human.

I have a reminder to cancel before the increase. It was, imo, a good deal for no ads, bolstered creator support in YT (Premium views were worth more than free, iirc), and to get YT Music, which I liked more than Spotify.

For $16/mo, I’ll set up ad-free options for YT and I’ll figure something out for music.

True. I use it more for sports updates and such, which was the issue. I’d follow an NFL starter pack, and I’d get some journalists and insiders, and then just some random dudes with a podcast from 2 years ago and now they write about Anime and van life or something. Just doesn’t work in its current format like that lol.

Aside from these forum style accounts, BlueSky is the only actual social media I have, and my engagement is pretty low. But it serves its purpose for me

That was my thought. I think some of them work that way; I do have one that gets posted to the feed when someone responds ONLY with “overheard”, so no extra stuff gets posted. It’s pretty funny to scroll sometimes lol.

It just needs some better filtering somehow.

Eh. They have 2 different purposes in my mind. Here, I want to discuss things and learn specifics or engage in a topic. On Twitter/BlueSky/Mastodon type social media, I’d rather just scroll it and not engage. I want to see the “headlines”, and then decide to delve deeper elsewhere if it warrants. Which is why the starter packs didn’t work for me, because it consistently served me content I didn’t care to see. Here, I’ll check out /all just to see what is floating around in other circles.

Sure, I didn’t necessarily think it was going to “solve” anything, it was more just a proposed solution that does not work in practice in its current form.

My big issue with starter packs was that I’d follow them, and they’d have some random content creator in it that was tangentially related to the starter pack. Great, that’s fine. I don’t need the same 12 people giving me news and updates, etc.

The problem was that they would inevitably be on my feed, constantly talking about other stuff I am not interested in, and hardly ever discussing the starter pack subject. Which again, is fine. But I don’t want that, I wanted the starter pack subject matter, and get unrelated content. So I just unfollowed all the starter packs.

Noted. Lmao honestly, even if I knew that, I still would have had issues with the mod installs I think, but either way! I’m just happy to be here and it feels like a triumph when I get shit to work, whereas with Windows, I was just in a bad mood afterwards lol

I’ve gotten through most of it, it’s more little issues that I can’t solve because it requires terminal stuff, and it just isn’t bothersome enough currently to require fixing. Plenty of head v wall also works; I can’t remember if I mentioned it here, but it took me quite a while to get a heavily modded version of Skyrim running, but I managed it eventually. I think part of my issue is the terminal doesn’t always provide feedback, so some of the commands idk if they worked. So if I didn’t know if they worked, I wouldn’t know if I did them or not lol. So just very intentional, methodical work through manual installs got me sorted out.

Once I get around to it, I’ll get the last few details ironed out and just hope nothing breaks later on! Lmao

I’d assume simpler? My issues have been with setting up software and peripherals, not necessarily with Linux itself, especially when there isn’t official Linux support for those devices. So it shouldn’t really be a knock on Linux, but that’s kinda the point of the comparison; I can do 95% of what I do on Windows with some effort, and then I don’t have to deal with Windows. I’ve still really been enjoying it!

I thought it was fun for the first 10minutes when I wasn’t trying to get back to parity with my Windows install lmao. Wore off real fast. Nothing that 3 weeks of crawling the internet and typing in literal gibberish into the terminal can’t fix.

Except for the stuff I haven’t fixed, and band-aided into working. But it’s minor stuff lol.

Yeah it’s a whole thing. The learning curve is so steep with Linux on this kinda thing, cause you can’t really just play with settings like you can on Windows. Like I just got Skyrim Nolvus running on it, and it took me, legitimately, 20 hours and multiple reinstalled to get it to go. Idk what was even different when it worked lol, but it works and that’s what matters!

I have been parroting how easy it is to just swap for a regular user, tho. Shit installed in like…12 minutes and does 90% of what anyone would ever want out of a PC, no issue.

That’s what someone suggested to me and got me 90% of the way there. The remaining issue is that, on Windows, I had a virtual cable that took browser audio and added it to the discord input so I could individually control volume, and I cannot find a way to do that. I tried to do virtual cables prior to all of this, and just could not get it to work, frustratingly. But, I had equivalent amounts of issues just getting it set up on Windows in the first place, so I’m not super worried about it.

Now I just use Helvum to map the audio from Firefox into the Discord input, but I have to do it every time I log on, and skipping a song or pausing it kills it and I have to redo it in Helvum again. Minor inconvenience, I just don’t have the will to fix it rn.

Yeah, the only issues I have are virtual mics to filter background noise on Discord. I have a program that does it, but I lose control over playing music as well (I have a solution through Helvum, but I have to do the specific audio paths every boot for Firefox -> Discord, and I can’t individually control the volume. Plus the path dies every time I pause the music).

But it was equally as frustrating to get it set up on windows with virtual cables as it has been to try to get virtual cables to work on Linux, so it’s a push there. Everything else has been basically as easy, give or take some of the learning curves of a new OS, and can be attributed to user error.

Dual boot has been nice. Both work how I want them to, 95% of the time, and if one is giving me issues in the moment, the other is likely to work. I do use Linux wayyy more rn tho.