Thanks4Nothing

Thanks4Nothing , 4 months ago to piracy in Music Piracy Is Back in a Big Way

Every time. I am not sure it actually changes anything. I have submitted feedback and bug reports to YTM as well. Just generic replies.

Thanks4Nothing , 4 months ago to piracy in Music Piracy Is Back in a Big Way

That surprises me, but I suppose it had to work for some listeners or they wouldn’t have gotten it past testing. I have even tried clearing my listen history and starting over - still comes up with country and (going to clarify) ‘metal’ . I like rock and alternative and some forms of pop, as well as a bit of hip hop. cannot fathom why it suggests what it does.

Thanks4Nothing , 4 months ago to piracy in Music Piracy Is Back in a Big Way

What is rym?

Thanks4Nothing , 4 months ago to piracy in Music Piracy Is Back in a Big Way

I have started buying vinyl with the digital downloads when I find a great album. I feel better doing it this way. Most of my music is not super big name artists.

Thanks4Nothing , 4 months ago to piracy in Music Piracy Is Back in a Big Way

I know this does not make me look good - but I am a YouTube Premium subscriber. I had Spotify, but they jacked up their family plan rate, and it was only a few bucks cheaper than Premium, then I got the ad-free (without adblockers). I mostly did it to help my kids avoid the toxic ads that are littered into the kid content. The main reason I stick with some of this stuff is for the discovery. Pandora was great, Spotify is ok.

Regardless - the smart playlists, and AI stuff on YouTube music is AWFUL. I cannot put into words how bad it is. Spotify got it right about 1/4-1/2 of the time. YouTube, maybe 1/100. Constantly recommending a country, which I cannot stand. When it isn’t doing country, it recommends hard rock/metal which I also do not listen to. I feel like I need a new way to find music, then I could sever ties with all these trashy subscriptions.

Thanks4Nothing , 6 months ago to mildlyinfuriating in Current state of Reddit

It would be great if Lemmy’s devs implemented loosely based (for fair use) copies of these and gave them for free :)

Thanks4Nothing , 6 months ago to fediverse in Average Lemmy Active Users by Month

I have tried to jumpstart a few communities by posting and commenting regularly . I would try a new one, but if people do not find or join, it will get caught in the same cycle as the existing groups. I like participating, but am not interested in being the single driving force, or moderating.

To answer your other question, I cannot stand when I see auto mirrored content from Reddit. I usually ignore those posts, as I have rarely seen comments happening. When the content wasn’t created by somebody here, I don’t think anybody is invested in maintaining or participating in the discussion.

Thanks4Nothing , 6 months ago to fediverse in Average Lemmy Active Users by Month

I think you may have misunderstood. I have FOUND communities, but there is not much engagement or activity. I have resorted to discord channels for most of them, but it is not the same.

Some of my most active subreddits were different 3d printing and 3d modeling groups, groups for games like Overwatch, and Payday. Different AI focused groups, but specifically groups like the Stable Diffusion sub, Subreddits that discuss my favorite shows, or styles of music. None of that is active here. It isn’t that they don’t exist on Lemmy, they are just ghost towns. I joined multiple instances and am very active and engaged on multiple accounts, on some of these groups - but there is not response. I was in the top 3% of karma earners on Reddit - and I did that by submitting and commenting a lot. That just doesn’t happen here (yet).

Thanks4Nothing , 7 months ago to fediverse in Average Lemmy Active Users by Month

I gotta be honest…I am hanging on by a threat. The communities that I was engaged with on Reddit before the Snoopacolypse were pretty niche. I wasn’t there for r/funny or r/videos, etc. I found similar communities on Lemmy, but they have soooooo little activity. I have to modify my sort just to see content, as its so old. When there are posts, they typically get very little discussion.

I am on Lem.ee, and I have the hardest time posting anything from mobile. It looks like it fails, and if I sort by new, it isn’t there and never shows up - HOWEVER, I start getting replies, so someone is seeing it somehow.

I detest what reddit did and is still doing - but Lemmy is not filling that void for me, and its frustrating.

Thanks4Nothing , 7 months ago to foodporn in Breakfast - streaky bacon, beans, hashbrowns, and haggis

and healthy…hopefully.

Thanks4Nothing , 8 months ago to technology in Windows 12 May Require a Subscription

And then Linux will finally get the attention it has always deserved.

Thanks4Nothing , 8 months ago to technology in Meta wants to charge EU users $14 a month if they don't agree to personalized ads on Facebook and Instagram

Would have been nice if they decided to give that option during the early days when they made the decision to start mining data and selling it off. I totally would have been up for a reasonable fee to keep my data felt bad for Julian from being sold.

Thanks4Nothing , 9 months ago to technology in People considering 'cancelling' new iPhone order after seeing comparison between older generation

You could always go in to the Apple store and buy the current gen…they will have plenty of those :)

Thanks4Nothing , 9 months ago to technology in Google extends Chromebook lifespan to ten years

I read the article. It is still unclear to me if the king of this e-waste, the Acer c720 will get any new updates. They started making it in 2013…but it was made for a while. There are soooo many of these things that cannot really run chrome anymore because of one reason or another.

Thanks4Nothing OP , 9 months ago to memes in "open betas"

To play MWIII on battlenet, you bet it is. I opted not to, but that’s the gimmick lately