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It's best to judge people by their actions more than their words, but on social media, you only see people's words.

I know this sounds pretentious (which is quite ironic), but this is something I’ve noticed about the internet. You never read about what someone does, only what they say. You hear politicians claim that they’ll fix the economy, or celebrities make speeches about what they feel like, or what “message” a fictional movie...

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I mean, how can you do your interpretation of a fictional movie?

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how haven’t you heard of one of the most famous bands

Lula says Elon Musk’s wealth does not mean world must accept his ‘far-right free-for-all’ (www.theguardian.com)

The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has said he hopes the crisis surrounding the social network X in Brazil might teach the world that “it isn’t obliged to put up with [Elon] Musk’s far-right free-for-all just because he is rich”....

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he ate that

why the downvotes im on the presidents side

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They support separate windows if that changes things.

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Are non-Hexbears allowed to post in Hexbear communities? I never figured. I almost never see a non-HB over there.

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Yeah but you guys are like siblings.

clark OP ,
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Good thing you mentioned a playlist. I don’t use Spotify anymore but I still have an account there so I will likely curate a playlist to share.

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Don’t mistake my silence for negligence, y’all; keep the recommendations going and I’ll give them all a listen eventually.

clark OP ,
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I don’t know why I didn’t think of this earlier but here I made a Spotify collaboration list! The only rules are 1) don’t remove somebody else’s song and 2) don’t spam-add songs.

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What? I’ve never seen anything other than kilocalorie in western countries.

Difference between downloading on public wifi and mobile hotspot?

Not sure if I used the correct terms but what is the difference in security and privacy between downloading from a public wifi (or a closed wifi; with password) and mobile hotspot (sharing 4G/5G data from your phone to your computer)? Which one is recommended or does it not matter?

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I also did use a VPN on both mobile and computer. Does that change anything?

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dont know why youre downvoted

What stupidly easy tech solution do people gloss over all of the time? (kbin.melroy.org)

For me it's the paranoia surrounding webcams. People outright refuse to own one and I understand, until they go on and on about how they're being spied. Here's the secret - unplug the damn thing when you think you won't use it or haven't used it in a while....

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Sorry stupid question, but how do I import my passwords from Proton Pass to KeepassDX?

clark ,
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Thanks for the answer! Another question: does saving the data on KeepassDX keep all the passwords and such for me to import to other apps if needed? Or what does the file include?

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Yeah, you’re right. Sorry, I definitely have a tendency to treat Lemmy as a search engine sometimes. Nonetheless I appreciate you answering me!

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Chromecast died??

The risks of downloading music at home with wifi

Like the stupid newbie goober I am, I forgot the first step to downloading music: do it in a public setting with a public wifi. Ended up downloading it all at home off of our private wifi. Did use a VPN but forgot to switch it from my home country. Kind of wondering how easy it is to trace me and persecute me for this. I am not...

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Sweden, Mullvad.

clark OP ,
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Super ^___^ Started to worry a bit but as long as a (good) VPN is in use I imagine I should be fine mostly.

clark OP ,
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Thanks for the info!

Kind of irrelevant, but anyone should feel free to answer: according to Swedish law, downloading music is legal as long as the artists have authorised use of their work and it is only played privately (not distributed). However, my friend argues that artists don’t consent to their music being pirated, thus making the downloading illegal.

Curious about what the people in this community think about his argument. Personally, I was taught that anything you post can be up for debate and freely used, so if artists consent to having their music posted on Spotify / YT / etc., then they subsequently consent to having their work downloaded. Am no legal expert though.

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I don’t even fully understand torrenting and how to do it, so I suppose that’s a relief in this case. I can be carelessly quick with stuff like this, lol.

clark ,
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No, but ever since watching the OG I’ve been dying to start doing judo.

[Solved] (The bug remains, alternative solution found, will soon update the post) Deemix can no longer download spotify playlists

Yesterday, after this conversation with Wild Bill, we concluded that Deemix can’t download songs from spotify playlists. It does recognize the songs in the playlists, but somehow it fails to download them and reports cannot read properties of undefined (reading ‘flac’) (on Bill’s pc it only reports cannot read properties...

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Hey! Time for me to try this out today. :)

clark ,
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Can you point me to the webui version? I keep getting 403s at deemix dot app.

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Still doesn’t work for me.

*I mean downloading playlists. I have the webui version open.

**Hold on, I tried the checkbox method just now. Currently processing all songs…

***Works now!

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Some songs fail to download because “Your account can’t stream the track from your current country and no alternative found”. Not many but some. Should I just download them off of YouTube or something else?

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Good.

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Look, I’m not a family-oriented person, but the following sentences strike me as strange:

My parents are not the kind of people to show up uninvited to anyone’s house. They likely will come over once a month for dinner and I will probably go over by myself once a week […] this potential change of more visits has her concerned that our privacy will be gone.

Why would your privacy suddenly vanish when they only visit once or twice a month? Lol. Agree with the comments who want more context; does she have issues with your family, etc.? Maybe you have two different views of your family that’s clashing. Just thought the abovementioned quote sounded weird.

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Twilight and Supernatural. Guess they kick-started shows like True Blood and Teen Wolf.

clark ,
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Most are anime communities, but I have some sport- and bot-post communities blocked too.

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This seems really complicated for a beginner like me (': is there no online tool that can download my playlists in bulk with relatively accurate metadata? It seems deemix and soulseek require accounts which I’m not too keen about, but I really don’t know anything about this so I might just be spouting silly speculations.

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So I did the deemix thing and the Spotify app thing. Unfortunately I can’t find my own playlists in Favourites, only somebody else’s. Know the issue?

clark OP ,
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I went back to your guide and adjusted some deemix settings. Is there something I should adjust in “folders/track titles” sections, since you didn’t mention them, or is it fine to leave them be? Also, why download in flac and not mp3?

clark OP ,
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Thanks for your help! Will definitely continue following your guide.

However, I’ve already stumbled upon a few issues. First, my computer can’t seem to locate the deemix music folder that I supposedly created when I installed the application. Nowhere to be seen. Not sure what to do about it, maybe I installed the wrong version?

Furthermore, the playlists I have downloaded state the following errors: “cannot read properties of undefined” and “no such file or directory”…

clark OP ,
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It worked now! Super thanks. <3

clark OP ,
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Oops, too early to cheer… looks like I can only download individual songs seamlessly, but when I try the playlists the “cannot read properties of undefined” error keeps popping up. Ugh, I’m so close to the finish line, why’s there always a hinder. (':

clark OP ,
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You didn’t waste my time. This experiment kick-started my process of finally downloading my music, even if it didn’t work out completely. Not yours or anybody else’s fault anyway. (: Do feel free to update me!

clark OP ,
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It’s really too bad Pixel phones don’t have an SD slot.

clark OP ,
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Hey again! Just a random question.

Is it okay to skip the tagging steps in your guide? My school computer won’t allow me to download the mp3tag application, and I wonder if these tagging steps are necessary or will mess anything up if skipped? I downloaded some songs to my phone and most metadata and lyrics are there, and that’s fine with me. Does not completing the guide make me miss out on anything important (such as metadata or syncing the files)?

clark OP ,
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Do you think it would be fine for me to download all songs and then wait until I’m able to download the tagging applications, or does everything need to happen in one go for everything to sync? I’m thinking waiting about a year (when I buy a new computer) and then use the apps to tag my songs, or will I still need the data from deemix?

clark OP ,
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Thank you so much for your help! So excited to finally begin the journey of owning my music.

clark OP ,
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Just to be clear, because some metadata is missing such as year released, tagging and such can all be solved in the other applications? Deemix is solely used for download?

clark OP ,
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Hm, unfortunately all songs are listed as Unknown Year, and the genres are very scattered and inaccurate. I’ve ticked all the tag boxes already. So long as I can solve this with the tagging applications, I shouldn’t have to redownload everything, or?

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I can’t view the metadata on my phone, just on my computer. As an example I’m viewing the song “Crown of Thorns” by Black Veil Brides. It is a FLAC file (as per the settings), and on my computer I can see the date released, artist, album, genre, track number, file size… so I don’t know why this info doesn’t translate to the music player on my phone (Gramophone). Maybe it’s because I haven’t gone through with the tagging process yet? In which case that’s understandable.

Also, some songs failed to download from deemix, but their .lrc files still downloaded. Can I transfer these .lrc files to my phone (along with the other downloaded songs), or must the FLAC and LRC files be downloaded as a pair for the metadata to be synced with the right song?

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Well, at least now I know the issue isn’t on my end, so that’s a relief. I’m fine with how things are right now, it’s all very scattered but I can create a playlist of my favourites to make it easier. Besides, once I get to the tagging part of your guide I imagine things will get much more accurate. I’ve downloaded all of my 1000 songs now so I think I’ll delete my Spotify account and leave the world of streaming (music) behind. (:

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