I would disagree. Almost every Windows tutorial I found for problems told me how to go through the UI. It was even hard to find tutorials for CLI at times because Windows doesn’t provide good CLI tools for things like switching audio devices.

Someone must have pissed in their cereal that day or something. Just checked my monthly data and it certainly isn’t low. Happy the new VPN is working for you though!

Opinions will vary. For instance, I’ve been torrenting with Windscribe with no issues since before that post was made and would still recommend it, so…

Seconded. Looks good and I’ve found browsing by letter is way faster than the traditional folders (although you can still use folders with premium). I bought the upgrade after a few months.

This is the closest local app I’ve found yet, thank you! The UI is different from what I am used to, but it has support for all tags in both the editor and the browser including support for adding custom tags. I thought dynamic playlists don’t exist and was technically right, because they are accomplished with saved searches. I realised that after checking docs. Thanks for the recommendation!

It’s the closest we’ve got, but it does not have multiple tag support that I can see. :( I am not surprised that it lacks multi-artist, that is niche, but even the genre only supports basic strings. So to create an auto playlist that only matches the “Rock” genre, you have to use contains which then matches Hard Rock, Alternative Rock, etc etc. I know I’m picky lol, but worth documenting this to save time for anyone else as picky as me.

Rhythmbox unfortunately does not support multiple tags, that I can see. It combines genres into one and any artist tag beyond the first is completely ignored and unsearchable.

Amarok is a similar story, artists and genres are combined into one string. You can search them via “contains” but that is very imprecise.

Great recommendation on Feishin. Navidrome alone works for most of what I want as it does respect multiple artist tags, but the default web UI is subjectively bad and lacks any way to add smart playlists. Feishin solves both of those issues. I’ll be testing this further, it may just solve my browsing problems! I knew about Beets from a long time ago but never checked it out, I’ll have to see how that goes for my back-end needs. I have a feeling the disconnect between front-end and back-end will likely annoy me for a while as I try adding new files, but we’ll see.

I assume this is what you are trying to achieve by using a visual artist tag?

The display artist (a MusicBee-specific feature) is just an easy way to keep multiple artists in the artist tag while retaining a nice readable tag. For instance that artist tag would be Apashe; Wasiu but the display would be Apashe feat. Wasiu. MusicBrainz does something similar but uses artists instead of artist and artist instead of displayartist. Feishin displays the raw data nice enough I don’t mind losing the display though (it’s all in the tags anyway, no actual data loss there).

I’ve used it a lot on Windows! Quite handy for preliminary tagging. I haven’t used its file organisation though, but it could do the trick. I found the scripting language so obtuse though that I decided I’d rather tackle Python’s Mutagen library jank instead >_>

Another confirmed bug caused some systems to fail to shut down properly after installing the update. According to Microsoft, a separate fix has been issued to resolve the shutdown issue on certain Windows 11 builds.

So they fixed it a month ago after breaking it years ago and almost immediately break it again? lol

Probably in reference to the binary blob controversy. TL;DR Ventoy has always had unreproducible binaries in it and people want them buildable and documented for security reasons. If you want to go down the rabbit hole, here’s the currently active issue (there were several before this one): https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issues/3224

The quality has held despite a drop in users.

I feel like I’m going mental over here because this has not been my experience. The quality has always been spotty, but the last few months I’ve noticed more and more posts linking to awful “news” rags or no source at all. Worse, I rarely see people questioning the lack of quality information, simply gobbling it up because it aligns with their world view. Plus 70% of the comments on this platform could be generated by a classic r/subredditsimulator style bot and nothing would change; the same 5 points about AI, capitalism, and Linux are made in every thread in the exact same style every day.

And yes I’m mostly talking about news communities because Linux comms are usually fine but repetitive and while I’d love to interact with non-news content there just… isn’t much being made.

It’s a gamble. But I assume ICE agents still want to live. If you have even half the armed count they do, I would imagine they may think twice about opening fire. Although that is assuming ICE thinks…

In North America, the point is to be your main method of transportation. Work, groceries, friends, all require cars to get there in a reasonable time frame. Yes there are longer trips, and personally I would not feel comfortable with a 200km max range, because the nearest large towns are upwards of that already. But for those that rarely leave their cities, you could make it work, especially if your spouse had a gas / longer range car. Seems fine for a city car.

(still upvoted you because NA-centric discussion gets old)

So, did we forget to post a link or is Lemmy really at the point that a random unofficial image is a source of information?

I searched it and found a Verge article that appears to be the source of this image.

What a nothing article though. The logo design I am pretty sure is a Verge artistic interpretation, with the actual changes being updating UI elements to share a similar language with the Copilot app, which just so happens to look like every other modern interface and very similar to the base Windows 11 design. But I guess “company tries new UI on new product and then expands UI to other products” is not QUITE the ragebait headline that people want. The only AI change here is a ChatGPT/Copilot-esque newtab search bar.

Reading this non-post and it’s comments is identical to boomers on Facebook airing their pre-baked grievances after reading a Fox news headline.

It doesn’t have to be, but by nature of anyone being able to spin one up, people will end up on hobby instances.

Traditional social media is run for-profit and thus has an incentive to keep their website online as much as possible to keep their company alive by gaining users and revenue. And I would bet they do have backups. Hobby websites like fediverse projects often are can be run by any flaky nobody that can have varying motives and varying data retention practices.

In this nazi analogy it would be less of buying chairs and more the nazis giving away chairs for free that come with blueprints so if the nazis started installing spikes in their chairs people can just build their own from the blueprints, they just choose not to because it’s a lot of work. Which is fine if you don’t want those chairs, but a lot of people are fine with those chairs as long as the nazis don’t start any camps.

My instinct would be yes, and this was the recommendation I found while researching it before implementation. Windows is less likely to screw with another drive than it is the partitions on it’s own drive. That said, it’s a best guess and you never know what Microsoft vibe coders will break next! But I have foubd it stable.

On dual booting, I’ll say I’ve been running Win11 through several updates with GRUB and Mint installed on a second SSD with no issues for over a year now.