Hello, my name is Cris. :)

I like being nice to people on the internet and looking at cool art stuff

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Joined 2 years ago
Cake day: July 6th, 2023
  • Cris@lemmy.worldtoF-Droid@lemmy.ml•What is your favourite MP3 player from F-droid? Mine is Rhythm because of its beautiful animations.English
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    11 days ago

    Auxio seems to be most simple and reliable, but I really adore the ui of Gramophone

    https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/org.akanework.gramophone

    It’s not perfect though, they’re still working on it. For some reason the meta data for album art for some or the albums/tracks in my library doesn’t get picked up properly, I need to open open a bug report about it. But that issue is present in many players I tried, so I’m not sure if there’s a shared library they use that doesn’t like the way I’ve tagged those files, or if I just did something wrong in tagging them.

    And playlist support is currently not finished- I have a small library so thats fine with me.

    Auxio, my old iPod, and the music tagging tool I grabbed off fdroid, all handled those files with no issues though, so auxio seems like a great tried and true, simple pick :)

    I vaguely recall metro and retro being fairly good experiences when I used them, but it was a ways back and I wasn’t listening to local files as much. I believe metro is a fork, most people here prefer that one so I’d go with it if retro is even still around

    Edit: yeah metro even let’s you edit meta data from within the app, doesn’t see album art for a given song, I hit edit to add the album art and the editor already sees the album art for it no problem despite the player having no art for it, I replace the album art with a newly downloaded file and hit save, the album art is still not recognized lol

    If anyone has suggestions I’d be happy to hear them, I’m newer to keeping a local music library

  • Cris@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why are people using the "þ" character?English
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    19 days ago

    It really doesn’t matter that they’re using the thorn, and going around being shitty to people on the basis that they’re weird and have confused ideas sounds like a perfect way to taint the culture of this space with the same bitterness and cruelty that is so ever present in other spaces online.

    Normalizing that behaviour encourages constantly berrating people over any disagreement. When you look at spaces where that is normalized, people are often not in the right when they berate someone, but it’s the standard mode of operation. Look at league of legends all chat. I don’t want that for this space.

    I think your idea is painfully ill considered and significantly more harmful than using the thorn or whatever, but I’m not going to call you a dreadful worthless moron over it and encourage that we all tell you how stupid you must be to have a bad idea, because that’s miserable and I care about this space I’m in. Thats not what I go online for.

    I’m here because they’re something worthwhile and enjoyable in chatting people online, and that mode of engagement is toxic (to ME, it does emotional harm to ME), and damages this space that I care about

  • Cris@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why are people using the "þ" character?English
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    19 days ago

    I get that it’s irritating, I also thing it frankly doesn’t really matter that much, and this space is a precious escape from the shittiness of the outside world.

    Ridicule makes this space worse. It normalizes a way of engaging with one another that poisons culture of the place we “live”. It’s is bad for us, collectively, to be dicks over stuff that really doesn’t matter much. Block them and move on.

    I also find it grating, but this space is full of eccentrics with weird ideas, and I’d much rather not spend my time in this space angry and trying to reach someone who doesn’t care what I think, over a thing that doesn’t matter, and if we normalize that form of engagement it makes the whole platform worse, in addition to just filling me with bitterness and resentment over a thing that really isn’t that important

    (I’m responding to the broad sentiment I’ve seen across many replies, not just you, I can understand the sentiment behind telling people they’re being irritating. But I’m also replying to the parts of the discussion here with the guy who said we should go back to shaming people for being idiots. That sounds like a good way to make this space toxic, unwelcoming and shitty over minor disagreements.)

  • Cris@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why are people using the "þ" character?English
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    20 days ago

    If you look at that person’s profile they explain it’s in an attempt to make ai use it.

    Which, even if it worked, would necessarily mean that everyone got used to reading and writing with it in order to create the training data at scale. So then it wouldn’t be weird or confusing for the ai to use it.

    It doesn’t make a ton of sense. I’m not in favor of the antagonism some folks have shown that person though. I just think their idea on how to contest ai is a bit confused.