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  • I completely agree with your assessment especially with how most social media these days really dumbs down the entry level effort needed to participate in discussions.

    And to your point, participating on a BBS (which usually requires a more specific interest and consequently a similar engagement level) will generally reward you with a community that is more civil, friendly and worth frequenting.






  • The open source community (or movement) is about, well…open source that many of us here benefit from and greatly appreciate. While everyone is free to agree or disagree with the personal ideals of any developer who has made their positions known, it’s not fair to discount the importance of someone’s historical contributions just because their current opinions seem incongruent to our own.


  • wxbosstoTechnology@beehaw.orgStop using Brave Browser
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    “JS is his baby that’s all there needs to be said about the person’s motivations.”

    During these formative years of the Web, web pages could only be static, lacking the capability for dynamic behavior after the page was loaded in the browser. There was a desire in the flourishing web development scene to remove this limitation, so in 1995, Netscape decided to add a scripting language to Navigator. They pursued two routes to achieve this: collaborating with Sun Microsystems to embed the Java programming language, while also hiring Brendan Eich to embed the Scheme language.”

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript

    I think you’re confusing the reasons behind the initial intent of JS versus what it has evolved into almost 30 years later.



  • Agreed.

    I don’t particularly care for streaming services either, and the reason I mentioned that app was because I use it to essentially “rip” music from Spotify, download it to a folder and then use another music player app to create custom playlists. It’s the closest option I can come to without having the actual CDs to rip from.

    And the iPods were indeed great little devices that had plenty of storage and made customizing playlists easy and enjoyable. Those were the days 😉.






  • This was a great series to be sure!

    Like you, I have unfortunately lost the physical CDs over time which I also used to rip to my pc and copy to other places as well.

    However, I did stumble across an app called Spotiflyer which I use to download songs/albums from Spotify (and other services) for free and then listen to them offline. It’s great to have locally stored media vs. having to be chained to online services.

    That being said, I haven’t listened to that Billy Holiday album, but you’ve got my interest piqued and I’ll definitely check it out.






  • Another update: I installed the game on a newer computer running a different OS, and BG1 is now working as expected.

    It’s interesting, I only have a couple of Steam games in my library, but they all respond differently on my two systems - some that didn’t play, now do. And some that worked on the other system, won’t on the new one 🤷‍♂️.



  • wxbosstoJerboa@lemmy.mlNo Notifications/GrapheneOS
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    I don’t think Jerboa supports ‘native notifications’ which means it relies on other services (such as Google Play Services) in order to push notifications to your phone. Some applications (such as Fairmail, F-Droid) don’t rely on Google’s services and use the OS’s native notification abilities.