Tbh I’ve been running this (not exposed of course) for a while now and never thought too much of it, it gave some weird vibes but functionally seemed pretty useful.

In retrospect it absolutely makes sense that the whole thing was just AI slop.

A family friend of ours knew the guy. He was even more batshit insane than the stories make him seem.

This dude’s always been a weird piece of shit so somehow this isn’t even that surprising

Doesn’t hurt. It’s very easy to route it through a gluetun container if you’re selfhosting.

Fuck Disney and all but midjourney getting fucked over to hell and back would be a Christmas miracle

Flamesolverr still works. Not consistently, but it mostly still works.

Yeah it’s a bit annoying, I wish it could just edit metadata directly instead of having to go through something like beets or picard

I had no idea about the bandcamp Fridays thing, definitely noting that for later

I haven’t added much to my record shelf over the past few years, but I did the same while shifting to my own hosted library and buying what I can to support

I just canceled Tidal and set up a Navidrome server, and I’ve probably spent more on bandcamp and such lately than 2 years of that subscription.

So I can’t say I saved anything cost-wise, but having more control over my library is absolutely worth it. Realistically a single direct album purchase goes much further than streaming the same album anyway.

What are these scripts you mentioned? I’m running practically the same setup otherwise:

• Searching: Lidarr, Soularr, slskd
• Navidrome for a backend, Feishin on desktop, Symfonium mobile
• Beets for metadata management

And get invested in local movements for actual left representation, especially in the US where we’re stuck with 2 far right parties.

Clearly. That’s not a good thing.