Don’t forget to be in the middle of a session of deep-frying on it when they come over.

Solar panels are so cheap and so good now that it is becoming embarrassing if you don’t have any.

Sounds cool. I always wondered whether something like Lemmy could work P2P or like a mesh network.

This adds up with my own experience. The last 2/3 summers (climate change?) unusual heat and lack of rain has had a negative effect on my land. I’ve been looking at planting more trees in order to create more shade, so the plants don’t get so zapped but this would work too if you’d benefit more from extra electricity.

Is there a neurospice that loves finishing things off but not starting them? We need to find them and together take over ze vurld.

When I was a teenager and used to listen to nu metal we used to be able to use my jeans as a sleeping bag - me in one leg and my girlfriend in the other leg.

Thanks!

That sounds awesome! How do you sync to the Kobo?

I just use calibre locally. What are the benefits of using something server-based? Can you sync books to your ereaders?

Extremely disturbing. I’m shocked this is legal.

I has no previous experience with self-hosting and got set up using YUNOhost

I agree. I think the music industry (and others) have reverted to a feudal & medieval way of exerting control over markets. Which, like you say, is not a proper solution because people want something real.

Easy enough. You can also install QuillOS which an open source operating system for Kobos.

they’re complaining about how much competition there is

And is that competition fair?

new quality music artists put music on YouTube and music subscription services.

And most of us will never be exposed to it,

There’s a ton of good music

Again, most of us will never be exposed to it. It is culturally lost.

so you have to spend a lot of money to actually make a career out of your own music

So you disagree with yourself about the best music ‘spreading itself’? I genuinely don’t want to humiliate you because I think you are contributing to the discussion in good faith and English may not be your first language but readers should be aware that this isn’t a properly considered point to make.

So traditional music industry is incredibly important to success because they market. They have money to place music where people hear it.

You make my point for me, perhaps even better than I did.

I don’t understand your comment. Can you be more clear?

Yes, in a purely free and meritocratic market it would. But the reality is that whoever has the most capital to invest in a release skews the market in their favour by getting a bigger share of finite attention/exposure, whether that’s radio plays or playlist placements.

Free market capitalism is an oxymoron and a failure in its own terms, not just in the arts but across the board. And there will be no music on a dead planet.

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It’s tragic in a way that as soon as the technology made it possible for anyone to rise up, capitalism stepped in to smack us all back down.

I might have created the best music in a generation but it will get smothered unless I can find a capitalist to invest in it heavily enough for it to get heard.

The more I understand economics and the longer I live with it, the more capitalism seems like a death cult.

I use YUNOhost on a VPS and it came with email out of the box. Which is just as well because I had no previous experience self-hosting!

I think I had a couple of emails get marked as spam in the beginning but everything has been totally fine for the last 2/3 years.