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Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying
  • I've had many deathstars fail.

    Old sysadmin trick I was taught was to freeze the drives overnight, have used this trick on multiple occasions, but once the drive heats back up it's really dead. But you've generally got ample time to backup the drive before it dies.

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    I never skip the OP
  • Bosch, love that intro. Too bad they didn't keep it for the spinoff

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    ‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine
  • I have a friend in Portugal who uses semaglutide that's compounded by a local pharmacy for about 35euros a month. I, in Canada still pay $230/month for Ozempic. For $120/month I could take a 2.5mg dose similar to Wegovy which in Canada right now is $400ish

    Its the same drug, just no prefilled pen. All these pharmacies that offer it in Europe aren't accessible from North America without a vpn, and then once accessible refuse to ship to Canada.

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    J.D. Vance Booed by Entire Crowd During Dumpster Fire Speech
  • I'm very sorry about this. But every time I read "jorkin depeanus" a picture of the Swedish chef pops into my head

    Jorkin Depeanus

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    Sometimes it has its own problems, but it doesn't mean that it's not great
  • Ah my last reinstall was because of important news I didn't read.

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    Let's Uninstall Chrome but...
  • Someone mentioned Zen on the endeavor forums the other day. I've switched to Zen Optimized as my daily driver and I've been pleasantly surprised by how much I like it. I'm not a keyboard shortcuts kinda guy but you do need to learn the tab manipulation shortcuts or it'll drain your sanity right clicking on the icons to close tabs.

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    Aaaaah
  • I have Calm (https://naturalcalm.ca/) which is raspberry flavored magnesium citrate. Get it at Costco.

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    Aaaaah
  • I did and he was completely useless, he prescribed me baclofen which I take like tictacs and they do jack shit. He was out of ideas so I googled it and found out about magnesium. Got some "Calm" which is magnesium citrate and no more insane pain.

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    Aaaaah
  • I have really severe Charlie horses and started potassium when I heard this, it helped slightly but magnesium is what did the trick for me.

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    ISP to Supreme Court: We shouldn’t have to disconnect users accused of piracy
  • This is why I have a seedbox. A small monthly fee to maintain access to sites that are impossible to join nowadays

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    Open-Source AMD GPU Implementation Of CUDA "ZLUDA" Has Been Taken Down
  • Ive always had issues with RyujinX, yuzu just worked.

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    Just Switch Over
  • No, I'm on eos and I'm running proton off the AUR just fine. I'll use flatpaks when hell freezes over

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    Kids in an mini-monorail inside a department store, Philadelphia, USA, 1950s
  • My local Walmart has had so much theft they've blocked off all but 5 self checkout machines, which are manned by 2 associates at all times. Over the years they've gotten rid of all but 8 registers. Now these registers are all open and the lines reach the middle of the store. I hate going there now.

    Also everything with a resale value is locked up in cabinets and the one associate with a key can never be found no matter how many times she's paged by other associates.

    If Walmart wasn't cheaper by a giant margin I would never shop there again. But all Canadian grocery stores are owned by Billionaire aashats who raise the prices of everything then blame everyone else

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    What are some unwritten rules of Lemmy most users don't know?
  • Free & Open Source Software

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    Looking at you Verizon
  • After a couple years of solid pixel use I just ordered an S24 Ultra. I don't care about alot of things but I've had enough terrible signal, WiFi, Bluetooth and battery life.

    My wife bought an S23 Ultra and I had my Pixel 7 pro, we're both out and about, she's got full bars 5G, and I've barely got any signal. She can leave her phone anywhere in the house and her bluetooth works up to like 60' away in the right conditions, meanwhile I'm getting half that at most, and there's a 3 second delay over Bluetooth so watching video is fun. She gets like 2 days of charge out of her phone normally, and with minor use I'm below 40% at the end of the day.

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    French election 2024 live: exit poll shows shock win for left-green alliance as far right falls to third
  • Yup, and all they have to do is change leaders to win. There was that story last week about Biden thinking of stepping down, but Trudeau refuses to step down, if he, guilbaut, and freeland fucked off we could easily get another liberal government. So now we're going to a Conservative government.

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    A lesbian couple was brutally beaten by group of men in Halifax. Police still haven't filed charges
  • I work with middle eastern guys who are like this, they hide this side of themselves when I'm around (white guy) but it comes out when my female coworkers are alone. It's common enough that I've heard about it from multiple people. But when I'm around they're great and I consider them good work friends.

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    Now we know how much it costs to make a $2,800 Dior bag
  • Post pandemic international shipping rates skyrocketed. Used to be able to order parts from RA and have them shipped to Canada for peanuts. Now the cost savings are eaten by crazy shipping fees, auto parts aren't light

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  • So lately I've been seeing shorts on YT about a D&D podcast that looks mildly interesting and I'm running out of good webnovels to listen to with TTS at work. So I thought I would give podcasts a shot...

    They have instream ads... And it's the same damn ad on repeat Not the same ad, that was a Conan podcast I listened to in the past, but still it's like 4 ads in a row. Is there a tool to download these podcasts and strip their ads? I just read that there's a way to download them via rss so that's what I'm going to try now. But manual ad removal might get tedious over a hundred episodes.

    I can't imagine with all the nerd centric podcasts that we wouldn't have automated a way to extract ads by this point.

    Edit: At this point, trying a number of things. yt-dlp seems to be the best way to do it. If the podcast is available on YouTube someone most likely has already submitted SponsorBlock segments for it. You can then use yt-dlp to download the episode or the whole playlist using this command: ```

    yt-dlp --sponsorblock-remove all --ignore-errors --format bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 192K --output "%(title)s.%(ext)s" --yes-playlist 'PLAYLIST URL'

    ``` You can even run it directly in Termux on your Android phone and skip sponsors on the go.

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