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  • Checking it out. I don't think it's directly related to my question, so I edited my post, but this seems cool.

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  • I've been using newsgroups for video downloads for quite a while. The Arr suite is great for this. On the same note, I tend to find a good deal of music with Lidarr and my news server, but not everything. Notably, classic rock and older albums are more obscure. I supplement this with SoulSeek, but that's got its own issues.

    What other options might be available that I'm probably overlooking?

    Edit: To clarify - I'm trying to find other sources or options for finding the music that's more difficult to get from the sources I mentioned.

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    Did anyone try to return to reddit and notice it just didn't do it for you anymore?
  • I went over for an article I found. Scrolled out of morbid curiosity. It's just awful. Ended up commenting about it and was down voted back to hell, apparently where I'm told o belong.

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    How much are link aggregator platforms struggling with the quality of the "general internet"?
  • Neal Stephenson predicted this (of course). Google, reddit, and others in the cohort are effectively 'shallow web,' easily searchable and manipulated by SEO. As such, you get 10-15 sites with all the same content, reducing the quality of your searches and the overall quality of web content.

    It's an effort to get clicks and monetize.

    There's no coming back from it.

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    Do you trust Brave company and their products: Browser, Search, VPN, etc..?
  • That's in your head. I cannot think of anything Firefox won't do for me. And if I came across something I needed chromium for, I would open it that one time. My privacy is worth that tiniest bit of effort.

    As an independent computer consultant full time, I operate heavily through my browser for a good 60% of my work.

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    How does freelancing work these days?
  • Sort of. I left FTE for this in July 2021. It's feast or famine. You're going to need a steady stream of jobs and the ability to say no, but that only comes after an abundance of saying yes to everything, sleepless nights of working your ass off, until finally it becomes steady.

    It's not for the faint of heart.

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    How does freelancing work these days?
  • I've almost done 3 years in as an independent. Don't do it if you don't have multiple faucets providing gigs for you. I make 2x my FTE salary, but it ebbs and flows.

    If you are not already connected, don't do it.

    Edit: added "3". No time context before.

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