It was on an 08/ish laptop I wanted to just use for simple dvd watching and such. Had a lot of sound and disc issues. I’m a noob tho so went back to mint.

Oof, I tried alpine for a bit, nothing worked. That was just beyond me for little gain.

Its such a bummer because I would have went into electronic repair if I’d been born sooner. Right as I was thinking about it all the radioshacks were shutting down etc and everything became disposable and unfixable. Really sad because I enjoy fixing things. I just stick to old stuff now.

It sickens me how much has been thrown away just in the past 15 years, not to mention since the 50s…

Ya i do that on mastodon! Its fun actually. Its slower at first but you gain followers and find people you like. Its not really chatting though.

OP may I recommend finding an IRC chat? Find a community you like and pop on there. Also less chances its a bot you’re talking to.

Yeah, I found out I was really good at arranging and writing and producing etc but thats pretty worthless.

You do have a point. I could do some sort of solo performing stuff too. I just prefer full bands

Split fiction IRL 😅

Thats cool, I have never been able to draw worth a crap! Its really cool seeing people do it though its impressive how hard drawing is to me.

I do enjoy it but as with anything its a lot of work, money and time and I’m not happy if I’m just plucking along, I need to be improving ans creating full albums etc but in the end it doesn’t seem worth it. People dont care, which is fine, and I’ll maybe go back and listen to it in a few years for fun. Ive tried full on quitting but I keep getting recruited into other bands and most of my friends are musicians.

Eh, kind of. I have hundreds of songs ive never finished but I probably won’t. No one needs new music. Theres over a billion songs already made. The music i enjoy most are full productions either with my band or me playing all instruments, but now no one cares at all when you can just use midi guitars and some ai bot to throw real sounding drums and vocals. It sounds 99% real to almost everyone, so theres really no point in music online other than live performances, which I cant really do with just me. That would work if I was just an acoustic singer songwriter, but theres already way too many of those. It also takes so much of my time for zero benefit…tens of thousands spent on recording gear, thousands of hours learning recording and mixing, and in the end you have nothing. Much better off woodworking or learning to build/fix houses.

Its a sad state of the world , music/all art has never been undervalued more than now.

I mean I like all music. Mostly heavily into rock/indie, old prog, some dnb, metal, black metal, folk, bluegrass etc. I likejazz but dont seek it out beyond fusion like weather report . the only stuff i dont like is pop or stadium country. Not a huge fan of rap (hip hop thats creative is cool though).

Thats good to hear!!

I gotcha. I just prefer to say search or looked up myself.

Thats what all of this is really for, in preparation for the climate upheaval and civil unrest. Method of control. The generated images and chatbots are the distraction byproduct.

Normal folks still think thats an insane conspiracy take. Look around you.

We haven’t used google here for over 5 years friend. Please change to ddg, ecosia, kagi, or searxng. Your life will improve.

Exactly.

10000%. Its really ruined everything. So many people like myself are just sticking to media made before 2018 ish. I follow very few artists today that I know are fully legit, but have zero trust for the majority.

Thats OK. I was listening to 60s music in the 90s so I was always an old fart.

Really sucks this ruined everything. I have no motivation for art or music because anything made in this era is suspect now and no one has any integrity. Why even release music when people probably won’t even listen to something that new. Should have stopped in 2012 boys.

I love ghost. Great songwriting and their mixes are fuckin solid (Andy Wallace of course)

The songs are good. The person was a POS that I’m glad is gone. Sadly. So many musicians of that era are maga turds.

Ban all social media that isnt the fediverse. Decentralized and no algirithm. Seems solid to me.

Been using next DNS free DNS. They get overloaded sometimes but usually work fine.

I’ll have to try that,